Ultrastructure of rumen bacterial attachment to forage cell walls.
AUTOR(ES)
Akin, D E
RESUMO
The degradation of forage cell walls by rumen bacteria was investigated with critical-point drying/scanning electron microscopy and ruthenium red staining/transmission electron microscopy. Differences were observed in the manner of attachment of different morphological types of rumen bacteria to plant cell walls during degradation. Cocci, constituting about 22% of the attached bacteria, appeared to be attached to degraded plant walls via capsule-like substances averaging 58 nm in width (range, 21 to 84 nm). Many bacilli appeared to adhere to forage substrates without distinct capsule-like material, although unattached bacteria with capsules were observed occasionally. Certain bacili appeared to be attached to degraded tissue via small amounts of extracellular material, but others apparently had no extracellular material. Bacilli with a distinct morphology due to an irregularly folded, electron-dense outer layer or layers (about 15 nm thick) and without fibrous extracellular material consituted about 37% of the attached bacteria and were observed to adhere so closely to degraded plant walls that the bacterial shape conformed to the shape of the degraded zone. In the rumen ecosystem, bacteria appeared to adhere to plant substrates during degradation by capsule-like material and by small amounts of extracellular material, as well as by the other means not observable by electron microscopy.
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