Climate change threatens farm animals: Italian researchers are using genomics to try to save them

Photo credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain. Article by Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Phys.org – September 29, 2022.

Researchers of Università Cattolica, Piacenza, are searching for genes to make cattle and sheep breeds resistant to climate change, heat waves and drought: it is at risk the very survival of many local breeds, with huge economic losses for the production chain, while the arrival of new diseases can seriously affect cattle. At the Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Sciences headed by Prof. Marco Trevisan, […]

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