|Title: New Method for Identifying Tender Beef|
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Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in
Currently, only one genetic test for predicting genetic success is available, and the gene used in that test interferes with meat tenderness. ARS’s test could be combined with this test to provide even higher success rate in breeding animals likely to produce tender meat. Once developed, this test should cost significantly less than the commercially available test.
Companies that perform genotyping services to producers would be able to use this technology. ARS plans to make this test widely available for beef producers.
Please refer to USPN 7,238,479 (Docket #0103.03), “Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Markers in the Bovine CAPN1 Gene to Identify Meat Tenderness,” which issued on July 3, 2007. Foreign patent rights are not available.