{"id":218178,"date":"2016-05-25T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=218178"},"modified":"2016-05-30T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T15:57:49","slug":"flavorful-crossbreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/flavorful-crossbreed\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavorful crossbreed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new variety of beef cattle that is obtained by crossing bulls of the Brazilian taurine breed known as <em>curraleiro p\u00e9-duro <\/em>(<em>Bos taurus taurus<\/em>), of European origin, with Nelore cows (<em>Bos taurus indicus<\/em>), of Indian origin, produces tender, flavorful meat, according to tests conducted at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Livestock Raising Division\u2013Southeast, in S\u00e3o Carlos, state of S\u00e3o Paulo. Scheduled for release to producers in the coming months, the new animal is the result of six years of genetic improvement efforts, coordinated by Geraldo Magela C\u00f4rtes Carvalho, of Embrapa, in collaboration with specialists from the Federal University of Piau\u00ed (UFPI). The basis for this work was a phenomenon known as heterosis, which is the tendency for crossbred animals to display better performance than the average achieved by their parents. According to an Embrapa press release, the new variety of beef cattle might be able to go to slaughter when it is only two years old \u2013 younger than the Nelore \u2013 and produce 20 kilograms of tender meat per 100 kilograms of muscle on the carcass \u2013 four more than the Nelore. Bulls of the newly developed crossbreed are expected to be used this year for the first time to inseminate Brazilian breeds of cows, like the Caracu and Crioulo Lageano longhorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulls of a newly developed crossbreed are released to producers","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-218178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218178"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=218178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}