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Protocol: a versatile, inexpensive, high-throughput plant genomic DNA extraction method suitable for genotyping-by-sequencing

Plant Methods, 2018
Background The recent development of next-generation sequencing DNA marker technologies, such as genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS), generates thousands of informative single nucleotide polymorphism markers in almost any species, regardless of genomic ...
Craig B. Anderson, Benjamin K. Franzmayr, Soon Won Hong, Anna C. Larking, Tracey C. van Stijn, Rachel Tan, Roger Moraga, Marty J. Faville, Andrew G. Griffiths   +8 more
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Effects of long-acting, broad spectra anthelmintic treatments on the rumen microbial community compositions of grazing sheep

Scientific Reports, 2021
Anthelmintic treatment of adult ewes is widely practiced to remove parasite burdens in the expectation of increased ruminant productivity. However, the broad activity spectra of many anthelmintic compounds raises the possibility of impacts on the rumen ...
Christina D. Moon, Luis Carvalho, Michelle R. Kirk, Alan F. McCulloch, Sandra Kittelmann, Wayne Young, Peter H. Janssen, Dave M. Leathwick   +7 more
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A Eurasia-wide polyploid species complex involving 6x Trifolium ambiguum, 2x T. occidentale and 4x T. repens produces interspecific hybrids with significance for clover breeding

BMC Plant Biology, 2019
Background Trifolium ambiguum occurs as a 2x, 4x, 6x polyploid series in W Asia. The 6x form is the most agronomically desirable, having strong rhizomatous spread and drought tolerance.
Warren M. Williams, Isabelle M. Verry, Helal A. Ansari, S. Wajid Hussain, Ihsan Ullah, Nicholas W. Ellison   +5 more
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Evaluation of Feed Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectra as Predictors of Methane Emissions from Ruminants

Animals, 2022
Feed chemical composition is associated with methane (CH4) formation in the rumen, and thus CH4 yields (Ym; CH4 emitted from per unit of dry matter intake) could be predicted using near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) of feeds fed to ruminants ...
Xuezhao Sun, David Pacheco, Grant Taylor, Peter H. Janssen, Natasha M. Swainson   +4 more
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Low pyrrolizidine alkaloid levels in perennial ryegrass is associated with the absence of a homospermidine synthase gene

BMC Plant Biology, 2018
Background Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are a class of secondary metabolites that function as feeding deterrents in a range of different plant species.
Geoffrey P. Gill, Catherine J. Bryant, Mikhail Fokin, Jan Huege, Karl Fraser, Chris Jones, Mingshu Cao, Marty J. Faville   +7 more
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Some effects of topographic aspect on grassland responses to elevated CO2

Plant Production Science, 2019
Grasslands are distributed globally across various topographies. In non-flat grasslands, aspect (the direction that a slope faces) influences the amounts of radiation and consequent effects on temperature and soil moisture, all of which are important ...
Mark Lieffering, Paul C. D. Newton, Shona C. Brock, Phillip W. Theobald   +3 more
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Gene and transcript abundances of bacterial type III secretion systems from the rumen microbiome are correlated with methane yield in sheep

BMC Research Notes, 2017
Background Ruminants are important contributors to global methane emissions via microbial fermentation in their reticulo-rumens. This study is part of a larger program, characterising the rumen microbiomes of sheep which vary naturally in methane yield ...
Janine Kamke, Priya Soni, Yang Li, Siva Ganesh, William J. Kelly, Sinead C. Leahy, Weibing Shi, Jeff Froula, Edward M. Rubin, Graeme T. Attwood   +9 more
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RIM-DB: a taxonomic framework for community structure analysis of methanogenic archaea from the rumen and other intestinal environments [PDF]

PeerJ, 2014
Methane is formed by methanogenic archaea in the rumen as one of the end products of feed fermentation in the ruminant digestive tract. To develop strategies to mitigate anthropogenic methane emissions due to ruminant farming, and to understand rumen ...
Henning Seedorf, Sandra Kittelmann, Gemma Henderson, Peter H. Janssen   +3 more
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Introgression of Trifolium ambiguum Into Allotetraploid White Clover (Trifolium repens) Using the Ancestral Parent Trifolium occidentale as a Bridging Species

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
White clover (Trifolium repens) is an allotetraploid pasture legume widely used in moist temperate climates, but its vulnerability to drought, grazing pressure and pests has restricted its wider use.
Ihsan Ullah, Ihsan Ullah, Helal A. Ansari, Isabelle M. Verry, Syed Wajid Hussain, Nick W. Ellison, Michael T. McManus, Warren M. Williams, Warren M. Williams   +8 more
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Seed Transmission of Epichloë Endophytes in Lolium perenne Is Heavily Influenced by Host Genetics

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018
Vertical transmission of symbiotic Epichloë endophytes from host grasses into progeny seed is the primary mechanism by which the next generation of plants is colonized. This process is often imperfect, resulting in endophyte-free seedlings which may have
Milan Gagic, Marty J. Faville, Wei Zhang, Natasha T. Forester, M. Philip Rolston, Richard D. Johnson, Siva Ganesh, John P. Koolaard, H. Sydney Easton, Debbie Hudson, Linda J. Johnson, Christina D. Moon, Christine R. Voisey   +12 more
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