UQ Professor Ben Hayes with a $1000 portable genome sequencer.
BETA testing of a portable on-farm livestock genomic breeding value testing system could begin within two years, offering rapid crush-side trait assessment in a fraction of the time of the current lab-based technology.
Testing of portable genome sequencers had shown good correlations with lab-based technology for beef cattle genomic breeding values such body condition score, body weight, heifer puberty and calf hip height, the Southern Australia Livestock Research Council Livestock 2022 conference was told last week.
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