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National Programs
Food Animal Production
Program Summary:
- Complete identification of genes or gene markers related to at least 10 production disease traits.
- Sequence short segments of genes (EST-Epressed Sequence Tags) for the majority of genes expressed in livestock and poultry.
- Improve cryopreservation of swine embryos and swine and poultry semen to produce live young on a routine basis.
- Develop cryopreservation technology for swine oocytes and blastadermal discs in chickens.
- Increase lean and decrease fat by at least 10 percent in beef and pork and by at least 5 percent in poultry.
- Develop national germplasm respository and database system to preserve genetic diversity and serve as a 'gene bank'.
- Improve in vitro embryo production technology (two to threefold) for efficient production and transfer of sexed embryos in swine and cattle; provide non-surgical embryo transfer technology for swine.
- Develop means to inseminate swine with less than 10
percent of the current number of sperm in an AI dose for swine.
- Develop decision support models for assembling improved animal production systems.
- Reduced cost systems for managing replacement animals for the breeding herd.
- Improved animal production components for use in whole farm production models.
- Improved definition of dietary nutrient needs for food animals.
- Information on improved sources of nutrients and their bioavailability.
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