基于多光谱与高光谱遥感数据的冬小麦叶面积指数反演比较

近年来,高光谱遥感数据广泛应用于农作物叶面积指数(LAI)反演。与常用的多光谱遥感数据相比,高光谱数据能否提高农作物LAI反演的精度和稳定性还存在争议。针对这一问题,该研究利用实测冬小麦冠层高光谱反射率数据,构造了不同光谱分辨率和波段组合的5种光谱数据。基于ACRM(a two-layer canopy reflectance model)模型、2套参数化方案及上述5种光谱数据,对冬小麦LAI进行反演,分析光谱分辨率、高光谱数据波段选择、模型参数不确定性3方面因素对LAI反演精度与稳定性的影响。研究结果表明:当波段选择适宜、模型参数不确定性较小且光谱数据分辨率较高时,LAI反演精度与稳定性更高,提高光谱分辨率对LAI反演精度的改进作用随光谱分辨率的升高而降低;反之,当高光谱数据波段选择不当或者模型参数不确定性较大时,提高光谱数据的分辨率并未提高LAI反演精度。该研究解释了"高光谱遥感数据能否提高植被参数反演精度"问题,为进一步发挥高光谱数据在农作物LAI反演中的潜力提供了科学参考。     

Developments in soil microbiology since the mid 1960s

Since the 1960s, soil microbiology underwent major changes in methods and approaches and this review focuses on the developments in some selected aspects of soil microbiology. Research in cell numbers of specific bacterial and fungal groups was replaced by a focus on biochemical processes including soil enzyme activities, and flux measurements of carbon and nutrients. Ecologists focused on soil microbial pools whereas soil microbial biomass as an important source and sink of nutrients were recognized in agriculture. Soil microbiologists started to use structural components like phospholipid fatty acids for quantification of specific microbial groups without the need to cultivate them. In the last decade, molecular approaches allowed new insights through the analysis of soil extract DNA showing an unexpected diversity of genomes in soil. At the end of the review a brief outlook is given on the future of soil microbiology which ranges from in situ identification of bacteria, to routine assays of microbial communities by microarray technology.     

Microbial diversity in soil: ecological theories, the contribution of molecular techniques and the impact of transgenic plants and transgenic microorganisms

This review mainly discusses three related topics: the application of ecological theories to soil, the measurement of microbial diversity by molecular techniques and the impact of transgenic plants and microorganisms on genetic diversity of soil. These topics were debated at the Meeting on Soil Emergency held in Erice (Trapani, Italy) in 2001 for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Italian Society of Soil Science. Ecological theories have been developed by studying aboveground ecosystems but have neglected the belowground systems, despite the importance of the latter to the global nutrient cycling and to the presence of life on the Earth. Microbial diversity within the soil is crucial to many functions but it has been difficult in the past to determine the major components. Traditional methods of analysis are useful but with the use of molecular methods it is now possible to detect both culturable and unculturable microbial species. Despite these advances, the link between microbial diversity and soil functions is still a major challenge. Generally studies on genetically modified bacteria have not addressed directly the issue of microbial diversity, being mainly focused on their persistence in the environment, colonization ability in the rhizosphere, and survival. Concerns have been raised that transgenic plants might affect microbial communities in addition to environmental factors related to agricultural practice, season, field site and year. Transgenic plant DNA originating from senescent or degraded plant material or pollen has been shown to persist in soil. Horizontal transfer of transgenic plant DNA to bacteria has been shown by the restoration of deleted antibiotic resistance genes under laboratory in filter transformations, in sterile soil or in planta. However, the transformation frequencies under field conditions are supposed to be very low. It is important to underline that the public debate about antibiotic resistant genes in transgenic plants should not divert the attention from the real causes of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, such as the continued abuse and overuse of antibiotics prescribed by physicians and in animal husbandry.     

水稻耐寒变异体筛选

从４个水稻品种的３６０个愈伤组织株系中筛选出４个耐寒变异株系。叶绿素荧光测定法（ＣＦＡ）的结果表明，这４个耐寒变异株系的再生植株在４℃条件下的光合效率明显高于原品种。由于各原品种的遗传基因型不一样，接种种胚的愈伤组织的诱导率、愈伤组织在低温筛选下的存活率、耐寒愈伤组织株系的分化率均有不同。使用稍加修改的ＢＭ诱导和增殖培养基、分化培养基及生根培养基，用低温、常温交替培养筛选法的愈伤组织株系的存活率、分化率高于持续低温培养筛选法的。     

分子标记技术在杉木研究中的应用

综述了分子标记技术在杉木种质资源鉴定、群体遗传多样性研究、遗传连锁图谱构建和数量性状位点(QTL)定位及分子标记辅助选择育种等方面的应用进展,指出目前该方面研究存在的问题,并展望了分子标记技术在杉木研究中的应用前景     

沙棘根系的生物学特性与造林地选择

沙棘有很强的根蘖能力,其根系具有类似水生植物根系的解剖特征,地上部分又有旱生植物的特征,所以沙棘应属中生植物;沙棘根系有很强的生物学可塑性,对林地的水分状况会产生明显反应;在植株个体发育早期,多在生长较慢的侧根上形成具有多种功能的根瘤。沙棘造林,应充分考虑其根系生物学特性和解剖特征,根据经营目的选择相应的造林地或采取整地措施改地适树,满足其水分要求。     

Comparison of Coleoptera assemblages from a recently burned and unburned black spruce forests of northeastern North America

Several insect groups have adapted to fire cycles in boreal forests, and can efficiently use new habitats created by fire. Our study aimed at producing a first characterization of post-fire Coleoptera assemblages of black spruce forests of eastern North America. For two years, we sampled Coleoptera using flight-interception traps in burned stands of contrasting age and structure in a 5097-ha wildfire and in neighbouring unburned mature stands. More than 40 species were exclusively captured in burned stands. Time elapsed since fire and proximity of unburned forests were the most significant parameters affecting Coleoptera assemblages. Stand age and structure had limited effects on assemblage structure; the Scolytid Polygraphus rufipennis Kirby was the only common species to clearly favor older stands. Fire-associated Coleoptera assemblages found in our study area were clearly distinct from those found in similar unburned stands; we should thus be conservative in our management approach concerning recently burned stands.     

Genetic polymorphism of plastid DNA in Tunisian date-palm germplasm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) detected with PCR-RFLP

Fifteen plastid fragments were amplified from a set of Tunisian date-palm accessions by PCR with consensus primers and analysed by RFLP. Polymorphic DNA bands were obtained as reliable molecular markers to estimate genetic distances among the accessions and to examine their phylogenetic relationships. The ctDNA PCR-RFLP method permitted the identification of two haplotypes that differ in the presence or absence of the HinfI restriction site. Phenetic groups composed of cultivars clustered together but does not constitute monophyletic groups. This typology agrees with the haplotypes' organization and provides a common genetic background within the implied varieties.     

小麦抗叶锈基因Lr44的AFLP分子标记

Lr44基因来源于小麦的一个近缘种一斯佩耳特小麦，与Lr33连锁，尚未在生产中广泛使用。该基因在我国小麦资源谱中苗期和成株期抗叶锈良好，具有较大的应用潜力。目前尚未见到关于Lr44基因分子标记的报道。