Eva Bauer

TL;DR: There is growing evidence that betaine could have a positive impact both on animal performance and carcass quality, and direct interactions of betaine with metabolism-regulating factors have to be considered.

TL;DR: In this article, different criteria based on the diversity or on the prediction error variance (PEV) derived from the realized additive relationship matrix (RA-BLUP) were used to select the reference individuals.

TL;DR: Special interest is directed to nutritional composition, energy and amino acid digestibility of faba beans, peas and lupins, but also to their contents of secondary plant metabolites, including the threshold levels to be accounted for in diet formulation for pigs, as feed processing technologies developed to improve the nutritive value of grain legumes are introduced.

TL;DR: The high density Affymetrix® Axiom® Maize Genotyping Array is optimized for European and American temperate maize and was developed based on a diverse sample panel by applying stringent quality filter criteria to ensure its suitability for a broad range of applications.

TL;DR: The colonizing microbiota not only provides colonization resistance to potentially pathogenic bacteria, but also has a major role in the development of the intestinal immune system, both in terms of GALT development and mucosal immunity, and the induction of oral tolerance as discussed by the authors.