Enhancing Legume Cultivars through Agronomy, Breeding, and Genetics

Genetics: Breeding and Genetics

In broilers, heat stress results in reduced feed intake, digestion inef­ ficiency, impaired metabolism, and death. Our objective was to initiate a study on the effects of heat stress by profiling the transcriptome of a metabolically active organ, the liver, from heat-stressed and non-heat­ stressed broilers. From 21 to 28 d of age, heat-stressed broilers were exposed to daily 7-h cycles of 35°C...

Legume Breeding for Broomrape Resistance

Rubiales D. (2014): Legume breeding for broomrape resistance. Czech J. Genet. Plant Breed., 50: 144–150. Legume cultivation is hampered in Mediterranean regions by the occurrence of the root parasitic weeds Orobanche crenata (crenate broomrape) and Orobanche foetida (foetida broomrape). Strategies of control have been developed but only marginal successes have been achieved. Most control method...

CROP BREEDING, GENETICS & CYTOLOGY A Multivariate Method for Classifying Cultivars and Studying Group Environment Trait Interaction

each observation with p traits measured in each environment is normally distributed. For r environments, the Classification methods are used in genetic resource conservation vector of each observation has dimensions 1 rp, where and plant breeding. The two-stage Ward-Modified Location Model (Ward-MLM) clustering strategy defines initial groups by the Ward rp trait–environment combinations (varia...

Plant Breeding and Genetics

Breeding and Genetics: Crossbreeding

J. Anim. Sci. Vol. 88, E-Suppl. 2/J. Dairy Sci. Vol. 93, E-Suppl. 1/Poult. Sci. Vol. 89, E-Suppl. 1 430 Application of a crossbred model reveals additional genetic variation in reproduction traits of commercial females. S. Bloemhof*1,2, E. F. Knol1, A. Kause2, and I. Misztal3, 1IPG, Institute for Pig Genetics B.V., Beuningen, the Netherlands, 2Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen Uni...