The State of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Agricultural Research Organization (aro) (volcani Center)

Yeda Research and Develpment & Co. Ltd

Tel Aviv University

Itzhak Mizrahi

Edward A Bayer

Sarah Morais

Raphael Lamed

Etai Landou

Naama Shterzer

Inna Rozman Grinberg

Elie Jami

A method of mimicking a phenotype of a first ruminating animal in a second ruminating animal is disclosed. The method comprises administering to the second ruminating animal a microbial composition comprising a plurality of microbes having a signature which is statistically significantly similar to the microbial signature of a rumen microbiome of the first ruminating animal, wherein the first and the second ruminating animal are of identical species, thereby mimicking the phenotype of the first ruminating animal in the second ruminating animal.

Microbial compositions comprising rumen microflora and uses thereof

A method of determining the feed efficiency and methane production of a ruminating animal comprising analyzing the number and/or diversity of a bacterial taxon of a microbiome of the animal or of a gene content of said microbiome, wherein a number and/or diversity of said taxon below a predetermined level is indicative of an animal having a high feed efficiency and low methane production, or a number of genes below a predetermined level is indicative of an animal having a high feed efficiency and low methane production.

Regulation of feed efficiency and methane production in ruminating animals

Lactic acid bacterial cultures, cell populations and articles of manufacture comprising same are disclosed for generating ethanol from lignocellulose.

Lactic acid bacteria for the production of ethanol from biomass material

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Itzhak Mizrahi