@article{1471580,
      recid = {1471580},
      author = {Salem, Abdelfattah Zeidan Mohamed. and Hassen, Abubeker.  and Anele, Uchenna Y.},
      title = {Exogenous enzymes as feed additives in ruminants /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource (200 p.)},
      year = {2023},
      note = {3.2 Exogenous Fibrolytic Enzymes in the Nutrition of  Ruminants},
      abstract = {This book addresses a global issue of increasing high  quality food from ruminant animals while reducing their  impacts on the environment. However, one of the main  constraints to livestock development and the underlying  cause of the low productivity in many developing countries  is inadequate nutrition associated with inefficient  utilization of forages and fibrous feed resources. In many  countries, fibrous feed makes up the bulk of available feed  resource base, which is characterized by scarcity and  fluctuating supply in the quantity and quality of feed  resources, nutrient imbalance as seen in many native  pastures, grasslands and crop residues-based feeding  systems with limited use of commercial concentrate feeds  such as soybean, cottonseed and groundnut meals, etc.  Furthermore, the production of methane, an important  greenhouse gas (GHG), from ruminants fed highly fibrous  diets such as straws and stover is higher than those  animals fed better quality forages or concentrate diets.  Recent research shows that supplementing livestock diets  with exogenous fibre degrading enzymes can improve feed  utilization by enhancing intake, fibre degradation in the  rumen and overall digestibility of fibrous feeds which in  turn leads to improved animal performance, farmers income,  and a reduction in GHG emissions. The book editors would  like to acknowledge the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear  Techniques in Food and Agriculture for funding part of the  studies that make up some of these chapters and were part  of the final reports of a coordinated research project  financed by IAEA.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1471580},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27993-5},
}