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Plant Secondary Metabolites

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Rumen Microbiology: From Evolution to Revolution

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Secondary metabolites are those compounds which are produced by certain microorganisms in a phase of subsequent to growth, may have some survival function, have unusual chemical structures, and are formed as mixtures of closely related members of a chemical family. This chapter deals with the plant secondary metabolites and their application in rumen biology.

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  1. Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, University of Napoli Federico II, via F Delpino 1, Naples, 80137, Italy

    Serena Calabrò

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  1. College of Dairy Science and Technology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

    Anil Kumar Puniya

  2. Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Rameshwar Singh

  3. Division of Animal Nutrition, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Devki Nandan Kamra

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Calabrò, S. (2015). Plant Secondary Metabolites. In: Puniya, A., Singh, R., Kamra, D. (eds) Rumen Microbiology: From Evolution to Revolution. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2401-3_11

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