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Genetic and nongenetic factors associated with milk color in dairy cows.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Sept 2017
Scarso S, McParland S, Visentin G, Berry D P, McDermott A, De Marchi M
Abstract excerpt
Milk color is one of the sensory properties that can influence consumer choice of one product over another and it influences the quality of processed dairy products. This study aims to quantify the cow-level genetic and nongenetic factors associated with bovine milk color traits. A total of 136,807 spectra from Irish commercial and research herds (with multiple breeds and crosses) were used. Milk lightness (Lˆ*),...
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