New research finds that genomic selection is highly efficient in the improvement of barley and wheat.

Researchers at the Centre for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, have located DNA…

The 5th annual meeting of the strategic research centre GenSAP was held 15 - 16 November at the Legoland Hotel & Conference Center in Billund,…

New research in lethal mutations in dairy cattle has led to a chromosomal deletion catalogue, which can prevent yearly economic losses in the dairy…

Through decades, researchers have been able to increase milk production in cows by intense genetic selection. However, this has resulted in a reversal…

In honour of professor Daniel Gianola of Wisconsin-Madison University and member of the GenSAP senior staff, the Journal of Animal Breeding and…

When you select for confident mink in the breeding programme, you also get a better fur quality according to a study from Aarhus University. The study…

Genomic selection has revolutionised livestock breeding in Denmark. Now scientists from AU are on the brink of being able to apply detailed analyses…

The strategic research centre GenSAP, which aims to develop new genomic selection tools for animal and plant breeding, will be officially opened with…

The chairman of the Danish Council for Strategic Research, Peter Olesen, awards diplomas to the three researchers who were given a grant by the…