Introduction The potato (Solanum tuberosum) originated from South America and is now the third largest crop in the world, after rice and wheat. Potato is a cross pollinated and vegetatively propagated crop, with a genome size around 840 MB, which was recently sequenced. Most potato cultivars are autotetraploid, with breeding programs lasting for 12–15 years. Among many biotic and abiotic stress...

Literatures have reported that a lot of drought related genes were cloned and individual gene showed positive effects under controlled stress experiments, but were not much effective in the field. Although, the progresses by conventional breeding approaches were achievable as some drought varieties have been released to the farmers in the recent years but this is not adequate to cope up with th...

INTRODUCTION Dengue has emerged as a major public health problem in Sri Lanka. Vector control at community level is a frequent and widespread strategy for dengue control. The aim of the study was to assess Aedes mosquito breeding sites and the prevention practices of community members in a heavily urbanized part of Colombo. METHODS A cross-sectional entomological survey was conducted from Apr...

The aim was to predict genomic breeding values (GEBV) for corkscrew claw (CSC) in Norwegian Red and to investigate whether including historical data from a correlated trait improved the predictive ability of GEBV. Corkscrew claw, the most prevalent claw disorder in Norway, has since 2004 been recorded by claw trimmers. Hoof quality (HQ), a feet and leg conformation trait recorded by breeding ad...

Antllocyanin-rich crops have attracted attention in recent years because of their health benefits, and anthocyanin-rich tea is one of these crops. 'F95181' (Camellia sinensis) was developed for breeding anthosyanin-rich tea cultivars and registered as a new parental line 'Cha Chuukanbohon Nou 6' (C. sinensis) in 2004. 'F95181' was selected from an interspecific cross betweell C. taliensis (a wi...

Management intervention to avoid inbreeding in captive breeding programs is essential to maintain maximum genetic diversity. Vasectomy was enlisted in drill monkeys (Mandrillus leucophaeus) to achieve this purpose without altering the social dynamics of the groups. All the vasectomies were carried out at the Drill Rehabilitation and Breeding Centre, Cross River State, Nigeria. Vasectomy in dril...

Pre-slaughter live weight, dressing percentage, and hot standard carcase weight (HCWT) from the 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 birth-years of the Information Nucleus Flock Lambs (n=7325) were analysed using linear mixed effects models. Increasing the sire breeding value for post-weaning weight (PWWT), and c-site eye muscle depth (PEMD), and reducing the sire breeding value for fat depth (PFAT) all h...

The dissection of gene-trait associations and its translation into practice through plant breeding is a central aspect of modern plant biology. The identification of genes underlying simply inherited traits has been very successful. However, the identification of gene-trait associations for complex (multi-genic) traits in crop plants with large, often polyploid genomes has been limited by the a...

Introduction Grass pea consumption leads to neurolathyrism and a safer use of this environmentally adaptable crop needs cultivars with decreased neurotoxin levels. Were they cross-compatible, grass peas would be useful genetic resources for disease resistance breeding of peas (Pisum sativum L.). In vitro selection (9) and gene transfer may provide grass peas better adapted for consumption, whil...