Impact of sampling and storage technique,and duration of storage,on the composition of fresh grass when analysed using near‐infrared reflectance spectroscopy

The objective of this study was to examine the effect of sampling technique (pluck or cut), storage duration (immediate analysis, 24‐h or 48‐h), storage temperature (ambient or chilled) and storage conditions (air present, air excluded or breathable) on the composition of fresh grass sampled from a sward managed to simulate grazing. Treatments were repeated across four sampling dates, with grass samples stored in grip seal bags prior to analysis using near‐infrared reflectance spectroscopy. Grass sampled by ‘pluck’ had a higher crude protein and ME content, and a lower acid detergent fibre (ADF) content, compared to that sampled by ‘cut’. Grass stored for 48 h had a lower water soluble carbohydrate (WSC) and ME content and a higher ADF content than for immediate analysis. Samples stored for 24 h did not differ from immediate analysis. Grass stored at ambient temperature had a lower WSC and ME content compared to immediate analysis. Grass stored under ‘breathable’ conditions had a lower ME content and higher ADF content than immediate analysis or samples stored with air present or air excluded. It is recommended that grass for analysis should be sampled by cutting, stored chilled (4°C) in a sealed bag to minimize exposure to oxygen and analysed within 24 h of harvest.     

Efficiency of fisheries is increasing at the ecosystem level

Managing fisheries presents trade‐offs between objectives, for example yields, profits, minimizing ecosystem impact, that have to be weighed against one another. These trade‐offs are compounded by interacting species and fisheries at the ecosystem level. Weighing objectives becomes increasingly challenging when managers have to consider opposing objectives from different stakeholders. An alternative to weighing incomparable and conflicting objectives is to focus on win–wins until Pareto efficiency is achieved: a state from which it is impossible to improve with respect to any objective without regressing at least one other. We investigate the ecosystem‐level efficiency of fisheries in five large marine ecosystems (LMEs) with respect to yield and an aggregate measure of ecosystem impact using a novel calibration of size‐based ecosystem models. We estimate that fishing patterns in three LMEs (North Sea, Barents Sea and Benguela Current) are nearly efficient with respect to long‐term yield and ecosystem impact and that efficiency has improved over the last 30 years. In two LMEs (Baltic Sea and North East US Continental Shelf), fishing is inefficient and win–wins remain available. We additionally examine the efficiency of North Sea and Baltic Sea fisheries with respect to economic rent and ecosystem impact, finding both to be inefficient but steadily improving. Our results suggest the following: (i) a broad and encouraging trend towards ecosystem‐level efficiency of fisheries; (ii) that ecosystem‐scale win–wins, especially with respect to conservation and profits, may still be common; and (iii) single‐species assessment approaches may overestimate the availability of win–wins by failing to account for trade‐offs across interacting species.     

水稻抗性基因Pi对福建省稻瘟病菌优势菌群的抗性分析

【目的】抗病品种的合理利用和布局是实现水稻抗瘟持久化的关键因子之一。为明确水稻24个抗性基因在福建省的抗病性及其应用前景,【方法】首先分别采用全国稻瘟病菌生理小种鉴别品种和CO39近等基因系来鉴定2012-2015年间从福建省各稻区种植的普感品种丽江新团黑谷上采集的347株稻瘟病菌单孢菌株的生理小种类型和致病型,再测定24个抗性基因对福建省稻瘟病菌的抗性。【结果】根据全国稻瘟病菌生理小种鉴别品种对菌株的抗感反应,可将供试稻瘟病菌的生理小种划分为6个群36个生理小种,其中ZA、ZB和ZC为主要种群,ZC15、ZD7和ZB15为优势生理小种。根据CO39近等基因系的接种结果,将供试稻瘟病菌划分为17个致病类型,其中I34.1为优势致病型。供试的24个抗性基因对347株福建省稻瘟病菌菌株的抗性频率不同,抗谱为9.80%~89.91%。其中,Pi-k~m、Pi-7(t)、Pi-9(t)、Pi-k~p、Pi-k、Pi-k~h、Pi-z~5和Pi-ta(1)等8个抗性基因的抗病性较强,抗谱均高于70.00%。【结论】说明这8个抗性基因在福建省具有较好的应用前景,育种时可以考虑联合利用这些抗性基因。同时,实验结果表明,这8个抗性基因对主要生理小种的抗谱和主要致病型的抗谱均值高于69.00%,与其对所有测试菌株的抗谱吻合。说明利用稻瘟病菌的优势种群或优势致病型来鉴定水稻品种的抗病性是可靠的。     

不同激励下宽频磁浮俘能器俘能试验

振动能量俘获是获取可再生的清洁能源一种有效途径，具有广阔的应用前景，有利于社会的可持续性发展。目前，随机功率谱激励下的高功率密度和宽频能量回收仍然是研究的难点。该研究设计了一种可有效利用宽频振动能量的高功率密度磁浮式俘能器，采用COMSOL Multiphysics软件计算悬浮磁体非线性回复力与位移的关系式，根据磁浮振动系统的控制方程和基尔霍夫定律建立俘能器的数学模型，详细研究了模型参数变化对俘能器性能的影响。随后进行正弦扫频和驻频试验以验证俘能器的发电能力。同时，从俘能器的效率、效能和体积优质3个指标对俘能性能进行评价；并结合实际应用，设计俘能器稳压电路。根据丘陵山区农业机械工作的随机路谱特性，建立随机激励的数学模型，根据响应幅值的概率密度函数的FPK方程表达式，得到了平稳概率密度函数的解。结果表明：在激励频率从9.77到31.75 Hz变化时，俘能器最大输出电压在5.92和21.52 V之间；最大输出功率在10 Hz时达81.93 mW，从5到50Hz，输出功率范围为5.76到81.93 mW；俘能器的效率、效能和体积优质分别为2.85%，9.85%和39.74%；俘能器电压输出的功率谱密度有5个峰值点，对应频率分别为9.804、29.41、36.76、36.76、51.47和71.08 Hz，进一步验证了该研究提出的磁浮式俘能器具有宽频发电性能，并可满足丘陵山区农机设备监测传感器的供电需求。     

植株叶绿素无损诊断技术研究进展

氮素是作物生长发育必不可少的营养元素之一，植物叶片中70%~80%的氮素存在于叶绿体内，所以叶绿素含量可以反映植物的氮素营养状况。本研究介绍了植株叶绿素的传统检测技术，指出其在推广应用中存在的问题；归纳总结了国内外植株叶绿素无损诊断技术方面的研究应用进展；分析了植株叶绿素无损诊断技术在作物氮素营养诊断及推荐施肥中的意义。最后得出叶绿素仪分析技术更适于推广应用，并指出基于光学漫反射理论的植株叶片叶绿素无损诊断技术极有发展前途。     

Realizing the potential of trait‐based approaches to advance fisheries science

Analysing how fish populations and their ecological communities respond to perturbations such as fishing and environmental variation is crucial to fisheries science. Researchers often predict fish population dynamics using species‐level life‐history parameters that are treated as fixed over time, while ignoring the impact of intraspecific variation on ecosystem dynamics. However, there is increasing recognition of the need to include processes operating at ecosystem levels (changes in drivers of productivity) while also accounting for variation over space, time and among individuals. To address similar challenges, community ecologists studying plants, insects and other taxa increasingly measure phenotypic characteristics of individual animals that affect fitness or ecological function (termed “functional traits”). Here, we review the history of trait‐based methods in fish and other taxa, and argue that fisheries science could see benefits by integrating trait‐based approaches within existing fisheries analyses. We argue that measuring and modelling functional traits can improve estimates of population and community dynamics, and rapidly detect responses to fishing and environmental drivers. We support this claim using three concrete examples: how trait‐based approaches could account for time‐varying parameters in population models; improve fisheries management and harvest control rules; and inform size‐based models of marine communities. We then present a step‐by‐step primer for how trait‐based methods could be adapted to complement existing models and analyses in fisheries science. Finally, we call for the creation and expansion of publicly available trait databases to facilitate adapting trait‐based methods in fisheries science, to complement existing public databases of life‐history parameters for marine organisms.     

Using vibrational molecular spectroscopy to detect moist heating induced carbohydrates structure changes in cool-climate adapted barley grain

There is limited research to study how moist heating affects internal structure of barley grain on a molecular basis. The objectives of this study were to use vibrational molecular spectroscopy: 1) to determine the moist heating induced changes of barley carbohydrate (CHO) structure on a molecular basis, 2) to study the effects of moist heating on CHO chemical profiles, Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System (CNCPS) subfractions, in situ rumen degradation, and predicted intestinal carbohydrate supply of barley grain; and 3) to reveal the association between molecular structure spectral features and CHO related metabolic characteristics. Barley samples (CDC cowboy) were collected from Kernen Crop Research Farm (Saskatoon, Canada) during two consecutive years. Half of each sample was kept as raw barley and the other half underwent moist heating (autoclaving at 120 °C for 60 min). The molecular spectroscopy (attenuated total reflectance-fourier transform infrared, ATR-FTIR) was used to detect the barley CHO related molecular structure spectral features. Moist heating did not affect carbohydrate related chemical profiles and CNCPS subfractions but it decreased rumen degradable carbohydrate. Rumen undegradable and intestinal digestion of CHO subfractions were not affected by moist heating. The advanced vibrational molecular spectroscopy can be used to detect carbohydrate molecular spectral features. Nutrient utilization prediction using molecular spectral characteristics is warranted and further investigation is encouraged.     

胶州湾鱼类生物量粒径谱特征

为了解胶州湾海域鱼类群落粒径结构特征,本研究根据2016-2017年4次底拖网调查数据构建了胶州湾鱼类生物量粒径谱,比较分析了各季节鱼类生物量粒径谱特征参数的异质性。结果显示,胶州湾Sheldon型鱼类生物量粒径谱呈现单峰模式,鱼类粒径范围为-3~10粒径级,粒径分布相对均匀,且峰值位于5~6粒径级,主要由大泷六线鱼和褐菖鲉等小型鱼类构成。各季节鱼类标准化生物量粒径谱曲率和曲度差异显著,其中春季曲率最大且曲线较平缓,夏季曲率最小且曲线相对陡峭。谱线曲度和曲率的季节变化主要与粒径小的细纹狮子鱼、大泷六线鱼、玉筋鱼及长丝虾虎鱼等地方常栖性种类和赤鼻棱鳀、白姑鱼等季节洄游性种类的出现有关。Abundance-biomass comparison(ABC)曲线表明,春季处于未干扰状态,冬季处于中度干扰状态,夏秋季处于严重干扰状态。研究表明,胶州湾鱼类群落总体处于严重干扰状态,鱼类生物量谱呈现单峰型,粒径结构以小型粒径鱼类为主,且地方常栖性和季节洄游性鱼类等补充群体的数量和粒径大小影响鱼类生物量粒径谱的峰型和曲率。     

副车架疲劳载荷分析方法

结合LMSTWR软件,详细介绍了基于混合路面的轮心位移反求法求取副车架载荷谱的方法。通过在某MPV上布置合适传感器,在试验场测得道路载荷谱信号。根据实测的数据,建立整车多体动力学模型。基于处理后的道路载荷谱与多体动力学模型进行虚拟迭代,并进行副车架载荷分解。结果表明,迭代仿真得到的信号与试验值吻合度较好。