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Clones of super cows born in NW China, to help avoid stranglehold in dairy industry: project leader
Published: Jan 31, 2023 10:40 PM
Scientists with the Northwest A&F University successfully saw the births of three cloned cows with highly desired traits in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region recently, marking the first successful effort by Chinese scientists to collect, restore and conserve the germplasm resource of "super cows" in China with the somatic cell nuclear transfer method and efficiently reproduce them.
The first calf weighs 56.7 kilograms and was 76 centimeters tall and 113 centimeters long at birth, and it bore the exact shape and skin pattern of its cloned target, read a press release from Northwest A&F University on Tuesday.
The calf, along with two others, came from cloned targets raised in different farms in China. These are super cows, capable of producing 18 tons of milk a year and over 100 tons of milk in a lifetime.
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For dairy cows, China is 70 percent reliant on overseas purchases, the press release said.
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Clones of super cows born in NW China, to help avoid stranglehold in dairy industry: project leader
Published: Jan 31, 2023 10:40 PM
Scientists with the Northwest A&F University successfully saw the births of three cloned cows with highly desired traits in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region recently, marking the first successful effort by Chinese scientists to collect, restore and conserve the germplasm resource of "super cows" in China with the somatic cell nuclear transfer method and efficiently reproduce them.
The first calf weighs 56.7 kilograms and was 76 centimeters tall and 113 centimeters long at birth, and it bore the exact shape and skin pattern of its cloned target, read a press release from Northwest A&F University on Tuesday.
The calf, along with two others, came from cloned targets raised in different farms in China. These are super cows, capable of producing 18 tons of milk a year and over 100 tons of milk in a lifetime.
snip
For dairy cows, China is 70 percent reliant on overseas purchases, the press release said.
more...
zhttps://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202301/1284569.shtml