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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2007, p. 8012-8017, Vol. 73, No. 24
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01060-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Effect of Feeding Cows Genetically Modified Maize on the Bacterial Community in the Bovine Rumen{triangledown}

S. Wiedemann,1 P. Gürtler,1 and C. Albrecht1,2*

Physiology Weihenstephan, Technical University Munich, Weihenstephaner Berg 3, D-85354 Freising, Germany,1 Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Bern, Buehlstr. 28, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland2

Received 8 May 2006/ Accepted 30 September 2007

Rumen-cannulated cows (n = 4) were fed successively silage made from either conventional or genetically modified (GM) maize. Results revealed no effects of GM maize on the dynamics of six ruminal bacterial strains (investigated by real-time PCR) compared to the conventional maize silage.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Bern, Buehlstr. 28, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland. Phone: 41 31 631 4108. Fax: 41 31 631 3410. E-mail: christiane.albrecht{at}mci.unibe.ch

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 12 October 2007.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2007, p. 8012-8017, Vol. 73, No. 24
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01060-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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