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...

This chapter presents the importance of biotechnology in plant breeding, discussing breeding and mutagenesis, polyploidization, somatic hybridization, transgenesis or genetic modification, and molecular marker technology. The importance of genetically modified organism technology to plant breeding...

This chapter discusses the safety and nutritional assessment of transgenic plants and their derived products in the European Union. The nutritional and safety assessment of transgenic plants in other parts of the world is also summarized briefly.

This chapter presents and advantages and disadvantages of the different types of laboratory and domestic animal feeding studies for the nutritional and safety assessment of feed from transgenic plants.

The results of feeding trials using second generation transgenic plants (with output traits and substantial changes in composition) in livestock are presented.

This chapter presents the results of studies on the effect of feeding transgenic plants to livestock on the chemical composition, nutritive value and quality of milk, meat and eggs. It was shown that feeds from first-generation transgenic plants did not significantly influence the composition and...

The use of compositional analysis of transgenic plants in order to assess the nutritional and safety aspects for animal feeding as part of the regulatory assessment is described.

This chapter presents recently published studies on the long-term (more than 90 days) and adverse effects of feeding transgenic plants to animals. The GM feeds were derived mainly from marketed insect-resistant (Bt) and herbicide-tolerant varieties, while some studies tested experimental GM lines....

This chapter summarizes the animal feeding studies published concerning the fate of GM feed DNA and proteins, together with the resulting significance and consequence of a potential GM transfer into animals and their secondary products and the correlating safety aspects.

This chapter discusses the quality traits of transgenic plants for animal nutrition, including low phytate content, amino acid content, improved digestibility and enhanced oil content, and the prospects they offer and the challenges that remain to be addressed.