METHOD FOR JUDGING AMOUNT OF FATTY ACID CONTENT IN BOVINE INTRAMUSCULAR FAT BASED ON GENOTYPE OF FATTY ACID SYNTHASE AND METHOD FOR JUDGING GOODNESS OF FLAVOR OF BEEF BASED ON THE RESULT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for judging a fatty acid composition contained in intramuscular fat based on bovine genotype, a method for judging especially an oleic acid content simply and in high precision and a method for more objectively judging a beef flavor based on the judged result.

SOLUTION: The method for judging the amount of a fatty acid content in bovine intramuscular fats is based on the genotype of a fatty acid synthase determined by assay of base of the following <1> and/or <2>. The method for judging whether cattle provides beef having good flavor is based on the result. The base <1> is the 16,024th base corresponding to a polymorphic site being adenine (A) or guanine (G) in a specific base sequence and the base <2> is the 16,039th base corresponding to a polymorphic site being thymine (T) or cytosine (C) in the same base sequence.

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