Spatial and temporal analysis of coffee wilt disease caused by Fusarium xylarioides in Coffea canephora

Coffee wilt disease (CWD) caused by Fusarium xylarioides, considered to be a soil-inhabiting fungus, is endemic in several African countries, affecting commercially important coffee species and causing serious economic losses. Coffee wilt disease development in naturally infected Coffea canephora fields at the Coffee Research Institute in Uganda was assessed from April 2001 to March 2006 to generate information about temporal and spatial spread of the disease. Maps of diseased trees were also generated from the data. Semi-variance analysis was performed on the data to show the spatio-temporal structure of disease. Host influence on the spatio-temporal structure was deduced from the distribution pattern of diseased and healthy trees and analysis of variance. Results show that the temporal disease epidemic progress was slow. The disease was found to spread from initial infections to healthy neighbouring trees, resulting in an aggregated pattern. An infected tree could infect up to three healthy trees away, in any direction. Disease foci formed and expanded with time, coalescing but punctuated in spots planted with resistant hosts. There were varying levels of susceptibility among host genotypes, affecting the rates and levels of epidemic development. The implications of the findings to the control of CWD are discussed.     

集对分析法在区域雨水资源开发利用潜力综合评价中的应用

探讨了区域雨水资源开发利用潜力的综合评价方法,并将集对分析理论应用于该研究,建立了区域雨水资源开发利用潜力综合评价模型。实例分析表明,该方法用于评价区域雨水资源开发利用潜力,方法简单,评价结果符合实际情况。     

基于SRAP分子标记的11份柑橘种质材料遗传多样性分析

为分析11份柑橘种质材料的遗传多样性,本研究以7份沙糖橘种质以及4份其他柑橘种质为试验材料,利用SRAP分子标记进行分析,并用UPGMA法进行聚类.结果表明:160对引物组合筛选出20对引物组合扩增条带清晰,11份种质材料两两之间遗传相似系数在0.322 1～0.931 6之间.沙糖橘和金葵蜜橘间的遗传相似系数最大,为...     

近43年黄河上游来水来沙变化特点

选取黄河头道拐站实测水沙序列(1960-2002年)资料,对水沙序列进行了多时间尺度和趋势识别的小波分析。结果表明:①黄河上游来水来沙量汛期所占比例减少,而非汛期所占比例增加;在年际变化上,水沙量逐年减少;同时,水沙相关关系具有一定的变化;②黄河上游水沙序列具有相同的多时间尺度(准周期)变化,但同一尺度下,水沙所处的丰枯变化并不一致;③年水沙序列趋势变化基本一致,20世纪80年代以来,两者存在明显减少趋势;但在非汛期,两者的趋势变化有较大区别。     

基于SWOT分析的山东省农业旅游研究

采用SWOT分析法分析山东省农业旅游发展中的优势、劣势、机会和威胁,并提出了山东省发展农业旅游的对策和措施。     

龙羊峡库区天然草地动态分析

利用美国陆地卫星T.M图象,对龙羊峡水库库区的天然草地进行了对比分析。结果表明,天然草地面积减少7084.09hm^2。其中减幅较大的为温性草原类和温性荒漠类,10年中分别减少了7299.27hm^2和1015.65hm^2。另外,草地盖度,牧草高度和草地产量也有下降,其中草地盖度下降5%-15%;牧草种数减少4-20种;牧草产量下降73.5-1090.05kg/hm^2。并对变化原因作了分析,提出了治理措施。     

Factors affecting the adoption of agroforestry practices by farmers in Cameroon

This paper presents empirical evidence on the impact of socio-economic factors on the adoption of agroforestry practices in Cameroon. The analysis uses primary farm-level data collected from June to December 1996. Three major provinces of the country were covered, namely Centre, Southwest and Northwest Several agroforestry technologies have been promoted among farmers in the zone, including alley farming, improved fallow, live fencing, cut-and-carry fodder and apiculture. The status of adoption of each agroforestry practice is described and factors that affect adoption identified. These are gender of farmer, household family size, level of education, farmer’s experience, membership within farmers’ associations, contact with research and extension, security of land tenure, agroecological zone, distance of the village from nearest town, village accessibility and income from livestock. Research findings indicate that since factors affecting farmers’ adoption of agroforestry practices differ across techniques, generalisation is to be avoided.     

Management of burnt wood after fire affects post-dispersal acorn predation

The management of burnt wood after a fire may affect seed predation by vertebrates due to the change produced in habitat structure. We analyze the effect of burnt wood management on post-dispersal seed predation in the Holm oak. Three plots were established in a burnt forest, with three treatments per plot: (1) non-intervention (NI, all trees left standing), (2) “partial cut plus lopping” (PCL, felling 90% of trees, cutting their main branches, leaving all the biomass in situ), and (3) “salvage logging” (SL, felling the logs for their removal and masticating the woody debris). Acorns were buried to mimic dispersal by jays or rodents two and three years after fire, with two trials per year (7200 monitored acorns), and the predation rate was evaluated until the time of seedling emergence. The spatial patterns of acorn predation were assessed by computing a transformed-Ripley's K function and Moran's I correlograms. There was a large spatial and temporal variability in acorn predation, with differences among trials, plots, and replicates within treatments and plots. Overall, PCL showed the lowest predation values (83.0% versus 87.4 in NI and 88.0 in SL). Predator species (mice versus wild boar) also differed among treatments, wild boar having a negligible effect in PCL, presumably due to the physical barrier of felled logs and branches. The results support that: (1) salvage logging offers no advantage against predators and (2) that post-fire burnt wood management alters the guild of acorn predators and may reshape the pattern of seedling establishment.     

矿区复绿植物猪屎豆种子硬实率与萌发特性的研究

采用不同方法对猪屎豆种子进行处理,并测定了种子的硬实率、吸水率和发芽率.结果表明:猪屎豆种子有较高的硬实率,砂纸摩擦5 min可显著提高种子的吸水率;砂纸摩擦1～7 min均可提高种子的萌发率,摩擦5 min的发芽率达36％,而未摩擦种子发芽率只有11.3％.丙酮处理种子1、2、3、4h不能提高种子的发芽率,时间越长,种子的发芽率越低;过氧化氢处理对种子的催芽没有显著的效果;摩擦后种子在室温(10 ～27℃)、15、25、30、35℃条件下均能萌发;光照对种子的萌发没有显著的影响,说明猪屎豆种子是中光种子.