Animal breeding systems and big game hunting: Models and application

We apply an age- and stage-structured model incorporating varying harem sizes, paternal care and infanticide to examine the effect of hunting on sustainability of populations. Compared to standard carnivore and herbivore models, these models produce different outcomes for sustainable offtake when either adults, or adult males are harvested. Larger harem size increases sustainable offtake whereas paternal care and infanticide lowers it. Where males are monogamous, populations are vulnerable to male offtake, regardless of paternal care. Surprisingly, an incidental take of 10% of other age-sex-classes has very little effect on these findings. Indiscriminate (subsistence) hunting of all age-sex classes has a dramatic effect on certain populations. Applying these behavior-sensitive models to tourist hunting in the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania, we find that across the Reserve hunting quotas were generally set at sustainable rates except for leopard (Panthera pardus). In certain hunting blocks within the Reserve, however, quotas for eland (Taurotragus oryx), hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus), lion (Panthera leo), reedbuck (Redunca arundinum), sable antelope (Hippotragus niger), warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus) and waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) are set at unsustainably high rates. Moreover, particular blocks are consistently awarded high quotas. Behaviorally sensitive models refine predictions for population viability, specify data required to make predictions robust, and demonstrate the necessity of incorporating behavioral ecological knowledge in conservation and management.     

Physiological responses of argentine peanut varieties to water stress.: Light interception, radiation use efficiency and partitioning of assimilates

In Argentina, peanut production is concentrated in areas where unpredictable and intermittent periods of water deficit occur almost every year especially, during the pod growth period. Florman INTA is the most popular variety among peanut producers, but it is highly sensitive to drought. Manfredi 393 INTA was released as a drought-tolerant variety. Differences between these varieties in radiation interception and crop mass accumulation relative to light levels, as well as in allocation of assimilate to economic yield under water deficit, have not been previously studied.

An experiment was set with two different regimes of water supply. Half of the crop was irrigated (IRR) from sowing to maturity, while the other half received no water between 47 and 113 days after sowing. The fraction of PAR intercepted, (f), leaf area, pod and vegetative above-ground biomass and leaf carbon dioxide exchange rate (CER) were measured periodically during the water deficit period. The leaf area index, degree of leaf folding, canopy extinction coefficient, radiation use efficiency (RUE), partitioning factor, (p), and harvest index (HI) were calculated from the measurements.

Under water stress, f was reduced in both varieties with respect to their controls, and the reduction was proportionally higher in Florman INTA as a consequence of a higher leaf area reduction and degree of leaf folding. However, f remained higher in Florman INTA than in Manfredi 393 INTA due to the enhanced capacity of the former to generate leaf area under non-limiting water supply.

RUE values were higher in Manfredi 393 INTA than in Florman INTA, both under irrigation as well as under severe water deficit, where they were obtained using a two-parameter exponential model. The reason for the higher RUE values in Manfredi 393 INTA was its ability to maintain a higher leaf CER.

Partitioning to pods under irrigation was greater in Manfredi 393 INTA than in Florman INTA, as a result of a longer pod filling period and higher p. Towards the end of podfill, there was a rapid increase of p in Florman INTA, but too late to improve its HI. Under water stress, the time course of p for both varieties was lower than in the IRR treatments and consequently, HI at harvest was reduced. Low HI values could be attributed to some extent to the mechanical impedance of the upper soil layer, caused by water deficit. Mechanical impedance alters the relation among p and HI values obtained under irrigation and water stress. However, even if it is accounted for, cultivars with high HI under IRR conditions usually have high HI under water deficit.     

氮肥不同施入量对水稻新品种富友33生育及产量的影响

采用小区对比试验方法,探讨了氮肥不同施入量对水稻新品种富友33生育及产量的影响。结果表明,增加氮肥施入量,可促进富友33单位面积收获穗数、齐穗期叶面积指数与剑叶净光合速率、成熟期干物质积累量的增加;不利于其成穗率、齐穗期高效叶面积率与有效叶面积率、齐穗后干物质积累量占籽粒产量百分比以及收获指数的提高。在本试验条件下,施氮量(N)240.0 kg/hm2的处理E3获得单产9.22 t/hm2,比E4、E2、E5、E1处理分别增产了0.2%、3.1%、3.4%和7.3%。     

不同熟期小麦品种收获指数（HI）的遗传研究

采用Ｃｒｉｆｆｉｎｇ方法Ｉ,利用６×６完全双列杂交,对不同熟期冬小麦品种收获指数（ＨＩ）的遗传机制进行了初步探讨。结果表明：ＨＩ的ＧＣＡ效应、ＳＣＡ效应和Ｒ效应均达到极显水平,其均方比为１．８０４：０．３８４：１;ＨＩ遗传以加性基因效应占优势,但反交效应和非加性基因效应也不可忽视;加性基因效应对后代ＨＩ的提高因亲本而异,在该性状的遗传改良中存在着母体效应;ＨＩ的广义遗传力的９２．４４％,狭义遗传     

Optimization of experimental infection protocols for the estimation of genetic parameters of resistance to White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) in Penaeus (Litopenaeus) vannamei

Two infection protocols, individual oral (IO) and waterborne infection (WB), were evaluated to challenge Penaeus (Litopenaeus) vannamei with White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV). Five different batches of full and half-sib families were infected experimentally and tested for growth performance under commercial growth conditions. The genetic variance for WSSV resistance was estimated using a linear sire-dam repeatability model that considers test-day survival as the dependent variable. The heritability estimates using the IO protocol ranged from 0.01 ± 0.00 to 0.02 ± 0.01, whereas the heritability estimates using the WB infection protocol were not significantly different from zero. The genetic correlations measured as the product moment correlation between full-sib family breeding values for resistance to WSSV and harvest body weight in ponds were unfavourable in three of the five batches and favourable in one of them. The dosage of WSSV was better controlled with IO oral infection than with other methods, with all animals being exposed to approximately the same risk of infection at the same time. This should improve the accuracy of the genetic parameters and hence improve the accuracy of the breeding values. It should, however, be noted that once the outbreak was established and the mortalities began, the shape and the magnitude of the slope of the mortality curves showed little difference in the infection pattern between batches irrespective of the dosage and infection protocol, and in most of the cases the cumulative mortality was greater than 80%. The main reason for this is probably the high densities of animals in the tanks needed for the genetic evaluations.     

Effectiveness of Synthetic Molecules,and Animal and Vegetable Extracts as Baits for Harvesting Red Swamp Crayfish,Procambarus clarkii

Abstract

The present study was designed to evaluate the efficiency of different biogenic amines (putrescine, cadaverine, tyramine, spermine and spermidine) and their precursory amino acids (arginine, histidine, lysine and tyrosine), as well as animal extracts (from fish, crustaceans and mollusks) and vegetable extracts (Chara sp., coconut and alfalfa) as baits in traps for red swamp crayfish, P. clarkii. The methodology was conceived as a logical sequence to proceed from rapid screening of a large number of treatments and was divided into three phases: (1) chemo-detection bioassays, (2) chemattraction bioassays, and (3) field bioassays carried out under natural conditions. The attractants that showed the best performance as baits for P. clarkii, were: the fish soluble extract (included at 2.96%), the putrescine (included at 0.30%) and the red crab soluble extract (included at 2.69%). The benefits of using these attractants, when added to common pelleted feed, come from their low cost, availability and enhanced handling properties.     

玉米杂交种种子活力与成熟度关系

以早熟杂交玉米品种新玉29号、新玉35号以及晚熟品种郑单958和先玉335种子为材料,测定授粉后不同时期种子发芽指数、活力指数、田间出苗率,分析种子活力与成熟度的关系。结果表明,在新疆地区早熟玉米品种在授粉后45~48 d(黑层出现前3~6 d)、含水量29.1%~34.3%时收获可获较得高活力种子;晚熟品种在授粉后54~57 d(黑层出现前3~6 d)、含水量34.7%~38.1%时收获可获得高活力种子。     

1-MCP对不同成熟度‘华优’猕猴桃保鲜效果的影响

以‘华优’猕猴桃为试材,研究4个采收期(盛花期后129、137、145和153 d)果实1-MCP(1-甲基环丙烯)处理的保鲜效果,室温条件下0.5μL.L-1的1-MCP处理24 h后,2℃下贮藏。结果表明,1-MCP能够显著降低‘华优’果实低温贮藏过程中呼吸速率、乙烯释放速率,延缓果实硬度、可滴定酸的下降以及可溶性固形物的上升。4个采收期的1-MCP处理果实出库后均能正常后熟,但品质和保鲜效果存在差异,其中Ⅱ、Ⅲ期处理果实在贮藏期结束时保持较高的硬度、可滴定酸和Vc含量,并且110 d时质量损失率和腐烂率较低;货架期末硬度、糖酸比相对较高,质量损失率和腐烂率较低,即‘华优’猕猴桃盛花期后137~145 d采收品质好,1-MCP处理效果最佳。     

不同玉米杂交组合配合力和机械化粒收质量影响因素分析

玉米机械化子粒收获是中国玉米未来的发展方向.为了探讨不同玉米自交系材料的配合力及其组配杂交组合的机械化粒收质量影响程度,本研究以7个美国自交系材料作母本,'新01A3'的5个改良系作父本,采用不完全双列杂交,以组配成的35个玉米杂交组合为试验材料,机械化子粒收获后,测定产量和子粒含水率,计算杂质率、破碎率和田间损失率,...     

采收期对阿克苏地区灰枣cAMP含量的影响研究

[目的]研究测定灰枣cAMP含量的新方法及灰枣采收期对其cAMP含量的影响.[方法]以阿克苏地区灰枣为研究对象,建立了HPLC法测定灰枣中cAMP含量的定量测定方法,并对不同采收时期的灰枣及其制干产品的cAMP含量进行了测定.[结果]试验表明,HPLC测定cAMP含量的色谱条件为:选用Inertsil ODS-3色谱柱(4.6 ×250 ×5 μm)、以10％甲醇-90％的浓度为0.167 8％甲酸溶液为流动相、柱温30℃、流速0.8 ml/min、检测波长254nm测定灰枣中的cAMP含量,cAMP浓度在1.0～100.0 μg/ml范围内与峰面积具有良好的线性关系,R2=0.9990,且其精密性高、重现性好、加标回收率高(＞98％,RSD值为1.38％).灰枣采收时期对鲜枣及其制干产品的cAMP含量有显著影响(达到0.01显著水平).[结论]阿克苏地区灰枣在10月24日至10月31日期间采收,有利于保持较高的cAMP含量,此期采收的鲜灰枣及其干枣的cAMP含量分别为75.237和294.097μg/g左右.研究可为新疆阿克苏地区红枣产业化发展提供科学参考.