- Title
- The influence of peri-conception and first trimester dietary restriction of protein in cattle on meat quality traits of entire male progeny
- Creator
- Alvarenga, Tharcilla I. R. C.; Copping, Katrina J.; Han, Xuemei; Clayton, Edward H.; Meyer, Richard J.; Rodgers, Raymond J.; McMillen, I. Caroline; Perry, Viv E .A.; Geesink, Geert
- Relation
- ARC.LP110100649
- Relation
- Meat Science Vol. 121, Issue November 216, p. 141-147
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2016.06.006
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Primiparous Santa Gertrudis heifers were used to evaluate the effects of gestational dietary protein content on meat quality traits of 20 month old bull progeny (n = 40). At -. 60 d before AI, heifers were randomly allocated to HIGH or LOW protein diet (HPERI and LPERI). From 24 dpc, half of each treatment group changed to an alternative post-conception HIGH or LOW protein diet (HPOST and LPOST). LPERI and LPOST diets resulted in higher shear force of the semitendinosus muscle than HPERI (P = 0.053) and HPOST (P = 0.003), respectively. Heat-soluble collagen in the semitendinosus muscle was lower (P = 0.019) for LPERI than HPERI. Collagen and tenderness of the longissimus muscle were not affected by dam nutrition (P > 0.05). Color, pH, sarcomere length, cooking loss, compression values, desmin and troponin-T degradation, fiber type, intramuscular fat and polyunsaturated fatty acid content were not affected by dam nutrition during the peri-conception and first trimester gestational period (P > 0.05).
- Subject
- maternal nutrition; tenderness; collagen; fiber type; post mortem proteolysis; fatty acid
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1324205
- Identifier
- uon:24981
- Identifier
- ISSN:0309-1740
- Language
- eng
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