The importance of microorganisms to the mixed activities could be obtained. For this ruminant has interested an increasing number of reason, and because the pure culture approach nutritionists, particularly those in departments is time consuming, methods for studying the of animal science. In view of this interest of natural mixture have been developed. The inagricultural workers, it is surpris...

The rumen is one of the most complicated and most fascinating microbial ecosystems in nature. A wide variety of microbial species, including bacteria, fungi and protozoa act together to bioconvert (ligno)cellulosic plant material into compounds, which can be taken up and metabolized by the ruminant. Thus, the rumen perfectly resembles a solution to a current industrial problem: the biorefinery,...