西葫芦新品种‘京葫36’的选育

‘京葫36’是北京市农林科学院蔬菜研究中心育成的耐寒、适宜长季节栽培的越冬温室专用西葫芦杂交1代新品种,父母本分别为‘07754’和‘0421’。该品种长势旺盛、生长期长、耐低温弱光、株型合理、通风透光性好;低温弱光条件下连续结瓜能力强,瓜码密、产量高,采瓜期可达200 d以上;商品瓜长23~24 cm,粗6~7 cm,瓜条长柱形、粗细均匀,颜色翠绿,光泽度好,品质佳,商品性突出。适合北方越冬温室与春秋大棚种植。2014年5月通过山西省农作物品种审定委员会认定;2017年获得植物新品种权保护。     

蔬菜废弃物资源化利用的技术路径与建议

蔬菜废弃物产生量巨大,推动蔬菜废弃物的资源化利用对于实现农业绿色发展具有重要意义。由蔬菜废弃物的特点决定,多数的处理技术集中于肥料化应用。该研究重点分析了当前较为典型的蔬菜废弃物资源化利用的技术路径以及技术推广的可行性,并从技术集成创新、新装备研发、政策支持和社会化服务4个方面提出加快蔬菜废弃物资源化利用的建议。     

食用菌在京郊都市生态循环农业中的应用

食用菌产业主要利用农林业生产中的秸秆、枝杈等副产品,生产口味鲜美、营养丰富的食用菌,为农民创造了可观的经济收入;同时减少了秸秆的剩余量,降低了焚烧秸秆对环境的污染;食用菌采收后的菌渣还可生产出大量的有机肥,有利地促进了有机农业的发展。近年来,食用菌产业在京郊广泛推广,在工厂化栽培、农民散户栽培的基础上,依据北京地区气候特点,开展了反季节栽培、林下仿生栽培等各种新模式。着重介绍了食用菌产业在生态循环农业中的作用,目前京郊食用菌产业的基本情况,并以通州区、昌平区为例,介绍京郊食用菌工厂化栽培、反季节栽培与林下仿生栽培模式。     

益生菌对锦鲤幼鱼生长性能及血液、肝脏和肠道组织中相关免疫基因表达的影响

为研究饲料中添加益生菌对锦鲤幼鱼生长性能和相关免疫基因表达的影响,以初始体重为248.13±4.71 g的锦鲤幼鱼为研究对象,在小型循环水养殖池进行60 d的养殖试验。对照组投喂无益生菌添加的普通商品饲料,试验组投喂在普通饲料中添加枯草芽孢杆菌(Bacillus subtilis)、丁酸梭菌(Clostridium butyricum)和粪肠球菌(Enterococcus faecalis)、枯草芽孢杆菌/丁酸梭菌/粪肠球菌(1∶1∶5)配制成的4组试验饲料,试验饲料的益生菌最终浓度为109 CFU/mL。结果表明,单一菌种或复合菌种的益生菌对锦鲤幼鱼的生长均有显著的促进作用(P<0.05),且对各组血液中酚氧化酶原(phenoloxidase activating system,proPO)、溶菌酶(lysozyme,LZM)和肝脏中抗菌肽(hepcidin)的相对表达量均显著上调(P<0.05),对各组肠道中GST相对表达量有所升高。与对照组相比,复合益生菌效果最好,增重率最高为38.13%,特定生长率提高25.58%,血液中proPO和LZM相对表达量分别升高3倍和2倍之多(P<0.05),肠道中谷胱甘肽S-转移酶(glutathione S-transferase,GST)相对表达量升高了32.45%(P<0.05),肝脏中Hepc相对表达量升高了76.82%(P<0.05)。试验结果提示,在饲料中添加单一/复合益生菌,均可有效提高锦鲤幼鱼的生长性能,以复合益生菌使用效果更好,且proPO、LZM、GST和Hepc免疫基因相对表达量在不同程度上均高于对照组,可见枯草芽孢杆菌、丁酸梭菌和粪肠球菌可以作为益生菌应用于锦鲤养殖。     

Legacy effects of elevated ozone on soil biota and plant growth

Many studies have examined how human-induced atmospheric changes will influence ecosystems. The long-term consequences of human induced climate changes on terrestrial ecosystems may be determined to a large extend by how the belowground compartment will respond to these changes. In a free-air ozone enrichment experiment running for 5 years, we reciprocally transplanted soil cores from ambient and elevated ozone rings to test whether exposure to elevated ozone results in persistent changes in the soil biota when the plant and soil are no longer exposed to elevated ozone, and how these legacy effects of elevated ozone influenced plant growth as compared to current effects of elevated ozone. After one growing season, the current ozone treatment enhanced plant growth, but in soil with a historical legacy of elevated ozone the plant biomass in that soil was reduced compared to the cores originated from ambient rings. Current exposure to ozone increased the phospholipid fatty acids of actinomycetes and protozoa, however, it decreased dissolved organic carbon, bacterivorous and fungivorous nematodes. Interestingly, numbers of bacterivorous and fungivorous nematodes were enhanced when soils with a legacy of elevated ozone were placed under elevated ozone conditions. We conclude that exposure to elevated [O₃] results in a legacy effect in soil. This legacy effect most likely influenced plant growth and soil characteristics via responses of bacteria and fungi, and nematodes that feed upon these microbes. These soil legacies induced by changes in soil biotic community after long-term exposure of elevated ozone can alter the responses of ecosystems to current climatic changes.     

Assessment of blue light treatments on citrus postharvest diseases

Exposure of mature ‘Fallglo’ tangerine fruit to blue light with a photon fluence rate 40 μmol m⁻² s⁻¹ reduced symptom development of blue mold (Penicillium italicum), green mold (Penicillium digitatum), and stem end rot (Phomopsis citri) postharvest decays. Direct exposure to blue light was required to reduce decay caused by Penicillium. Blue light (40 μmol m⁻² s⁻¹) reduced in vitro fungal growth of P. italicum and P. citri. The growth of P. digitatum was more tolerant to blue light, however, the activity of fungal polygalacturonase was reduced by blue light at the intensity of 40 μmol m⁻² s⁻¹. Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry analysis identified 29 chemical constituents in flavedo oil; blue light induced only octanal accumulation. Application of octanal suppressed growth of P. italicum, P. digitatum, and P. citri in vitro. Treatment of fruit with octanal at 5 mM or 50 mM suppressed symptom development caused by Penicillium and P. citri, but discolored the peel. Inhibition of postharvest decays by blue light may be due to a combination of inhibition of fungal growth and induction of defensive responses in the host.     

大豆GmGW2基因的生物信息学分析

GW2基因在多种植物中发挥调控籽粒性状的功能,为预测分析大豆中GW2基因的功能,前期通过同源克隆的方法从大豆中成功克隆出GmGW2基因的cDNA序列。为了继续开展深入研究,本试验从大豆中黄10号中克隆出GmGW2基因的全长DNA序列并进行了较为详细的生物信息学分析。结果表明:GmGW2全长8 467 bp,包含8个外显子和7个内含子,编码431个氨基酸。预测是一个不稳定亲水蛋白,定位于细胞核或细胞质中,不含跨膜结构域及信号肽,具有Zinc finger和RING-type结构域。二级、三级结构预测分析显示,α-螺旋及不规则卷曲是其整体蛋白质结构中的主要组成结构元件。利用该基因的DNA序列,构建进化树分析得出该基因与木豆、相思子、鹰嘴豆亲缘关系较近。根据以上分析结果推测GmGW2基因可能也具有调控大豆籽粒发育的功能。此研究旨在为进一步挖掘和验证GmGW2基因功能奠定基础,为大豆产量育种工作提供有益信息。     

结合多等级代表性采样和模糊隶属度的区域土壤制图方法

High-resolution and detailed regional soil spatial distribution information is increasingly needed for ecological modeling and land resource management. For areas with no point data, regional soil mapping includes two steps: soil sampling and soil mapping. Because sampling over a large area is costly, efficient sampling strategies are required. A multi-grade representative sampling strategy, which designs a small number of representative samples with different representative grades to depict soil spatial variations at different scales,could be a potentially efficient sampling strategy for regional soil mapping. Additionally, a suitable soil mapping approach is needed to map regional soil variations based on a small number of samples. In this study, the multi-grade representative sampling strategy was applied and a fuzzy membership-weighted soil mapping approach was developed to map soil sand percentage and soil organic carbon(SOC) at 0–20 and 20–40 cm depths in a study area of 5 900 km2 in Anhui Province of China. First, geographical sub-areas were delineated using a parent lithology data layer. Next, fuzzy c-means clustering was applied to two climate and four terrain variables in each stratum. The clustering results(environmental cluster chains) were used to locate representative samples. Evaluations based on an independent validation sample set showed that the addition of samples with lower representativeness generally led to a decrease of root mean square error(RMSE). The declining rates of RMSE with the addition of samples slowed down for 20–40 cm depth, but fluctuated for 0–20 cm depth. The predicted SOC maps based on the representative samples exhibited higher accuracy, especially for soil depth 20–40 cm, as compared to those based on legacy soil data. Multi-grade representative sampling could be an effective sampling strategy at a regional scale. This sampling strategy, combined with the fuzzy membership-based mapping approach, could be an optional effective framework for regional soil property mapping. A more detailed and accurate soil parent material map and the addition of environmental variables representing human activities would improve mapping accuracy.     

Methanotroph abundance not affected by applications of animal urine and a nitrification inhibitor,dicyandiamide, in six grazed grassland soils

Purpose  

Methanotrophs are an important group of methane (CH₄)-oxidizing bacteria in the soil, which act as a major sink for the greenhouse gas, CH₄. In grazed grassland, one of the ecologically most sensitive areas is the animal urine patch soil, which is a major source of both nitrate (NO₃ ⁻) leaching and nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions. Nitrification inhibitors, such as dicyandiamide (DCD), have been used to mitigate NO₃ ⁻ leaching and N₂O emissions in grazed pastures. However, it is not clear if the high nitrogen loading rate in the animal urine patch soil and the use of nitrification inhibitors would have an impact on the abundance of methanotrophs in grazed grassland soils. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of animal urine and DCD on methanotroph abundance in grazed grassland soils.     

Heterologous overexpression of resveratrol synthase (PcPKS5) gene enhances antifungal and mite aversion by resveratrol accumulation

European Journal of Plant Pathology - Huping jujube is widely cultivated in northern China. PcPKS5, a resveratrol synthase (STS) gene, contains all functionally divergent plant specific type III...