Metabolic Hydrogen Flows in Rumen Fermentation: Principles and Possibilities of Interventions.

ABSTRACT: Rumen fermentation affects ruminants productivity and the environmental impact of ruminant production. The release to the atmosphere of methane produced in the rumen is a loss of energy and a cause of climate change, and the profile of volatile fatty acids produced in the rumen affects the post-absorptive metabolism of the host animal. Rumen fermentation is shaped by intracellular and intercellular flows of metabolic hydrogen centered on the production, interspecies transfer, and incorporation of dihydrogen into competing pathways. Factors that affect the growth of methanogens and the rate of feed fermentation impact dihydrogen concentration in the rumen, which in turn controls the balance between pathways that produce and incorporate metabolic hydrogen, determining methane production and

SUBMITTER: Ungerfeld EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7174568 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature