Effect of dietary supplemental nicotinic acid on growth performance,carcass characteristics and meat quality in three genotypes of chicken

The effects of dietary supplemental nicotinic acid (NA) on growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality were investigated in three genotypes of chicken. Fast‐growing AA (Arbor Acres) broilers were compared with two genotypes of a slow‐growing local breed, Beijing‐You, that had undergone selection for and against intramuscular fat content respectively (BJY+IMF and BJY?IMF). The treatments were arranged 3 × 4 factorial completely randomized design. Day‐old females (n = 624) were allocated to four treatments with six replicates per treatment and fed diets (basal contained ～25 mg NA/kg) supplemented with 0, 30, 60 and 120 mg NA/kg. A sample of 72 birds from each genotype was slaughtered at market time (8 weeks of age for AA and 16 weeks of age for BJY). The breast muscles of AA broilers were darker, had less redness and yellowness, lower drip loss and higher shear force as compared to the BJY genotypes (p < 0.01). The highest drip loss and the lowest shear force among the three genotypes were apparent in BJY+IMF (p < 0.01). Increasing supplementation from 0 to 60 mg NA/kg tended to increase average daily gain (ADG), average daily feed intake, width of intermuscular fat band, thickness of subcutaneous fat (including skin) and percentage of abdominal fat but, for most variables, values decreased slightly with 120 mg NA/kg. Increasing supplementation to 60 mg NA/kg decreased (quadratic, p < 0.001) drip loss, but it increased at 120 mg NA/kg. The present results indicate that (i) the AA broilers fed corn–soybean meal based‐diets require approximately 60 mg NA/kg to maximize ADG and meat product yield and decrease the drip loss of breast muscle; (ii) the addition of 30 mg NA/kg meets the requirement of BJY genotypes; and (iii) there seems to be no beneficial effect of NA supplementation on chicken meat quality except for limiting the drip loss.     

Identification and Molecular Characteristics Analysis of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Variants

To ascertain a diarrhea case in a pig farm in Shandong province,the pathological changes of dead piglets were observed and nested RT-PCR test was carried out on 7 diarrhea samples for porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV).Pathological examination revealed that intestine was detected as enlargement,hyperemia and edema.After histological examination,the typical microscopic lesions of intestine were disappearance of epithelial cells,villus shrinkage and shortening.The result of nested RT-PCR showed that all of the 7 samples could amplify a specific target band of PEDV.Molecular characteristics of two field strains showed that they had an amino acid homology of 92.3% to 92.4% with vaccine CV777 and 96.6% to 98.6% with other previous field strains which sequences were downloaded from GenBank.Phylogenetic tree analysis further revealed that all of PEDV strains could be mainly divided into two clusters of G1 and G2. G2 consisted of the field strains of our study and other field strains from USA,China and so on,which had the same sequence characteristics of two insertions and one deletion,while G1 consisted of all vaccines of CV777 and several older field strains from China and Korea.These results indicated that our field strains were the dominant strains in recent epidemic diarrhea occurrence.Moreover,its molecular characteristics might be a characterization of differentiating the field and vaccine strains.     

西北旱区喷灌条件下紫花苜蓿生长特征与品质指标的关系

西北旱区由于独特的气候条件,生产的苜蓿干草品质好,产量高。如何根据苜蓿的田间指标估测干草品质参数,对于苜蓿草产品生产销售具有重要意义。研究在喷灌条件下不同灌溉量对紫花苜蓿的生长品质的影响,并利用生长指标对紫花苜蓿的品质进行预测。试验于2014至2015年于中国农业大学石羊河流域生态节水试验站进行为期2年的田间试验。试验共设3个灌溉处理:A₁灌溉量为100%紫花苜蓿蒸腾蒸散量(ETc),A₂,A₃的灌溉量分别为A₁处理的66%,33%,以及一个不灌溉处理A₄。结果表明,苜蓿生长指标如株高(H)和茎叶比(SLR)随生育期的推进呈上升趋势,而鲜干比(FDR)呈下降趋势;所有生长指标随着灌溉量的减少均呈下降趋势。在品质方面,随着生育期的推进,所有处理的粗蛋白(CP)呈下降趋势,而中性洗涤纤维(NDF)和酸性洗涤纤维(ADF)则呈现上升趋势;随着灌溉量的降低,NDF与ADF呈下降趋势,而CP则呈上升趋势。各生长指标与品质指标的拟合结果表明,H和SLR均与各品质指标显著线性相关(P<0.001),且H与品质拟合结果相关系数最高(R²>0.900),而FDR则与各品质指标不显著。这些结果表明,在田间管理较好,长势良好,杂草与病虫害发生较少的情况下,可以用株高对苜蓿干草品质做出预测。     

五种藏医药用植物叶解剖结构特征的研究

通过对分布于青藏高原东北部海拔 380 0～ 440 0m处生长的五种高山藏医药用植物结构进行的显微观察。进一步探讨青藏高原高山植物独特生理结构与自然环境间的相互影响及适应性。结果表明 :五种植物的叶表皮细胞单层 ,有的叶表面密被表皮毛 ,角质层厚 ;叶肉组织中栅栏组织均多层 ,并普遍形成发达的通气组织。这些特征是高寒地区低氧、低温、强辐射等自然条件长期作用的结果。     

次黄筒天牛生物学特性及卵的空间分布研究

次黄筒天牛在江苏太仓1～2年发生一代，幼虫在枝干内越冬，成虫6月上旬～7月中旬羽化，取食桑树的嫩叶、叶脉，产卵于桑树新梢端部。卵期13d，幼虫蛀入枝条，先向上蛀食到梢端再调头向下蛀食，枝条短的幼虫可入拳越冬，第2年5月中旬化蛹，蛹期约16d。被害株有效条数降低，影响产叶量。该虫卵的空间分布为聚集型。个体间相互吸引但聚集强度不高，并在此基础上提出了序贯抽样模型。     

河南大尾寒羊体重生长特性的研究

应用VonBertalanffy、Gompertz、logistic、幂函数非线性生长模型对河南大尾寒羊的生长进行了拟合,Gom-pertz和logistic方程能很好地反映河南大尾寒羊的生长特点。本品种具有较好的早熟性;粗放的饲养管理可导致羔羊断奶后体增重急剧减慢;利用回归方程计算的母羊适宜初配日龄为211￣240d。     

日本结缕草叶斑病病原鉴定及其生物学特性研究

从日本结缕草Zoysia japonica发病叶片上分离得到病原菌,对病原菌进行形态特征观察、致病性测定及其生物学特性研究.结果表明,该病原菌为Bipolaris hawaiiensis.该菌能利用多种碳源和氮源,其中以蔗糖为最适碳源,以KNO3为最适氮源;菌丝生长最适温度为25～30 ℃;最适pH值7～9.菌丝的致死温度为70℃/15 min.PDA平板药剂筛选结果表明,30%爱苗的抑菌效果最好,15%三唑酮的效果最差.     

中国禾本科植物内生真菌研究--东营市盐碱地区的禾本科植物内生真菌的检测与分布特征

从山东省东营地区的东营市郊、孤岛和马场的盐碱地采集了644个禾本科草本植物样品,通过镜检确认,所有采样地区采集的植物样品中都含有内生真菌,内生真菌含有率和地区、植物种类等有关.和其他地区相比,盐碱地区禾本科植物的种类和分布数量明显减少,在全部样品中,盐碱程度高的地区内生真菌偏少.在Roegnaria属的各个草种中,内生真菌检出率对盐碱程度变化的反应有所不同.研究发现,在高盐碱环境中检测到的内生真菌的生物学特性将是一个有趣的课题.     

基因枪轰击不同剂量小鹅瘟病毒VP3基因疫苗在雏鹅体内的动态分布

本文开展了检测小鹅瘟病毒(GPV)VP3基因的实时荧光定量PCR(FQ-PCR)方法的建立和基因枪轰击不同剂量(1、3和6μg)GPV-VP3基因疫苗(pcDNA-GPV-VP3)在30日龄四川白鹅体内(心、肝、脾、肺、肾、法氏囊、胸腺、哈氏腺、十二指肠、空肠、回肠、直肠、盲肠、胰腺、血液、脑及注射部位皮肤)分布规律的研究。结果表明:①建立的FQ-PCR特异性强、灵敏度高、重复性好,核酸模板数与FQ-PCR测定的Ct值相关系数达到0.999,具有很好的直线相关性;②pcDNA-GPV-VP3各剂量免疫雏鹅1 h即可在各组织中检测到,其中注射部位含量最高,肝、肾、淋巴器官(脾、法氏囊、胸腺、哈氏腺)含量较高;③到免疫后217 d时,1μg组免疫雏鹅各个组织器官内仍检测到pcDNA-GPV-VP3的存在,但多数组织器官中的含量比1 h时约少了4个数量级,其中免疫部位减少了7个数量级;④血液中pcDNA-GPV-VP3的含量较少,且免疫后1 h~217 d各时间点的差异不显著(P≥0.05);⑤不同剂量pcDNA-GPV-VP3免疫雏鹅各组织中的含量呈现的总体规律为6μg组>3μg组>1μg组,但差异不显著(P≥0.05)。因此,FQ-PCR是定量检测pcDNA-GPV-VP3在免疫雏鹅体内含量的可靠方法,pcDNA-GPV-VP3免疫雏鹅后1 h时可分布至雏鹅体内各组织器官中并持续存在217 d以上。     

青南高原气候变化及其对高寒草甸牧草生长影响的研究

通过对１９６１年以来青南高原气候变化的分析,发现该地区年平均降水量及秋季降水量无明显的变化趋势,且其年际间的波动趋于缓和;冬季（１２－２月）和春季（３－５月）降水量的变化趋势呈现出逐年增多的趋势,气候倾向率分别为２．６ｍｍ／１０ａ和３．６ｍｍ／１０ａ;夏季降水量变化却表现出显著的减少趋势,其倾向率为－６．５ｍｍ／１０ｓ。