中国大豆花叶病抗源和抗性鉴别寄主的鉴定与评价

收集大豆抗大豆花叶病(SMV)抗源和鉴别寄主40份,通过接种Cho和Goodman划分的抗大豆花叶病毒株系SMV G1-G7,了解这些材料对该株系的抗性反应.同时比较了其中部分材料对中国学者划分的SMV Sc1-Sc17株系的抗性反应.结果感病材料无论对SMV G1-G7株系,还是SMV Sc1-Sc17株系均表现感病;但是,齐黄1、科丰1、早18和8101等对SMV G1-G7株系均表现抗病的材料,对SMV Sc1-Sc17株系却表现出部分抗病;而另外一些材料,如:诱变30、徐豆1、文丰5、铁6915、齐黄10和Harosoy等对SMV G1-G7株系的抗性反应却与北美的鉴别寄主相同.结果表明:无论是对 SMV G1-G7株系,还是对SMV Sc1-Sc17株系,抗病材料的抗性遗传基础是相似的;中国一些大豆花叶病毒株系的致病力强于国外的株系.因此,结合国外的SMV株系鉴定系统,创建一套统一的SMV株系鉴定系统是可行的.     

Biodiversity is associated with indicators of soil ecosystem functions over a landscape gradient of agricultural intensification

Agricultural intensification has led to dramatic losses in biodiversity over the past several decades. Many studies have shown the effects of intensification on vegetation or soil communities at field or local scales. However, the functional significance of biodiversity may only appear at larger spatial and temporal scales, due to exchanges among local ecosystems throughout a landscape. To examine how patterns of biodiversity loss are reflected at larger spatial scales, plant and soil biodiversity and associated indicators of ecosystem functions were assessed in riparian areas over a 150 km² agricultural landscape in the Sacramento Valley of California. Publicly-available GIS data were first used to classify and select sites over the range of soils, topography and plant community types. Representative sites from the landscape were sampled for soil physiochemical properties, as well as microbial, nematode, and plant communities. Higher agricultural intensification, based on field and landscape indices, was negatively correlated with richness and diversity of plant and soil taxa, and was related to indicators of ecosystem functions, such as increased soil nitrate and phosphorus loading, decreased riparian health ratings, and lower soil carbon, soil microbial biomass and soil food web structure. Both field- and landscape-scale factors played important roles in the measured losses. The study area was composed of a wide array of soils, vegetation, and land management, indicating that the observed trends transcended site-specific conditions.     

Classification of Dry-Milled Maize Grit Yield Groups Using Quadratic Discriminant Analysis and Decision Tree Algorithm

A genetically and environmentally diverse collection of maize (Zea maize L.) samples was evaluated for physical properties and grit yield to help develop a standard set of criteria to identify grain best suited for dry-milling. Application of principal component analysis (PCA) reduced a set of approximately 500 samples collected from six states to 154 maize hybrids. Selected maize hybrids were placed into seven groups according to their dry-milled grit yields. Regression analysis explained only 50% of the variability in dry-milling grit yield. Patterns of differences in the physical properties for the seven grit yield groups implied that the seven yield groups could be placed into two or three groups. Using two pattern recognition techniques for improving classification accuracy, quadratic discriminant analysis and the classification and regression tree (CART) model, dry-milled grit yield groups were predicted. The estimated correct classification rates were 69–80% when the samples were divided into three yield groups and 81–90% when samples were divided into two yield groups. The results indicated the comparable success of both techniques and the superiority of the decision tree algorithm to quadratic discriminant analysis by offering higher accuracy and clearer classification rules in differentiating among dry-milled grit yield groups.     

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