An Analysis of the Wool Characteristics That Determine Wool Price for Merino Wool in South Africa
Scientific AfricanGlobally, wool characteristics determine wool price. As a result, wool that does not match the standards for fibre diameter, clean yield and staple length at auctions are sold at cheaper prices. At global level, very few studies in the literature of wool
Mashford Zenda
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Frontiers in Animal Science, 2023 IntroductionAustralia is the world’s largest producer and exporter of fine wool. External factors (i.e., non-genetic) that affect wool phenotype need to be identified and managed to minimize any negative effects on wool quality.
Edward J Narayan +1 more
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Sustainable Processing With Herbs on Bamboo, Banana, and Merino Wool Fibers
Journal of Natural Fibers, 2022 To refute the global catastrophe owing to emissions and effluents from the textile wet processing units, with sustainability at fore, the research herein performs the processing of natural fibers with herbal materials for coloration and to add ...
Alka Madhukar Thakker, Danmei Sun
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Characterisation of white and black merino wools: a proteomics study
Animal, 2019 Wool is an important agricultural commodity with merino wool being rated alongside the finest quality fibres, which include the goat fibres Mohair and Cashmere.
J. Plowman +4 more
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Design, validation, and application of a 1K liquid chip for genome-wide association analysis in Alpine Merino sheep [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceBecause wool is an important animal fiber and mutton is rich in nutrients, fine wool sheep are one of the most economically important livestock. China has been selecting and breeding high-quality fine wool sheep breeds since the 1950s and is the largest ...
Tingting Guo +11 more
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A Multiscale Mechanistic Framework for Polydopamine Dyeing in Ultrablack Wool Textiles [PDF]
Advanced SciencePolydopamine (PDA)‐dyed wool textiles offer a potentially scalable route to ultrablack materials that combine wide‐angle reflectance suppression, flexibility, breathability, and biocompatibility. Their development, however, has remained largely empirical,
Hansadi Jayamaha +4 more
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Exterior features and productivity of the Kazakh fine-wool breed of sheep and its crossbreeds with meat breeds [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 The article presents the dynamics of changes in live weight for a year, measurements, body build indices and productivity of one-year-old pure-bred Kazakh fine-wool female lambs and crossbreeds of different bloods with German meat merino, when creating a
Zhumadillayev Narzhan +4 more
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Genomic Population Structure of the Main Historical Genetic Lines of Spanish Merino Sheep
Animals, 2022 According to historiographical documentation, the Romans first began to select Merino sheep in the Iberian Peninsula during the first century, with the aim of obtaining a breed appreciated for the quality of its wool.
Antonio Granero +5 more
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Polymorphisms of FST gene and their association with wool quality traits in Chinese Merino sheep. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Follistatin (FST) is involved in hair follicle morphogenesis. However, its effects on hair traits are not clear. This study was designed to investigate the effects of FST gene single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) on wool quality traits in Chinese Merino
Guang-Wei Ma +10 more
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Sheep IGFBP2 and IGFBP4 promoter methylation regulates gene expression and hair follicle development
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, 2022 Background: Hair follicle development is important for the fineness of wool. Our previous methylated DNA immunoprecipitation sequencing showed that IGFBP2 and IGFBP4 were differentially methylated at different development stages of the hair follicle of ...
Yuezhen Tian +11 more
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