Mick Watson

Abstract Ruminants play an important part in global food security, but also emit methane which contributes to global warming. Microbes in the rumen strongly influence the energy retention efficiency from the host's plant-based diet and produce methane as a by-product. While thousands of novel microbial genomes have been assembled from metagenome sequence data, their culturability is ill-defined. Here different media were used to isolate microbes from rumen fluid.

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Abstract Ruminants play an important part in global food security, but also emit methane which contributes to global warming. Microbes in the rumen play a key role in energy retention from the host's plant-based diet and the produce methane as a by-product of this digestion. While many thousands of novel microbial genomes have been assembled from metagenome sequence data, the extent to which these can be cultured is ill-defined.