Public Health,Ethics, and Functional Foods

Functional foods aim to provide a positive impact on health and well-being beyond their nutritive content. As such, they are likely candidates to enhance the public health official’s tool kit. Or are they? Although a very small number of functional foods (e.g., phytosterol-enriched margarine) show such promise in improving individual health that Dutch health insurance companies reimburse their costs to consumers, one must not draw premature conclusions about functional foods as a group. A large number of questions about individual products’ safety, efficacy, and affordability need to be answered before they might become an important part of the public health agenda. More importantly, though, the costs and benefits of functional foods relative to alternative mechanisms of public health improvement need to be ascertained. Alternative scenarios that warrant investigation are mainly the supply of nutraceutical ingredients in pill form targeting “at risk” groups and consumer education on diet and lifestyle.     

施肥对落叶松人工林植物养分及生理特性的影响

以东北林业大学帽儿山实验林场的14年生落叶松人工幼龄林为研究对象，对白浆化的暗棕壤林地进行了施肥试验。采用完全随机排列的方法，在林分内设置了9个施肥处理和1个无肥对照。在生长旺盛期测定了叶片和根系的全N和全P质量分数以及光合速率、呼吸速率、叶绿素质量分数等指标。结果表明，单施520kg/hm^2尿素，在提高全N、全P质量分数的同时，还能促进根系对磷素的吸收和利用，增加光合速率和叶绿素质量分数；单施314kg／hm^2磷酸二铵，能加快根系对养分的转移速度，提高光合系数(光合速率／呼吸速率)，且是这些施肥处理中效果最好的施肥水平，这说明此林龄的落叶松林容易缺磷，应适量多施磷肥；处理436kg／hm^2尿素 236kg／hm^2磷酸二铵 133kg／hm^2氯化钾，由于K肥的混入，加快了根系对N、P的转移，使叶片中的质量分数增加，有利于光合作用的进行。因此，合理的施肥措施，不仅能提高落叶松人工林叶片与根系的养分质量分数，还能提高叶片的光合能力。对于此幼龄林，少N多P或N、P、K混合施肥效果最佳。     

Mineral status of soils and forage in the Mole National Park,Ghana and implications for wildlife nutrition

Geochemical mapping of soils and selected plant species has been carried out in the Mole National Park, Ghana. The distribution of the essential nutrients: cobalt, copper and manganese is largely controlled by bedrock geology, while the geochemical dispersion of Ca, I, Fe, Mg, Mo, P, K, Se, Na and Zn has been modified by soil and hydromorphic processes. From selective extraction experiments, Fe, Mn and Co are found to be largely fixed in the soil mineral fraction. Larger proportions of Cu, I, Mo, Se and Zn are EDTA extractable and have a high chelation potential.Cobalt, Cu and Mn were preferentially concentrated in grass species while molybdenum and selenium are concentrated in browse plants. Copper uptake is antagonistic to Fe, Mo and Zn accumulation in all plant and grass samples. Similarly, Se and Mn appear antagonistic and Fe uptake is antagonistic to Co, Cu, Mn, Mo and Zn.The low concentration of P points to a potential dietary deficiency of this element throughout the park. Cobalt deficiency may also occur due to a love extractability of these elements in the soils and low concentration in plants. However, the lack of data on the elemental requirements of wildlife allows only tentative conclusions to be drawn.     

水分亏缺时氮磷营养对春小麦幼苗抗逆性的影响

在盆栽条件下研究了水分亏缺时，氮、磷营养对春小麦幼苗渗透物质及相关保护酶活性的影响．结果表明：水分胁迫使春小麦幼苗叶片游离脯氨酸、可溶性糖含量增加，RWC降低，POD、CAT活性增强．随着水分亏缺加剧，氮营养相应地提高了幼苗叶片脯氨酸、可溶性糖含量以及POD、CAT活性；磷营养仅能提高叶片脯氨酸含量以及POD活性，但使其可溶性糖含量以及CAT活性维持在较低水平上．施肥使叶片RWC降低．春小麦的抗逆性指标之间存在相关性，特别是小麦幼苗叶片POD活性与游离脯氨酸累积量之间有极显著正相关关系，其决定系数r^2为0．7472．图1表2参12     

马尾松低产林套种木荷的林地与根际土壤养分特性的研究

马尾松低产林套种木荷的混交林林地与根际土壤养分特性研究表明，木荷根际对土壤养分的活化能力大于马尾松，这利于混交林中马尾松的生长．套种后所形成的混交林根际微区对土壤养分活化程度的提高改善了两树种的养分利用状况，这可能是低产林改造后林地土壤养分高于纯林地且林分生产力提高的主要原因之一．     

A study on the Spatial Distribution of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Balance, and Regional Nitrogen Flow Through Crop Production

The spatial distribution patterns of the nitrogen and phosphorus input/intake amounts in crop production within two small basins are examined, based upon a cropping unit distribution map that is obtained from remote sensing data analysis. Firstly, we examine the availability and suitability of approaches to the spatial distribution analysis of cultivation patterns classified from material flow characteristics of crop production using seasonal remote-sensing data. Secondly, material flow units in crop production are grouped according to the cultivation patterns obtained from the remote-sensing data analysis. Consequently, the spatial patterns of the amounts of both nitrogen and phosphorus inputs/intakes through crop production on farmland are examined and their spatial distribution maps are prepared according to the material flow units. In addition, we developed a nitrogen flow and runoff model and the model is simulated based on the examination of the results of spatial distribution patterns of the material flow units. The annual nitrogen runoff from small catchments, where various crops are cultivated, varies from 2.7 kg ha^–1 year^–1 to 108 kg ha^–1 year^–1 and the annual balanced losses of nitrogen in small catchments varied from –30 kg ha^–1 year^–1 to 101 kg ha^–1 year^–1. Also, the monthly changes in soil nitrogen of each material flow unit is estimated at –55 kg ha^–1 as a maximum decrease and 114 kg ha^–1 as a maximum increase. These results indicate that the spatial distribution patterns of nutrient input and intake through agricultural activities should be considered when analyzing the material flows and nutritient movement in soil–water systems in rural areas for watershed environmental control and regional agricultural management.     

Base-cation deposition in Europe—part II. Acid neutralization capacity and contribution to forest nutrition

An assessment was made of the capacity of base cations to neutralize acid deposition and of the contribution of base cation deposition to forest nutrition in Europe. In large parts of southern Europe more than 50% of the potential acid deposition was found counteracted by deposition of non-sea salt Mg²⁺ + Ca²⁺ + K⁺. In central and northwestern Europe, base cation deposition usually amounted to less than 25% of the acid input. Smallest base cation deposition relative to potential acid deposition was found in southern Scandinavia, Denmark, northern Germany and The Netherlands. A similar spatial pattern was found for the neutralization of acid anions in precipitation. Whereas in Scandinavia weathering is the dominant supplier of base cation to forest soils, in eastern and southern Europe, forests mainly rely on atmospheric deposition for the supply of base cations. Using error propagation, the random and systematic error in acid neutralization capacity for an average grid cell of 10 × 20 km was estimated to equal 45–55% and 50–55%, respectively.     

树体自动滴输微肥对果树生理和果实品质的影响

研究了树体自动滴输技术在苹果树、核桃树及柿树上的应用．结果表明：通过输施微肥可以促进树体营养生长和发育，提高核桃树花粉生活力及坐果率．节果树经输施后，果实着色显著增加，微量元素含量显著提高，铁(Fe)、锌(Zn)元素可分别比对照提高13．28％～22．90％、42．54％～43．22％，处理果实中硒(Se)及锗(Ge)的增幅较大，分别是对照的9．545倍及4．7173倍．该技术是提高我国果树生产力和改善苹果营养价值的有效方法．图1表7参18     

不同收获与清林方式对杉木林养分的影响

对三代杉木林全株、全木和传统收获及传统和全木收获后火烧清理迹地林分营养元素变化进行了研究 ,结果表明 :杉木林采用全株收获和全木收获的营养元素损失量分别是传统收获的1 99倍和1 64倍 ;采伐剩余物火烧导致林地生态系统中N和P2O5 大量损失 ;采用传统收获及随后火烧清理采伐剩余物 ,N和P2O5 损失量比仅采用全株或全木收获的均高。若缩短轮伐期 ,则可能导致立地N和P2O5 的严重亏缺 ;全株或全木收获导致大量盐基离子移出林地 ,可能导致土壤较为严重的酸化趋势。     

旅游季节瘦西湖营养化程度评价与防治对策

为了了解旅游季节瘦西湖的水质及营养化状况,分别于2009年9月30日和2010年4月23日在瘦西湖选择7个采样点测定水温、DO、SD、TN、TP、CODMn及Chla,并采用卡尔森指数方法计算综合营养状态指数对瘦西湖的营养化进行评价。结果显示,各个采样点2次水样的综合营养状态指数分别为52.65～56.63和50.57～54.53,因此瘦西湖在"五一"和"十一"这两个旅游季节前处于轻度富营养化状态。