Breeding values

This book is a reference guide for scientists working in food ingredients, food product research and development, functional foods and nutraceuticals, crop breeding and genetics, human nutrition, post-harvest treatment and processing of cereal grains and pulses. It will enable them to effect value-added food innovation for health promotion and disease risk reduction.

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In the case of length weight relationship (LWR), the coefficient of determination value (r2 ) was found 0.96 and the slope was found b = 1.50 which indicated the pattern of negative allometric growth of this species as b < 3. In contrast, an increase was recorded in the fecundity associated with the rise of total length, body weight and gonad weight showed a significant linear relationship. This study would assist in the development of induced breeding techniques and provide valuable information for the sustainable management of this population in the inland open ecosystem.

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The content of unsaturated fatty acids did differ between males and females of the two species studied. However, these differences are few and can be explained by the timing of their breeding seasons. The fatty acid composition of the fats from both investigated octopus species permits their use as food with nutritional value, and the production of bioactive additives.

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The Tajima’s test indicated that the analysed population in balancing selection with a D-value of 2.39. A phylogenetic tree based on 455 bp of hypervariable mtDloop sequence classified 17 Bang Troi chicken individuals into three clades A, B, and E, which are common groups of Vietnamese and Asia indigenous chickens. This result provides the first genetic information and maternal lineages of Bang Troi chickens and it can support for registration of local chicken breeds.

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The article discusses the prospects for the introduction of the Russian accounting practice of International financial reporting standards (IFRS), the calculation of the fair value of the biological asset of horse breeding organizations under IFRS. A number of methods of calculation of fair value, a technique based on market value and calculation based on the method of profit capitalization and money flow discounting are considered to justify the effectiveness of supply chain management.

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Ebook "Selection methods in plant breeding (2nd edition)" considers consequently only the genetic efficiency, i.e. the rate of progress to be expected when applying a certain selection procedure. This means, in fact, that the breeder should be able to develop population genetic and quantitative genetic models that describe the observed mode of inheritance as satisfactorily as possible.

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Part 1 book "The quest to conserve rare breeds - Setting the record straight" includes content: Major players, the dark side, maximizing within breed diversity, breeding policies, genetic exchange, utilizing ‘old’ genetic resources, case studies, added value, adapting policy priorities, formidable challenges, blueprint for the future.

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Part 1 book "Smart livestock nutrition" includes content: Putting smart into nutrition, matching feed characteristics to animal requirements through plant breeding, circular feed production and consumption in the context of smart animal nutrition, assessment of the nutritive value of individual feeds and diets by novel technologies, large scale phenotyping and genotyping - state of the art and emerging challenges.

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Part 2 book "Whittemore's science and practice of pig production" includes content: Nutritional value of proteins and amino acids in feedstuffs for pigs, value of fats and oils in pig diets, energy and protein requirements for maintenance, growth and reproduction, requirements for water, minerals and vitamins, appetite and voluntary feed intake, diet formulation, optimisation of feed supply to growing pigs and breeding sows,... and other contents.

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Part 2 book "Linear models for the prediction of animal breeding values" includes content: Analysis of longitudinal data, use of genetic markers in breeding value prediction, computation of genomic breeding values and genomic selection, non additive animal models, analysis of ordered categorical traits, survival analysis, estimation of genetic parameters,.... and other contents.

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Part 1 book "Linear models for the prediction of animal breeding values" includes content: Genetic evaluation with different sources of records, genetic covariance between relatives, best linear unbiased prediction of breeding value - univariate models with one random effect, best linear unbiased prediction of breeding value - models with random environmental effects, best linear unbiased prediction of breeding value - models with random environmental effects, methods to reduce the dimension of multivariate models,.... and other contents.

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Part 1 book "Achieving sustainable production of milk (Vol 1 - Milk composition, genetics and breeding)" includes content: The proteins of milk, bioactive components in cow’s milk; ingredients from milk for use in food and non- food products - from commodity to value-added ingredients, understanding and preventing spoilage of cow’s milk, sensory evaluation of cow’s milk,.... and other contents.

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Part 1 book "Genomic selection in animals" includes content: The multiple comparison problem, linkage mapping of QTL, marker‐assisted selection - basic strategies genetic evaluation based on dense marker maps - basic strategies, genomic evaluation based on analysis of production records, validation of methods for genomic estimated breeding values,...and other contents.

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Part 2 book "Genetic improvement of farmed animals" includes content: Predicting breeding values, dairy cattle breeding, beef cattle breeding; sheep and goat breeding, poultry breeding, pig breeding, aquaculture breeding, future directions.

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Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) or 'the tree of life' is one of the most important palm crops due to its versatility. Reduction in coconut productivity due to natural calamity and disease threats has raised the urgent need to develop in vitro techniques that can overcome the obstacles of the traditional breeding method. Embryo culture is one of the earliest in vitro culture techniques applied to practical problems and so far has proved itself to be of great value to breeders.

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Genomic selection (GS) can accelerate genetic gains in breeding programmes by reducing the time it takes to complete a cycle of selection. Puccinia coronata f. sp lolli (crown rust) is one of the most widespread diseases of perennial ryegrass and can lead to reductions in yield, persistency and nutritional value.

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The Nordic Red Cattle consisting of three different populations from Finland, Sweden and Denmark are under a joint breeding value estimation system. The long history of recording of production and health traits offers a great opportunity to study production traits and identify causal variants behind them.

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Female fertility is an important trait in cattle breeding programs. In the Nordic countries selection is based on a fertility index (FTI). The fertility index is a weighted combination of four female fertility traits estimated breeding values for number of inseminations per conception (AIS), 56-day non-return rate (NRR), number of days from first to last insemination (IFL), and number of days between calving and first insemination (ICF).

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The efficiency of breeding programs partly relies on the accuracy of the estimated breeding values which decreases when pedigrees are incomplete. Two reproduction techniques are mainly used by sheep breeders to identify the sires of lambs: animal insemination and natural matings with a single ram per group of ewes.

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Growth and carcass traits are very important traits for broiler chickens. However, carcass traits can only be measured postmortem. Genomic selection may be a powerful tool for such traits because of its accurate prediction of breeding values of animals without own phenotypic information.

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