Strategies to improve the efficiency of beef cattle production

SA Terry, JA Basarab, LL Guan… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Globally, there are approximately one billion beef cattle, and compared with poultry and
swine, beef cattle have the poorest conversion efficiency of feed to meat. However, these …

Genome-wide association study for feed efficiency and growth traits in US beef cattle

CM Seabury, DL Oldeschulte, M Saatchi, JE Beever… - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays for domestic cattle have
catalyzed the identification of genetic markers associated with complex traits for inclusion in …

Genetic architecture of quantitative traits in beef cattle revealed by genome wide association studies of imputed whole genome sequence variants: I: feed efficiency …

F Zhang, Y Wang, R Mukiibi, L Chen, M Vinsky… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Genome wide association studies (GWAS) on residual feed intake (RFI) and its
component traits including daily dry matter intake (DMI), average daily gain (ADG), and …

Combined application of biochar and nitrogen fertilizer improves rice yield, microbial activity and N-metabolism in a pot experiment

I Ali, S Ullah, L He, Q Zhao, A Iqbal, S Wei, T Shah… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
The excessive use of synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizers in rice (Oryza sativa L.) has resulted in
high N loss, soil degradation, and environmental pollution in a changing climate. Soil …

[HTML][HTML] The genetic and biological basis of feed efficiency in mid-lactation Holstein dairy cows

LC Hardie, MJ VandeHaar, RJ Tempelman… - Journal of dairy …, 2017 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to identify genomic regions and candidate genes associated
with feed efficiency in lactating Holstein cows. In total, 4,916 cows with actual or imputed …

Genome-wide association scan for heterotic quantitative trait loci in multi-breed and crossbred beef cattle

EC Akanno, L Chen, MK Abo-Ismail, JJ Crowley… - Genetics Selection …, 2018 - Springer
Background Heterosis has been suggested to be caused by dominance effects. We
performed a joint genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) using data from multi-breed …