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

AUTOR(ES)

Akin, Danny E.

RESUMO

The mode of rumen bacterial degradation of cell walls in coastal bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L) Pers.] differed with the plant tissue type. Bacteria degraded thin, primary cell walls of mesophyll and phloem apparently by extracellular enzymes and without prior attachment; thick-walled bundle sheath and epidermal cells apparently were degraded after bacterial attachment, in some types by an extracellular substance, to the plant cell walls. Rumen bacteria split the nondegraded cuticle from the epidermis by preferentially attacking the cell just underneath the cuticle. The propensity for bacterial attachment to lignified cells of the vascular tissue was low, and bacterial degradation of these cells did not occur after 72 h of incubation.

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