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The excimer/monomer ratio of emission intensities (IE/IM) and the enhancement of the 0-0 vibronic transition in the fluorescence spectra of pyrene (PY) and 16-(1-pyrenyl)hexadecanoic acid (C16PY) were used to investigate the localization of PY in the bilayers of small unilamellar vesicles constituted of phosphatidylcholine (SUV-PC). First, from comparison of the fluorescence characteristics of PY in water with those of PY incorporated into the SUV-PC membranes, we concluded that the probe is incorporated preferentially in the lipid phase of the vesicles and not in the bulk aqueous phase. In addition, we found that, contrary to what happens with the pyrenyl moiety of C16PY the location of PY varies with its relative concentration in the membrane space. The critical concentration was observed to be around 1.0 mol% of incorporated PY. At concentrations below this value, PY is located in the hydrocarbon core of the lipid bilayers. Above 1.0 mol%, the PY molecules reside preferentially in the neighbourhood of the glyceryl moiety region of the PC vesicles.  相似文献   

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The protein-induced lipid transfer between phosphatidylcholine vesicles was investigated. Measurements of the degree of polarization at single vesicles were made by flow cytometry using diphenylhexatriene as the optical probe. Vesicles differing in phase transition temperature could be distinguished by their degree of polarization at a temperature where one population was in the fluid (T > Tt) and the other one in the quasi-crystalline (T < Tt) state. Besides vesicles containing exchanged lipids we also observed fractions of unaffected vesicles. The lipid exchange was visualized directly by freeze-fracture electron microscopy. The characteristic ‘ripple’ structure of phosphatidylcholine vesicles disappeared upon exchange with lipid in the fluid state.  相似文献   

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The influence of shape transformation of large unilamellar vesicles (LUV) on their size measurement by photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS) has been investigated. The experimental size of vesicles after hyperosmotic contractions of increasing intensities have been compared to the theoretical volume decrease determined by applying Boyle Van't Hoff's law. The main observation is that PCS size measurement gives overestimated values when LUV have been subjected to a volume decrease of more than 20% of their initial volume. The PCS size overestimation is related to the influence of the shape transformation of the vesicles on their diffusion coefficient (D) as shown by modelling the evolution of D of a sphere which is transformed into an ellipsoid by internal volume reduction under constant area. Received: 4 December 1997 / Revised version: 2 March 1998 / Accepted: 15 April 1998  相似文献   

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A method has been developed for making large unilamellar vesicles (LUV) with low polydispersity. The LUV, constituted of dioleoylphosphatidic acid (DOPA), 300 nm in diameter are made by a modification of the pH adjustment technique (Hauser, H. and Gains, N. (1982) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 79, 1683–1687). This size is 10 times that (30 nm) of vesicles prepared by prolonged sonication. Vesicle size is increased stepwise by adding cholesterol (to a maximum of 40 mol% cholesterol) to form vesicles in 0.15 M KCl with up to 600 nm diameter. The vesicle size is measured by photon correlation spectroscopy, electron microscopy, and by measurement of the internal volume with cyanocobalamin while calculating the number of DOPA molecules per vesicle. Vesicles are stable for at least three weeks. Sepharose 4B column chromatography of the preparation yields a peak of fractions with the same polydispersity as the original sample and shows that 30 to 40% of the original lipid in a sample is recovered as LUV. Less than 2% of the sample forms small unilamellar vesicles (SUV) (diameter = 30 nm), which emerge from the column in a separate peak. Since the remaining lipid is not suspended in the buffer during vesicle formation, for most purposes the vesicles may be used immediately after titration so that they can be prepared in less than 40 min.  相似文献   

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The size and size distribution of unilamellar phospholipid vesicles present in unsonicated phosphatidic acid and mixed phosphatidic acid/phosphatidylcholine dispersions were determined by gel filtration, quasi-elastic light scattering and freeze-fracture electron microscopy. The vesiculation in these dispersions was induced by a transient increase in pH as described previously (Hauser, H. and Gains, N. (1982) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 79, 1683–1687). The resulting phospholipid dispersions are heterogeneous consisting of small unilamellar vesicles (average radius r < 50 nm) and large unilamellar vesicles (average r ranging from about 50 to 500 nm). The smallest vesicles with r = 11 ± 2 nm are observed with dispersions of pure phosphatidic acid, the population of these vesicles amounting to about 80% of the total lipid. With increasing phosphatidylcholine content the radius of the small unilamellar vesicles increases and at the same time the population of small unilamellar vesicles decreases. The average radius of small unilamellar vesicles present in phosphatidic acid/phosphatidylcholine dispersions (mole ratio, 1:1) is 17.5 ± 2 nm, the population of these vesicles amounting to about 70% of the total lipid. By a combination of gel filtration, quasi-elastic light scattering and freeze-fracture electron microscopy it was possible to characterize the large unilamellar vesicles. This population is heterogeneous with its mean radius also increasing with increasing phosphatidylcholine content. After separating the large unilamellar vesicles from small unilamellar vesicles on Sepharose 4B it can be shown by quasi-elastic light scattering that in pure phosphatidic acid dispersions 80–90% of the large unilamellar vesicle population consist of vesicles with a mean radius of 170 nm. In mixed phosphatidic acid/phosphatidylcholine dispersions this radius increases to about 265 nm as the phosphatidylcholine content is raised to 90 mol%.  相似文献   

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We have investigated the contribution of various phospholipids to membrane fusion induced by divalent cations. Fusion was followed by means of a new fluorescence assay monitoring the mixing of internal aqueous contents of large (0.1 μm diameter) unilamellar liposomes. The rate and extent of fusion induced by Ca2+ in mixed phosphatidylserine/phosphatidylcholine vesicles were lower compared to those in pure phosphatidylserine vesicles. The presence of 50% phosphatidylcholine completely inhibited fusion, although the vesicles aggregated upon Ca2+ addition. When phosphatidylserine was mixed with phosphatidylethanolamine, however, rapid fusion could be induced by Ca2+ even in mixtures that contained only 25% phosphatidylserine. Phosphatidylethanolamine also facilitated fusion by Mg2+ which could not fuse pure phosphatidylserine vesicles. In phosphatidylserine/phosphatidylethanolamine/phosphatidylcholine mixtures, in which the phosphatidylcholine content was kept at 25%, phosphatidylethanolamine could not substitute for phosphatidylserine, and the fusogenic capacity of Mg2+ was abolished by the presence of merely 10% phosphatidylcholine. The initial rate of release of vesicle contents was slower than the rate of fusion in all the mixtures used. The presence of phosphate effected a considerable decrease in the threshold concentration of Ca2+ and also enhanced  相似文献   

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Small unilamellar vesicles of egg phosphatidylcholine (PC) or dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine, mixed with small unilamellar vesicles labelled with 2-(10-(1-pyrene)decanoyl)phosphatidylcholine, exhibit a constant average size and excimer to monomer (E/M) ratio for several hours when incubated at pH 3.6 at a temperature higher than the phase transition temperature (Tc) of the lipids. Addition of bovine serum albumin to this system produces a transient turbidity increase, a fast decrease in the E/M ratio, a partial loss of vesicle-entrapped [14C]sucrose and a measurable leak-in of externally added sucrose. Sepharose 4B filtration of the system demonstrates that the E/M ratio decrease is strictly paralleled by the formation of liposomes which exhibit a low E/M ratio and a hydrodynamic radius larger than that of small unilamellar vesicles. These data demonstrate that the E/M ratio decrease can be unequivocally ascribed to a vesicle-vesicle fusion process induced by serum albumin. The rate of serum-albumin induced fusion of small unilamellar vesicles is: (a) maximal at a stoichiometric ratio of approx. 2 albumins per vesicle: (b) sensitive to the nature of the lipid and; (c) not altered when human serum albumin replaces bovine serum albumin. The rate of albumin-induced fusion of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine small unilamellar vesicles is higher below the Tc of the lipid and increases with temperature above the Tc. The formation of protein-bound aggregates with defined stoichiometries and a high local vesicle concentration, as well as changes in the local degree of hydration, are proposed to be the driving forces for the protein-induced vesicle fusion in this system.  相似文献   

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Melittin, the soluble lipophilic peptide of bee venom, causes fusion of phospholipid vesicles when vesicle suspensions are heated or cooled through their thermal phase transition. Fusion was detected using a new photochemical method (Morgan, C.G., Hudson, B. and Wolber, P. (1980) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77, 26–30) which monitors lipid mixing. Electron microscopy and gel filtration confirmed that most of the lipid formed large vesicular structures. Fluorescence experiments with a water-soluble, membrane-impermeable complex of terbium (Wilschut, J. and Papahadjopoulos, D. (1979) Nature 281, 690–692) demonstrate that these ionic contents are released during fusion. The large structures formed by melittin-induced fusion are impermeable to these ions and are resistant to further fusion. This is in contrast to the behavior observed for the cationic detergent cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CETAB). The large size of the vesicles formed, the extreme speed of the fusion event and the appearance of electron microscope images of the vesicles prior to fusion suggest that the mechanism of the fusion process includes a preaggregation step.  相似文献   

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The monolayer technique has been used to study the transfer of [14C]phosphatidylinositol from the monolayer to phosphatidylcholine vesicles. An equivalent transfer rate was found for egg phosphatidylcholine, dioleoylphosphatidylcholine, dielaidoylphosphatidylcholine and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine. A reduced transfer rate was found for a shorter-chain derivative, dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine, and for species with two polyunsaturated fatty acid chains such as dilinoleoylphosphatidylcholine, diheptadecadienoylphosphatidylcholine, dilinolenoylphosphatidylcholine and diether and dialkyl derivatives. No activity was found for 1,3-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine. The presence of up to 5 mol% phosphatidylinositol in egg phosphatidylcholine vesicles had no effect on the transfer rate. Introduction of more than 5 mol% phosphatidylinositol or phosphatidic acid into the phosphatidylcholine vesicles gradually decreased the rate of phosphatidylinositol transfer from the monolayer. 20 mol% acidic phospholipid was nearly completely inhibitory. Transfer experiments between separate monolayers of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylinositol showed that the protein-bound phosphatidylcholine is readily exchanged for phosphatidylinositol, but the protein-bound phosphatidylinositol exchange for phosphatidylcholine occurs at a 20-times lower rate. The release of phosphatidylinositol is dependent on the lipid composition and the concentration of charged lipid in the acceptor membrane, but also on the ratio between donor and acceptor membranes. The main transfer protein from bovine brain which transfer phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidylcholine transfers also phosphatidylglycerol, but not phosphatidylserine or phosphatidic acid. The absence of significant changes in the surface pressure indicate that the phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidylcholine transfer is not accompanied by net mass transfer.  相似文献   

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The rate of reduction of cytochrome c by 2-amino-4-hydroxy-6,7-dimethyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydropteridine was examined as a function of binding to liposomes prepared from mixed soybean phospholipids, asolectin, and from various purified phospholipids. Binding of cytochrome c to asolectin liposomes caused an increase in the rate of reduction by the pteridine derivative from 2900 to 16 000 M?1 · s?1 at pH 7. At low ionic strength (0.003 M) the binding stoichiometry between cytochrome c and asolectin vesicles is 15 ± 2 phosphospolipid/cytochrome c (mole ratio), determined by monitoring the change in reduction rate of cytochrome c by pteridine as cytochrome c is bound to the vesicles. A stoichiometry of 14 phospholipid/cytochrome c was obtained from gel filtration studies. Equilibrium association constants for the binding of cytochrome c to sites on the asolectin vesicles varied from 2.2 · 106 to 1.8 · 103 M?1 between 0.02 and 0.10 M ionic strength, respectively. In general, liposomes prepared from purified phospholipids resulted in less binding of cytochrome c per mole of phospholipid and lower reduction rates than those prepared from asolectin.  相似文献   

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The effect of an aqueous dispersion of succinylphosphatidylcholine on an aqueous suspension of phosphatidylcholine vesicles was studied by gel chromatography, freeze-fracture electron microscopy and proton nuclear magnetic resonance with Mn2+ (broadening paramagnetic reagent). Total phospholipid concentrations were in the range 10–20 mM.Succinylphosphatidylcholine is in micellar form and behaves as a detergent. The structures obtained depend on the molar percentage of succinylphosphatidylcholine.Above a succinylphosphatidylcholine molar percentage of 60%, mixed micelles are formed, assumed to be essentially spherical.Below a succinylphosphatidylcholine molar percentage of 30%, principally mixed vesicles are observed, with an external diameter of 215–240 Å, and an almost constant internal volume.Between 30 and 60% of succinylphosphatidylcholine, a mixture of these structures is obtained; rod-shaped profiles are also observed in electron microscopy, which may correspond to sections of leaky vesicles or to a new kind of cylindrical micelle.  相似文献   

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The lateral lipid distribution within dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DPPE)/dipalmitoylphosphatidylserine (DPPS) vesicle membranes was investigated under the influence of Ca2+ using a lipid cross-linking method. To characterize the phase transition in DPPE/DPPS vesicles and to correlate the different phase states of the membrane lipids with the obtained lipid distribution ESR measurements using a fatty acid spin label were carried out. It is shown that Ca2+ has a significant influence on the lateral lipid distribution within the fluid phase of the membrane lipids; instead of a slight alternating lipid arrangement in absence of Ca2+ due to the electrostatic interaction between the DPPS headgroups after addition of Ca2+ a lateral cluster structure is characteristic of the fluid phase.  相似文献   

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(1) (Na+ + K+)-ATPase from rectal glands of the spiny dogfish has been reconstituted into phospholipid vesicles. The nonionic detergent octaethyleneglycoldodecyl monoether (C12E8) is used to dissolve both the enzyme and the lipids and reconstitution is accomplished by subsequent removal of the detergent by adsorption to polystyrene beads. (2) About 60% of the enzyme incorporates in the right-side-out orientation (r/o). The fraction of molecules in the inside-out orientation (i/o) increases from about 10% to about 30% with a parallel decrease in the fraction of ‘non-oriented’ (n-o) molecules (both sides exposed) when the protein/lipid ratio decreases from 1:10 to 1:75. (3) The orientation of enzyme molecules detected from vanadate binding is the same as measured from activity, i.e., the turnover of the enzyme molecule in the diffrent orientations is the same. (4) The recovery of the specific activity of the incorporated enzyme increases with an increase in the protein/lipid ratio and is 100% with a protein/lipid ration of about 1:20 or higher. Full recovery is only obtained provided a proper lipid composition is chosen which includes both negatively charged phospholipids, preferably phosphatidylinositol, and cholesterol. (5) The ATP-dependent, K+-stimulated Na+-influx is found to be about 35 μmol Na+ per mg (i/o)-protein per min at 22°C in 1:10 protein/lipid liposomes. The specific activity corresponds to 3 Na+ transported per ATP molecule hydrolyzed.  相似文献   

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The fatty acid composition of plasma membrane phospholipids of the murine T lymphocyte tumor EL4 were systematically modified in an attempt to understand the relationship between lipid bilayer composition and plasma membrane physical and biological properties. Two plasma membrane enzyme activities, adenylate cyclase and ouabain-sensitive (Na+ + K+)-ATPase, were measured in normal and fatty acid-substituted EL4 plasma membrane fractions. The fatty acid effect on enzyme activities was similar to previously reported effects of fatty acids on cytotoxic T cell function. The activity of both enzymes was inhibited by saturated fatty acids, while unsaturated fatty acids had a moderate enhancing effect on both enzyme activities. Using two different nitroxide derivatives of stearic acid, the order parameter and approximate rotational correlation times were calculated from ESR spectra of normal and fatty acid-modified plasma membranes. No significant difference was found in either parameter in these membranes. These results, in conjunction with earlier data from our laboratory and others, suggest that caution should be exercised in inferring changes in membrane ‘fluidity’ based on lipid modulation of biological membranes.  相似文献   

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The structural and functional organization of the spinach chloroplast photosystems (PS) I, IIα and IIβ was investigated. Sensitive absorbance difference spectrophotometry in the ultraviolet (?A320) and red (?A700) regions of the spectrum provided information on the relative concentration of PS II and PS I reaction centers. The kinetic analysis of PS II and PS I photochemistry under continuous weak excitation provided information on the number (N) of chlorophyll (Chl) molecules transferring excitation energy to PS IIα, PS IIβ and PS I. Spinach chloroplasts contained almost twice as many PS II reaction centers compared to PS I reaction centers. The number Nα of chlorophyll (Chl) molecules associated with PS IIα was 234, while Nβ = 100 and NPS I = 210. Thus, the functional photosynthetic unit size of PS II reaction centers was different from that of PS I reaction centers. The relative electron-transport capacity of PS II was significantly greater than that of PS I. Hence, under light-limiting green excitation when both Chl a and Chl b molecules are excited equally, the limiting factor in the overall electron-transfer reaction was the turnover of PS I. The Chl composition of PS I, PS IIα and PS IIβ was analyzed on the basis of a core Chl a reaction center complex component and a Chl ab-LHC component. There is a dissimilar Chl ab-LHC composition in the three photosystems with 77% of total Chl b associated with PS IIα only. The results indicate that PS IIα, located in the membrane of the grana partition region, is poised to receive excitation from a wider spectral window than PS IIβ and PS I.  相似文献   

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欧建德  吴志庄  罗宁 《生态学杂志》2016,27(10):3098-3104
为明确林窗大小对南方红豆杉生长、形质的影响以及珍贵用材培育成效,测定福建省明溪杉木林中25个林窗样地的南方红豆杉的生长、干形和分枝等指标,分析林窗大小与生长、干形和分枝情况之间的关系,将25个林窗样地按不同面积划分为25~50 m2 (Ⅰ)、50~75 m2 (Ⅱ)、75~100 m2 (Ⅲ)、100~125 m2 (Ⅳ)、125~150 m2 (Ⅴ)5种林窗类型,运用层次分析法构建了珍贵用材评价指标体系,采用多目标决策法评价5种林窗类型的综合效果.结果表明: 林窗大小显著影响南方红豆杉树高、胸径、冠幅、杈干率、通直度、圆满度、尖削度、径高比、枝下高、枝间距、最大侧枝直径等11个生长和形质指标以及综合评价值. 林窗Ⅰ、Ⅱ类型显著促进南方红豆杉的树高、胸径、冠幅的生长.在干形指标方面,林窗Ⅰ、Ⅱ类型显著抑制分杈率和尖削度,提高通直度;林窗Ⅱ类型显著提高圆满度和径高比.林窗Ⅰ、Ⅱ类型显著提高枝下高,降低最大侧枝直径;林窗Ⅰ类型显著提高枝间距. 林窗Ⅰ、Ⅱ类型显著提高珍贵用材综合评价值.在杉木林内南方红豆杉的培育过程中,控制采伐强度、创建面积25~75 m2的林窗可提高培育效果.  相似文献   

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群落演替对夏蜡梅种群分布和数量的影响   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
对夏蜡梅(Sinocalycanthus chinensis(Cheng et S.Y.Chang)Cheng et S.Y.Chang)所有分布地(浙江临安、天台和安徽绩溪)进行了详细调查,分析夏蜡梅种群面积、密度、结构和群落特征等,并与前人调查结果对比,阐明群落演替对夏蜡梅种群的影响。10余年来,由于国家相关政策的实施(退耕还林、天然林保护以及自然保护区的建立等)以及夏蜡梅分布地林地经营模式的改变,不同夏蜡梅群落呈现发展演替的不同状态,从而对夏蜡梅种群产生了显著影响。从群落类型来看,较为稳定的种群为大明山、西坑、白水坞、捣臼孔种群,种群结构为增长型或稳定型,群落处于乔木或顶级乔木阶段,原生植被保存较好,生境相对稳定,各物种在长期竞争中趋于稳定;直源种群为严重衰退的种群,群落经历了从灌丛阶段向灌乔阶段演化,原来同层次的常绿乔木逐渐形成密集的乔木层,郁闭度高,造成夏蜡梅生长不良甚至死亡,幼苗缺少或数量少,更新困难,此区域的夏蜡梅呈逐渐退化消亡趋势;而溪古坪、龙塘山种群所处群落正是属于这种群落演替的早期阶段,处于衰退过程中种群,不加人工干预也会逐渐退化;而双石边、经过坪等种群虽目前数量多,分布集中,更新良好,但变数最大,一旦人工干扰加剧或消除,则种群结构将快速发生变化,走向消亡的几率极大。该研究结果可为夏蜡梅保护提供科学依据。  相似文献   

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樟子松人工林营建对土壤颗粒组成变化的影响   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
植被恢复是退化生态系统的主要恢复措施,也是人类改善区域生态环境较为重要和直接的活动。目前,针对不同植被恢复方式对干旱半干旱地区土壤理化性质及生物特征开展了大量研究。然而,关于科尔沁沙地樟子松人工林营建对土壤颗粒组成变化的影响却鲜有报道。因此,以辽宁省章古台地区不同生长阶段(包括幼龄林、中龄林、成熟林和过熟林)的20块樟子松人工林样地为研究对象(以临近的7块天然草地为对照),研究了沙地樟子松人工林营建对0—100 cm土层土壤颗粒组成变化的影响。结果表明:沙质草地营建樟子松人工林后,不同土层土壤细颗粒(<0.05 mm)含量均呈增加趋势,并且在0—10 cm层增加趋势明显,随土层深度增加土壤细颗粒增加量逐渐降低(除幼龄林外),但樟子松林地土壤颗粒组成仍以砂粒为主,土壤粘粒和粉粒含量极低(仅占5%左右)。随着樟子松人工林林龄的增加,土壤细颗粒变化量在0—10 cm层逐渐升高,而在10—100 cm层并无显著变化趋势。土壤细颗粒含量的变化在10—100 cm层与土壤含水量呈显著正相关,在0—10、20—40 cm和80—100 cm层与土壤全钾极显著负相关,在20—60 cm层与土壤有...  相似文献   

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蒋静艳  胡正华  牛传坡 《生态学杂志》2010,21(10):2715-2720
在室外试验的基础上,研究了地表UV-B辐射增强条件下小麦秸秆成分的变化,及在室内不同培养条件下施用UV-B辐射处理后小麦秸秆对土壤N2O排放的影响.室外试验结果表明:地表UV-B辐射增强减少了小麦地上部分生物量,显著增加了小麦秸秆木质素和全氮含量,增幅分别达94.2%和12.3%,降低了其C/N.室内培养试验结果表明:与常规小麦秸秆相比,UV-B辐射处理后的小麦秸秆显著提高了旱地和淹水条件下N2O的排放量;施用秸秆同时伴施硝态氮条件下,经过UV-B辐射处理的小麦秸秆显著促进了旱地条件下N2O的排放,其排放量为常规秸秆处理的3.2倍,但在淹水条件下对N2O排放无显著影响;无论何种培养条件下,经过UV-B辐射处理的小麦秸秆对土壤呼吸都未产生显著影响.  相似文献   

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