• Impacts, contributing factors and countermeasures of extreme droughts in Poyang Lake

    Subjects: Statistics >> Social Statistics submitted time 2024-03-27 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》

    Abstract: In the past 20 years, the hydrological regime of Poyang Lake changed significantly. The lake water level has been continuously decreasing, resulting in severe droughts. In particular, an extreme drought occurred in 2022, when the lake area shrank to less than 300 km2. The 2022 extreme drought in Poyang Lake had great impacts on economy, society and ecological environment, which aroused great attentions and wide concerns. Based on long-term data series of meteorological and hydrological data and the existing research outcomes and with the aid of hydrological modeling, this study analyzed the impacts and contributing factors of the 2022 drought in Poyang Lake. Suggestions are also offered on the potential synergistic regulation of hydraulic engineering to cope with such droughts in the future to secure water safety in the middle Yangtze River.

  • Effects of foliar-sprayed of selenium on distribution and accumulation of selenium in subcellular components of rice leaves

    Subjects: Biology >> Botany >> Applied botany submitted time 2024-03-26 Cooperative journals: 《广西植物》

    Abstract: Foliar selenium spraying is an effective agronomic fortification to increase the selenium content of crops. Exploring the distribution, accumulation characteristics and influencing factors of selenium in rice leaf fractions can provide support for improving the utilization efficiency of foliar selenium application and reducing the ecological and environmental risks of selenium. This study compared the effects of different selenium forms, concentrations, treatment times and different surfactant carriers on the distribution and accumulation of selenium in the subcellular fractions of rice leaves using the leaf in vitro culture technique. The results showed that: (1) Selenium was mainly distributed in the cell wall of rice leaves, followed by chloroplast and mitochondrial fractions, with the least in the cytosol. (2) The uptake capacity of sodium selenite in leaves within a few hours of leaf application of selenium fertiliser was significantly higher than that of nano-selenium, selenomethionine and yeast selenium, by 1.25-fold, 1.32-fold and 5.43-fold, respectively, and the migration capacity was about 1.26-fold higher than that of the remaining three. (3) The rice per The optimal amount of selenium applied to each leaf was 0.008 mg, at which time the selenium content in chloroplasts and mitochondria reached the maximum value. (4) 3-7 h after leaf application of selenium was the critical time point for selenium uptake and translocation in leaves. (5) Meanwhile, compared with cyclodextrins and alkylglycosides, the addition of rhamnolipids to exogenous selenium at a concentration of 30 mg·L-1 promoted selenium uptake in rice leaves better, and the content of the absorbed content increased by 0.8-fold. The above results lay the foundation for the subsequent understanding of selenium transport mechanisms in leaves, and also provide support for the optimization of selenium formulations, the establishment of scientific selenium application systems, and the reduction of selenium ecological and environmental risks in the future.