Utilization of exogenous fibrolytic enzymes in fiber fermentation, degradation, and digestions and characteristics of whole legume faba bean and its plant silage

Abstract

This article aims to review recent progress and update on utilization of exogenous fibrolytic enzymes in fiber fermentation, degradation, and digestions and nutritive and anti-nutritional characteristics of whole legume faba bean and its silage. The study focused on strategies to improve the utilization and bioavailability of fiber through pre-treating exogenous fibrolytic enzymes. The review includes features of nutrition and anti-nutritional factors and environment impact, forage fiber fermentation, degradation and digestion, legume bean in various diets, use of exogenous enzyme and factor affecting enzyme action in fiber digestion as well as exogenous enzyme response. This review also provides very recent research on effects of fibrolytic enzyme on rumen degradation characteristics of dry matter and fiber of whole plant faba bean silage and effect of exogenous fibrolytic enzyme derived from trichoderma reesei on lactational performance, feeding behavior, rumen fermentation and nutrient digestibility in dairy cows fed whole plant faba bean silage-based diet. This study provides an insight on nutritive and anti-nutritive characteristics of whole legume bean and its plant silage and utilization of exogenous fibrolytic enzymes in fiber fermentation, degradation, and digestions.

Keywords:

• Utilization of exogenous fibrolytic enzymes
• fiber fermentation
• degradation
• digestions
• legume bean and silage
• nutrition and anti-nutritional factors

Acknowledgements

The Ministry of Agriculture Strategic Research Chair (PY) Program fund from the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers (SPG), Ab Vista, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC-Individual Discovery Grant and NSERC-CRD Grant), Saskatchewan Agriculture Strategic Research Chair Program Fund, Agricultural Development Fund (ADF), SaskMilk, Saskatchewan Forage Network (SNK), the SaskCanola, Western Grain Research Foundation (WGRF) etc are acknowledged.

Authors’ contribution

J-CY wrote the review as part of his thesis, DC and HBL were in the graduate committee, VHG-Q, BR, and MERS were project team members and provided technique support and PY, supervisor and wrote a section of the review and summarized J-CY’s two project studies, reviewed the manuscript, edited the article to the journal format and managed the article submission till publication.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.