FORAGE ULTRASTRUCTURE AND THE DIGESTION OF PLANT CELL WALLS BY RUMEN MICROORGANISMS

Lignins. Occurrence, Formation, Structure and Reactions

1971 • 1,988 citations

Lignification as a Mechanism of Disease Resistance

1980 • 952 citations

Development of a Comprehensive System of Feed Analyses and its Application to Forages

1967 • 924 citations

Physiology of Digestion in the Ruminant.

1966 • 582 citations

Studies on the Rumen Flagellate Neocallimastix frontalis

1975 • 417 citations

Nutritional limits to animal production from pastures

1983 • 296 citations

Phenolic constituents of the cell walls of monocotyledons

1980 • 293 citations

Cellulose Fermentation by a Rumen Anaerobic Fungus in Both the Absence and the Presence of Rumen Methanogens

1981 • 289 citations

Rumen Anaerobic Fungi of Cattle and Sheep

1979 • 252 citations

Influence of Plant Phenolic Acids on Growth and Cellulolytic Activity of Rumen Bacteria

1982 • 226 citations

p‐Coumaric and ferulic acid components of cell walls of ryegrass and their relationships with lignin and digestibility

1972 • 216 citations

Microbial degradation of lignin

1980 • 215 citations

Chemical Treatment of Crop Residues

1978 • 211 citations

Cellulolytic activity of the rumen bacterium Bacteroides succinogenes

1981 • 189 citations

The voluntary intake, digestibility, and retention time by sheep of leaf and stem fractions of five grasses

1973 • 188 citations

Rumen microbes and digestion of plant cell walls

1981 • 173 citations

Cellulase and Xylanase Release from Bacteroides succinogenes and Its Importance in the Rumen Environment

1981 • 167 citations

Microbial Degradation of Lignocellulose: the Lignin Component

1976 • 154 citations

Extent of Cellulose and Hemicellulose Digestion in Various Forages by Pure Cultures of Rumen Bacteria

1967 • 149 citations

The degradation of isolated hemicelluloses and lignin-hemicellulose complexes by cell-free, rumen hemicellulases

1982 • 139 citations

Structural investigations on the lignin–carbohydrate complexes of Lolium perenne

1974 • 123 citations

Presence of soluble lignin-carbohydrate complexes in the bovine rumen

1975 • 114 citations

Adhesion of Bacteroides succinogenes in pure culture and in the presence of Ruminococcus flavefaciens to cell walls in leaves of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne)

1978 • 108 citations

Selective isolation and characteristics of Bacteriodes succinogenes from the rumen of a cow

1981 • 108 citations

Percentage of Tissue Types in Tropical and Temperate Grass Leaf Blades and Degradation of Tissues by Rumen Microorganisms¹

1975 • 95 citations

Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance of grass lignins

1980 • 94 citations

THE IN VITRO DIGESTIBILITY OF WHOLE GRASSES AND THEIR PARTS AT PROGRESSIVE STAGES OF MATURITY

1963 • 92 citations

Evaluation by electron microscopy and anaerobic culture of types of rumen bacteria associated with digestion of forage cell walls

1980 • 90 citations

Forage Cell Wall Degradation and ρ‐Coumaric, Ferulic, and Sinapic Acids¹

1982 • 90 citations

Isolation of Cellulolytic Phycomycete Fungi from the Caecum of the Horse

1981 • 87 citations

Utilization of cellulose, starch, xylan, and other hemicelluloses for growth by the rumen phycomyceteNeocallimastix frontalis

1979 • 86 citations

Anti-Quality Components of Forages

1973 • 86 citations

The Effect of Monensin on Pure and Mixed Cultures of Rumen Bacteria

1981 • 82 citations

Biogenesis of plant cell wall polysaccharides

1974 • 78 citations

Prediction of the digestibility of forages by treatment of their cell walls with cellulolytic enzymes

1974 • 72 citations

Rumen Bacterial Interrelationships with Plant Tissue During Degradation Revealed by Transmission Electron Microscopy

1974 • 69 citations

Ultrastructure of rumen bacterial attachment to forage cell walls

1976 • 67 citations

Histological Examination of Fresh Forage Leaves After in vitro Digestion¹

1973 • 59 citations

Rumen Microbial Degradation of Potassium Hydroxide-treated Coastal Bermudagrass Leaf Blades Examined by Electron Microscopy

1980 • 58 citations

Rumen Microbial Degradation of Grass Tissue Revealed by Scanning Electron Microscopy

1973 • 58 citations

Phenolic constituents of mesophyll and non‐mesophyll cell walls from leaf laminae of Lolium perenne

1980 • 58 citations

The voluntary intake, digestibility and retention time by cattle and sheep of stem and leaf fractions of a tropical legume (Lablab purpureus)

1981 • 58 citations

Rumen Protozoal Degradation of Structurally Intact Forage Tissues

1978 • 57 citations

Temperature influences on the growth, digestibility, and carbohydrate compositions of two tropical grasses, Panicum maximum var Trichoglume and Setaria sphacelata, and two cultivars of the temperate grass Lolium perenne

1971 • 56 citations

Attack on Lignified Grass Cell Walls by a Facultatively Anaerobic Bacterium

1980 • 53 citations

Digestibility of delignified forage cell walls

1977 • 53 citations

Changes with maturity in anatomy, histochemistry, chemistry, and tissue digestibility of bermudagrass plant parts

1977 • 51 citations

Pasture quality and ruminant nutrition

1971 • 49 citations

Carbohydrases of the rumen ciliate Epidinium ecaudatum (Crawley)

1962 • 48 citations

Relationship of Chemical Analysis to In Vitro Digestibility for selected Tropical and Temperate Grasses

1976 • 48 citations

On the Induction of Zoosporogenesis in the Rumen Phycomycetes Neocallimastix frontalis, Piromonas communis and Sphaeromonas communis

1977 • 47 citations

The effect of pelleting on the voluntary intake and digestibility of leaf and stem fractions of three grasses

1975 • 42 citations

Production of microbial protein from waste cellulose by Thermomonospora fusca, a thermophilic actinomycete

1973 • 42 citations

Structure of Leaves and Stems of Arrowleaf and Crimson Clovers as Related to In Vitro Digestibility ¹

1982 • 41 citations

Polysaccharides and associated components of mesophyll cell-walls prepared from grasses

1977 • 40 citations

Preliminary study on the analysis of forages with a filter-type near-infrared reflectance spectrometer

1979 • 39 citations

The digestibility and chemical composition of plant parts in Italian and perennial ryegrass during primary growth

1982 • 39 citations

Temperature and atmospheric humidity effects on cell wall content and dry matter digestibility of some tropical and temperate grasses

1976 • 37 citations

Influence of Rumen Protozoa and Bacteria upon Cellulose Digestion In Vitro

1966 • 37 citations

Mode of Attack on Orchardgrass Leaf Blades by Rumen Protozoa

1979 • 35 citations

Acetyl and phenolic acid substituents in timothy of different maturity and after digestion with rumen microorganisms or a commercial cellulase

1981 • 34 citations

Rumen Bacterial Interrelationships with Plant Tissue During Degradation Revealed by Transmission Electron Microscopy

1974 • 34 citations

Relationships of Different Histochemical Types of Lignified Cell Walls to Forage Digestibility¹

1981 • 30 citations

Microbial Degradation of Smooth Brome and Tall Fescue Observed by Scanning Electron Microscopy2

1980 • 26 citations

Plant Compositional Changes Resulting from Two Cycles of Directional Selection for Nutritive Value in Alfalfa¹

1971 • 24 citations

Laboratory Evaluation of Quality in Subtropical Grasses: II. Genetic Variation Among Hemarthrias in In Vitro Digestion and Stem Morphology¹

1973 • 22 citations

Digestion of Alfalfa Hay Observed by Scanning Electron Microscopy

1977 • 22 citations

Separation, Identification and Quantification of Lignin Saponification Products Extracted from Digitgrass and their Relation to Forage Quality

1982 • 16 citations

A scanning electron microscopy study of the invasion of leaflets of a bloat-safe and a bloat-causing legume by rumen microorganisms

1981 • 16 citations

Histological and in vitro Digestion Study of 1‐ and 4‐Week Stems and Leaves From High and Low Quality Bermudagrass Genotypes¹

1976 • 16 citations

Ultrastructure of rigid and lignified forage tissue degradation by a filamentous rumen microorganism

1976 • 13 citations

Anatomical Variation in Stalk Internodes of Sorghum¹

1977 • 10 citations

Digestion of Corn and Sorghum Silage Observed by Scanning Electron Microscopy2

1980 • 9 citations

Leaf, Petiole, and Stem Accumulation, and Digestibility in ‘Amclo’ Clover¹

1977 • 6 citations