Where paddocks have been reseeded this autumn, getting a good reseed establishment is essential to the success of the job.

Varietal testing, carried out by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), has confirmed a plateau in modern ...

The study indicated that the high degree of inbreeding in Babraham pigs likely contributed to the quality and completeness of the genome assembly. Like humans, pigs are diploid, having two slightly ...

Two complementary studies from the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with the ...

Scientists at The Pirbright Institute have generated a nearly complete genome assembly for an in-bred domestic pig breed, ...

This is termed the haploid number, which in dogs is 39. The full set of chromosomes, which is 78, can be injected into the now empty nucleus of the egg. This is termed the diploid number. Hopefully ...

Can be used to recap on sexual reproduction in plants or could lead into a classroom discussion on multicellular organisms.

Scientists have generated a nearly complete genome assembly for an inbred domestic pig breed, enhancing its use as a ...