In industrialized countries, maize cultivation is mainly associated with the use of hybrid varieties and input-intensive monocultures. Despite homogeneity European landscapes, alternative models production based on landraces exist. Understanding structures values underlying these essential to enable design new strategies linking crop diversity, plant breeding, food systems. This paper analyses ...

Latin America is the center of domestication and diversity maize, second most cultivated crop worldwide. In this region, maize landraces are fundamental for food security, livelihoods, culture. Nevertheless, genetic erosion (i.e., loss variation in a crop) threatens continued cultivation situ conservation landrace that crucial to climate change adaptation diverse uses maize. We provide an overv...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to estimate breed-specific variance components for total number born (TNB), number born alive (NBA) and mortality rate from birth through weaning including stillbirths (MORT) of three main swine breeds in Korea. In addition, the importance of including maternal genetic and service sire effects in estimation models was evaluated. METHODS Records of farrowing ...

BACKGROUND Since 2009, millions of people have been forced to live under food shortage by the continuous drought in Southwestern China. The market was the primary source of aid grains, and fears that the market will be unable to provide sufficient food make safeguarding food security in the face of climate change crucial. Traditional adaptive strategies of pre-market indigenous people are a pot...

Meat quality is determined by properties such as carcass color, tenderness and drip loss. These properties are closely associated with meat composition, which includes the types of muscle fiber and content of intramuscular fat (IMF). Muscle fibers are the main contributors to meat mass, while IMF not only contributes to the sensory properties but also to the plethora of physical, chemical and t...

Identifying footprints of selection can provide a straightforward insight into the mechanism of artificial selection and further dig out the causal genes related to important traits. In this study, three between-population and two within-population approaches, the Cross Population Extend Haplotype Homozygosity Test (XPEHH), the Cross Population Composite Likelihood Ratio (XPCLR), the F-statisti...

Cooking banana and plantain (Musa spp. AAB and ABB groups), have over the years been affected by pest and diseases, resulting in various organizations developing disease resistant hybrids with superior agronomic potential. The characteristics of these improved varieties needs to be studied to ascertain their suitability for use in various food systems. This study aimed at evaluating the physica...

Abstract Purpose Silicon (Si) accumulation in plant tissues plays a vital role alleviating biotic and abiotic stresses, including drought. Temperate regions are predicted to experience reductions the quantity frequency of rainfall events, potentially impacting Si uptake via transpiration stream. Despite importance for predicting responses amendments, effects changes patterns on cereals have not...

Relevance. Hybridization of pigs is one the main factors in production high-quality pork, since such animals combine genotype grandparent and parent breeds and, due to effect heterosis, have a high growth rate, improved meat qualities compared purebred ones. The paper presents an assessment reproductive large white sows productive young obtained as result industrial two-pedigree crossing. Metho...