Microbial pretreatments have been identified as a compatible and sustainable process with anaerobic digestion compared to energy-intensive physicochemical pretreatments. In this study, barley straw hay co-substrate was pretreated microaerobic straw-adapted microbial (BSAM) consortium prior digestion. The improved digestibility investigated through 16S rRNA gene sequencing, counts C:N ratios. BS...

Thiamine deficiency causes a decrease in transketolase activity and an increase in thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) effect on the erythrocytes. The objective of this experiment was to determine if ruminal acidosis alters erythrocytic transketolase enzyme activity as an indicator of thiamine level in feedlot cattle. A total of 65 feedlot cattle (1–2 years old) were fed either high concentrate diet (...

ABSTRACT Lentinus tigrinus is a significant edible and medicinal mushroom. It was collected from University of the Punjab, Lahore under Morus tree. For domestication this wild species, its three parameters i.e., culturability, spawn production cultivation potential were assessed using different synthetic culture media substrates. Completely randomized design used to determine all effects evalua...

Thirty-six Merino lambs (8 to 9 wk of age, and 15.3 ± 0.13 kg of initial BW) 1 were used to evaluate the effects of the inclusion of 120 g sugar beet pulp (replacing 2 barley) and of the addition of 20 g sodium bicarbonate per kg concentrate on feed 3 intake, digestibility, animal performance and carcass characteristics in fattening lambs. 4 Animals were housed individually and fed barley straw...

OBJECTIVE The objectives were to assess the effects of purified lignin from wheat straw (sodium hydroxide dehydrated lignin; SHDL) on in vitro ruminal fermentation and on the growth performance of feedlot cattle. METHODS In vitro experiments were conducted by incubating a timothy-alfalfa (50:50) forage mixture (48 h) and barley grain (24 h) with 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 mg/mL of rumen fluid...

The drive towards net-zero carbon emissions has prompted many industries to alter the way they operate. agriculture industry is responsible for a large proportion of UK’s greenhouse gas emissions. Thus, feasibility implementing an anaerobic digestion (AD) system supplying biogas trigeneration with energy storage provision heating, cooling and power been investigated in context medium-scale arab...

This study evaluated the effect of increasing the proportion of bison relative to cattle inoculum on fermentation and microbial populations within an artificial rumen (Rusitec). The experiment was a completely randomized design with a factorial treatment structure (proportion cattle:bison inoculum; 0:100, 33:67, 67:33, and 100:0) replicated in two Rusitec apparatuses (n = 8 fermenters). The exp...