The present study was designed to determine the effect on laying performance and egg quality resulting from total substitution of soybean meal (SBM) with low-fiber sunflower meal (SFM; Helianthus annus L.) meal in diet of hens. ISA Brown layers, 28 wk of age, were randomly allocated to 2 dietary treatments and fed for 10 wk. The hens were kept in a free-range environment and fed 2 wheat middlin...

Cotton fiber is renewable natural fiber source for textile. Improving fiber quality is an essential goal for cotton breeding project. In present study, F14 recombinant inbred line (RIL) population was backcrossed by the maternal parent to obtain a backcross (BC) population, derived from one Upland cotton hybrid. Three repetitive field trials were performed by randomized complete block design wi...

oxidative and microbiological degradations are the main factors that determine the quality of food and the shelf life. color and moisture stability are important quality attributes that contribute to meat shelf life, salability and consumer acceptability. there is currently considerable interest in edible films coatings and natural antioxidants because of their potential to improve the quality ...

Dickkopf-1 (DKK1) is an inhibitor of canonical Wnt signaling pathway and regulates hair follicle morphogenesis and cycling. To investigate the potential involvement of DKK1 in wool production and quality traits, we characterized the genomic structure of ovine DKK1, performed polymorphism detection and association analysis of ovine DKK1 with wool production and quality traits in Chinese Merino. ...

correlated with soil organic matter, B, Cu, Fe, Mn, and Zn. Fiber quality was correlated with soil Mg, K, Cu, To maximize profitability, cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) producand As. Elms et al. (1997) reported that yield in an ers must attempt to control the quality of the crop while maximizing irrigated cotton field in Texas displayed spatial correlayield. The objective of this research was to...

Let X be a d-dimensional projective arithmetic variety and L an invertible sheaf on X . We fix a C∞-hermitian metric | · | of L. In Arakelov geometry, we frequently ask whether H(X,L) has a free basis consisting of strictly small sections. However, we know few about this problem in general. For example, Zhang [7] proved that H(X,nL) possesses a free basis as above for n ≫ 1 if the following con...

Within the framework of our cotton breeding program, we are using molecular markers to improve the efficiency of the introgression of fiber quality traits into a favorable genetic background. This effort relies on i) the development of a saturated genetic map of the cotton genome, ii) the identification of fiber quality QTLs, and iii) the marker-assisted introgression of favorable genomic regio...

vide a promising method of streamlining plant breeding programs (Kohel et al., 2001; Lawson et al., 1997; Mohan Cotton fiber is a basic raw material in the textile industry. All et al., 1997). In 1999-2000, we used a G. anomalum the changes in spinning technology require unique and often greater Wawra ex Wawra & Peyritch introgression line 7235, cotton fiber quality, especially strength, for pr...