A multiple-phenotype imputation procedure as a method for prediction of cheese-making efficiency in Spanish Assaf sheep.

ABSTRACT: Sheep milk is mainly intended to manufacture a wide variety of high-quality cheeses. The ovine cheese industry would benefit from an improvement, through genetic selection, of traits related to the milk coagulation properties (MCPs) and cheese yield-related traits, broadly denoted as "cheese-making traits." Considering that routine measurements of these traits needed for genetic selection are expensive and time-consuming, this study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of a cheese-making phenotype imputation method based on the information from official milk control records combined with the pH of the milk. For this study, we analyzed records of milk production traits, milk composition traits, and measurements of cheese-making traits available from a total of 1,145 dairy ewes of the Spanish Assa

SUBMITTER: Marina H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7751019 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature