Introduction Genomic selection in beef cattle has currently been performed with multistep methods, which uses deregressed EBV to estimate SNP effects and then direct genomic value (DGV) for selection candidates based on their genotypes (Meuwissen et al., 2001; Garrick et al., 2009). The main advantage of this approach is that the traditional BLUP evaluation is kept unchanged and genomic selecti...

Apart from the well-known weaknesses of the standard Malmquist productivity index related to infeasibility and not accounting for slacks, already addressed in the literature, we identify a new and significant drawback of the Malmquist-Luenberger index decomposition that questions its validity as an empirical tool for environmental productivity measurement associated with the production of bad o...

The chlorophyll/carotenoid index (CCI) is increasingly used for remotely tracking the phenology of photosynthesis. However, CCI restricted to few satellites incorporating 531 nm band. This study reveals that Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) broadband green reflectance (band 4) significantly correlated with this xanthophyll-sensitive narrowband 11) ( <mml:math xmlns:mml="htt...