How animals, particularly livestock, adapt to various climates and environments over short evolutionary time is of fundamental biological interest. Further, understanding the genetic mechanisms of adaptation in indigenous livestock populations is...
Heat and drought are the foremost abiotic stress factors that significantly diminish both grain yield and quality parameters of bread wheat. Genetic improvement of varieties withstanding such stresses and able to give sufficient grain yield with...
With the increase of raw food consumption, there is a growing interest in the risk posed by zoonotic infections to human health. This study was performed to identify in popular processed beef meat-based sausages (Merguez) the prevalence of Toxoplasma...
Roots, tubers, and bananas (RTB) are vital staples for food security in the world’s poorest nations. A majorconstraint to current RTB breeding programmes is limited knowledge on the available diversity due to lackof efficient germplasm...
Many wild bee species are declining globally. To design efficient mitigation strategies to slow down or reverse these trends, we urgently need to better understand their basic ecological requirements. In this context, we studied two specialist...
Cattle production is a key pillar of food security in Africa. The majority of African cattle is highly admixed with
unknown breed composition. Accurate estimation of live weight (LW) of these cattle would improve the precision of feeding, veterinary...
Landraces are a potential source of genetic diversity and provide useful genetic resources to cope with the current and future challenges in crop breeding. Afghanistan is located close to the centre of origin of hexaploid wheat. Therefore...
