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Implementation in breeding programmes
Coffey, M.P.; McParland, S.; Bastin, Catherine et al.
2013In Advances in Animal Biosciences, 4 (3), p. 626-630
 

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Keywords :
MIR; rapid; low cost; dairy; phenotype; genotype; robustness
Abstract :
[en] Genetic improvement is easy when selecting for one heritable and well-recorded trait at a time. Many industrialised national dairy herds have overall breeding indices that incorporate a range of traits balanced by their known or estimated economic value. Future breeding goals will contain more non-production traits and, in the context of this paper, traits associated with human health and cow robustness. The definition of Robustness and the traits used to predict it are currently fluid; however, the use of mid-infrared reflectance spectroscopic analysis of milk will help to create new phenotypes on a large scale that can be used to improve the human health characteristics of milk and the robustness of cows producing it. This paper describes the state-of-the-art in breeding strategies that include animal robustness (mainly energy status) and milk quality (as described by milk fatty acid profile), with particular emphasis on the research results generated by the FP7-funded RobustMilk project
Disciplines :
Genetics & genetic processes
Animal production & animal husbandry
Author, co-author :
Coffey, M.P.;  Scotland's Rural College
McParland, S.;  Teagasc Moorepark > Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre
Bastin, Catherine ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Sciences agronomiques > Zootechnie
Wall, E.;  Scotland's Rural College
Berry, D.;  Teagasc Moorepark > Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre
Veerkamp, R.P.;  Wageningen UR Livestock Research > Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre
Language :
English
Title :
Implementation in breeding programmes
Publication date :
2013
Journal title :
Advances in Animal Biosciences
ISSN :
2040-4700
Publisher :
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Volume :
4
Issue :
3
Pages :
626-630
European Projects :
FP7 - 211708 - ROBUSTMILK - Innovative and Practical Breeding Tools for Improved Dairy Products from More Robust Dairy Cattle
Funders :
CE - Commission Européenne [BE]
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