Rumen ecosystem to boost productivity

摘要

Modern eenomics technologies have allowed the microbiologists to better understand the microbial communities as well as microbes-environment interactions. Advances in metagenomic tools over the past few years have provided an inexhaustible access to microbial genetic resources available in nature. PCR-based methods, for instance, employing 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) or rDNA sequence analysis along with bioinformatics and statistical analysis applications have been found to be very important to study the gastrointestinal (GI) microbial ecosystems and identifying novel microbes and microbial genes with potential pharmaceutical and industrial applications. This paper presents a brief overview of the microbial metagenomic s and its applications for utilizing the rumen ecosystem for augmenting livestock and industrial development.