The effect of sowing date, stale seedbed, row width and mechanical weed control on weeds and yields of organic winter wheat

Three field experiments were carried out in organically grown winter wheat in Denmark. The treatments were sowing time (normal or late sowing) and false seedbed, row width (12 and 24 cm) and weed control method [untreated; mechanical weed control (weed harrowing at 12 cm supplemented with inter‐row hoeing at 24 cm); and herbicide weed control]. Weed biomass in midsummer was greatest on plots sown at the normal sowing time (compared with delayed sowing) and was reduced by mechanical or chemical weed control (compared with untreated plots). Row width alone had no influence on weed biomass, but in the experiment with high weed pressure, the more intensive mechanical weed control used at a row width of 24 cm reduced weed biomass. Normal sowing time tended to give higher yields, but this was only statistically significant in one of the three experiments. Wide rows gave a yield decrease in the experiment with low weed pressure. The effect of weed control on yield was dependent on the weed pressure. At low weed pressure, mechanical weed control caused a yield decrease compared with untreated or herbicide treated. At intermediate weed levels there were no differences, whereas at high weed pressure, mechanical weed control and herbicide treatment caused a yield increase compared with untreated. False seedbeds were shown to contribute to a decrease in the soil seed reserve.     

宁南旱地小杂粮产业开发技术研究

立足宁南旱地小杂粮生产现状,通过分析影响产业化发展的主要限制因子,提出了以持续增进降水生产潜力,提高降水利用率和农田水分效率为重点,大力推广优质高效抗旱新品种及配套栽培技术、优化集成抗旱节水农业技术、培肥土壤、建设高产稳产基本农田、加强产业化开发等关键技术。     

Extinction risk of wood-living model species in forest landscapes as related to forest history and conservation strategy

Dead wood is a critical resource for biodiversity in boreal forests. We analysed the persistence of five model species inhabiting dead wood. By parameterising a metapopulation model (the incidence function model), the model species were all assigned characteristics that makes it likely that they have disappeared from some (20%) forest landscapes with a long history of forest management. In the metapopulation model, a forest stand (5 ha) was regarded as a habitat patch. The amount of habitat in each patch was obtained from models of dead wood dynamics of Norway spruce in central Sweden. Dead wood generated by altered management over the entire landscape was found to be less efficient in reducing extinction risks in comparison to the same amount of dead wood generated by protecting reserves. Because generation of dead wood by altered management is often less expensive than setting aside reserves, it is difficult to determine which conservation measure is most cost-efficient. In a landscape subjected to forestry for the first time, it was better to preserve a few large reserves than many small ones. However, in a managed, highly fragmented forest landscape it was better to set aside many small reserves. The reason for this was that small plots with high habitat quality could be selected, while large reserves originally contained habitats both of high and low quality, and the rate of habitat quality increase was low. A strategy for biodiversity conservation in a managed forest landscape should include information about the history of the landscape, the current amount and spatial distribution of forest habitats, and the potential for rapid restoration of forest habitats, both on managed and unmanaged forest land.     

Stem-base disease and fungal colonisation of winter wheat grown in compost inoculated with Fusarium culmorum, F. graminearum and Microdochium nivale

Fungal colonisation of winter wheat cv. Cadenza by Fusarium culmorum, F. graminearum and Microdochium nivale was studied under conditions designed to avoid the splash dispersal of conidia from infested compost, to evaluate the possibility that systemic growth may transfer infection from the stem-base to the head. At decimal growth stages 33, 59, 77–87 and 95 the extent of fungal growth was assessed using a sample of 72 plants, by the recovery of fungal species from the stem-base, from each node and from the ear. Each of the fungi was recovered from stem tissues above soil level in some, apparently symptomless, plants. Symptoms of Fusarium foot rot were seen in an increasing proportion of plants during grain-fill and desiccation. There was an inverse relationship between recovery and the height above stem-base from which the stem tissue was excised. F. culmorum was the most frequently isolated fungus and it was also recovered from the highest position in plants. Only 3% of plants were colonised above the second node and none of the fungal species were recovered from either the fifth node or the ear. This suggests that colonisation and systemic growth from Fusarium infested compost is unlikely to contribute to the development of ear blight symptoms in winter wheat.     

CerealBeta-Amylases

Cerealbeta-amylases are perhaps best known in terms of the vital role they play in releasing easily fermentable sugars from cereal grain starch to fuel the production of alcohol by yeast in brewing. The extent to which they have been investigated is indeed largely due to their significance in this economically important industry. However, cerealbeta-amylases are also, or could be, employed in many other aspects of the food industry and the analysis of starch, and they constitute valuable markers in cereal assessment and breeding studies. Quite apart from their practical significance, they are rewarding objects of biochemical and physiological research. They are interesting models for the study of enzyme polymorphism, post-translational modification and the differential expression of isoenzymes. In spite of their often high activitiesin situand all that is known about their generation, they are an enigma in that their physiological function, or even necessity, remains unclear. It has been recently recognised that there are two different categories of cerealbeta-amylases which exhibit different tissue and taxonomic specificities and physiological developmental patterns. The «classical»beta-amylases present at high activities in cereal seeds appear to be limited to the endosperm of the species of the Triticeae tribe of the Festucoideae subfamily of the Gramineae (wheat, barley and rye), whereas all cereals exhibit a different, tissue-«ubiquitous» form of the enzyme which is present at much lower activity levels. The physiological phenomenology and the usage of cerealbeta-amylases are discussed in relation to these two categories of enzyme.     

泰山粗毛型长毛兔高产品系选育研究

以德系、法系安哥拉、沪２０７１ 系和ＧＳＡＢ兔为育种素材，通过合成杂交方式建立选育基础群，实施半开放式核心群世代选育，经过５ 个世代育成粗毛型兔新品系。新品系平均年产毛量１７０４ｇ，兔毛品质优良，粗毛率２０．１１％ ，料毛比４０．３３∶１，成年体重５．５ｋｇ，体长５５ｃｍ ，胸围４０ｃｍ ，平均窝产仔７．３６只，育成成活率９２％ 。适应性和抗病力较强，体质健壮，外貌整齐，遗传性稳定     

对启动山西小杂粮产业化开发工程的探讨

实施小杂粮产业化开发工程是将山西资源优势变经济优势的有效途径，是区域经济开发的优势和长处。加速产业化进程，一方面要在生产环节上有重大举措，改善品质，提高种植效益；另一方面要狠抓营销与加工，开拓更大的消费市场；同时需要政府强有力的引导、扶持，加强协调管理，加大科技投入。     

应用纤维素酶评定粗饲料的消化率

以两阶段法为基础,研究了两种酶解法对12种粗饲料的消化情况,结果表明:(1)中性洗涤剂+纤维素酶法的测值与两阶段法所测消化率之间虽相关显著(P<0.01),但方程的离回归标准误转大,预测值的变异系数也较大(对青干牧草、枯草和秸秆以及将三者组合统计时,变异系数分别为18.35％,7.29％,33.66％),说明应用此法估计消比率的可靠性较差;(2)以纤维素酶+胃蛋白酶法估计消化率较为可靠。该法的测值与两阶段法显著相关(P<0.01),离回归的标准误也小,估计值的变异系数对青干草、枯草和秸秆分别统计时,仅12.37％和8.36％。