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Crop biotechnology: prospects and opportunities [PDF]
, 2010 SUMMARYThis paper is a brief review summarizing some of the important areas of activity in crop biotechnology likely to be exploited over the medium term (10–20 years), with an emphasis on agronomic traits.
Dunwell, J. M.
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Growth and slaughtering performance, carcase fleshiness and meat quality according to the plumage colour in Padovana male chickens slaughtered at 18 weeks of age [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this trial was to investigate on the growth and meat quality of Padovana male chickens with different plumage varieties, chamois (PC - light brown feathers with white edge), silver (PS - white feathers with black edge), and their cross.
Rizzi, Chiara
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Plants, 2022 Microtubules play a fundamental role in plant development, morphogenesis, and cytokinesis; they are assembled from heterodimers containing an α-tubulin (TUA) and a β-tubulin (TUB) protein.
Yang Ren +8 more
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Carcass characteristics of cattle differing in Jersey proportion [PDF]
, 2018 peer-reviewedComparison of alternative dairy (cross-)breeding programs requires full appraisals of all revenues and costs, including beef merit. Few studies exist on carcass characteristics of crossbred dairy progeny originating from dairy herds as well ...
Berry, Donagh +4 more
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Heterosis goes underground [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Botany, 2021 This article comments on: Dafna A, Halperin I, Oren E, Isaacson T, Tzuri G, Meir A, Schaffer AA, Burger J, Tadmor Y, Buckler ES, Gur A. 2021. Underground heterosis for yield improvement in melon. Journal of Experimental Botany 72, 6205–6218.
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Scientific Reports, 2017 Heat stress, a major abiotic stressor of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), often results in reduced yield and decreased quality. In this study, a proteomic method, Tags for Relative and Absolute Quantitation Isobaric (iTRAQ), was adopted to analyze the ...
Yufeng Zhang +10 more
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Origin and adaptation to high altitude of Tibetan semi-wild wheat
Nature Communications, 2020 Mechanism of high altitude adaptation of wheat remains unknown. Here, the authors assemble the draft genome of a Tibetan semi-wild wheat accession and resequence 245 wheat accessions to reveal that Tibetan semi-wild wheat has been de-domesticated from ...
Weilong Guo +13 more
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Assessment of heterosis in two Arabidopsis thaliana common-reference mapping populations. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Hybrid vigour, or heterosis, has been of tremendous importance in agriculture for the improvement of both crops and livestock. Notwithstanding large efforts to study the phenomenon of heterosis in the last decades, the identification of common molecular ...
Marieke H A van Hulten +10 more
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Plants, 2023 Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.), as an important oil-producing crop, is widely distributed throughout the world, and its seeds are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids (FAs).
Rui Du +5 more
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AFLP Fingerprinting and Genetic Diversity of Main Sweetpotato Varieties in China
Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2012 AFLP fingerprinting of the 98 main sweetpotato varieties planted in China has been constructed. Using 17 AFLP primer combinations which were selected from 1 208 primer combinations and generated the most amounts of polymorphic bands, AFLP analysis of the
De-gao LIU +7 more
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