Reproductive biology: Breeding opportunities

Equine Reproductive Physiology, Breeding

Opportunities For Improving Reproductive Management And Efficiency Of The Swine Breeding Herd With Artificial Insemination

Current Status of AI Use The USA swine breeding herd has been reported to include 3.9 million sows. Approximately 60% of these sows were determined to have been mated by artificial insemination. Each sow received 6.5 doses of semen annually, for a total of 25 million doses utilized in a single year (1999, Boar Semen Conference). Most of the AI is performed with 3 billion sperm in 80 cc of a 5-d...

Reproductive biology and breeding system of Saraca asoca (Roxb.) De Wilde: a vulnerable medicinal plant

Ashoka (Saraca asoca) is a perennial, evergreen tree valued for its ornamental flowers and medicinal values. This species is classified as 'vulnerable' under IUCN list due to its dwindling population because of destructive harvesting from natural habitats. Therefore, conservation and multiplication of this species is need of the hour to utilize its astonishing medicinal uses eternally. Conserva...

Virus-Induced Flowering: An Application of Reproductive Biology to Benefit Plant Research and Breeding.

For many crops, the benefits of traditional breeding practices are difficult to achieve because the crops have long juvenile periods that necessitate long breeding cycles, desired genotypes for a cross do not have synchronized flowering because of photoperiod or vernalization requirements, or preferred lines are propagated asexually and have limited flowering potential. In light of these limita...

Minisymposium on Reproductive Biology

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