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Anita Shepherd Danny Awty-Carroll Jason Kam Chris Ashman Elena Magenau Enrico Martani Mislav Kontek Andrea Ferrarini Stefano Amaducci Chris Davey Vanja Jurišić Gert-Jan Petrie Mohamad Al Hassan Isabelle Lamy Iris Lewandowski Emmanuel de Maupeou Jon McCalmont Luisa Trindade Kasper van der Cruijsen Philip van der Pluijm Rebecca Rowe Andrew Lovett Iain Donnison Andreas Kiesel John Clifton-Brown Astley Hastings 《Global Change Biology Bioenergy》2023,15(4):444-461
New biomass crop hybrids for bioeconomic expansion require yield projections to determine their potential for strategic land use planning in the face of global challenges. Our biomass growth simulation incorporates radiation interception and conversion efficiency. Models often use leaf area to predict interception which is demanding to determine accurately, so instead we use low-cost rapid light interception measurements using a simple laboratory-made line ceptometer and relate the dynamics of canopy closure to thermal time, and to measurements of biomass. We apply the model to project the European biomass potentials of new market-ready hybrids for 2020–2030. Field measurements are easier to collect, the calibration is seasonally dynamic and reduces influence of weather variation between field sites. The model obtained is conservative, being calibrated by crops of varying establishment and varying maturity on less productive (marginal) land. This results in conservative projections of miscanthus hybrids for 2020–2030 based on 10% land use conversion of the least (productive) grassland and arable for farm diversification, which show a European potential of 80.7–89.7 Mt year−1 biomass, with potential for 1.2–1.3 EJ year−1 energy and 36.3–40.3 Mt year−1 carbon capture, with seeded Miscanthus sacchariflorus × sinensis displaying highest yield potential. Simulated biomass projections must be viewed in light of the field measurements on less productive land with high soil water deficits. We are attempting to model the results from an ambitious and novel project combining new hybrids across Europe with agronomy which has not been perfected on less productive sites. Nevertheless, at the time of energy sourcing issues, seed-propagated miscanthus hybrids for the upscaled provision of bioenergy offer an alternative source of renewable energy. If European countries provide incentives for growers to invest, seeded hybrids can improve product availability and biomass yields over the current commercial miscanthus variety. 相似文献
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While the insect fragment count is currently the primary test used for assessing insect contamination of food products, this
technique is very problematical for assaying microalgal materials. An account is given of a new immunoassay technique,which
is based on an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA) detection of insect myosin and which provides a rapid and convenient
means of quantitatively determining the amount of insect contamination in algal product samples with a high degree of replicability.
Up to 30 samples can be tested in duplicate in 2.5–3 h. Experiments were carried out with a variety of common contaminant
insects of algal products, using various life stages, including Corixidae, Ephydridaeand Chironomidae using both Spirulina
(Arthrospira) and Chlorella as typical algal materials. As little as one insect per 50 g sample can readily be detected, with
excellent correlation (r2 = 0.99) between the number of insects present and the color produced. A matrix analysis to determine the ruggedness of the
immunoassay was carried out following the protocols of the AOAC International and established that minor departures in seven
variables from the standard assay resulted in no substantial differences. The insect myosin assay offers a quantitative and
reliable means for assessing insect contamination of algal materials and should be considered for adoption as a standard method
for this type of product.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Ouabain-insensitive salt and water movements in duck red cells. II. Norepinephrine stimulation of sodium plus potassium cotransport 总被引:11,自引:9,他引:2
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Catecholamines induce net salt and water movements in duck red cells incubated in isotonic solutions. The rate of this response is approximately three times greater than a comparable effect observed in 400 mosmol hypertonic solutions in the absence of hormone (W.F. Schmidt and T. J. McManus. 1977 a.J. Gen. Physiol. 70:59-79. Otherwise, these two systems share a great many similarities. In both cases, net water and salt movements have a marked dependence on external cation concentrations, are sensitive to furosemide and insensitive to ouabain, and allow the substitution of rubidium for external potassium. In the presence of ouabain, but the absence of external potassium (or rubidium), a furosemide-sensitive net extrusion of sodium against a large electrochemical gradient can be demonstrated. When norepinephrine-treated cells are incubated with ouabain and sufficient external sodium, the furosemide-sensitive, unidirectional influxes of both sodium and rubidium are half- maximally saturated at similar rubidium concentrations; with saturating external rubidium, the same fluxes are half-maximal at comparable levels of external sodium. In the absence of sodium, a catecholamine-stimulated, furosemide-sensitive influx of rubidium persists. In the absence of rubidium, a similar but smaller component of sodium influx can be seen. We interpret these results in terms of a cotransport model for sodium plus potassium which is activated by hypertonicity or norepinephrine. When either ion is absent from the incubation medium, the system promotes an exchange-diffusion type of movement of the co-ion into the cells. In the absence of external potassium, net movement of potassium out of the cell leads to a coupled extrusion of sodium against its electrochemical gradient. 相似文献
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Amanda J. Holder Rebecca Rowe Niall P. McNamara Iain S. Donnison Jon P. McCalmont 《Global Change Biology Bioenergy》2019,11(11):1298-1317
When considering the large‐scale deployment of bioenergy crops, it is important to understand the implication for ecosystem hydrological processes and the influences of crop type and location. Based on the potential for future land use change (LUC), the 10,280 km2 West Wales Water Framework Directive River Basin District (UK) was selected as a typical grassland dominated district, and the Soil & Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) hydrology model with a geographic information systems interface was used to investigate implications for different bioenergy deployment scenarios. The study area was delineated into 855 sub‐basins and 7,108 hydrological response units based on rivers, soil type, land use, and slope. Changes in hydrological components for two bioenergy crops (Miscanthus and short rotation coppice, SRC) planted on 50% (2,192 km2) or 25% (1,096 km2) of existing improved pasture are quantified. Across the study area as a whole, only surface run‐off with SRC planted at the 50% level was significantly impacted, where it was reduced by up to 23% (during April). However, results varied spatially and a comparison of annual means for each sub‐basin and scenario revealed surface run‐off was significantly decreased and baseflow significantly increased (by a maximum of 40%) with both Miscanthus and SRC. Evapotranspiration was significantly increased with SRC (at both planting levels) and water yield was significantly reduced with SRC (at the 50% level) by up to 5%. Effects on streamflow were limited, varying between ?5% and +5% change (compared to baseline) in the majority of sub‐basins. The results suggest that for mesic temperate grasslands, adverse effects from the drying of soil and alterations to streamflow may not arise, and with surface run‐off reduced and baseflow increased, there could, depending on crop location, be potential benefits for flood and erosion mitigation. 相似文献
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Moore JE McCalmont M Xu J Millar BC Heaney N 《Applied and environmental microbiology》2002,68(8):4130-4131
A gram-negative bacillus was isolated from a batch of fruit-flavored bottled water, which had spoiled as a result of bacterial overgrowth (>10(6) CFU/ml). The spoilage organism was extremely difficult to identify phenotypically and was poorly identified as Pasturella sp. (78.7% identification profile) employing the API 20NE identification scheme, which gave the profile 5040000. Molecular identification through PCR amplification of a partial region of the 16S rRNA gene followed by direct automated sequencing of the PCR amplicon allowed identification of the organism. Due to the sequence identity (100%) between the spoilage organism and a reference strain in GenBank, the spoilage isolate was considered to be an Asaia sp., a recently described genus and member of the acetic acid bacteria. This is the first report of Asaia sp. causing spoilage of a foodstuff and highlights the benefits of molecular identification techniques based on 16S rRNA gene sequences in the identification of unusual spoilage organisms. 相似文献
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Erin Milner William McCalmont Jayendra Bhonsle Diana Caridha Dustin Carroll Sean Gardner Lucia Gerena Montip Gettayacamin Charlotte Lanteri ThuLan Luong Victor Melendez Jay Moon Norma Roncal Jason Sousa Anchalee Tungtaeng Peter Wipf Geoffrey Dow 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2010,20(4):1347-1351
Utilizing mefloquine as a scaffold, a next generation quinoline methanol (NGQM) library was constructed to identify early lead compounds that possess biological properties consistent with the target product profile for malaria chemoprophylaxis while reducing permeability across the blood–brain barrier. The library of 200 analogs resulted in compounds that inhibit the growth of drug sensitive and resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum. Herein we report selected chemotypes and the emerging structure–activity relationship for this library of quinoline methanols. 相似文献
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John E. Moore Mark McCalmont Jiru Xu B. Cherie Millar Neville Heaney 《Applied microbiology》2002,68(8):4130-4131
A gram-negative bacillus was isolated from a batch of fruit-flavored bottled water, which had spoiled as a result of bacterial overgrowth (>106 CFU/ml). The spoilage organism was extremely difficult to identify phenotypically and was poorly identified as Pasturella sp. (78.7% identification profile) employing the API 20NE identification scheme, which gave the profile 5040000. Molecular identification through PCR amplification of a partial region of the 16S rRNA gene followed by direct automated sequencing of the PCR amplicon allowed identification of the organism. Due to the sequence identity (100%) between the spoilage organism and a reference strain in GenBank, the spoilage isolate was considered to be an Asaia sp., a recently described genus and member of the acetic acid bacteria. This is the first report of Asaia sp. causing spoilage of a foodstuff and highlights the benefits of molecular identification techniques based on 16S rRNA gene sequences in the identification of unusual spoilage organisms. 相似文献
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Restriction-map variation associated with the G6PD polymorphism in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster 总被引:10,自引:0,他引:10
Restriction-map variation was studied in 126 copies of the G6pd region in X
chromosome lines of Drosophila melanogaster from North America, Europe, and
Africa. Special attention was focused on the distribution of variation
relative to the geographically variable polymorphism for two
electrophoretic variants. Nucleotide heterozygosity as determined by eight
six-cutter restriction enzymes for the 13-kb region is estimated, on the
basis of the worldwide sample, to be 0.065%, which is the lowest value
reported for any comparable region in the D. melanogaster genome.
Significant linkage disequilibrium between electrophoretic alleles and
restriction-site variation is observed for several sites. In contrast to
published studies of other genetic regions, there are large insertions that
reach significant frequencies and are found across considerable geographic
distances. There is a clustering of this variation inside the first large
intervening sequence of the G6PD gene.
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