The polled phenotype of cattle is increasingly becoming favourable mainly because of the enhanced emphasis on animal welfare, for which the causative mutations have been reported during the past years. The Shuxuan cattle are a new synthetic breed by crossing the indigenous cattle with both Simmental and Holstein semen in Sichuan of Southwest China, in which about 15% of polled individuals have ...

Breeding hybrids with nuclear malesterile lines is an important method for the cross-breeding of sweet peppers. To date, few reports have been published on malesterility gene pepper. Yet, there are approximately 20 pepper in world. Using self-developed testing material, dual-purpose line AB91, genome-wide resequencing technique was applied to find that mutation site causing abortion AB91 chromo...

In this study, it was carried out to determine some vegetative characteristics and yield of 30 lines M4 plants which different mutagens were applied. As a mutagen, 120 Gy gamma rays 40 Mm Ethyl Methane Sulfonate (EMS), humidification neem oil applications among the trial subjects. Features such as pod length width, weight, plant height, stem diameter, number pods, grains per grain weight invest...

The Darwin theory of evolution by natural selection is based on three principles: (a) variation; (b) inheritance; and (c) natural selection. Here, I take these principles as an excuse to review some topics related to the future research prospects in Animal Breeding. With respect to the first principle I describe two forms of variation different from mutation that are becoming increasingly impor...

Introduction The potato (Solanum tuberosum) originated from South America and is now the third largest crop in the world, after rice and wheat. Potato is a cross pollinated and vegetatively propagated crop, with a genome size around 840 MB, which was recently sequenced. Most potato cultivars are autotetraploid, with breeding programs lasting for 12–15 years. Among many biotic and abiotic stress...