Effect of injecting amino acids into the egg on embryonic and subsequent growth in the domestic fowl

1. The growing embryo uses about 1% of the total protein available in the egg during the first week of incubation.

2. Injecting the growing embryo with amino acids equivalent to the amount of protein used resulted in higher weight of chicks at all stages up to 56 d.     

The use of air‐coolers in broiler houses under subtropical conditions in Iraq

1. Under summer conditions in north Iraq, 2 000 chicks were reared for 56 d in two broiler houses. One house was provided with two air‐coolers. The birds were housed at densities of eight to 16 birds/m².

2. Differences in weight gain between birds in cooled and uncooled houses ranged from 101.5 g at eight birds/m² to 385 g at 16 birds/m². Food consumption increased gradually with increasing bird density. Food conversion efficiency, meat yield and carcass conformation were much better in the cooled house than under conventional conditions.

3. The financial return/m² ranged from 2.30 to 4.51 ID¹ in the cooled house, compared with 2.01 to 2.77 ID in the uncooled house at different floor densities.     

Storage time‐temperature effects on the odour preferences for uncooked chicken parts

1. Whole broilers and separated legs were stored at ‐12 ± 1 °C, —18 ± 1 °C and — 75 ±2 °C (reference group, whole carcasses only), for up to nine months.

2. Legs cut from the whole birds after removal from store, unpacking and thawing, and legs from the portions were compared in odour preference at four times of examination.

3. After only 1 d the odour of the legs stored as parts at —12 °C was less preferred than that of the reference group; this was also true for legs cut from whole birds after 3 months at the same temperature.

4. After 3 months at — 12 °C the odour of the legs stored as parts was less preferred than the odour of legs obtained from whole birds.

5. Storage of legs as parts at —18 °C resulted in a comparatively less preferred odour after 3 months, while the same was true after 9 months for legs cut from the carcasses.     

Rapeseed Meal and egg taint

1. Certain rapeseed meals in the diet of hens laying brown eggs result in the production, from some birds, of eggs which have a “ fishy ” or “ crabby ” odour because of the presence of trimethylamine.

2. Such susceptible birds have been used to demonstrate that the activity can be extracted from rapeseed meal with appropriate solvents.     

The role of histamine and fish meal in the incidence of gizzard erosion and pro‐ventricular abnormalities in the fowl

1. The role of certain fish meals in the production of localised gizzard erosion is confirmed.

2. Lesions typical of gizzard erosion could be produced by the addition of histamine to the diet.

3. The amount of histamine occurring naturally in fish meal depends on the species of fish and the extent and nature of bacterial spoilage.

4. These variables may explain why histamine has not been implicated previously and also why there have not been consistent associations between the condition and geographical source or common factors in bulk consignments of the meal.     

Chromosome and plasmid-encoded N-acyl homoserine lactones produced by Agrobacterium vitis wildtype and mutants that differ in their interactions with grape and tobacco

Agrobacterium vitis causes crown gall disease on grapevines. It also induces a specific necrosis on grape roots and a hypersensitive response (HR) on tobacco that are regulated by a complex quorum-sensing regulatory system. Strain F2/5 produces at least six N-acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs) that function as signal molecules in quorum-sensing. The AHLs differ in acyl side chain length (8–16 carbons) as determined by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. Mutant derivatives of F2/5 differ in ability to cause necrosis and the HR and show variable AHL profiles as determined by a thin-layer chromatography/biosensor assay. All wildtype A. vitis strains revealed the presence of long-chain AHLs regardless of tumorigenicity or ability to cause the HR. Whereas genes encoding long-chain AHLs are predicted to reside on the F2/5 chromosome, the determinants for short-chain AHLs were shown to be located on conjugal plasmids.     

花椰菜新品种———津品55

 ‘津品55’为秋中早熟花椰菜一代杂种, 成熟期约60 d, 内叶合抱护球, 花球较紧, 洁白,单球质量1.0 kg左右, 产量30000 kg/hm² 左右, 比对照品种‘丰花60’增产26.0% ～43.3% , 生长势强,抗病性好。     

秋水仙素对四季桔多倍体的诱导效应

以四季桔（Fortunella calamondin）种子为外植体，研究了秋水仙素对多倍体诱导的影响，结果表明：将种子用秋水仙素溶液漫渍比直接接种在含秋水仙素的培养基上，诱导多倍体的效果更好，用0．2％秋水仙素溶液浸渍种子12．75h，诱导率最高，达14．4％；在含0．2％秋水仙索的培养基上培养50d，诱导率为9．8％；变异植株叶片变大，茎变粗，有少量植株出现三出复叶突变；变异植株的气孔明显大于二倍体植株，气孔密度降低。     

蝴蝶花的组织培养和根状茎的诱导

蝴蝶花(IrisjaponicaThunb.)是鸢尾科鸢尾属的多年生常绿宿根草本植物,地下有横走的根状茎;耐荫,是良好的耐荫地被植物。试验于2003年10月至2004年5月进行。选择健康的蝴蝶花植株,取地下的根状茎,选带节的茎段作为外植体,用洗洁精溶液浸泡4～5min,采用75%乙醇60s结合0.1%HgCl212min进行灭菌。根状茎在培养基MS 6BA1.0mg·L-1 KT2.0mg·L-1 NAA0.1mg·L-1,25℃下黑暗培养,腋芽出芽率达65.4%。黑暗比光照更有利于腋芽的萌发,可能是由于蝴蝶花是阴性植物;在自然条件下其根状茎的生长和顶芽的萌发处于暗环境,离体条件下黑暗培养更符合其…     

优质丰产草莓新品种‘石莓3号’

 ‘石莓3号’为高产、大果、优质, 中早熟草莓新品种, 1990年以自育优系‘18322’为母本, ‘全明星’为父本杂交育成。该品种植株生长势强, 丰产性好, 果实大, 风味浓郁, 品质优良, 适宜于我国华北、东北地区栽培。