The use of single-nucleotide polymorphism in creating a crossline of meat simmentals

Abstract

The article presents the materials of the study on bull cross of the Bredy meat type simmentals, which include the genotyping of animals for the CAST and CAPN1 genes with the identification of frequencies of genotype and alleles, as well as testing the production of these animals expressed in the evaluation of aged within 8 days of meat for the indicators tenderness, juiciness, organoleptic assessment of taste. The results of the studies did not confirm, with certainty, the influence of the CAST gene polymorphism on the beef tenderness indicators, as well as no associations of this gene with the studied juiciness and meat taste indicators, while the carriers of the homozygous CC genotype CAPN1 exceeded other genotypes of the sample in tenderness, juiciness and taste of beef. And indicators of bull meat with a combination of TT* genes on CAST and CC* on CAPN1 had superiority over the average indicators of the total sample (P <0.001), as well as over the group of animals with the most preferred CC genotype for the CAPN1 gene by 1.22 points or 15.4% (P <0.01) by tenderness, by 1.44 points or 18.2% (P <0.05) by juiciness, by 1.56 points or 19.2% (P <0.001) by taste. Studies have confirmed the effect of the CAPN1 gene CC homozygotes polymorphic state itself, as well as the CAST and CAPN1 genes on beef tenderness in the part where the combination of TT genotypes in the CAST gene and CC in the CAPN1 gene gives a positive effect on beef tenderness, probably associated with activation the activity of μ-calpain in connection with the weakening of the effect of calpastatin as an inhibitor on μ-calpain, as a result of which the enzymatic effect on myofibrillary proteins acquires a different intensity, and possibly a different manifestation. What was the reason for the increase in sensory sensitivity to taste of prepared samples, tenderness and juiciness of meat.