Formation and functional significance of storage products in cyanobacteria

The most common storage products of cyanobacteria are polyphosphate as a phosphorus storage compound, cyanophycin or phycobilin protein pigment as nitrogen storage products, and glycogen as a storage product of both carbon and energy. Nutrient uptake kinetics are regulated by the storage pools, and the patterns of regulation have a feedback effect on the amount of accumulated nutrient in the cells. Besides having a storage function the nutrient storage products are likely to act as metabolic sinks during conditions of energy stress. Regulation of storage products is especially strict in light‐limited cultures. By increasing the rate of polysaccharide formation during growth with short photoperiods, cyanobacteria are able to sustain relatively high growth rates. This effect is enhanced by keeping respiratory losses very low.     

Growth and Carbon Metabolism Responses to Flooding Timing and Frequency in Three Marsh Plants in Sanjiang Plain

Flooding timing and frequency may have different effects on the growth and carbon metabolism of plants in wetlands. We tested this hypothesis using three marsh plants in Sanjiang Plain, which were growing in different flooding timing and frequency environments for 24 days. The three marsh plants in different elevations along a water-level gradient, high-elevation species Calamagrostis angustifolia, mid-elevation species Carex limosa and low-elevation species Carex lasiocarpa. Our experiment included 6 kinds of treatments: control, longer flooding timing, medial flooding timing and frequency(2 treatments), and higher flooding frequency(2 treatments). Longer flooding timing and higher flooding frequency treatments led to similar reductions in biomass accumulation and relative growth rate of Calamagrostis angustifolia, whereas growth of Carex limosa was not affected by either flooding timing or frequency. However, biomass accumulation and relative growth rate of Carex lasiocarpa was only reduced by the higher flooding frequency. Starch and soluble sugar contents of Calamagrostis angustifolia were negatively affected by flooding frequency. On Carex limosa, higher flooding frequency resulted in higher starch content, but longer flooding timing led to accumulated starch content in Carex lasiocarpa. Soluble sugar contents of Carex lasiocarpa and Carex li mosa were not affected by either flooding timing or flooding frequency. These results indicated that growth responses of the three marsh plants to flooding timing and frequency was closely related to the different physiology of carbohydrate metabolism.     

福建省前峰硫-多金属矿矿床特征及几个成因问题的讨论

福建省前峰硫 多金属矿的形成具明显的层控特征。矿体赋存于上石碳统─下二叠统船山组及栖霞组灰岩中，成矿作用是多期叠加的、复杂的。在与生物礁有关的沉积阶段，生物吸附提供了主要硫源，后期热液改造对沉积成矿作用有着继承性，区域动力变质热液及其派生的分泌、分异成矿热液，以及与岩浆有关的热液多期次参与矿床的变质改造，而这些热液活动均与政和 大埔深大断裂有关。     

Trifactorial interactive effects of nutrients, water potential and temperature on carbohydrate allocation to the embryonic axis of desert plant seeds

Seeds ofProsopis juliflora, Calotropis proceraandSorghum × drummondiiseeds were subjected to trifactorial treatment combinations of: nutrients (Nr), temperature (T) and reduced water potential (ψ_m) in their incubation medium. The embryonic axis and storage tissue of germinating seeds were analysed for soluble sugars (SS) and hydrolysable carbohydrates (HC). Allocation of both carbon fractions in germinating seed organs was variously affected by single factors and their mutual interactions. Differences in such effects included both magnitude and relative role of each factor or interaction, the effect also being organ and/or species dependent. The interaction φ_m× T had the predominant role in changes of both SS and HC content and their allocation in seed organs, while the interaction Nr × φ_m× T had a subdominant role. Nutrients in the medium generally induced significantly higher SS and HC content in whole seeds at low water potentials, the level of which is temperature dependent (indicating interactive effects between single factors). Also, nutrients generally increased translocation of SS to the radicle (hence, allocation of HC), improving its capacity of water uptake through increased osmolarity.     

象山港海域中石油烃含量分布特征及其评价

本文分析了象山港海域石油烃含量的分布规律,并对海域遭受污染程度进行了评价,该海域的石油含量在0.01～0.45mg/dm~3之间,平均值为0.072mg/dm~3,比一类海水标准浓度值高0.44倍,油污染平均指数Ai值为1.5,表明该海域已有相当程度的油沾污。     

大亚湾水体中溶解的碳水化合物

根据1985年10月至1986年8月对大亚湾进行的环境调查,本文报道海水中溶解的碳水化合物(DCHO)的调查结果,讨论了该海区DCHO的分布特征及季节性变化。对DCHO和叶绿素a、磷酸盐、溶解氧、颗粒有机碳、温度以及盐度之间进行了相关分析,综合探讨了影响D-CHO含量变化的因素。结果表明,浮游植物在大亚湾水体中DCHO的浓度调节方面起着主要的作用。     

Carbohydrate and nutrient content in rhizomes of Phragmites australis from different habitats of Lake FertÕ/Neusiedlersee

Changes in the soluble sugar, starch, total non-structural carbohydrate (TNC) and nutrient (N, P, K) concentration in the reed rhizome were investigated in different reed habitat types in Lake Fertõ/Neusiedlersee during the vegetation period in 1993 to 94. Three die-back and four vigorous reed stands were monitored.For biomass estimations rhizomes were collected twice, in early summer and in autumn. They were calculated to be 1.9 to 2.7 kg/m² at die-back and 3.1 to 6.1 kg/m² at vigorous sites.The carbohydrate and nutrient concentrations of the reed rhizomes were high at the beginning of the vegetation period; they reached their minima in May–June, which was followed by a gradual increase until the end of the vegetation period. From autumn to spring the concentrations decreased, e.g. TNC concentration by 15 to 40% at vigorous, 50 to 70% at die-back sites.In both years the lowest carbohydrate concentrations were recorded at the end of May, a month before the inflorescence developed (vigorous sites: 50–70 mg TNC/g, die-back sites: 70–120 mg TNC/g). In that period the standing stock of the TNC in the rhizome did not separate the sites clearly, and the smallest carbohydrate standing stock was measured at a vigorous site with a high water cover.At the beginning of summer and in autumn the soluble sugar, TNC and N concentration values were higher at the die-back than at the vigorous sites but the standing stock was higher at the vigorous sites. In autumn the TNC standing stock of the rhizomes was between 780 and 1200 g/m² at vigorous, between 380 and 690 g/m² at die-back sites. This is especially important for the reactions and resistance of die-back reed stands to unfavourable conditions.     

应用Cornell方法对重口裂腹鱼[Schizothorax (Racoma)davidi]幼鱼适宜常量营养物质需求量研究

采用Cornell方法研究了初始重为(2.0±0.1)g的重口裂腹鱼幼鱼日粮中常量营养物质的适宜需求量。日粮中蛋白质、脂肪和碳水化合物梯度变化范围分别为33%—51%、3%—18%和24%—33%,试验周期为60d。试验结果表明,除日粮蛋白质33%组鱼成活率明显下降外(P<0.05),其它试验日粮中3种常量营养物质含量对重口裂腹鱼幼鱼成活率没有显著影响(P>0.05)。当日粮蛋白质水平≤45%时,其特定生长率随着日粮蛋白质水平上升而明显增加;当日粮蛋白质水平在33%—36%时,重口裂腹鱼的特定生长率显著降低(P<0.05)。除12%日粮脂肪组试验鱼外,9%日粮脂肪组试验鱼的特定生长率显著性高于其它脂肪水平日粮组(P<0.05),但当日粮中脂肪含量≥15%后,重口裂腹鱼鱼体脂肪含量显著上升(P<0.05),肝细胞脂肪变性明显。日粮中不同的碳水化合物水平对重口裂腹鱼特定生长率没有显著影响(P>0.05),但当日粮中碳水化合物为33%时,鱼体糖原含量显著增加(P<0.05)。试验表明,重口裂腹鱼幼鱼日粮蛋白质、脂肪和碳水化合物3种常量营养物质的适宜需求量分别为45%、9%和≤30%。日粮总能为19.0MJ/kg,蛋白质能量比(P/E)为23mg/J。     

低温和赤霉素对百合鳞茎休眠解除的影响

以百合品种“西伯利亚”为材料,研究了低温和赤霉素（GA₃）处理对百合鳞茎休眠解除过程中形态和碳水化合物含量的影响,以及不同温度条件下鳞茎不同部位内源GA₃含量的变化。结果表明：低温（5℃）和0.15 g·L^-1 GA₃处理35 d时芽长与鳞茎高比值为67.954%,芽生长点位于鳞茎直立高度约2/3处,解除休眠所需天数最少;鳞茎在0~14 d时淀粉降解最快,第35天时可溶性总糖和还原糖含量最高。低温处理的内层鳞片和芽内源GA₃含量变化显著,且温度越低,变化越明显。低温条件下内层鳞片和芽的内源GA₃含量较高,上升趋势最为明显;而外层鳞片和根的GA₃含量水平较低,变化趋势较小。可见,顶芽和内层鳞片可能为整个鳞茎休眠解除活动的中心。     

Effect of Long-term Experimental Warming on the Nutritional Quality of Alpine Meadows in the Northern Tibet

The nutritional quality of grasslands is closely related to recruitment of young and population dynamics of livestock and wild herbivores. However, the response of nutritional quality to climate warming has not been fully understood in the alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau, especially in the Northern Tibet. Here, we investigated the effect of experimental warming ( beginning in 2008) on nutritional quality in three alpine meadows (site A: 4313 m, B: 4513 m and C: 4693 m) in the Northern Tibet. Crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), acid detergent fiber (ADF), crude ash (Ash), ether extract (EE) and water-soluble carbohydrate (WSC) were examined in 2018-2019. Experimental warming only increased the content of CP by 27.25%, ADF by 89.93% and NDF by 41.20%, but it decreased the content of Ash by 57.76% in 2019 at site B. The contents of CP and WSC both increased with soil moisture (SM). The content of CP decreased with vapor pressure deficit (VPD). The combined effect of SM and VPD was greater than air temperature (T_a) in controlling the variations of the CP content, ADF content and nutritional quality. Compared to T_a, VPD explained more of the variation in NDF and Ash content. All of these findings suggest that warming effects on nutritional quality may vary with site and year, and water availability may have a stronger effect on the nutritional quality than temperature in the alpine meadow of the Northern Tibet.