Lactating St. Croix White and Dorper × St. Croix White ewes were used to evaluate the effect of breed and feeding a split ration on body temperature during the cool (March–April) and warm (July–August) seasons in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Within each season ewes were assigned to treatments (n = 8/treatment) based on breed, age, and number of lambs. Treatments consisted of individually feeding ew...

In crops, optimizing target traits in breeding programs can be fostered by selecting appropriate combinations of architectural traits which determine light interception and carbon acquisition. In apple tree, architectural traits were observed to be under genetic control. However, architectural traits also result from many organogenetic and morphological processes interacting with the environmen...