Fatty acids (FAs) of milk fat are considered to be important nutritional components of the
diets of a significant portion of the human population and substantially affect human health …

Selective breeding has been practiced since domestication, but early breeders commonly
selected on appearance (eg, coat color) rather than performance traits (eg, milk yield). A …

Interest in methods that routinely and accurately measure and predict animal characteristics
is growing in importance, both for quality characterization of livestock products and for …

Nowadays, near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) has become one of the most efficient and
advanced techniques for analysis of food products. Many relevant researches have been …

The main odd-and branched-chain fatty acids (OBCFA) in milk of dairy cows are isomers of
tridecanoic acid (iso C13: 0), tetradecanoic acid (iso C14: 0), pentadecanoic acid (C15: 0 …

Increasing consumer concern exists over the relationship between food composition and
human health. Because of the known effects of fatty acids on human health, the …

Numerous statistical machine learning methods suitable for application to highly correlated
features, as those that exist for spectral data, could potentially improve prediction …

Organic products are vulnerable to fraud due to their premium price. Analytical methodology
helps to manage the risk of fraud and due to the miniaturization of equipment, tests may …

Phenotypes have been reviewed to select for lower-emitting animals in order to decrease
the environmental footprint of dairy cattle products. This includes direct selection for breath …

The objective of this study was to estimate genetic parameters for major milk fatty acids and
milk production traits. One morning milk sample was collected from 1,918 Holstein-Friesian …