Amino acids, feedstuffs quality and formulation: Interview with Guoyao Wu (Texas A&M)

Let's have discussions about this interesting topic on amino acids, feedstuff quality, and diet formulation for animals, including poultry and swine. Livestock, poultry, and fish have dynamic requirements for dietary nutrients. Therefore, adequate knowledge about principles of animal nutrition is essential for improving the growth and production performance, feed efficiency, as well as the health and well-being of all animals. Thank you!

This is a great topic. There are important things going on with NEAA that are not well understood. Part of the challenge is analytical - a typical hydrolysis for AA analysis converts glutamine into glutamate, giving a single value for two important AA.

This technical issue has now been resolved by using enzymatic analysis. If you are interested in step-by-step procedures, please send me an email, and I would be glad to forward my published article to you. My email address is g-wu@tamu.edu. Thanks!