@conference {40304,
	title = {The effects of season and herbage mass on the nutritive value of prairie grass cv. Grasslands Matua and perennial ryegrass},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {51},
	year = {1991},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {167-172},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {The properties of the milk serum protein alpha-lactalbumin are  reviewed with special emphasis being placed on its central role in  determining the lactose and water content of milk. Much circumstantial  evidence suggests that artificial depression of alpha-lactalbumin  synthesis should decrease lactose synthesis and that this will, in turn,  decrease the water content of milk. Experimental evidence indicates,  however, that patterns of alpha-lactalbumin gene expression in lactating  ovine and bovine mammary tissue are complex and we should be cautious in  making such predictions. Studies with transgenic mice expressing either  elevated or depressed levels of alpha-lactabumin will be required to  settle this question. In the meantime, a promising line of research is  the investigation of dairy cattle carrying variant alpha-lactabumin  genes. It is possible that correlations will be found between some of  these variants and both the water content and protein yield of milk.  Conceivably, selective breeding of cattle carrying variant proteins may  prove a more practical means of altering alpha-lactalbumin synthesis  than current transgenic techniques.  },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Rugambwa VK and Holmes CW and Chu ACP}
}
