红色类胡萝卜素在蛋黄着色中的应用

颜色在食物感觉中起重要的作用。明亮鲜艳的颜色会刺激食欲，增加人们对食品的喜好程度，并且也是一种视觉享受。据人们的一个基本经验就是适合食用的特定食品应有其特定的颜色fKlaui和Bauemfeind，1981)。蛋黄就是一个确切的例子，当家禽饲喂情况较差或受到疾病影响时，     

Comparison among available marker systems for cereal introgression breeding: A practical perspective

Summary There is an increasing amount of public sequence information for the main cultivated cereals, such as wheat and barley. It is not foreseeable that comparable efforts or resources could be devoted to related wild species. However, wild species are interesting sources of genetic variation through introgression breeding. Comparative genomics can be a helpful approach to make use of the available genomic resources. In this context, the potential of the wild barley species Hordeum chilense has been explored in recent years. It exhibits great levels of polymorphism and high crossability with different cereal genera. In addition, interesting biotic and abiotic stress resistance genes, and important quality traits like carotene content and seed storage protein variability shown in the species are also expressed in wheat backgrounds, and are the basis of a breeding program. Different approaches have been undertaken for tagging H. chilense genomic regions in a wheat background. The search for the most suitable DNA marker system started with the development of RAPD and SCAR markers due to a lack of sequence information from the wild species. Transferability of markers from wheat and barley (like STSs or SSRs) have also been useful approximations. More recently, SNP development is being accomplished for the species. In this work, the situation and prospects with the available molecular tools are considered from a practical point of view.     

Restoration of giant cardon cacti in barren desert soil amended with common compost and inoculated with Azospirillum brasilense

Barren desert soil that otherwise could not support perennial plant growth was amended with six levels of common agricultural compost. Seedlings of the giant cardon cactus, one of the primary plant species responsible for soil stabilization in the southern Sonoran Desert, were inoculated with the plant-growth-promoting bacterium Azospirillum brasilense Cd, planted, and grown for 18 months under nursery conditions typical for slow-growth cacti. Control plants were grown without compost amendment, without inoculation (negative control), or in fertile, rare “resource island” soil preferred by cardon seedlings (positive control). During the prolonged growth period, the decisive factor in seedling growth in barren soil was the addition of small amounts of common compost; 6 to 25% of the growth substrate volume gave the best growth response and, to a lesser extent, so did inoculation with A. brasilense Cd. Although the bacteria significantly affects plant growth when amended with “resource island” soil and added to barren soil, its effect on plant growth was far smaller than when compost alone was added. Compost added to barren soil significantly increased the dry weight parameters of the plant to almost similar levels obtained by the “resource island” soil; however, the compost amendment supports a more voluminous and greener plant with elevated pigment levels. This study shows that barren soil supplemented with compost can replace the rare “resource island” soil for cardon nurseries destined to abate soil erosion in the desert.     

Uptake of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from an aqueous medium by polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polystyrene films

The sorption of selected polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners (from tri to deca chlorinated) by three food-packaging plastic films [polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and polystyrene] from an aqueous solution was investigated. From the data generated, PCB uptake, partition, and diffusion coefficients were calculated for the various films. Polyethylene exhibited the highest PCB uptake, diffusion, and partition coefficients when compared to the other materials. Although PVC indicated larger sorption diffusion and partition coefficients for the lower chlorinated congeners than polystyrene, a reversal of this trend was observed for the higher congeners. For polyethylene and PVC, the PCB uptake decreased as the chlorine numbers in the congeners increased, confirming the correlation between increasing chlorination and increasing cohesive density within the PCB molecules. For polystyrene, the uptake decreased from tri to penta congeners, but showed an increase for the hexa, and then a decreased uptake until the deca chlorination. A comparison of the molecular sizes of the PCB congeners showed that the partition (Ke) and sorption diffusion (Ds) coefficients generally decreased with their increasing molar volumes. The resulting Ke values were used to determine the extent of sorption because these values indicate the affinity of PCBs for the plastic films. Results from this study can be of practical importance for cases of product quality related to the transfer of contaminants from the product to the packaging materials.     

Increase in auxiliary photoprotective photosynthetic pigments in wheat seedlings induced by Azospirillum brasilense

Inoculation of wheat seedlings with the plant growth-promoting bacterium Azospirillum brasilense Cd was immobilized in alginate microbeads and, without applying any stress, significantly increased the quantity of several photosynthetic pigments, such as chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, and the auxiliary photoprotective pigments violaxanthin, zeaxanthin, antheroxanthin, lutein, neoxanthin, and β-carotene. This resulted in greener plants with no apparent visible stress. After monitoring the quantity of photosynthetic pigments for 4 weeks, we observed that inoculated plants had higher quantities of pigments in shoot and stem. The greatest difference in the quantity of all pigments between inoculated and noninoculated plants occurred in the first week of growth. Regardless of treatment, the quantity of pigments in stems was three to four times less than the quantity of these pigments in shoots. Application of Azospirillum, either as liquid inoculant or as alginate microbeads, did not alter the positive effect of the bacteria on pigment production or the positive response of the plants towards A. brasilense Cd inoculation.     

Staphylococcus aureus seroproteomes discriminate ruminant isolates causing mild or severe mastitis

ABSTRACT: Staphylococcus aureus is a major cause of mastitis in ruminants. In ewe mastitis, symptoms range from subclinical to gangrenous mastitis. S. aureus factors or host-factors contributing to the different outcomes are not completely elucidated. In this study, experimental mastitis was induced on primiparous ewes using two S. aureus strains, isolated from gangrenous (strain O11) or subclinical (strain O46) mastitis. Strains induced drastically distinct clinical symptoms when tested in ewe and mice experimental mastitis. Notably, they reproduced mild (O46) or severe (O11) mastitis in ewes. Ewe sera were used to identify staphylococcal immunoreactive proteins commonly or differentially produced during infections of variable severity and to define core and accessory seroproteomes. Such SERological Proteome Analysis (SERPA) allowed the identification of 89 immunoreactive proteins, of which only 52 (58.4%) were previously identified as immunogenic proteins in other staphylococcal infections. Among the 89 proteins identified, 74 appear to constitute the core seroproteome. Among the 15 remaining proteins defining the accessory seroproteome, 12 were specific for strain O11, 3 were specific for O46. Distribution of one protein specific for each mastitis severity was investigated in ten other strains isolated from subclinical or clinical mastitis. We report here for the first time the identification of staphylococcal immunogenic proteins common or specific to S. aureus strains responsible for mild or severe mastitis. These findings open avenues in S. aureus mastitis studies as some of these proteins, expressed in vivo, are likely to account for the success of S. aureus as a pathogen of the ruminant mammary gland.