Sentences with phrase «rumen microbes»

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They studied samples of rumen gut contents from 43 cows and identified 913 diverse strains of microbes living in the rumen.

Researchers led by the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute and Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) focused on microbes found in a cow's rumen — the first of its four stomachs.

«In addition to finding microbes in the cow rumen and termite gut, it looks like we can actually make some contributions ourselves,» he said.

Scientists have scoured cow rumens and termite guts for microbes that can efficiently break down plant cell walls for the production of next - generation biofuels, but some of the best microbial candidates actually may reside in the human lower intestine, researchers report.

«In looking for biofuels microbes in the cow rumen, we found that Prevotella bryantii, a bacterium that is known to efficiently break down (the plant fiber) hemicellulose, gears up production of one gene more than others when it is digesting plant matter,» Cann said.

how nature created different groups for specific purposes: plants that convert sunlight into energy; herbivores who have a rumen specifically designed to digest this plant matter; predators and omnivores, with no rumen and a hostile environment for microbes (in the acidic stomach)

Here's how it works: Grass plants convert solar energy (and atmospheric carbon dioxide) into plant biomass, and the cow synthesizes that plant material into her own energy via the cellulose - digesting microbes in her rumen.