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Improving sheep wool quality

, 2017
Wool is a natural fibre produced by nearly 500 different sheep breeds. Mean fibre diameter is the most important wool quality parameter and has the largest influence on the value of wool.
Doyle, E K
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Quality evaluation of wool: methods of evaluation of quality of wool, parameters, and important standards

Nikolaos S. Heliopoulos, George A. Komporozos, Sergios K. Papageorgiou   +2 more
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The objective measurement of wool fibre quality

2009
Australian Wool Testing Authority Ltd, Formerly Corporate Development Manager, null Australia, P Sommerville   +3 more
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Unravelling the proteome of wool: Towards markers of wool quality traits

Journal of Proteomics, 2012
With ongoing efforts to make wool more competitive alongside other fibres, notably synthetics, there is a need to obtain a better understanding of the relationship between protein composition and characteristic wool properties to assist sheep breeding programmes.
Jeffrey E, Plowman, Santanu, Deb-Choudhury, Stefan, Clerens, Ancy, Thomas, Charisa D, Cornellison, Jolon M, Dyer   +5 more
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ABOUT QUALITY SERTIFIED WOOL

Sheep, goats, woolen business, 2021
The article presents data on the quality of wool certifi ed by the Institute: its volumes, the yield of conditioned-pure mass, indicators of fiber diameter and contamination.
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QUALITY INDICATORS OF WOOL FIBER

2021
The article examines the quality of red and black lambs in diamond and silver colours, as well as data from observations of similarities and differences in the ...
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BIOTECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF WOOL

Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, 2003
Following in the footsteps of pharmacy and food processing the textile industry makes recourse to enzymes on an increasing scale. Biotechnology makes the textile processes more ecological. In the 1990's, attempts were made in Poland to lessen the undesirable effect of carbonization by using enzymes to remove vegetable impurities from wool.
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Genomic Characterization of Quality Wool Traits in Spanish Merino Sheep [PDF]

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The native Spanish Merino breed was the founder of all the other Merino and Merino-derived breeds worldwide. Despite the fact that this breed was created and improved to produce the highest quality fine wool, the global wool market crisis led to the ...
G Anaya, Nora Laseca, Chiraz Ziadi
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Wool Quality in Danish Prehistoric Textiles. 3000 Years of Sheep Wool and Textile Production

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
During the last 15 years wool fibre analyses have been made of Danish archaeological textiles dated from the Bronze to the Viking Ages (c.1800 BC - AD 1050). Because of the extraordinary preservation of these textiles the material is ideal for making qualified interpretations regarding wool fibre development and processing.
Irene Skals, Ulla Mannering, Eva Andersson Strand   +2 more
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Genetic selection for wool quality.

CABI Reviews, 2015
Abstract This paper reviews the feasibility of genetic selection for wool quality. More than 30 papers were studied in the present investigation. The traits which have been considered in the majority of the literature for inclusion in the selection programmes were: (a) wool quality traits (fibre diameter, staple ...
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