简介:Undisturbedsoilcorewithmanymacroporesanddisturbedsoilcorewithonlyonemacropore(diameteris10mm)wereprobedbyx-raycomputedtomography(CT).Thesize,number,shapeandcontinuityofmacroporesinthetransverseandverticalsectionsofsoilwerecharacterizedusingCTscanningimages.TheprobabilitydensitiesofmacroporesinthetransversesectionofsoilcoreexhibitedalogarithmicΓdistribution.ResultsindicatedthatCTscanningwasapromisingnondestructivemethodforcharacterizingmacroporesinsoils.
简介:InordertoexplorethefeasibilityofusingX-raytomeasuremoisturecontentinthedryingprocessandhaveafurtherstudyontheeffectofprecisionofmoisturecontentwhenscanningthroughdifferentgraindirections,X-rayscanningmethodandweightingmethodwereusedtomeasureaveragemoisturecontentofCunninghamialanceolataduringhotairdrying.Theresultsshowthatthemoisturecontentvaluesoftwomethodswereveryclosetooneanother,thedeterminationcoefficientsofbothwerehighlycorrelatedwithavalueover0.99,andtheabsolutedeviationwasbelow2%;whenscanningalongradialdirectionandlongitudinaldirection,theprecisionsofaveragemoisturecontentwerehigherthanthatofthetangentialdirection,butthedeviationcanbenegligibleintheactualmeasurement;inthepracticalapplication,theeffectofgraindirectiononprecisionofmoisturecontentmeasurementcouldnotbetakenintoaccountwhenusingX-raytomeasurethemoisturedistributionofwood.
简介:Genotypingbysequencing(GBS)istherecentapproachofnext-generationsequencingtechniquefordiscoveringandgenotypingsinglenucleotidepolymorphisms(SNPs)incropspecies.Genotypicvariationstudies(SNPsandinsertion-deletions/InDels)wereperformedusingfourricelinesbasedonGBSdatabyaligningtothereferencegenomeNipponbare.LocalaromaticricelandraceTulaipanjiwascrossedwithRanjit,andtwodistinctlineswereidentifiedfromtheprogenies:onelinewithawnsandaromatraitsandtheotherwithoutawnsandaroma.TotalnumberofSNPsandInDelsidentifiedwere52810and4327atreaddepth10,respectively.OutofthetotalpolymorphicSNPs/InDels,16490wereintergeneric,7812wereinsidegene,and4435wereintronic.Phylogenetically,Tulaipanjiwasclosertothereferencegenomenipponbare.Basedonrecurrentparentgenomeanalysis,outof10013alleles,92.52%wasintrogressedintoprogeny-awnfromTulaipanjiand7.48%fromRanjit,whereasprogeny-awnlesscarried89.19%allelesfromRanjitandonly10.81%allelesfromTulaipanji.Inaddition,progeny-awnwasthehighestheterozygous(83.88%)andprogeny-awnlesswastheleast(2.24%)atthisfifthgenerationofrecombinantinbredlines.TheseSNPvariationsmaybelinkedtothephenotypictraitsandcanbeutilizedincropimprovementthroughlinkagemapping.TheseresultssuggestthataddingahighdensityofSNPmarkerstoamappingorbreedingpopulationthroughGBShasagreatvaluefornumerousapplicationsinricebreedingandgeneticsresearch.