Objective
Inefficient utilization of forage by ruminants is a major problem in Europe and rest of the world. Attempts to improve forage utilization using commercial enzymes have resulted in very variable results. This may be because they did not contain appropriate enzyme activities for the extensive degradation of plant cell walls. Our hypothesis is that the use of a specific forage and/or an animal feed as the substrate for the growth of a micro-organism will trigger to produce a range of celluloses and hemicelluloses appropriate for the efficient digestion of the substrate on which the micro-organism is grown. Our aims are to
(a) produce and characterize plant cell wall degrading enzymes by selected micro-organisms grown on a variety of forages and animal feeds,
(b) evaluate their efficacy through a series of in vitro bioassays and in vivo studies using rumen fistulae and intact lactating dairy cows receiving diets containing similar forages and feed ingredients to those used as the substrates for the micro-organisms which produced the enzymes, and
(c) to patent and commercialise the new technology by the Sees. The intended Co-operative research project will provide improved celluloses and hemicelluloses for the efficient utilization of forages by ruminants and increase the competitiveness of food production in European Union.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences animal and dairy science dairy
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture industrial crops fodder
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
- agricultural sciences animal and dairy science domestic animals animal husbandry animal feed
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TS9 5QT MIDDLESBOROUGH
United Kingdom
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