Developments on the Enviropig File
C.W. Forsberg and colleagues in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph report on progress breeding pigs that secrete the enzyme, phytase, in their saliva and thus require supplements of neither inorganic phosphorus nor phytase. The results - in terms of physical and financial performance and manure phosphorus - are promising, they told delegates to the 28th Centralia Swine Research Update.