Earlier generations of the New Zealand breeding programme partitioned the main breeding population into several breeds that concentrated on improving specific traits (Jayawickrama and Carson [2000]).
Finally, our definition implies that enhancement interventions attempt to improve specific human capacities and traits, rather than whole persons.
The tightly regulated promoters make them ideal candidates for improving seed-specific traits such as nutritional value without potentially altering existing desirable characteristics.
These characteristics may include resistance to diseases and insects; tolerance to heat, soil salinity, or frost; appropriate size, shape, and time to maturity; and many other general and specific traits that contribute to improved adaptation to the environment, ease in growing and handling, greater yield, and better quality.
In domesticated populations, specific traits of interest may be improved through introgression of genes from a donor line favourable with respect to a trait of interest (e.g., a wild population resistant to a specific disease).
However, if we knew the effect of specific traits on modelling results, we could both improve the sampling design for particular species and properly judge model performance.
Based on the previous studies, we hypothesize that MSCs may reside in meniscus, and those meniscus-derived MSCs (MMSCs) should maintain specific traits distinct from other MSCs which may improve meniscus regeneration.
The overall aim is to improve the quality of the end product while retaining the uniqueness and specific traits of traditional boucań and also to assess the innovation potential with respect to processing a range of pork-based products.
To improve the density of individual maps and add candidate genes that may contribute to specific traits, we developed a number of additional SSR markers which are detailed in Additional file 1: Table S1.
