Changes in soil organic carbon pools after 15 years of Conservation Agriculture in rice (Oryza sativa)-wheat (Triticum aestivum) cropping system of eastern Indo-Gangetic plains

C.M. Parihar Mahesh Gathala ML JAT (2023, [Artículo])

The present study was carried out at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Samastipur, Bihar during 2021-2023 to focus on examining alterations in SOC pools resulting from conservation agriculture (CA) practices in R-W system in the eastern IGP, following the collection of soil samples from a long-term trial that was initiated in rainy (kharif) season 2006. The trial included eight combinations, namely: conventional tilled rice (Oryza sativa L.) and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) (CTR-CTW); CT rice and zero till wheat (CTR-ZTW); direct seeded rice (DSR) and wheat on permanent raised beds (PBDSR-PBW); ZTDSR and CT Wheat (ZTDSR-CTW); ZTDSR and ZT wheat without residue (ZTDSR-ZTW-R); ZTDSR-ZT wheat with residue (ZTDSR-ZTW +R); unpuddled transplanted riceZTW (UpTR-ZTW) and ZTDSR-sesbania brown manure-ZTW (ZTDSR-S-ZTW). Results revealed that implementing zero tillage (ZT) combined with residue retention in rice and wheat cultivation led to enhanced levels of soil organic carbon (SOC) across all four fractions, namely very labile (CVL), labile (CL), less labile (CLL), and non-labile (CNL), in comparison to the continuous and rotational tillage practices. The tillage and residue management options significantly affected the lability index (LI) and C pool index (CPI), with zero-tillage and residue retention leading to lower LI and higher CPI values. The management practices significantly affected the C management index (CMI), with zero-tillage and residue retention showing the highest CMI values. Findings showed the potential of CA practices for enhancing soil C quality as well as C sequestration in soil of the Eastern IGP of India.

Carbon Management Index Soil Organic Carbon Fractions CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE SOIL ORGANIC CARBON ZERO TILLAGE

A simple extension to the CMASA method for the prediction of catalytic residues in the presence of single point mutations

David Israel Flores Granados (2014, [Artículo])

The automatic identification of catalytic residues still remains an important challenge in structural bioinformatics. Sequence-based methods are good alternatives when the query shares a high percentage of identity with a well-annotated enzyme. However, when the homology is not apparent, which occurs with many structures from the structural genome initiative, structural information should be exploited. A local structural comparison is preferred to a global structural comparison when predicting functional residues. CMASA is a recently proposed method for predicting catalytic residues based on a local structure comparison. The method achieves high accuracy and a high value for the Matthews correlation coefficient. However, point substitutions or a lack of relevant data strongly affect the performance of the method. In the present study, we propose a simple extension to the CMASA method to overcome this difficulty. Extensive computational experiments are shown as proof of concept instances, as well as for a few real cases. The results show that the extension performs well when the catalytic site contains mutated residues or when some residues are missing. The proposed modification could correctly predict the catalytic residues of a mutant thymidylate synthase, 1EVF. It also successfully predicted the catalytic residues for 3HRC despite the lack of information for a relevant side chain atom in the PDB file. © 2014 Flores et al.

1UU9 protein, 3HRC protein, protein, thymidylate synthase, unclassified drug, protein kinase, thymidylate synthase, accuracy, algorithm, Article, CMASA, CMASA Substitution Matrix, Contact Matrix Average Deviation, controlled study, correlation coeffi CIENCIAS FÍSICO MATEMÁTICAS Y CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA MATEMÁTICAS ANÁLISIS NUMÉRICO ANÁLISIS NUMÉRICO

Análisis numérico del clima interior en un invernadero de tres naves con ventilación mecánica

JORGE FLORES VELAZQUEZ ENRIQUE MEJIA SAENZ ABRAHAM ROJANO AGUILAR (2011, [Artículo])

Uno de los principales problemas que enfrenta la agricultura en invernaderos, sobre todo en regiones de clima cálido, es moderar y controlar los problemas derivados del incremento de temperatura que ocurre en marcados periodos del año, ya que reducen la calidad y cantidad de la cosecha. Un método efectivo para el control del clima es la ventilación (natural o forzada) y aunque la ventilación forzada sea más predecible que la natural, su descripción es compleja y una simplificación obliga un mayor conocimiento del proceso. El objetivo de este trabajo fue validar y aplicar un modelo numérico basado en la dinámica de fluidos computacional (CFD) para el análisis climático de un invernadero cenital de tres naves sin cultivo y con ventilación forzada.

Invernaderos Análisis numérico Clima INGENIERÍA Y TECNOLOGÍA

Modeling spatiotemporal patterns of land use/land cover change in Central Malawi using a neural network model

Leah Mungai Joseph Messina Leo Zulu Jiaguo Qi Sieglinde Snapp (2022, [Artículo])

Multilayer Perceptrons CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA AGRICULTURE LAND USE POPULATION SATELLITE IMAGERY TEXTURE LAND COVER NEURAL NETWORKS REMOTE SENSING

Modelación numérica de la circulación de la bahía de Todos Santos, B.C., México

Efraín Mateos Farfán Gabriela Colorado Ruiz (2017, [Documento de trabajo])

La modelación numérica fue la principal herramienta empleada en este trabajo. Para conocer la dinámica de la bahía de Todos Santos, se realizaron distintas corridas numéricas tanto del océano como de la atmósfera, con el modelo ROMS y WRF respectivamente. Para el caso de la modelación del océano, se incluyeron experimentos para conocer los efectos de baja frecuencia (viento sinóptico y Sistema de la Corriente de California) y altas frecuencias (mareas). En los experimentos realizados se encontró que las bajas frecuencias pueden generar variabilidad, en los campos de velocidad, de tres a cinco días a través de la propagación de una onda baroclínica que viaja desde la región de Punta Banda hasta la boca noroeste de la bahía. Para las altas frecuencias, se encontraron evidencias que la componente M2 de la marea es dominante en la región sur de la bahía, mientras que la brisa marina es importante en la región costera.

Hidrometeorología Modelación númerica CIENCIAS FÍSICO MATEMÁTICAS Y CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA

Multi-environment genomic prediction of plant traits using deep learners with dense architecture

Osval Antonio Montesinos-Lopez Jose Crossa (2018, [Artículo])

Shared Data Resources Deep Learning Genomic Prediction CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA ACCURACY GENOMICS NEURAL NETWORKS FORECASTING DATA MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION

Modelo hidrodinámico completo para riego por melgas

Heber Saucedo MANUEL ZAVALA TREJO CARLOS FUENTES RUIZ (2011, [Artículo])

Se presenta un modelo numérico para riego por melgas basado en el acoplamiento interno de las ecuaciones de Saint-Venant y Richards, el cual permite describir las fases de avance, almacenamiento, consumo y recesión del riego por melgas. La solución de las ecuaciones de Saint-Venant se aproxima utilizando un esquema Lagrangiano en diferencias finitas, mientras que para la ecuación de Richards se utilizan elementos finitos para la integración en el espacio y diferencias finitas implícitas para la integración en el tiempo. Los resultados obtenidos permiten concluir que el modelo puede ser utilizado con fines de diseño de riego por melgas.

Riego por melgas Acoplamiento numérico Fase de almacenamiento CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA

Climate-smart agricultural practices influence the fungal communities and soil properties under major agri-food systems

madhu choudhary ML JAT Parbodh Chander Sharma (2022, [Artículo])

Fungal communities in agricultural soils are assumed to be affected by climate, weather, and anthropogenic activities, and magnitude of their effect depends on the agricultural activities. Therefore, a study was conducted to investigate the impact of the portfolio of management practices on fungal communities and soil physical–chemical properties. The study comprised different climate-smart agriculture (CSA)-based management scenarios (Sc) established on the principles of conservation agriculture (CA), namely, ScI is conventional tillage-based rice–wheat rotation, ScII is partial CA-based rice–wheat–mungbean, ScIII is partial CSA-based rice–wheat–mungbean, ScIV is partial CSA-based maize–wheat–mungbean, and ScV and ScVI are CSA-based scenarios and similar to ScIII and ScIV, respectively, except for fertigation method. All the scenarios were flood irrigated except the ScV and ScVI where water and nitrogen were given through subsurface drip irrigation. Soils of these scenarios were collected from 0 to 15 cm depth and analyzed by Illumina paired-end sequencing of Internal Transcribed Spacer regions (ITS1 and ITS2) for the study of fungal community composition. Analysis of 5 million processed sequences showed a higher Shannon diversity index of 1.47 times and a Simpson index of 1.12 times in maize-based CSA scenarios (ScIV and ScVI) compared with rice-based CSA scenarios (ScIII and ScV). Seven phyla were present in all the scenarios, where Ascomycota was the most abundant phyla and it was followed by Basidiomycota and Zygomycota. Ascomycota was found more abundant in rice-based CSA scenarios as compared to maize-based CSA scenarios. Soil organic carbon and nitrogen were found to be 1.62 and 1.25 times higher in CSA scenarios compared with other scenarios. Bulk density was found highest in farmers' practice (Sc1); however, mean weight diameter and water-stable aggregates were found lowest in ScI. Soil physical, chemical, and biological properties were found better under CSA-based practices, which also increased the wheat grain yield by 12.5% and system yield by 18.8%. These results indicate that bundling/layering of smart agricultural practices over farmers' practices has tremendous effects on soil properties, and hence play an important role in sustaining soil quality/health.

Agriculture Management Fungal Community Diversity Indices Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA AGRICULTURE TILLAGE CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE SOIL ORGANIC CARBON

Diversifying with grain legumes amplifies carbon in management-sensitive soil organic carbon pools on smallholder farms

Regis Chikowo Sieglinde Snapp (2023, [Artículo])

Crop diversification with grain legumes has been advocated as a means to increase agroecological resilience, diversify livelihoods, boost household nutrition, and enhance soil health and fertility in cereal-based cropping systems in sub-Saharan Africa and around the world. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a primary indicator of soil health and there is limited data regarding SOC pools and grain legume diversification on smallholder farms where soils are often marginal. In Malawi, a range of legume diversification options are under investigation, including rotations and a doubled-up legume rotation (DLR) system in which two compatible legumes are intercropped and then rotated with a cereal. The impact of the DLR system on SOC has not yet been determined, and there is a lack of evidence regarding SOC status over a gradient of simple to complex grain legume diversified systems. We address this knowledge gap by evaluating these systems in comparison to continuous sole maize (Zea mays L.) at three on-farm trial sites in central Malawi. After six years of trial establishment, we measured SOC in bulk soils and aggregate fractions and in faster cycling SOC pools that respond more rapidly to management practices, including water extractable organic carbon (WEOC), particulate organic matter carbon (POM-C), potentially mineralizable carbon (C), and macroaggregate C. Cropping treatment differences were not seen in bulk SOC or total N, but they were apparent in SOC pools with a shorter turnover time. The DLR system of intercropped pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) and groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) rotated with maize had higher WEOC, POM-C, potentially mineralizable C, macroaggregate and microaggregate C values than continuous maize. Of the single legume rotations, the pigeonpea-maize rotation had more mineralizable C and microaggregate C compared to continuous maize, while the groundnut-maize rotation had similar C values to the maize system. Overall, this study shows the potential for crop rotations diversified with grain legumes to enhance C in management sensitive SOC pools, and it is one of the first reports to show this effect on smallholder farm sites.

Crop Diversification Water Extractable Organic Carbon CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA DIVERSIFICATION LEGUMES PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER SOIL ORGANIC CARBON

Control óptimo de un sistema de presas: un enfoque de perturbaciones pequeñas a la solución de programación dinámica estocástica

JAIME COLLADO MOCTEZUMA (1993, [Artículo])

Un número importante de problemas hidrológicos prácticos, entre ellos la optimización de la operación de un sistema de presas, puede formularse mediante programación dinámica estocástica. Sin embargo, un método de solución factible no existe, excepto para problemas con estructura lineal-cuadrática o para sistemas con pocas variables de estado. Este artículo propone un método analítico-numérico a la solución del control óptimo estocástico de malla cerrada. La solución óptima está dada por el control determinístico más un término de corrección que toma en cuenta los efectos de la estocasticidad en una caracterización de segundos momentos. Se supone que dicho término es pequeño en comparación con el control determinístico y se obtiene una solución de perturbaciones pequeñas. Este método puede ser usado como una solución subóptima para problemas donde no es factible usar programación estocástica clásica. Comparaciones con métodos convencionales muestran que el método ofrece resultados muy cercanos al óptimo, incluso cuando la hipótesis de perturbaciones pequeñas es sólo aproximadamente satisfecha. Una ventaja atractiva del método propuesto es que no requiere discretización de las variables de estado ni de las de control, eludiendo el así llamado maleficio de la dimensionalidad.

Presas Modelos estocásticos Análisis numérico INGENIERÍA Y TECNOLOGÍA