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Animal nutrition with transgenic plants /

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 u...

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Bibliographic Details
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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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and background : challenges and limitations of GM-plants for animal nutrition / Gerhard Flachowsky
  • Fundamentals of plant biotechnology / Marc de Loose and Ann Depicker
  • Guidance documents for nutritional and safety assessment of feeds from GM plants (GMP) / Yi Liu, Anna Christodoulidou, Antonio Fernandes Dumont, Andrea Germini, and Claudia Paoletti
  • Compositional analysis for nutritional and safety assessment of feeds from GM plants / Gijs Kleter and Easter Kok
  • Types of feeding studies for nutritional and safety assessment of feeds from GM plants / Gerhard Flachowsky
  • Feeding studies with First-generation GM plants(input traits) with food-producing animals / Gerhard Flachowsky
  • Feeding studies with second-generation GM-plants (output traits) with food-producing animals / Gerhard Flachowsky
  • Long-term and multigenerational animal feeding studies / Agnes E. Ricroch, Aude Berheim, Chelsea Snell, Ge<U+00cc><U+00fd>rard Pascal, Alain Paris, and Marcel Kuntz
  • The fate of transgenic DNA and newly expressed proteins / Ralf Einspanier
  • Influence of feeds from GM plants on composition/quality of food of animal origin / Gerhard Flachowsky
  • Feed additives produced by GM microorganism (GMMs) / Atte von Wright
  • The pipeline of GM crops for improved animal feed : challenges for commercial use / Pascal Tillie, Koen Dillen, and Emilio Rodri<U+00cc><U+00fd>guez-Cerezo
  • Cultivation and developments in the field of GM plants in Asia / Jie Wen and Ranran Liu
  • Socioeconomic aspects of growing GM crops / Matin Qaim
  • Public acceptance of GM plants / Joachim Scholderer and Wim Verbecke.

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