Grant to Improve Poultry Production Worldwide (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Grant to Improve Poultry Production Worldwide

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UC Davis researchers are leading an international effort to identify genes crucial to breeding chickens with enhanced resistance to Newcastle disease and heat stress. UC Davis Animal Science Professor Huaijun Zhou with white leghorn chickens at a UC Davis facility. Zhou uses genetic and genomic techniques to breed chickens that are more resistant to disease and heat stress for developing world farmers.

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Gregory Urquiaga, UC Davis

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