Full Description
* Gathers together more than 150 feeding studies with food-producing animals and covers both first and second generation transgenic plants * The first central resource of this information for researchers, students and policy makers * Includes contributions from a wide range of specialists in the field
Contents
I: Preface 1: Introduction and Background - Challenges and Limitations of GM Plants for Animal Nutrition 2: Fundamentals of Plant Biotechnology 3: Guidance Documents for Nutritional and Safety Assessment of Feeds from GM Plants 4: Compositional Analysis for Nutritional and Safety Assessment of Feeds from GM Plants 5: Types of Feeding Studies for Nutritional and Safety Assessment of Feeds from GM Plants 6: Feeding Studies with First-generation GM Plants (Input Traits) with Food-producing Animals 7: Feeding Studies with Second-generation GM Plants (Output Traits) with Food-producing Animals 8: Long-term and Multi-generational Animal Feeding Studies 9: The Fate of Transgenic DNA and Newly Expressed Proteins 10: Influence of Feeds from GM Plants on Composition/Quality of Food of Animal Origin 11: Feed Additives Produced by GM Microorganisms (GMMs) 12: The Pipeline of GM Crops for Improved Animal Feed: Challenges for Commercial Use 13: Cultivation and Developments in the Field of GM Plants in Asia 14: Socio-economic Aspects of Growing GM Crops 15: Public Acceptance of GM Plants
