Native polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in coal and its preparation products-A mixed source of environmental contamination.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are environmental pollutants and inherent components of coal and coal gangue. The similarities and differences in PAH characteristics between these two source materials are largely unknown. In this study, raw coal, cleaned coal, slime, middlings, and gangue from the Wangjialing Coal Preparation Plant in China were analyzed to determine the concentration and distribution of extractable PAHs.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in coal preparation plant products: A contributor to environmental pollution.

Coal and coal gangue are petrogenic sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which cause adverse impacts on the environment. Raw coal, cleaned coal, slime, slack gangue, and lump gangue from the Pingshuo No. 1 Coal Preparation Plant, China, were analyzed to determine the concentrations and compositions of 16 priority parent PAHs (16PAHs) and their alkylated derivatives (aPAHs).

Detection and differentiation of Japanese encephalitis virus genotype I and genotype III by reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification combined with restriction fragment length polymorphism.

Japanese encephalitis (JE), which is a mosquito-borne arboviral infection, is the leading cause of viral encephalitis in Asian countries. The causative agent of JE is Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), in which the predominant genotype has changed from genotype III (G III) to genotype I (G I). However, a method for the rapid differentiation between JEV G I and G III remains unavailable.

Expression of the Arabidopsis thaliana BBX32 gene in soybean increases grain yield.

Crop yield is a highly complex quantitative trait. Historically, successful breeding for improved grain yield has led to crop plants with improved source capacity, altered plant architecture, and increased resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses. To date, transgenic approaches towards improving crop grain yield have primarily focused on protecting plants from herbicide, insects, or disease.

[Treatment of acrylate wastewater by electrocatalytic reduction process].

High-concentration acrylate wastewater was treated by an electrocatalytic reduction process. The effects of the cation exchange membrane (CEM) and cathode materials on acrylate reduction were investigated. It indicated that the acrylate could be reduced to propionate acid efficiently by the electrocatalytic reduction process.

An autotrophic nitrogen removal process: short-cut nitrification combined with ANAMMOX for treating diluted effluent from an UASB reactor fed by landfill leachate.

A combined process consisting of a short-cut nitrification (SN) reactor and an anaerobic ammonium oxidation upflow anaerobic sludge bed (ANAMMOX) reactor was developed to treat the diluted effluent from an upflow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB) reactor treating high ammonium municipal landfill leachate. The SN process was performed in an aerated upflow sludge bed (AUSB) reactor (working volume 3.05 L), treating about 50% of the diluted raw wastewater.

[Pollutant distribution in organo-mineral aggregates in topsoils from a site contaminated by organochlorine pesticides].

Four different soil particle-size fractions that is clay, silt, fine sand and coarse sand ( <2 microm, 2-20 microm, 20-200 microm, > 200 microm) from the topsoils in an organochlorine pesticide (OCP) field were separated by physical method to characterize the OCPs distribution in soils and to study the effect of organic matter and mineral composition in different separates on pollutants distribution. The results show that the concentrations of HCHs and DDTs in silt with 463.1 mg x kg(-1) and 1225.

Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Seedling Resistance to Isolates of Puccinia coronata in Oat.

ABSTRACT In our previous report, quantitative trait loci (QTL) for field adult plant resistance to crown rust were identified in an oat population of 152 F(5:6) recombinant inbred lines from the cross of 'Ogle' (susceptible)/MAM17-5 (resistant). The objectives of the present study were to identify in the same population, the number, genomic location, and effect of QTL and digenic QTL epistasis associated with greenhouse seedling resistance to isolates of Puccinia coronata to determine if the QTL detected are isolate-specific and to compare them with previously detected QTL for field resistance. Reaction type was scored on greenhouse seedlings inoculated with three isolates.

Adsorption behavior of herbicide butachlor on typical soils in China and humic acids from the soil samples.

Three kinds of soils in China, krasnozem, fluvo-aquic soil, and phaeozem, as well as the humic acids (HAs) isolated from them, were used to adsorb the herbicide butachlor from water. Under the experimental conditions, the adsorption amount of butachlor on soils was positively correlated with the content of soil organic matter. HAs extracted from different kinds of soils had different adsorption capacity for the tested herbicide, which was positively correlated with their content of carbonyls.

[Photolysis kinetics of propisochlor in water].

Propisochlor in water was irradiated at room temperature by a 400 W high pressure mercury lamp and sunlight, respectively. Influence of light and initiative concentration of propisochlor on the photolysis were studied. The results showed that under the irradiation of sunlight the photolysis fitted first order kinetics with only 5.