ANATOMY OF FORAGE PLANTS AND THE AVAILABILITY OF NUTRIENTS FOR ANIMAL RUMINANTS

Abstract

Different species and cultivate of grasses have been used for animal ruminants in the world, however plants need change to adapt for ambient influences, it is possible microscopically observe the different cellular arrangements in its anatomy, and having as resulted in great impact in the productive farm animals, mainly when compared grass tropical and tempered, of certain form one understands that the physical impediment of the anatomical structure affects the accessibility of the nutrient for the bacteria in rumen.  Then the objective this revision was the discussion of aspects related with the anatomy of grasses plants C₃ and C₄ on the availability of nutrients for microorganisms in rumen.