North-south/west-east cooperation in agricultural biotechnologies: Some lessons from Italy
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North-south/west-east cooperation in agricultural biotechnologies:
some lessons from Italy and China in buffalo
Riccardo Aleandri
Director of the Center “Policies and bioeconomy” of the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Rome, Italy
International Symposium on The Role of Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition
February 17, 2016 - Rome, Italy
Session 3.3: Investing in biotechnology solutions through capacity development and partnerships
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Biotechnologies and animal breeding
AI
ET
OPU
QTL
MAS
GENOMIC MODEL
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Preliminary needs in North/South or West/East relationships
To identify common languages
To identify complementary goals
To identify common interests
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Buffalo population
India 105M
China 23M 12%
Pakistan 29M
Italy .4M .2%
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World 195M
Buffalo population
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Genetic Improvment Plan
2. Estimates of additive components
3. Selection program
1.Active population
Population AI MR
Italy
China
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Active population
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Buffalo population in the world
India 105M 0
China 23M 0
Pakistan 29M 0
Italy .4M 56.812 (2013)
Population Active population
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The Buffalo active population in Italyis the largest in the world!
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CHINA-ITALY PROJECT
GOAL:The Italian Mediterranean Buffalo to improve buffalo milk production in China
The Sino-Italian Joint Research Center on Buffalo (set up in Nanning, Guangxi on Oct. 31, 2015
TOOL:
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In China private partners1. AI project
In China private partners
2. Nucleus Herds project
In Italy and China
Joint Research Center
3. Genomic project
CHINA-ITALY PROJECT
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Semen lab
- 10,000 ÷ 20,000 frozen doses/year per bull
ET and OPU lab to produce embryos from bull dams
Farm to keep Mediterranean young bulls
Computer lab to run genomic indexes
AI in China
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Nucleus herds in China for upgrading
Identifing nucleus herds with about
- 100,000 females
- 300,000 females
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1st year
5th year
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Contracting nucleus herds to
Produce only buffalo milk
Use only AI with Mediterranean buffalo frozen semen
Upgrade all buffaloes to pure Mediterranean breed
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GENOMIC PROJECT IN ITALY
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Genotyping a reference population of 3000 milk recorded females in 1st year and 500 milk recorded females each year of pure Mediterranean buffalo
Computing allelic substitution values for genomic indexing of pure Mediterranean buffaloes
Setting up a procedure to compute the genomic index for AI pure Mediterranean bulls operating in China
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