Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid fragments and recombinant constructs comprising such fragments encoding delta-9 elongases along with a method of making long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and using these delta-9 elongases in plants.

Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid fragments and recombinant constructs comprising such fragments encoding delta-8 desaturases along with a method of making long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and using these delta-8 desaturases in plants.

Abstract: A method of preparing an animal feed component by mixing at least one ground pulse product with whole or intact oilseeds is herein described. The mixture is subjected to heat of between 230 F to 350 F and pressure of between 200 to 400 psi during an extrusion process. Also described is the use of the feed component in the production of animal products having increased levels of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of treating an edible fiber source to make an animal feed with increased digestible energy. An exemplary method includes hydrolyzing the edible fiber source with an inorganic fiber hydrolyzing agent in a twin screw mixer that shears the edible fiber to a size of between 0.5 to 25 mm. The hydrolysis in the mixer occurs at pressure of about 14 psig or higher with a temperature about 100° C. to 110° C. The inorganic hydrolysis liberates a first portion of soluble carbohydrates from the edible fiber source. The inorganically hydrolyzed material is also treated (before or after) with a fiber degrading enzyme to solubilize a second portion of carbohydrates. The dually hydrolyzed material is dried to form an animal feed or feed ingredient having a soluble and insoluble carbohydrate fraction with the amount of soluble carbohydrate being at least 45% wt/wt of the total carbohydrates obtained from the edible fiber source.

Abstract: Oilseed plants which have been transformed to produce at least 8.0% arachidonic acid (ARA) as well as uses of oils and seeds obtained from such transformed plants in a variety of food and feed applications are described.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel soybean lines having high sucrose content and low phytic acid and low stachyose content. The soybeans are easily digested and provide high energy content for animals and humans. The low phytic acid content permits animal feed to be produced that does not require phytase, yet does not result in significant production of pollution to the environment from excretion by farm animals.

Abstract: A method of treating solvent-extracted plant residue comprises (a) providing a plant residue of one or more plant parts with a reduced content of plant fats, the fats having been extracted by means of a solvent for said plant fats; (b) mixing said solvent-extracted plant residue with a conditioning fat; and (c) milling said mixture of plant residue and conditioning fat under reduced pressure, said conditioning fat being in a liquid state. If the milling step has taken place at a temperature below about 100° C., the resulting milled compound mixture is subjected to (d) a post heat treatment at temperatures above 100° C. A compound mixture of milled solvent-extracted plant residue and conditioning fat obtainable by the method. Food products and feeds comprising said compound mixture of milled solvent-extracted plant residue and conditioning fat.

Abstract: Oilseed plants which have been transformed to produce arachidonic acid, recombinant constructs used in such transformations, methods for producing arachidonic acid in a plant are described and uses of oils and seeds obtained from such transformed plants in a variety of food and feed applications are described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to codon-optimized xylanase coding sequences and the expression of xylanases in microbes and yeast. The invention further relates to using multiple copies of the xylanase expression construct for high levels of protein expression. The invention also relates to the use of xylanases as feed or food additives. The invention also relates to methods of expression of enzymes to increase thermotolerance by expressing them in organisms that glycosylate proteins compared to expression that the same enzyme without the glycosylation. Further, the invention relates to methods of preparing feed, enzyme feed additives, and methods of reducing the feed conversion ration or increasing weight gain of animals.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an HIO nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an HIO nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an HIO nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an HIO nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.

Abstract: To increase the efficiency of utilizing protein, lipid and starch by ruminants, feed and urea-formaldehyde polymer are mixed in quantities suitable for a crosslinking reaction. The mixture is heated at a temperature, moisture content and time sufficient to covalently bond the urea-formaldehyde polymer with the proteins and starches to thereby protect the proteins, starches and contained lipids from degradation by rumen microbes.

Abstract: The invention provides methods for making and using thermotolerant phytases, e.g., a method of using a thermotolerant phytase in feed and food processing and feed or food products comprising a thermotolerant phytase.

Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid fragments and recombinant constructs comprising such fragments encoding a delta-8 desaturase along with a method of making long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) using this delta-8 desaturase in plants and oleaginous yeast are disclosed.

Abstract: A carbohydrate ruminant feed energy supplement and method for alleviating a negative energy balance in ruminant animals. includes forming a ruminally protected carbohydrate, preferably non insulin stimulating, and feeding the ruminally protected carbohydrate to a ruminant animal.

Abstract: An animal feed that comprises a feedstuff and a coating, where the coating increases the amount of the feedstuff that passes through the rumen without being degraded by the rumen microflora, thereby delivering a larger portion of that feedstuff's associated preformed protein, and the essential amino acids comprising that protein, to the lower gastrointestinal tract. A process for making an animal feed, where the animal feed has enhanced rumen bypass nature of feed ingredients and their associated nutrients, particularly preformed protein and the amino acids that comprise the protein. Methods of increasing the rumen bypass of phosphatidylcholine, methods of increasing the vitamin E value of a feedstuff, methods for increasing rumen escape of the protein and amino acids in a ruminant animal.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to generating plants having increased levels of oil and protein. This invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, transgenic plants and genetically altered plants. The invention further provides isolated polynucleotides and their encoded proteins that are involved in phenylpropanoid biosynthesis.

Abstract: Continuous direct enzymatic protein solubilization process for industrial wastes. The present invention involves a sequential enzymatic process which enables solubilizing proteins that are present in determined industrial wastes, permitting the use of by-products. The wastes used can be of plant origin (rice bran, algarroba seed, etc.) or animal origin (Procambarus clarkii or American crab). The main process includes two steps: a first step of successive washings with acidified water and a second step of continuous enzymatic hydrolysis. Variants to the main process are shown without pretreatment of the wastes with acidified water. These solubilized protein wastes (peptones) have an application, among others, in the formulation of culture media, in the biosynthesis of pharmaceutical and food products, in clinical or dietetic nutrition, as additives in cosmetics and as components of organic fertilizers.

Abstract: Disclosed is an animal feed. The animal feed includes fat, preferably vegetable oil; a solid nutritive source; such as a whole seed or grain or a fraction thereof; and a binder, the binder comprising hemicellulose. Also disclosed are methods for preparing an animal feed and for feeding an animal. When formulated into pellets, the disclosed animal feeds have excellent durability, such that pellet fracture and dust formation are minimized.

Abstract: The present invention provides grain, seed, feed made from the grain or seed, pet food made from the grain, and food products made from the grain. The grain may be maize grain with the following characteristics: oil burdened, elevated protein content, and low phytate levels. The combination of oil burdened, protein laden, decreased phytate characteristics in grain makes a grain that provides more calories, protein and phosphorus and other nutrients to the feeding animal. Pet foods, and animal feeds and corn food products made of the present invention will provide increased nutrition because of the increased bioavailability of the components of the grain.

Abstract: The present invention an antibiotic-free fodder composition for domestic animals. According to the present invention, by adding germanium biotite instead of antibiotic to assorted fodder commonly used in the livestock industry, it is possible to produce domestic animals having a growth rate and immune ability as good as by adding a large amount of antibiotic to the feed. Therefore, in preparing feed, use of antibiotic harmful to animals and a human which has consumed the meat of the animals can be avoided partially or totally, thereby enabling production of “healthful meat”. The present composition comprises a basal diet including corn, soybean meal, molasses, salt, vitamin premix and mineral premix, and 0.1 to 3.0% of germanium biotite including 36 ppm of germanium, and biotite, muscovite, feldspar, tourmaline, zircon, garnet, apatite and opaque minerals, and having 0.93% of emissivity and 4.31×102 W/m2 ?m of radioactive energy at a range of far infrared rays between 5 and 20 ?m.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of a handleable, flowable coated cottonseed product is provided which involves coating cottonseed with a composition of (a) water or a liquid feed product, (b) one or more organic acids and (c) a metal compound capable of interacting with the one or more organic acids to form a coating on the cottonseed, and curing the coating formed thereby, and the flowable cottonseed product formed thereby, as well as its use as a feed supplement for ruminants such as cattle, as a plantable source of cottonseed, in a method for treatment and/or prevention of urinary calculi or prevention of milk fever in cattle, or in a method for increasing milk fat in dairy cattle, a method for increasing milk production in dairy cattle, and a method for preventing ketosis in ruminants.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition containing a ?-aminolevulinic acid as effective dose for prevention and treatment of infection by pathogenic microorganisms and parasite. More particularly, it refers to the composition for prevention and treatment through cultivation of fish in a water tank containing ?-aminolevulinic acid or the oral administration of a feed mixed with ?-aminolevulinic acid to fish.

Abstract: A process for preparation of nutritionally upgraded oilseed meals which are protein and lipid-rich and have a reduced fiber content, and plant oils from oilseeds for use in fish or other non-human animal diets or human foods comprising the steps of: providing a source of oilseed; subjecting the oilseed to heat treatment to substantially reduce the concentration of at least some antinutritional components normally present in the oilseed to obtain heat-treated seed; dehulling the heat-treated seed to produce a meat fraction, a hull fraction or a mixture thereof; and cold pressing the meat fraction or the mixture to yeild the plant oils and the protein and lipid-rich meals.

Abstract: Improved daily ration mammal feeds are provided which include minor amounts of heartworm preventative drugs, ensure that a mammal consuming the feed receives quantities of drug sufficient to establish and maintain substantially constant concentrations of the drug in the pet's bloodstream. The feeds may be produced by extrusion with addition of minor quantities of heartworm preventative drug so as to uniformly distribute the drug throughout the extruded product. Ivermectin levels of from about 2-1500 ?g/kg of extruded feed are preferred.

Abstract: A composition comprising partially hydrolyzed proteins for use as a hypoallergenic pet food, and a process for producing it.

Abstract: Packaging container, packaged food and packaged feed, with the packaging container being produced by: preparing a hole-sealing sheet by providing, on a back surface of a base material whose bending strength (S) represented by the following formula (A) is no less than 0.20 m3/N, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer whose vertical peeling strength at 40° C., with respect to a surface of the gas-impermeable container, is in the range of 0.3-2 N/cm; and sealing a vent hole in the gas-impermeable container by the hole-sealing sheet. Packaged food and feed are obtained by enclosing food and feed in the packaging container. S=L/W(m3/N)  (A) wherein L: Critical length measured by a Clark degree testing machine (m) W: Weight per 1 m2 of the sheet base material (N/m2).

Abstract: A method of supplying a ruminant with its nutritional requirements for methionine is provided wherein a hydroxy analogue of methionine that is available for absorption by a ruminant is administered to the ruminant. Preferably, the, ruminant is administered an isopropyl ester of a hydroxy analogue of methionine, wherein at least 40% of the isopropyl ester of the hydroxy analogue of methionine is available for absorption by the cow.

Abstract: A feed supplement for livestock includes, in a feed supplement combination, a quantity of waste product material selected from the group comprising dissolved air floatation product (DAF) and paunch manure and a quantity of an inert dry medium which will not chemically react with the waste product material such as soy hulls, hay, alfalfa, corn and other such dry mediums. The waste product material comprises between one percent (1%) and ninety-nine percent (99%) of the feed supplement combination. The feed supplement combination is then processed through an extrusion process involving the cooking, grinding and mixing of the feed supplement combination under pressure and elevated temperature, wherein the temperature of the feed supplement combination is raised above 250 degrees Fahrenheit to sterilize and dehydrate the feed supplement combination.

Abstract: A feed for producing reduced-cholesterol brown eggs from brown-egg-laying fowl is provided. The feed contains organic chromium, bacterial culture for improving digestion, at least one enzyme for improving digestion, and at least about 2 wt. % fiber.

Abstract: Improved compositions and processes for making a livestock feed supplement including compressing a mixture of materials that has wet cake into a feedblock for a livestock animal. Advantages of the compositions and processes are an increase in efficiency and a savings of energy, including the use of less syrup.

Abstract: A method for helping pets recover from periods of strenuous activity includes providing a source of carbohydrates formulated to provide a readily available replenishment source of glycogen for the pet and providing a replenishment source of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants which are expended at rates that are higher during the strenuous activity than during non-strenuous activity.

Abstract: A method of feeding young, weaned swine, that includes applying a liquid digest onto a feed substance to form a feed material, the liquid digest including an enzymatically-processed material, and providing the feed material to the young, weaned swine.

Abstract: A composition comprising partially hydrolyzed proteins for use as a hypoallergenic pet food, and a process for producing it.

Abstract: A livestock feed supplement block including a molded base and a livestock feed supplement composition compressed into and extending upwardly from the base. The molded base includes a generally cylindrical wall having a radially inwardly extending annular shelf, and a generally circular floor that is integrally formed with the wall to define an upwardly open interior cavity. The floor of the base is configured and arranged to define a downwardly open channel, the opposite ends of the channel being defined by a pair of downwardly open notches in the wall, the channel having a center line disposed away from the center of the generally circular floor. A plurality of upwardly extending pins are located at intervals along the annular shelf of the wall.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-compartment package, a machine for the automated or semi-automated packaging of a diverse array of animal supplements into such packaging, and a process allowing efficient procurement and fulfillment of custom supplement orders.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions which are useful for a companion animal, wherein the methods and compositions utilize astaxanthin. The compositions comprise astaxanthin, wherein the composition is adapted for use by a companion animal. The methods are selected from the group consisting of attenuating inflammation, enhancing immunity, enhancing longevity, and combinations thereof, comprising administering to a companion animal a composition comprising an effective amount of astaxanthin. The companion animal is, in the preferred embodiment a domestic dog or cat.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for preparing waste-free extraction meal from the seeds of conventional sunflowers for animal feed for monogastrics or ruminants. The extraction meal from shell kernels and shells with adherent kernel parts is mechanically structured, chunks of extraction meal material are comminuted, kernel parts adhering to the shells are removed and the shells are coarsely comminuted while maintaining and improving the structure and the structured particles are separated into two fractions containing various amounts of crude proteins and crude fibers, one protein-rich fraction which is suitable for feeding monogastrics is obtained and one fraction containing crude fibers which is suitable for feeding ruminants is obtained, being subjected to a decomposition process in order to increase nutritive value and digestibility.

Abstract: Disclosed is an animal feed. The animal feed includes fat, preferably vegetable oil; a solid nutritive source; such as a whole seed or grain or a fraction thereof; and a binder, the binder comprising hemicellulose. Also disclosed are methods for preparing an animal feed and for feeding an animal. When formulated into pellets, the disclosed animal feeds have excellent durability, such that pellet fracture and dust formation are minimized.

Abstract: A composition comprising a pet dog or cat food source having fat wherein DAG is at a level in the fat wherein (1) the weight of an overweight dog or cat consuming the food source is reduced or (2) the normal weight of a pet dog or cat consuming the food source and having a propensity to weight gain is maintained or essentially maintained.

Abstract: Animal feed compositions comprising amounts of protein, carbohydrate, fat and a functional ingredient for preventing hairball formation are provided. The functional ingredient comprises an electrostatically charge ingredient, preferably selected from the group consisting of electrostatically charged proteins, amino acids, conjugated proteins, dipeptides, multipeptides, protein colloids, enzymes, protein hydrolysates, natural and artificial food additives, flavorings, seasonings, and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: Animal feed compositions comprising amounts of protein, carbohydrate, fat and a functional ingredient for preventing hairball formation are provided.

Abstract: A feline pet food comprising a dietary level of protein and a supplemental amount of at least one amino acid in an amount sufficient to provide a feline lean body mass protection equivalent to about a 50% protein feline pet food.

Abstract: Continuous direct enzymatic protein solubilization process for industrial waste. The invention consists of obtaining peptones (mixture of proteins, peptides and amino acids) starting from industrial wastes of plant origin. The process is carried out in two steps. On the first step the wastes are subjected to successive washes with acidified water to wash out alkaloids (polyphenols), sugars, insoluble fibers, etc., a concentrate rich in proteins being obtained. In a continuous process said protein concentrate is next subjected to a second enzymatc hydrolysis step (25-40%) with endoproteases, the peptones being obtained which involve a degree of solubilization in the order of 60-80% of the insoluble commencement proteins.

Abstract: A process to obtain a feed supplement composition for ruminants comprises the steps: a) cleaning whole raw grains, b) heat treating the whole grains, c) transporting the heat treated whole grains to a vented steeping tank through a flow control system, d) spraying a nitrogenous compound, from a compound tank with a flow control system, into the steeping tank, over the heat treated whole grains, e) crushing the heat treated grains combined with the nitrogenous compound, f) cooling the heat treated and crushed grains in a cooling drum, g) optionally further spraying the nitrogenous compound into the cooling drum, over the heat treated and crushed grains, and h) recovering the feed composition. A feed supplement composition for ruminants, obtained through the above described process, containing: a) at least one variety of raw grains, combined with b) a 5 to 40% nitrogenous compound.

Abstract: A poultry and livestock feed additive composition containing 36 wt. % electrolytes, roughage and mineral oil to increase their dietary electrolyte balance. Addition of the electrolyte additive composition improves breeder hen performance as to egg production, body weight, and reduced mortality from heat stress. Broiler chickens on this diet result in increased processing yield, feed conversion and body weight. A method of preparing this dietary electrolyte feed for poultry and livestock is also described.

Abstract: A poultry eggshell strengthening composition for enhancing eggshell thickness and external eggshell membrane thickness, containing a viable microorganism of the genus Bacillus as an active ingredient, optionally together with a carrier or diluent.

Abstract: There is provided soybean protein products of significantly lowerstachyose content as a function of an improved soybean having a seed stachyose content of less than 50 &mgr;mol/g. Improved soybean lines are provided as are methods of using such reduced stachyose soybeans.