Background The forest fragments of Stryphnodrendron adstringens have disappeared because of the high rate of Brazilian Savannah deforestation for commercial purposes, such as eucalypt, citrus, soy bean, and sugar cane crops that have been intensely cultivated on those areas [1]. Economically, S. adstringens is important for manufacture industries of paints and tanneries, but also is utilized fo...

I think we need to keep in mind a few things that shows and judging of livestock do not do. All judging is a series of compromises. In judging livestock at a show, the judge tries to get what he considers the most of the best in his top animal. Anyone who knows anything at all about livestock will realize that, in a good show, the champion is not better in every respect than the reserve champio...

The new ISAC-II facility has just been funded. The main goals of this extension to the ISAC facility are: expanding the mass range from A ≤ 30 to A ≤ 150 and increasing the final energy from 1.5 MeV/nucleon to 6.5 MeV/nucleon. The accepted mass to charge ratio for the actual 36 MHz RFQ is A/q ≤ 30/1. In order to increase the mass range to 150 we have to increase the charge-state to at least 5+....

The artifi cial insemination (AI) technique plays an important role in improvement of conception rate, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and transmission of genetic material to the next generation. The breeding soundness evaluation (BSE) plays an important role in selection of male buffalo for the said purposes. This evaluation is an effective, inexpensive and easy method for selectio...

The paper examines sustainability within the context of farm animal breeding and reproduction. Sustainability can benefit breeders in two ways: (i) it invites breeders to take a comprehensive look at potentially conflicting breeding-related concerns, and to face any difficult trade-offs; and (ii) presenting the concerns within a framework (i.e. of sustainability) that is endorsed by society as ...

THE TERM “pasture quality” is a measure of the ability of the pasture to provide the nutritive requirements of the grazing animal. Many plant constituents contribute to this policy but only one group, the carbohydrates, will be considered here. At present probably the only reliable and meaningful method of assessing the relative nutritive value of different pastures is by comparing actual anima...

The sizeable investments in genomic studies at the DNA, RNA, protein, and metabolic pathway levels must ultimately provide return in terms of more efficiency in developing improved crop hybrids and varieties. The particular genomic application of molecular markers can be considered a ‘window into the genotype’. By incorporating molecular marker information with phenotypic information as the bas...

www.bioversityinternational.org Assessing the genetic variability of crops is required to identify and develop cultivars (cultivated varieties) suitable for speci c growing conditions and speci c economic, social and environmental needs. Modern breeding relies on the identi cation of DNA regions that control complex traits of agronomic interest, such as resistance to drought, yield and plant he...