美国优质紫花苜蓿在宁夏中部干旱带的适应性研究

以宁夏盐池县本地苜蓿XM及宁夏益科农业科技有限公司引进的15个美国紫花苜蓿品种为研究对象,综合考虑生育期、株高、密度、产草量、茎叶比、越冬率等指标,开展苜蓿引种适应性研究.结果表明,以本地种XM为对照,15个外引种紫花苜蓿在生长发育特性上存在显著差异.其中,以品种ZHM,E3006,D4,D2表现较优,其返青早,青绿期长,鲜草产量分别是对照的1.52,1.45,1.28,1.25倍,干草产量分别是对照的1.46,1.25,1.22,1.19倍,且抗旱性强,品质优良,适宜在宁夏盐池县等中部干旱带大面积推广应用.     

The structure of O-methyllythrine hydrobromide

Zusammenfassung Die Struktur des O-Methyl-lythrinhydrobromids wurde r?ntgen-kristallographisch ermittelt. Durch den oxydativen Abbau wurde das Hydrobromid mit dem unsubstituierten Lythrin verknüpft. Die Massenspektren zeigten, dass eine Reihe von weiteren Lythraceae-Alkaloiden das gleiche Grundgerüst besitzen.      

Discovery of a 25-cm asteroid clast in the giant Morokweng impact crater, South Africa

Meteorites provide a sample of Solar System bodies and so constrain the types of objects that have collided with Earth over time. Meteorites analysed to date, however, are unlikely to be representative of the entire population and it is also possible that changes in their nature have occurred with time. Large objects are widely believed to be completely melted or vaporized during high-angle impact with the Earth. Consequently, identification of large impactors relies on indirect chemical tracers, notably the platinum-group elements. Here we report the discovery of a large (25-cm), unaltered, fossil meteorite, and several smaller fragments within the impact melt of the giant (> 70 km diameter), 145-Myr-old Morokweng crater, South Africa. The large fragment (clast) resembles an LL6 chondrite breccia, but contains anomalously iron-rich silicates, Fe-Ni sulphides, and no troilite or metal. It has chondritic chromium isotope ratios and identical platinum-group element ratios to the bulk impact melt. These features allow the unambiguous characterization of an impactor at a large crater. Furthermore, the unusual composition of the meteorite suggests that the Morokweng asteroid incorporated part of the LL chondrite parent body not represented by objects at present reaching the Earth.     

Observation of high-energy neutrinos using Cerenkov detectors embedded deep in Antarctic ice

Neutrinos are elementary particles that carry no electric charge and have little mass. As they interact only weakly with other particles, they can penetrate enormous amounts of matter, and therefore have the potential to directly convey astrophysical information from the edge of the Universe and from deep inside the most cataclysmic high-energy regions. The neutrino's great penetrating power, however, also makes this particle difficult to detect. Underground detectors have observed low-energy neutrinos from the Sun and a nearby supernova, as well as neutrinos generated in the Earth's atmosphere. But the very low fluxes of high-energy neutrinos from cosmic sources can be observed only by much larger, expandable detectors in, for example, deep water or ice. Here we report the detection of upwardly propagating atmospheric neutrinos by the ice-based Antarctic muon and neutrino detector array (AMANDA). These results establish a technology with which to build a kilometre-scale neutrino observatory necessary for astrophysical observations.