As we close another year of existence with the publication this third issue volume 16, take opportunity to share everyone joy having complied requirements indexing platforms, reaching milestones outlined for first three years JFA. Thanks joint effort authors, reviewers, editors, and management team, who prepare, organize, produce journal, achieved appropriate temporal, quantitative, qualitative...

(Co)variance components for milk, fat, and protein yields during first and second lactations were estimated from test-day data from 23,029 Holstein cows from 37 herds in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin using a multitrait test-day model. Canonical transformation was used with an expectation-maximization algorithm. To allow description of (co)variances within and across yield traits and parities, four...

The administration of porcine somatotropin (pST) to pregnant sows during early gestation (day 10 to 24) induced the formation of significantly more muscle fibres in the semitendinosus muscle of the fetuses, representing a higher growth capacity of skeletal muscle. The pST-treatment during late pregnancy (day 80 to 94) accelerated the development of the fetus resulting in higher body weights and...

BACKGROUND Two important quality attributes of processing tomatoes are pH and titratable acidity. These and other quality attributes can be affected by tomato fruit maturity and over-maturity. We have determined the magnitude of these maturity effects in four processing tomato cultivars commonly grown in California. RESULTS Allowing tomatoes to remain on the vine for up to 4 weeks after ripen...

Abstract Cereal production in important growing regions is negatively influenced by climate change. This can be countered expanding cereal northwards Scandinavia and Iceland, where today, barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) primarily used as feed, it rarely reaches malting quality. study explores genetic factors underlying the ability of to mature fully low temperature long photoperiod. A panel 84 spr...

Intensive size-selective harvesting can drive evolution of sexual maturity at smaller body size. Conversely, prehistoric, low-intensity subsistence harvesting is not considered an effective agent of size-selective evolution. Uniting archaeological, palaeontological and contemporary material, we show that size at sexual maturity in the edible conch Strombus pugilis declined significantly from pr...