Sentences with phrase «ruminal bacteria»

Cows have the ability to digest cellulose — the carbohydrate that strengthens the cell walls of plants — because of «fibrolytic ruminal bacteria,» which represent just a few of the hundreds of species of microbes in the digestive systems of ruminants.

The group, called the North American Consortium for Genomics of Fibrolytic Ruminal Bacteria, includes more than a dozen researchers from The Ohio State University (the lead institution), The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), Cornell University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Guelph in Canada.

Researchers don't yet know the exact enzymatic mechanism by which those ruminal bacteria break down cellulose — even though cellulose is one of the most important plant products.

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With genomic information collected from ruminal and other bacteria and fungi that break down fibers, scientists might be able to develop better methods to speed the recycling of such materials.