A crucial step in plant breeding is the selection and combination of parents to form new crosses. Genome-based prediction guides the selection of high-performing parental lines in many crop breeding programs which ensures a high mean performance of progeny. To warrant maximum selection progress, a new cross should also provide a large progeny variance. The usefulness concept as measure of the g...

Fetal programming suggests that maternal stimulation and nutrition during the period of fetal development can program progeny. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), an isomer acid, has been characterized in several aspects, but few studies have performed on its involvement reproduction programming. The aim this study was to evaluate F1, F2 F3 progeny female mice supplemented with CLA pregestational g...

A set of 70 experimental zoysiagrass genotypes along with three standards, ‘Meyer,' ‘Innovation,' and ‘KSUZ 1201,' were evaluated for turf performance in the northern transition zone. The previously selected from a 935 progeny that resulted pairwise crossings cold-hardy parents fine-textured, under-utilized zoysiagrasses. All survived winter 2019–2020 thus based on their performance. preference...