Ruminal Methane Emission and Fermentation: Diet–Host–Microbiome Interplay
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Physiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 11247
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Interests: ruminant nutrition; rumen microbiology; poultry nutrition; nutritional modeling and meta-analysis; livestock and environment; gut barrier function; phytochemicals; heavy metal toxicity
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Interests: ruminant nutrition; rumen microbiology; microbiology in environmental protection; quality of ruminant products
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Dear Colleagues,
The ruminal ecosystem is considered one of the most dynamic, complex and diverse ecosystems comprising several types of specialized and generalized microorganisms. This complex ecosystem has evolved due to the diverse nature of ruminants’ diets. Ruminal microbiome and microbial metabolome act synergistically to ferment the feeds for obtaining the metabolic needs of the microbiota and in turn supply most of the dietary requirements to the host ruminants. However, this fermentation process also results in some wasteful and undesirable products. One such wasteful product is methane production, which is responsible for a substantial contribution to greenhouse gas emissions from food production systems. Further, ruminal fermentation is not always efficient in terms of formation of useful products, including volatile fatty acids and microbial protein synthesis. Different dietary and host genetic factors influence the microbiome structures and metabolome production, which translate to wasteful or useful product formation. A better understanding of the dietary and host factors influencing the ruminal microbiome and metabolome could be beneficial to efficiently optimize the fermentation pathways.
We invite original research and review papers that address ruminal fermentation and methane production affected by different dietary, host, and environmental factors, including the interaction with ruminal microbiome and metabolome. Additional topics may include modulation of fermentation for efficient ruminant production and mitigation of methane emission in ruminants.
Dr. Amlan Kumar Patra
Dr. Adam Cieślak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- methane
- fermentation
- rumen
- microbiota
- metabolome
- diet
- host genetics
- feed additive
- plant bioactive
- antimethanogenic compound
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