Animal nutrition with transgenic plants /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
• Series: CABI biotechnology series ; 1.
• Subjects: Food animals > Nutrition.; Food animals > Feeding and feeds > Risk assessment.; Transgenic plants > Risk assessment.; Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.; Plants, Genetically Modified.; Animal Feed.; Animals, Domestic.; Food Supply.; Food, Genetically Modified.; Laws and Regulations.; Agricultural Economics.; Consumer Economics.; Forage and Fodder Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Composition.; Animal Nutrition (Physiology); Animal Nutrition (Production Responses); Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology.; Food Composition and Quality.; Feed Additives.; Feed Contamination, Residues and Toxicology.; Feed Composition and Quality.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Plants.; Acceptability.; Animal feeding.; Animal products.; Chemical composition.; Consumer preferences.; Diets.; DNA.; Domestic animals.; Feed additives.; Feeds.; Fodder crops.; Food quality.; Food safety.; Gene expression.; Genes.; Genetic engineering.; Genetically engineered microorganisms.; Livestock.; Nutritive value.; Plant breeding.; Plant composition.; Risk assessment.; Safety.; Socioeconomics.; Transgenic plants.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) : illustrations, charts.; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book contains 15 chapters that discuss the use of transgenic plants as animal feeds. Topics include the limitations of transgenic plants for animal nutrition; fundamentals of plant biotechnology; nutritional, safety and compositional assessment of feeds from transgenic plants; feeding studies using transgenic plants; the fate of transgenic DNA and expressed proteins; the effect of feeds from transgenic plants on the composition and quality of animal products; feed additives from transgenic microorganisms; socioeconomics and public acceptance of transgenic plants.