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Pig meat production in the European Union-27: current status, challenges, and future trends [PDF]

Animal Bioscience
The main objective of this study was to present data on the current situation and future trends of pig meat production in the European Union-27 (EU). Pig production has played an important social and economic role for centuries in many states of the EU ...
G. G. Mateos, N. L. Corrales, G. Talegón, L. Aguirre   +3 more
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Expression of genes involved in adipogenesis and lipid metabolism in subcutaneous adipose tissue and longissimus muscle in low-marbled Pirenaica beef cattle

Animal, 2016
The ability to accumulate intramuscular fat (IMF) is a highly variable characteristic in beef cattle. In breeds with a low tendency to accumulate IMF, this can lead to compromised meat quality because of the contribution of fat to such organoleptic ...
B. Soret, J.A. Mendizabal, A. Arana, L. Alfonso   +3 more
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Severe trimming and enhanced competition of laterals as a tool to delay ripening in Tempranillo vineyards under semiarid conditions

OENO One, 2017
Aim: An advance in grapevine phenological stages (including ripening) is occurring worldwide due to global warming and, in the hottest seasons, already results in a lack of synchrony between sugar and phenolic ripeness, leading to unbalanced wines.
Luis Gonzaga Santesteban, Carlos Miranda, Jorge Urrestarazu, Maite Loidi, José Bernardo Royo   +4 more
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Horn presence determines social rank in Dorper rams

Ecosistemas y Recursos Agropecuarios
The aim was to determine if the presence of horns on rams defines whether they are high-ranking or low-ranking. Dorper rams (n = 20) were evaluated to determine their social rank (SR), either high (HSR) or low (LSR), under intensive management ...
Guadalupe Calderon-Leyva, Pablo Ivan Sifuentes-Lamont, Viridiana Contreras-Villarreal, Oscar Angel-Garcia, Silvestre Moreno-Avalos, Francisco Gerardo Veliz-Deras, Alan Sebastian Alvarado Espino   +6 more
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Survival of bovine blastocysts produced in vitro and vitrified in vitri-tip and vitri-top devices. [PDF]

SPERMOVA, 2019
Vitrification is a new technique that has many potential advantages in mammalian oocytes and embryos. In the present work, the objective was to compare of post thawing survival rate by of blastocysts vitrified in vitro in two devices.
R. Condori , C. Quispe, E. Ancco , D. Dipaz, E. Mellisho   +4 more
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'Workshop for Nagoya Protocol and Plant Treaty National Focal Points in Latin America and the Caribbean’ [PDF]

, 2020
The capacity-building Workshop for National Focal Points in Latin America and the Caribbean on Mutually Supportive Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, was held 25-28 ...
Argumedo, A., Ellis, D., Garforth, K., Gullotta, G., Halewood, Michael, Toledo, A.   +5 more
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Increasing Legume Input through Interseeding Cover Crops: Soil and Crop Response as Affected by Tillage System

Agronomy, 2023
Legumes provide important benefits in rotations. Interseeding cover crops (CCs) allows an additional legume CC in case of a short window after the main crop. However, legume input level and management could modify the expected benefits.
Nelly Centurión, Ignacio Mariscal-Sancho, Mariela Navas, José Luis Gabriel, Kelly Ulcuango, Miguel Ángel Ibáñez, Ana Moliner, Chiquinquirá Hontoria   +7 more
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Effects of the composition of the pre-peak diet fed from 18 to 29 wk of age on egg production, egg quality, and the development of the gastrointestinal tract of brown-egg laying hens from 18 to 61 wk

Journal of Applied Poultry Research
SUMMARY: The effects of the nutritional characteristics of the diet fed from 18 to 29 wk of age on egg production and the development of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) were studied in brown egg-laying hens from 18 to 61 wk of age.
A.F. De Juan, R. Scappaticcio, L. Aguirre, G.G. Mateos, L. Cámara   +4 more
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Use of a glycogenic precursor during the prepartum period and its effects upon metabolic indicators and reproductive parameters in dairy cows

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Pecuarias, 2020
The aim was to evaluate if 1-2 propanodiol plus calcium propionate (glycogenic precursor) supplementation during the transition period in high yielding dairy cows reduces metabolic and reproductive dysfunctions during early lactation.
Carlos Leyva Orasma, Jesús Jaime Benitez-Rivas, Juan Luis Morales Cruz, Cesar Alberto Meza-Herrera, Oscar Ángel-García, Fernando Arellano-Rodríguez, Guadalupe Calderón-Leyva, Dalia Ivette Carrillo-Moreno, Francisco Veliz Deras   +8 more
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The grape phylloxera plague as a natural experiment: the upkeep of vineyards in Catalonia (Spain), 1858-1935 [PDF]

, 2010
We present a comparative analysis of the impact and outcome in Catalonia of the wine rush and crash unleashed by the spread of the Grape Phylloxera plague in Europe (1865-1890).
Badia Miró, Marc, Garrabou Segura, Ramon, Tello Aragay, Enric, Valls Junyent, Francesc   +3 more
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