Transfer of carbon incubation parameters to model the SOC and SON dynamics of a field trial with energy crops applying digestates as organic fertilizers

The fertilization with organic amendments and digestates from biogas plants is increasingly used to increase carbon stock and to improve the soil quality, but little is still known about their long-term effects. A common method to analyse organic amendments and their mineralization is incubation experiments, where amendments get incubated with soil while CO₂ release is measured over time. In a previous study, carbon models have been applied to model the carbon dynamics of incubation experiments. The derived parameters describing the carbon turnover of the CCB model (CANDY Carbon Balance) are used to simulate the SOC and SON dynamics of a long-term field trial. The trial was conducted in Berge (Germany) where organic amendments like slurry, farmyard manure or digestates were systematically applied. To grant a higher model flexibility, the amounts of crop residues were calculated for roots and stubble separately. Furthermore, the mineralization dynamics of roots and stubble are considered by the model parameters for each crop. The model performance is compared when using the dry matter and carbon content received from the field trial and the incubation experiments, to evaluate the transferability. The results show that the incubation parameters are transferable to the field site, with rRMSE < 10% for the modelled SOC and rRMSE between 10% and 15% for the SON dynamics. This approach can help to analyse long-term effects of unexplored and unusual organic fertilizers under field conditions, whereat the model is used to upscale the C dynamics from incubation experiments, considering environmental conditions.     

小粒牧草种子丸粒化包衣数值模拟与试验

针对小粒牧草种子丸粒化包衣时包衣质量不高、丸化合格率较低等问题,该研究采用理论方法,分析种粉颗粒在包衣锅内的运动过程、受力情况,构建种粉颗粒与包衣锅相互作用力学模型,获取影响种子包衣质量的主要因素。利用EDEM软件模拟包衣设备中不同结构参数下物料混合情况,探究结构参数对种粉混合效果的影响,以粉料的变异系数为评价指标,以包衣机甩盘直径、包衣机边缘倾角和包衣机转速为影响因素开展优化试验,得到最优参数组合为包衣机甩盘直径309.9 mm、包衣机边缘倾角61.9°和包衣机转速10.1 r/s。利用搭建的物理试验平台进行种子丸粒化包衣验证试验,结构参数优化后的包衣锅物理试验平均丸化合格率得到提升。进一步优化种子丸粒化包衣质量,探究粘结过程中粉料、药液对丸粒化包衣的影响。对丸粒化包衣机进行工艺参数正交试验,得到最佳工艺参数组合为单次供粉量为10 g、单次供液量为15 mL和包衣时长为7 min。在最优工作结构参数与工艺参数组合下,种子丸粒化包衣试验质量较高,研究结果可为其他不规则种子包衣提供参考。     

动物油脂热压联合提取装置设计与试验

提高病死畜禽胴体中的油脂提取率是实现病死畜禽进一步资源化的关键,为此该研究设计了一种动物油脂热压联合提取装置。首先基于静力学和热传递分析,结合动物油料特性,对关键部件压力机构和油脂提取机构进行了设计,并对加热、加压和可编程控制系统分别进行了关键参数设计和设备选型,最后选取板油进行了装置性能试验,并对提取的油脂进行了黏度测试。结果表明：在70～150℃范围内,单独温度和热压联合两种油脂提取方法的最佳温度均为130℃,在此温度下油脂提取率最高分别可达到59.15%和81.35%。相同温度下,热压联合油脂提取率较单独温度作用最高可提升31.21个百分点。减小油料规格对单独温度作用可明显提高油脂提取率,而对热压联合油脂提取率无明显影响。在高于130℃试验温度下进行热压联合油脂提取,能够达到油脂完全提取效果,所提取油脂在70～150℃温度范围内测得黏度为0.004～0.091 Pa·s,符合工业用润滑油黏度标准。     

双动刀沙棘枝条切割参数分析与试验

针对国内缺少沙棘专用机械收获装备、探明沙棘枝条最优切割参数组合,该研究设计了双动刀沙棘枝条切割试验台并开展沙棘枝条切割试验,确定了切割装置关键结构参数,基于LabVIEW开发了沙棘枝条切割特性测控系统和数据采集软件。通过单因素试验探究平均切割速度、刀具滑切角、刀刃高度和动刀组数对单位直径峰值力及单位面积切割功耗的影响;采用Box-Behnken多因素试验设计方法,以平均切割速度、枝条喂入速度和刀具滑切角为试验因素,以单位直径峰值力和单位面积切割功耗为评价指标建立回归模型。试验结果表明,评价指标随着平均切割速度、刀具滑切角和刀刃高度的增大而减小,在双动刀时比单动刀时数值更小。通过响应曲面法优化回归模型,确定最优切割参数组合为平均切割速度0.45 m/s、枝条喂入速度0.64 m/s、刀具滑切角9.4°,该组合下单位直径峰值力为53.33 N/mm,单位面积切割功耗为69.87 N/mm²,模型误差小于5%,切割参数优化结果准确。研究结果可为后续沙棘枝条收获装备的研发提供数据支撑。     

Effect of supplying P to a portion of the soybean root system on root growth and P uptake kinetics 1

Abstract

Knowledge of the effect of supplying P to portions of the soybean (Glycine max L. Merr) root system on P influx kinetics and root growth is important in developing P fertilizer placement practices for efficient fertilizer use. The objective of this research was to determine the effect of restricting P supply to portions of the root system on plant P status, root growth, and P influx kinetics. Two solution experiments were conducted in a controlled climate chamber. Phosphorus influx kinetics were determined on 25‐day‐old soybean plants that had been grown with 100, 75, 50, 25, and 12.5% of their roots initially exposed to P. Phosphorus influx kinetics were also measured on 25‐day‐old plants that had been P‐starved for the last 1, 2, 4, and 6 days prior to the determining P influx kinetics in order to relate plant P status to P influx kinetics.

Reducing the portion of the roots supplied with P reduced P uptake. This resulted in a reduction in plant P concentration and was related to a 3.41‐fold increase in maximum P influx measured on 25‐day‐old plants. Restricting the proportion of roots supplied with P had no significant effects on the Michaelis‐Menten constant or on the concentration in solution where net influx was zero. Root growth rate of the roots in the P containing solution was not significantly different from those in the ‐P solution.

Phosphorus uptake was correlated with final root surface area exposed to P (r² = 0.88??). Starving the plants for P reduced P concentration in the shoot and root and this resulted in as much as a 1.68‐fold increase in maximum influx.     

The Box Plot Experiment in Grossbeeren after eight rotations: nitrogen,carbon and energy balances

The Box Plot Experiment in Grossbeeren was set up in 1972 to investigate the efficiency of diverse fertilization strategies within an irrigated vegetable crop rotation system for three different soils. Here, we report on the long-term effects on nitrogen, carbon and energy balances of applying various organic amendments and different amounts of mineral N fertilizer to soils. Fertile soils (sandy loam and clayey silt) were characterized by higher yield and N removal potential by plants, higher acceptable N input amounts, and a higher proportion of total N input recovered by soil N storage and N uptake by plants. After 40 years, organic carbon equilibrium in the soil has not been reached. Rates of change of organic carbon stocks are still affected by the different organic matter levels at the beginning of the experiment. An increasing net N supply increased and organic C input decreased net C gains. Because of the manifold possibilities of producing energy from current or former agricultural land, energetic evaluation of land use needs to become more complex if direct comparisons are to be made. Including the energy contents of organic amendments and soil organic matter in the energy balances would be a first step in this direction.     

Development of soil organic matter stocks under different farm types and tillage systems in the Organic Arable Farming Experiment Gladbacherhof

In 1998, the Organic Arable Farming Experiment Gladbacherhof (OAFEG) was started in order to explore the impact of different organic arable production systems (mixed farming, stockless farming with rotational ley, stockless cash crop farming) and of different tillage intensities (conventional plough as a full inversion tillage, two-layer plough, inversion tillage at reduced depth, non-inversion tillage) on sustainability parameters. In this article, we present results on the development of soil organic matter (SOM) levels. Starting with organic mixed farming with approximately 0.7 livestock units (LU) per ha cattle before set-up of the experiment, only the mixed farming system in the experiment was able to maintain SOM levels. The stockless system with ley maintained soil organic carbon (SOC), but lost soil total nitrogen (STN), and the stockless cash crop system had a significant SOM loss in the magnitude of 7.7 t SOM ha^?1, or roughly 8.4% of the initial SOM mass. Reducing tillage intensity had no impact on SOM masses, but only on organic matter stratification in soils. We conclude that specialization of organic farms towards stockless arable crop production requires special attention on SOM reproduction to avoid detrimental effects. Further, reduced tillage intensity does not necessarily have a positive effect on SOM.     

Shoot control of nodulation is modified by the root in the supernodulating soybean mutant En6500 and its wild-type parent cultivar Enrei

Abstract

Based on grafting studies, both supernodulating (Carroll et al. 1985a, b) and hypernodulating (Gremaud and Harper 1989) soybean ([itGlycine max} L. Merr.) phenotypes were reported to be under the control of shoot factors (Delves et al. 1986, 1987; Cho and Harper 1991). Recently Akao and Kouchi (1992) have isolated a new supernodulating mutant (En6500) from ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS)-treated Enrei, a cultivar which is widely grown in the central districts of Japan. This mutant has been shown to produce several fold as many nodules as its wild-type parent cultivar when grown at a low concentration (0.5 mol m^-3) of nitrate. Moreover, it exhibited a continuous increase in the nodule number with the increasing nitrate concentration, even at 15 mol m^-3 (Francisco et al. 1992), in contrast to the similar mutant nts382 in which the nodulation decreased even at the relatively low nitrate level of 5.5 mol m^-3 (Carroll et al. 1985a). In this study we conducted grafting experiments to determine which plant part controls the supernodulation of En6500.     

Compared Phosphorus Efficiency in Soybean,Sunflower and Maize

ABSTRACT

A more comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms of phosphorus (P) efficiency is agronomically significant to advance in the design of crop management schemes that increase P efficiency and reduce the need of fertilizers. Phosphorus efficiency is defined as the ability of a plant to acquire P from the soil and/or to utilize it in the production of biomass or the harvestable organ. Because most parameters related to P efficiency vary according to the growth conditions and isolation of the individual effect of P efficiency is not straightforward; plants must be grown in uniform experimental conditions to obtain a fair comparison of their nutrient acquisition and utilization. In this work, we compare the ability of soybean, sunflower, and maize to utilize and acquire soil P. Field and greenhouse experiments including different P levels were conducted. The general observation was that the three species ranked differently according to the specific parameter of P efficiency considered. Maize clearly showed higher P utilization efficiency than soybean and sunflower, either expressed as biomass or as grain produced per unit of absorbed P. In turn, soybean and sunflower exhibited higher acquisition efficiency than maize. Soybean showed the shallowest root system: 69% of the total root length was concentrated in the top 20 cm of the soil. Phosphorus uptake per unit root length was rather similar among the three species, but soybean and sunflower had higher P uptake per unit of root weight. This can be explained by the higher specific root length (SRL) and specific root area (SRA) of both dicots. For example, SRL averaged 59, 94, and 34 m g^?1 in field grown soybean, sunflower, and maize, respectively. The more favorable root morphology determined that soybean and sunflower can explore more soil with the same belowground biomass and absorb more P per unit of carbon invested belowground. Since the three species exhibited similar values of P uptake per unit root length, we hypothesize that the capacity of each segment of root to deplete soil P fractions is similar.     

Investigations on Cambodian soils

Basic information on the nature of soils, their potentialities, and their limitations is necessary to evaluate Cambodian agriculture properly, and to develop a program for increasing food and other crops. Suitable information has, however, been limited, especially as there is not to be found in any report much data relating to soils of different origins over the whole country. There is, needless to say, some information on confined areas of Cambodia.