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Increasing the Value of Heavy-Weight Pork Carcasses

Increasing the value of heavy weight pork carcasses by modifying current shoulder fabrication specifications.

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Increasing the value of heavy weight pork carcasses by evaluating belly and ham characteristics

Determining effects of increasing carcass size on ham and belly processing and quality characteristics.

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Evaluating Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry (REIMS) as a Real-Time Method for Classifying Pork Quality in Bacon and Fresh Pork Bellies
Rapid evaporative ionization mass spectrometry (REIMS) is a novel, in-situ analysis technology that measures the metabolomic profile in real time. The objective of this study was to evaluate REIMS as...
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Characterizing the amount, variability and cellular mechanisms of intramuscular fat deposition throughout the loin using barrows and gilts from two genotypes
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Effect of different fat sources and vitamin E status on antioxidant status, carcass characteristics, and meat quality of pigs grown to heavy slaughter weight
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Revision of the Porcine Myology Website
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New Insights on Cellular Events and Gene products to Predict Pork Quality
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Determining the temporal and spatial regulation of marbling development in the longissimus muscle of porcine offspring from weaning through finishing
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Predicting Pork Quality: Discovering protein biomarkers for fresh pork loin tenderness.
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Genomic control of pork loin color, myoglobin concentration, marbling, water-holding capacity, and slice shear force, pork fat quality and fatty acid profile, and ham lean color, ham “halo” severity, and myoglobin concentration
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