Evapotranspiration predictions of CERES-Sorghum model in Southern Italy

The purpose of this study was to modify and calibrate the CERES-Sorghum water balance model for the dry, high radiation and windy conditions in an area in Southern Italy.

The equation for estimating potential evapotranspiration (E₀) was substituted by another one, calibrated in the study site and expressed as a function of equilibrium evaporation and maximum vapour pressure deficit (defined as the difference between the saturation vapour pressure at maximum and at minimum temperatures).

To calibrate the E₀ equation included in CERES-Sorghum, two drainage lysimeters, located at the Istituto Sperimentale Agronomico experimental farm, Foggia (Italy), were used to measure weekly evapotranspiration of well-watered, irrigated fescue grass, from 1976 to 1986.

A further drainage lysimeter, located in the same farm and cropped with well-watered grain sorghum (cv. NK 121) was used to calibrate the genetic coefficients input to the modified CERES-Sorghum model during the cropping seasons 1979 and 1980.

Simulated phenological dates (anthesis and maturity), grain yield, LAI, biomass and crop evapotranspiration were then compared with the measured ones in a fourth drainage lysimeter cropped with sorghum.

The modified model simulated grain yield accurately, but simulated daily evapotranspiration did not always match well the observed value, especially early in the crop cycle. Improvements are needed to the model in its simulation of soil evaporation and in the crop response function to temperature.     

近红外光谱技术及其在农作物中的应用

本文阐述了近红外光谱技术的原理与方法,并对近红外光谱技术在农作物领域的应用研究进行了介绍。     

The genetic relationship between popping expansion volume and two yield components in popcorn using unconditional and conditional QTL analysis

Popping expansion volume (PEV) is the most important quality trait in popcorn, while its germplasm is inferior to normal dent/flint corn in yield. In this study, 259 F_2:3 families, developed from the cross between a dent corn inbred Dan232 and a popcorn inbred N04, were evaluated for their PEV, grain weight per plant (GWP) and 100-grain weight (100 GW) in two environments. The genetic relationship between PEV and GWP, and 100 GW on individual gene loci were evaluated using unconditional and conditional QTL mapping methods. In total, five, one and three unconditional QTL were identified for PEV, GWP, and 100 GW, respectively. The positive alleles of all QTL for PEV were from N04, while positive alleles of all QTL for GWP and 100 GW were from Dan232. In conditional mapping, one and two QTL failed to be detected, and all four additional QTL were detected. Nevertheless, three QTL were identified, which controlled PEV independently from GWP/100 GW. They seemed to be potential candidates in popcorn breeding to increase PEV without decreasing GWP/100 GW. The results suggested that for significantly correlated traits, the conditional QTL mapping method could be used to dissect the genetic interrelationship between traits at the level of individual QTL, as well as reveal additional QTL that were undetectable by unconditional mapping.     

NCT对小麦衰老生理的影响

以新合成的NCT配制成不同浓度的水溶液，对灌浆初期的大田小麦进行叶面喷施，以喷清水作对照，并以与NCT相同浓度梯度的NAA水溶液作对比处理，测定了喷后不同时期小麦旗叶的相对电导率、叶绿素含量、超氧化物歧化酶（SOD）活力及丙二醛（MDA）含量。结果表明：NCT能延缓灌浆期SOD活力，使叶绿素含量降低，控制相对电导率和MDA含量的升高，并使小麦穗粒重和千粒重增加，其效果明显优于NAA。     

黑土区田块尺度下地形影响作物长势机理分析

为揭示作物长势及水肥运移的空间分异规律,探究田块尺度内作物长势与地形变化的关系,以东北典型黑土区东兴农机合作社为研究区,沿南北垄向提取高精度数字高程模型(Digital elevation model,DEM)与归一化植被指数(Normalized differential vegetation index,NDVI)信息,构建地形指标,分析NDVI的空间变异性。结果表明,坡型凸凹程度越明显,NDVI的空间变异性越大;同类坡型中阴坡NDVI的空间变异性与坡型凸凹程度呈负相关;坡度在±0.03范围内,作物长势好,空间变异性低;以坡度绝对值高于0.04的坡度均值与其对应直线距离所占整条直线的比值作为自变量,构建多元逐步回归模型,进行回归分析,可以解释大豆NDVI决定系数为0.965 2、高粱NDVI决定系数为0.888 3的空间变异性。不同地理空间的地形与成土母质差异显著,通过分析研究区内地形对作物长势的影响规律,可为田块尺度地形的分析提供借鉴,有助于指导农户合理地进行水肥分配。     

果园生草的生态效应及在果树上的应用

从生草对果园土壤、果园微域环境、果树生长的影响综述了国内外近年来研究的新进展.结果表明:和传统的果园土壤清耕模式相比较,果园生草具有明显的水土保持作用,增加土壤全N、速效P及交换K含量,显著增加土壤有机质含量,改善土壤结构,改善土壤酶活性,使果园微域环境温度变化趋于平缓,果园天敌种类和数量增加,有利于害虫的生物防治,增加果实含糖量,改善果实着色;同时,生草降低果园土壤水分含量,降低果树加粗生长,减少果实产量,有利于病虫滋生.展望了果园生草在我国现阶段无公害果品生产、果园循环经济中的广阔应用前景.指出了我国推广果园生草需要注意及应当进一步研究的问题.     

草类在生态果园建设中的作用

从生态学角度综述了草类在生态果园建设中的作用,并总结其在果园土壤、果园微域环境、果树生长的影响等方面国内外近年来研究的新进展。结果表明：果园生草可有效改善果树生态环境,调节地温,提高土壤肥力和蓄水保墒能力;同时有利于增加害虫天敌数量,减轻病虫害和生理病害的发生,减少果园农药的使用量。     

Water management and crop production for food security in China: A review

Food security is a high priority issue on the Chinese political agenda. China’s food security is challenged by several anthropogenic, sociopolitical and policy factors, including: population growth; urbanization and industrialization; land use changes and water scarcity; income growth and nutritional transition; and turbulence in global energy and food markets. Sustained growth in agricultural productivity and stable relations with global food suppliers are the twin anchors of food security. Shortfalls in domestic food production can take their toll on international food markets. Turbulence in global energy markets can affect food prices and supply costs, affecting food security and poverty. Policy safeguards are needed to shield food supply against such forces. China must make unremitting policy responses to address the loss of its fertile land for true progress towards the goal of national food security, by investing in infrastructure such as irrigation, drainage, storage, transport, and agricultural research and institutional reforms such as tenure security and land market liberalization. The links between water and other development-related sectors such as population, energy, food, and environment, and the interactions among them require reckoning, as they together will determine future food security and poverty reduction in China. Climate change is creating a new level of uncertainty in water governance, requiring accelerated research to avoid water-related stresses.     

Variability in the composition of lupin (Lupinus angustifolius) meals influences their digestible nutrient and energy value when fed to rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Over a series of seven separate experiments 76 different lupin (Lupinus angustifolius) meals were assessed for their digestible dry matter, protein, amino acid and energy characteristics when fed to rainbow trout. Two reference diets (a common basal diet and a reference lupin meal) were also included in each experiment. Minimal variance in the digestibility parameters of both reference diets was observed among the experiments ensuring that there was a high degree of robustness in the across-experiment evaluations. Using simple and multiple-regression techniques, principal diet and ingredient composition factors affecting diet and ingredient digestibilities and ingredient digestible values were explored within the dataset. Using simple linear regression, it was shown that nitrogen digestibility of the lupin meals was negatively influenced by ingredient lignin content, but positively affected ingredient protein (N × 6.25) content. The energy digestibility of the lupin meals was positively affected by a range of compositional features including protein, sum of amino acids and negatively affected by carbohydrate content. The digestible nutrient and energy content of the meals reflected the combined effects of both ingredient digestibilities and ingredient composition. The digestible nitrogen content of the lupin meals was positively affected by protein (N × 6.25), sum of amino acids and energy content, but was negatively affected by lignin and carbohydrate content. The digestible sum of amino acids was also positively affected by protein, sum of amino acids, but only negatively affected by carbohydrate content, not lignin content. The digestible energy content of the lupin meals was also positively affected by protein, sum of amino acids and their own energy density, but only negatively affected by carbohydrate content. Multiple linear regression modelling supported that together ingredient protein and lignin content were the strongest predictors of digestible protein value, explaining close to 60% of the variability in this parameter. Discrete reassessment of these relationships using non-linear analysis methods provided a stronger interpretation of the ingredient composition effects. In recognition of this, a functional model including terms for ingredient protein and lignin content on the digestible protein value was defined. This study demonstrates that within one raw material type that not only does significant variability in the digestible value of the raw materials exist, but that it is possible to identify compositional features of that raw material that are intrinsically influencing their own digestible value.     

小麦粒重主效QTL近等基因系的构建和效应评价

粒重是影响小麦产量的主要因素之一。QGw.nau-5A是一个从我国小麦骨干亲本南大2419中鉴定的粒重主效QTL。为评价该QTL不同等位基因对粒重的效应及在育种中的应用潜力,利用分子标记辅助选择技术,分别将南大2419和早洋麦的QGw.nau-5A区段导入望水白和川麦42,构建了不同背景的近等基因系,并比较了不同背景下粒重QTL的效应。结果表明,QGw.nau-5A能在不同背景下显著提高小麦粒重,与轮回亲本相比,近等基因系的百粒重显著增加0.2~0.6g。QGw.nau-5A等位变异对粒重的贡献存在差异,与川麦42的等位变异相比,南大2419和早洋麦的等位变异均能增加粒重,但后者效应更大。