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This book provides a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the welfare of cattle. It starts with a consideration of animal welfare science and its application to the management of cattle and moves through to discussions of the challenges and opportunities for providing good welfare for cattle in farming and husbandry systems across the globe. The first section comprises three chapters that discuss the social, behavioural and physiological methods that can be used to assess welfare in cattle. The second section considers the welfare challenges of beef and dairy cattle in extensive and intensive systems. The third section details welfare challenges such as at slaughter, during handling and in the growing period and details solutions such as the use of sensors and application of animal breeding techniques. The final section addresses welfare challenges and solutions in achieving sustainability, in smallholder farms in Africa and new entrant dairying in Asia and cow shelters in India. This work makes a valuable contribution to the field of animal welfare and modern livestock farming. It is a must-read for researchers and students, veterinarians as well as industry personnel and informed farmers and producers.

This book reviews concepts and recent advances of biotechnological approaches for livestock production. Indeed, biotechnologies have recently emerged as powerful tools for animal breeding, genetics, production, nutrition, and animal health. Applications to the production of livestock such as cattle, camel, and poultry are detailed. Chapters also present biotechnological applications for diagnostics, animal nutrition, and animal food production.

Bioinformatics in Agriculture: Next Generation Sequencing Era is a comprehensive volume presenting an integrated research and development approach to the practical application of genomics to improve agricultural crops. Exploring both the theoretical and applied aspects of computational biology, and focusing on the innovation processes, the book highlights the increased productivity of a translational approach. Presented in four sections and including insights from experts from around the world, the book includes: Section I: Bioinformatics and Next Generation Sequencing Technologies; Section II: Omics Application; Section III: Data mining and Markers Discovery; Section IV: Artificial Intelligence and Agribots. Bioinformatics in Agriculture: Next Generation Sequencing Era explores deep sequencing, NGS, genomic, transcriptome analysis and multiplexing, highlighting practices forreducing time, cost, and effort for the analysis of gene as they are pooled, and sequenced. Readers will gain real-world information on computational biology, genomics, applied data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This book serves as a complete package for advanced undergraduate students, researchers, and scientists with an interest in bioinformatics. - Discusses integral aspects of molecular biology and pivotal tool sfor molecular breeding - Enables breeders to design cost-effective and efficient breeding strategies - Provides examples ofinnovative genome-wide marker (SSR, SNP) discovery - Explores both the theoretical and practical aspects of computational biology with focus on innovation processes - Covers recent trends of bioinformatics and different tools and techniques

Há não mais do que vinte anos os pesquisadores de economia e de engenharia de produção, transportes e alimentos passaram a perceber a importância de estudar as redes de empresas e cadeias de suprimentos, claramente associadas à problemática da logística. Paralelamente, no Brasil, o agronegócio passou a ter enorme e fundamental importância econômica para a balança comercial e para o provimento de recursos para a alimentação de pessoas e de animais, não só em nosso país como em todo o globo terrestre. Assim, professores e pesquisadores de algumas universidades e empresas brasileiras passaram a dirigir seus esforços para estudar, pesquisar e compreender essas questões de crescente interesse para a própria humanidade. Este livro surge como consequência desses esforços. Nele estão acumuladas a experiência e a sabedoria de diversos profissionais que almejam, com o seu lançamento, suprir as necessidades de empresas, do governo, de professores, de alunos de graduação e pós-graduação e dos demais interessados no país, onde encontrarão meios para o aprofundamento de suas pesquisas e de seu conhecimento no setor.

This multi-authored volume contains peer-reviewed chapters from leading researchers and professionals in silvopastoral systems topic in Southern South America (Argentina, Chile and South Brazil). It is a compendium of original research articles, case studies, and regional overviews and summarizes the current state of knowledge on different components and aspects (pasture production, animal production, trees production, carbon sequestration, conservation) of silvopatoral systems in native forests and tree plantations. The main hypothesis of the book is that farmers have integrated tree and pasture/grassland species in their land use systems to reach higher production per unit of land area, risk avoidance, product diversification, and sustainability. These production systems also impact positively in main ecosystem processes. Management of these productive systems, Policy and Socioeconomic Aspects provide great opportunities and challenges for farmers and policy makers in our region. Thebook is unique on this subject in Southern South America and constitutes a valuable reference material for graduate students, professors, scientists and extensionists who work with silvopastoral systems.

A variabilidade fenotípica existente entre os animais decorre de efeitos genéticos, de meio ambiente e de interações do genótipo com o meio, manifestando-se nas características de carcaça e da carne produzida. Assim, fatores intrínsecos, como composição genética, gênero e idade e os fatores extrínsecos ao animal como nutrição e manejo podem exercer influencia na composição da carcaça, na qualidade da carne ou em ambas. Neste sentido, as ferramentas disponíveis para a avaliação da carcaça e da carne bovina obtidas em diferentes sistemas de produção, bem como os meios para manipular tais características são importantes para fornecer subsídio para obtenção de um produto de qualidade superior.