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Celia A. Harvey Cristobal Villanueva Rene Gómez Jorge Martinez 《Forest Ecology and Management》2011,261(10):1664-1674
Trees dispersed in pastures are a prominent feature of many Central American landscapes, particularly in cattle producing regions where farmers retain trees to serve as shade, fodder, timber and firewood. The presence of dispersed trees in pastures is often considered as important for the conservation of biodiversity by providing habitat and enhancing landscape connectivity. However, despite their critical productive and environmental roles, little is known about tree distribution within pastures or how farmers’ management decisions influence the trees themselves and their impact on farm productivity and biodiversity conservation. Here, we present a synthesis of (a) the abundance, composition, and size of dispersed trees in four important cattle producing regions of Costa Rica (Caňas and Río Frío) and Nicaragua (Rivas and Matiguás), based on inventory of 18,669 trees on 1492 ha of pasture, (b) the local knowledge, management and use of trees by cattle farmers, and (c) opportunities for ensuring sustainable management of dispersed trees in pasture-dominated landscapes. Dispersed trees were common in all four landscapes, with mean frequency ranging from 8.0 trees ha−1 in Caňas to 33.4 trees ha−1 in Matiguás. A total of 255 tree species were found in pastures across the four landscapes. The total number of tree species per landscape varied from 72 in Rivas to 101 in Caňas and Rio Frio, with mean species richness per farm ranging from 22.9 in Rio Frio to 45.9 in Matiguás. In all four landscapes, a handful of tree species dominated the pastures, with the ten most abundant species in each landscape accounting for >70% of all trees recorded. Most of these common tree species provide fruits or foliage eaten by cattle, or are important timber or firewood species, and are deliberately retained by farmers for these uses. In all four landscapes, farmers had a detailed knowledge of tree attributes affecting pasture and animal productivity, and influenced tree cover through pasture management activities and occasional tree cutting. Current farm management practices are gradually decreasing the diversity of trees in pastures, and in some cases also tree density, reducing their contribution to farm productivity and biodiversity conservation. To reverse this trend, incentives are required to encourage cattle farmers to retain and enhance tree cover in pastures, through the adoption of pasture management practices that favor the regeneration and persistence of a diverse range of tree species. 相似文献
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This study developed growth models for Eucalyptus saligna Sm., E. camaldulensis Dehnh., E. macarthurii H.Deane & Maiden, E. resinifera Sm., E. siderophloia Benth. and E. grandis Hill ex. Maiden, for the central highlands of Angola, and used these models to simulate the development of stand characteristics. The obtained model set included dominant height, diameter increment, tree height and self-thinning models. The study was based on 10 499 radial increment observations measured on cores taken from about 700 trees growing in 22 plots located in seven sites in the Angolan highlands. The model set makes it possible to simulate stand development on an individual tree basis. Comparison of simulated stand development and measurements indicated good performance of the models. A non-linear fixed-effects diameter increment model performed best for most species, but a non-calibrated linear mixed-effects model used with the Snowdon correction was better for E. saligna and E. macarthurii. This study showed a similar dominant height development of young stands as found in most previous studies done for southern Africa. Some differences emerged at older ages. 相似文献
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Malin Celander Donald R. Buhler Lars Förlin Anders Goksøyr Cristobal L. Miranda Bruce R. Woodin John J. Stegeman 《Fish physiology and biochemistry》1996,15(4):323-332
Multiple P450 proteins have been purified from several teleost species, including rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), scup (Stenotomus chrysops) and Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Identity, relationships and/or functions have been established in these fish species for the cytochrome P4501 As. Information about the structure, function, regulation and relationships of other piscine cytochrome P450 (CYP) proteins is sparse. In the present study we have focused on constitutively expressed CYP forms, P450con and LMC5 isolated from rainbow trout, P450A from scup, and P450b from Atlantic cod, and we consider evidence for the relationship of these proteins to mammalian members of the CYP3A subfamily. Reciprocal western blot analysis shows that P450con and LMC5, isolated from rainbow trout in two different laboratories, are closely related and ostensibly identical proteins. These trout proteins show specific reciprocal cross-reactivity with scup P450A, and polyclonal antibodies (PAb) to the trout and scup proteins both recognize cod P450b, indicating that rainbow trout P450con/LMC5, scup P450A and cod P450b are immunochemically-related proteins. In analyses of liver microsomes of trout, scup and cod, PAb to trout P450con/LMC5 and scup P450A recognize only bands that are identical in migration to the CYP proteins purified from these species, and which were used as immunogens. These CYP proteins purified from fish are each immunochemically-related to mammalian CYP3A proteins, showing recognition by PAb to human CYP3A4 and to rat CYP3A1. PAb to the mammalian CYP3As also recognize the same bands in liver microsomes from these fish species as seen by PAb to the fish proteins. These results strongly suggest that these fish proteins are members of theCYP3 gene family and probably theCYP3A subfamily. Although sequence analysis is required before their designation in the CYP3A subfamily can be confirmed and specified, we refer to these as CYP3A-like. Immunoblot analyses of hepatic microsomes from other fish species with PAb to scup P450A and trout P450con show that multiple CYP3A-like proteins are expressed in liver of several species, including killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) and winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus). Important questions still remain to be addressed concerning CYP3A structure, multiplicity, physiological function, regulation and metabolism of endogenous as well as exogenous substrates in fish.Part of this study was presented at the 10th International Symposium on Microsomes and Drug Oxidations. Toronto, Canada, July 18–21, 1994. 相似文献
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Duncan N Estévez A Porta J Carazo I Norambuena F Aguilera C Gairin I Bucci F Valles R Mylonas CC 《Fish physiology and biochemistry》2012,38(5):1273-1286
The objective of the study was to acclimatise wild-caught meagre (Argyrosomus regius) to captivity to produce viable eggs for aquaculture production. Twelve meagre (3 males and 9 females, mean weight?=?20?±?7?kg) were caught and transported to a land-based facility on 26 October 2006. During, March to June 2007, all three males were spermiating and five of the nine females were in vitellogenesis with mean maximum oocyte diameter ≥550?μm. No spontaneous spawning was observed. Two hormone treatments, either a single injection of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa, 20?μg?kg(-1) for females and 10?μg?kg(-1) for males) or a slow-release implant loaded with the same GnRHa (50?μg?kg(-1) for females and 25?μg?kg(-1) for males), were used to induce spawning on three different dates on 26 March 2007, 4 May 2007 and 18 April 2008. From each spawning event, the following parameters were determined: fecundity, number of floating eggs, egg size, fertilisation and hatching success, unfed larval survival, and proximal composition and fatty acid profile of the eggs. In 2007, two females that were injected on 26 March and 4 May spawned a total of 5 times producing 9,019,300 floating eggs and a relative fecundity of 198,200 eggs?kg(-1) and two different females that were implanted on the same dates spawned 14 times producing 12,430,000 floating eggs and a relative fecundity of 276,200 eggs?kg(-1). In 2008, a pair that was implanted spawned five times producing a total of 10,211,900 floating eggs and a relative fecundity of 527,380 eggs?kg(-1). The latency period was 48-72?h. Parameters were compared between hormone treatments, date of hormone induction and parents determined by microsatellites. Percentage hatch and egg size were 70?±?0.3% and 0.99?±?0.02?mm, respectively, for GnRHa-implanted fish and were significantly higher (P?相似文献
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Soybean is one of the most economically important crops in the world. Its production is affected by several fungal diseases, such as those caused by Fusarium spp., causing significant losses in yield and seed quality. Management interventions are limited, costly, and associated with environmental problems. Host resistance provides a more convenient and cost-effective approach. Host-induced gene silencing (HIGS) has been demonstrated to be an alternative strategy to engineer fungus resistance in plants. We have generated transgenic soybean lines with an intron-hairpin construction in order to express siRNA corresponding to the CYP51B gene from Fusarium oxysporum. Results showed the presence of siRNA corresponding to the F. oxysporum CYP51B gene in both leaves and roots of the transgenic lines. Plants (T3 generation) were challenged against F. oxysporum and F. graminearum. Disease severity was evaluated and revealed resistance to F. oxysporum with one line, named 3.22, presenting no symptoms. In addition, transgenic lines presented better plant development (height and root growth) when compared to the nontransgenic line. Moreover, transgenic lines revealed better development when inoculated with F. oxysporum. 相似文献
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Sobia Ajaz Harriet R. Benbow Thalia Christodoulou Cristobal Uauy Fiona M. Doohan 《Plant pathology》2021,70(5):1123-1137
Globally, bread wheat production is threatened by fungal diseases, including the devastating disease Septoria tritici blotch (STB). Given the global importance of STB, and the difficulty in identifying novel sources of resistance to this disease, we screened a variety of wheat genotypes, including wild, ancestral, and mutagenized lines, for their STB response. This delineated a panel of wild wheat relatives and Watkins collection lines with exceptional resistance to a range of Zymoseptoria tritici isolates, some of which are highly virulent on modern, elite wheat varieties. Additionally, we characterized the STB susceptibility of 500 lines of the wheat cultivar Cadenza TILLING population and developed backcross derivatives of two TILLING lines that show dominant partial resistance to STB. These backcross lines are partially resistant to multiple isolates of Z. tritici, and, with the wild and ancestral lines identified, provide a useful reservoir of STB-resistant germplasm for use in wheat breeding programmes. 相似文献
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Stevens JF Miranda CL Wolthers KR Schimerlik M Deinzer ML Buhler DR 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2002,50(12):3435-3443
Oligomeric proanthocyanidins constitute a group of water-soluble polyphenolic tannins that are present in the female inflorescences (up to 5% dry wt) of the hop plant (Humulus lupulus). Humans are exposed to hop proanthocyanidins through consumption of beer. Proanthocyanidins from hops were characterized for their chemical structure and their in vitro biological activities. Chemically, they consist mainly of oligomeric catechins ranging from dimers to octamers, with minor amounts of catechin oligomers containing one or two gallocatechin units. The chemical structures of four procyanidin dimers (B1, B2, B3, and B4) and one trimer, epicatechin-(4beta-->8)-catechin-(4alpha-->8)-catechin (TR), were elucidated using mass spectrometry, NMR spectroscopy, and chemical degradation. When tested as a mixture, the hop oligomeric proanthocyanidins (PC) were found to be potent inhibitors of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) activity. Among the oligomers tested, procyanidin B2 was most inhibitory against nNOS activity. Procyanidin B3, catechin, and epicatechin were noninhibitory against nNOS activity. PC and the individual oligomers were all strong inhibitors of 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1)-induced oxidation of LDL, with procyanidin B3 showing the highest antioxidant activity at 0.1 microg/mL. The catechin trimer (TR) exhibited antioxidant activity more than 1 order of magnitude greater than that of alpha-tocopherol or ascorbic acid on a molar basis. 相似文献
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Miguel Salgado Cristobal Verdugo Cord Heuer Pedro Castillo Patricia Zamorano 《Journal of veterinary science (Suw?n-si, Korea)》2014,15(2):233-239
PCR is a highly accurate technique for confirming the presence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Map) in broth culture. In this study, a simple, efficient, and low-cost method of harvesting DNA from Map cultured in liquid medium was developed. The proposed protocol (Universidad Austral de Chile [UACH]) was evaluated by comparing its performance to that of two traditional techniques (a QIAamp DNA Stool Mini Kit and cethyltrimethylammonium bromide [CTAB] method). The results were statistically assessed by agreement analysis for which differences in the number of cycles to positive (CP) were compared by Student''s t-test for paired samples and regression analysis. Twelve out of 104 fecal pools cultured were positive. The final PCR results for 11 samples analyzed with the QIAamp and UACH methods or ones examined with the QIAamp and CTAB methods were in agreement. Complete (100%) agreement was observed between data from the CTAB and UACH methods. CP values for the UACH and CTAB techniques were not significantly different, while the UACH method yielded significantly lower CP values compared to the QIAamp kit. The proposed extraction method combines reliability and efficiency with simplicity and lower cost. 相似文献
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Matthew D. Barnhart DVM MS Diplomate ACVS Cristobal F. Rides DVM Shawn C. Kennedy DVM Diplomate ACVS Sean W. Aiken DVM MS Diplomate ACVS Charles M. Walls DVM Diplomate ACVS Christopher L. Horstman DVM MS Diplomate ACVS Jonathon C. Chandler DVM MS Diplomate ACVS Jeff D. Brourman DVM MS Diplomate ACVS Sean M. Murphy DVM Diplomate ACVS Frederick Pike DVM Diplomate ACVS Steven J. Naber MS PhD 《Veterinary surgery : VS》2013,42(1):60-66