The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) to the University of Florida to conduct research on developmental programming and its impact on enhancing postnatal growth and production in agriculturally-important animals. The project aims to elucidate the specific mechanisms by which choline acts on the developing bovine embryo to modify phenotype after birth, with a focus on examining epigenetic changes and lineage formation processes. A sub-award to the University of Wyoming will leverage their expertise in assisted reproductive technologies to perform procedures like ovum pickup to generate embryos for the proposed experiments. The research seeks to provide insights that could inform new strategies for programming desirable production traits in livestock through targeted manipulation of the maternal environment during early development.
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