First report of leaf spot caused by <Emphasis Type="Italic">Alternaria alternata</Emphasis> on <Emphasis Type="Italic">Drimia maritima</Emphasis>

Drimia maritima (squill) is a historically important medicinal plant. During the spring of 2016, small, yellow leaf spots, which became brown and finally necrotic, were observed on squill plants in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Provinces in Iran. A fungus was consistently isolated from infected leaves and identified as Alternaria alternata based on morphological and phylogenetic analyses. Pathogenicity tests confirmed A. alternata to be the causal agent of the newly observed leaf spot disease. This is the first report of leaf spot on D. maritima caused by A. alternata in the world.     

西花蓟马抗药性研究进展

西花蓟马是世界范围内蔬菜和花卉上的重要害虫之一,使用化学药剂是防治西花蓟马的主要手段,目前西花蓟马已对有机氯、有机磷、氨基甲酸酯、拟除虫菊酯、阿维菌素和多杀菌素等多种杀虫剂产生了抗药性。本文从抗药性现状、抗性机制和抗性治理等几个方面介绍了国内外有关西花蓟马抗药性的研究进展。     

辣椒新品种临椒1号的选育

临椒1号母本94-18是从尖椒22号中经提纯复壮、筛选出的优良自交系,父本94-33是国外引进品种匈奥804经多代自交分离出的优良自交系。该品种生长势强,果实羊角形,基部皱折,果色深绿,纵径23.0cm左右,横径3.0cm,单果质量40~60g,辣味浓。对疫病、病毒病和炭疽病的抗性强于对照尖椒22号。中熟,从定植到始收60d(天),一般每667m2产量2860kg左右,适宜鲜食、制酱。     

草菇蛋白酶的鉴定

草菇是我国食用菌主要栽培品种之一,属于典型高温真菌。低温将诱导草菇细胞内的蛋白质降解;造成草菇菌丝自溶、死亡。蛋白酶在草菇低温自溶过程中起了重要作用。在分离、纯化草菇蛋白酶的基础上,采用SDS－聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳测定蛋白酶的分子量为23KD,并测定了蛋白酶不同温度下的活性变化曲线,为草菇低温自溶与蛋白酶之间关系 的研究奠定了基础。     

不同品系杜洛克后代商品猪胴体性状的比较分析

为研究不同品系杜洛克作为终端父本对其后代商品猪胴体性状的影响,选取214和108头分别由美系和加系杜洛克公猪配种、出生时间相近(±2 d)和体重相近(35±5 kg)的后代三元商品猪进行育肥饲养,结束饲养后开展屠宰试验,测定背膘厚度、眼肌厚度、瘦肉率和肋骨数.结果显示:加系杜洛克商品后代的背膘厚度、眼肌厚度显著(P<0...     

First report of Pseudomonas aeruginosa causing tumor disease of Populus koreana in China

Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection - In May 2018, a bacterial tumor disease was observed on Populus koreana in Shuangyang county, Changchun city, Jilin Province. Based on physiological...     

江西省稻瘟病菌毒性的群体结构分析

用江苏省的吴江、赣榆、通州、高邮和宜兴等5个代表地区的324个稻瘟病菌株接种13个日本已知抗病基因品种，结果表明，江苏省稻瘟病菌对携带有Pi-Ka,Pi-ta,Pi-ta2和Pi-sh抗病基因品种的可致病比例较高，毒力频率达64．2％－97．2％，对携带有Pi-iPi-z和Pi-b抗病基因的品种毒力频率较低，在0－11．9％之间；江苏省稻瘟病菌毒性的群体结构年度间有一定变化，表现为对某些抗病基因品种毒力频率的明显上升或下降。从江苏省10年主栽品种上分离的稻瘟病菌株对13个已知抗病基因品种的毒力频率测定结果表明，不同类型主栽品种上分离的菌株其毒性结构组成有一定差异,表明江苏省水稻主栽品种的抗性类型存在一定差异。     

辣椒干储藏研究进展及技术要点

辣椒干储藏是干制辣椒生产、贸易过程中经常遇到的一个环节。长期以来,国内外学者针对辣椒干储藏进行了不少研究,但各自围绕不同的侧重点,尚未形成比较系统、实用的能够指导辣椒干储藏、储运的操作技术。在综合分析国内外辣椒干储藏及相关领域研究的基础上,结合笔者近年来对辣椒干储藏技术及其储藏期间品质变化的研究,提出了辣椒干储藏的若干技术要点,主要包括：辣椒干储藏的温度,辣椒干储藏期间的含水量,辣椒干储藏环境及包装物的选择,辣椒干储藏期间的害虫防治等。     

Consequences of a large-scale fragmentation experiment for Neotropical bats: disentangling the relative importance of local and landscape-scale effects

Context

Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation are widespread drivers of biodiversity decline. Understanding how habitat quality interacts with landscape context, and how they jointly affect species in human-modified landscapes, is of great importance for informing conservation and management.

Objectives

We used a whole-ecosystem manipulation experiment in the Brazilian Amazon to investigate the relative roles of local and landscape attributes in affecting bat assemblages at an interior-edge-matrix disturbance gradient.

Methods

We surveyed bats in 39 sites, comprising continuous forest (CF), fragments, forest edges and intervening secondary regrowth. For each site, we assessed vegetation structure (local-scale variable) and, for five focal scales, quantified habitat amount and four landscape configuration metrics.

Results

Smaller fragments, edges and regrowth sites had fewer species and higher levels of dominance than CF. Regardless of the landscape scale analysed, species richness and evenness were mostly related to the amount of forest cover. Vegetation structure and configurational metrics were important predictors of abundance, whereby the magnitude and direction of response to configurational metrics were scale-dependent. Responses were ensemble-specific with local-scale vegetation structure being more important for frugivorous than for gleaning animalivorous bats.

Conclusions

Our study indicates that scale-sensitive measures of landscape structure are needed for a more comprehensive understanding of the effects of fragmentation on tropical biota. Although forest fragments and regrowth habitats can be of conservation significance for tropical bats our results further emphasize that primary forest is of irreplaceable value, underlining that their conservation can only be achieved by the preservation of large expanses of pristine habitat.

     

Comparison of larval thermal maxima between <Emphasis Type="Italic">Fundulus heteroclitus</Emphasis> and <Emphasis Type="Italic">F. grandis</Emphasis>

Fundulus heteroclitus and F. grandis are resident salt marsh fishes that overlap in distribution over a narrow range in northeastern Florida. The objective of the present study was to examine whether the limits of the species’ ranges could be explained by differences in thermal tolerance. Two populations of each species were collected and then spawned in the laboratory, and 9-day-old larvae were used for critical thermal maxima trials. Mean LOE temperatures of larvae ranged from 43.04 to 43.65°C and showed little difference between species. Therefore, differences in high temperatures experienced cannot account for the differences of the distributions of the two species. Condition-specific competition may play a greater role in determining the observed range of the two species.