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In order to study deeply the cause of mal-operation of the current increment protection and then redo the setting calculation, the all-parallel AT traction network model and the simulation model of Electric Multiple Units (EMU) are established. Using the model that has been established and Simulink simulation tool, the situation while the EMU is being started, passing neutral section or the traction network has grounding fault with interruption was simulated. The simulation result show that the current increment when the EMU starting is significantly different from that situation when fault occurring. While the situation when the EMU passing neutral section is the opposite. So we can draw a conclusion that the current increment protection will not appear mal-operation when the EMU starting and when passing neutral section may appear mal-operation. Finally, the current increment protection setting principle has been improved, and its feasibility has been verified.

NAM is an important domestication gene and valuable to enhance grain protein contents (GPCs) of modern wheat cultivars. In the present study, 12 NAM-G1 genes in Triticum timopheevii Zhuk. (AAGG, 2n = 4x = 28) were cloned. These genes had the same length of 1546 bp including two introns and three exons, and encoded a polypeptide of 407 amino acid residues which contained a N-terminal NAC domain with five sub-domains, and a C-terminal transcriptional activation region (TAR). They were highly similar to the previously published functional NAM-B1 gene DQ871219 from T. turgidum ssp. dicoccoides Korn. (AABB, 2n = 4x = 28) in both the nucleotide and protein sequence's, with a very high identity of 99.5%. The differences among the 12 NAM-G1 genes resulted from 17 SNPs including 14 transitions and 3 transversions. They had outstandingly different expression levels in qRT-PCR. And, their relative expression quantities were significantly positively correlated with GPC of the accessions. In addition, the difference in amino acid sequences of the NAM-G1 genes may also affect the GPC variation. Crown Copyright (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.

Different stressed conditions impair plant growth and further, cause great loss of crop yield and even lead to lose production completely. Increasing resistance/tolerance of crops under stressed conditions is a major goal of numerous plant breeders, and many elegant works are focusing on this area to uncover these complicated mechanisms underlying it. However, the traditional strategies including physiological and biochemical methods, as well as studies on a few genes, can not well understand the overall biological mechanism. Microarray analysis opens a door to uncover these cryptic mechanisms, and has the ability of detecting gene transcription and regulation at genomic level in different plant tissues. And works in association with related methods of proteomics and metabolomics. Therefore, it is possible to locate genes in certain key metabolism pathways. Through these procedures, it is also possible to look for critical genes in the pathway and to well understand the molecular mechanism of resistance/tolerance. These results can be as a guidance for increasing the resistance/tolerance of stressed conditions using biotechnology methods in future. This paper mainly focused on and discussed the advances of microarray analysis of stressed conditions-related genes in plants.

Biotic and abiotic stresses influence plant growth and cause great loss to crop yield. In the long course of evo-lution, plants have developed intricate biological mechanism to resist stressed conditions. Under various stressed conditions, not only the protein-coding genes, but also the non-protein-coding genes were induced for response. More and more re-searches showed that the transcripts of these non-protein-coding genes played important role in regulation of gene expres-sion. miRNA is one of the groups in these no-coding regulatory small RNAs. Recent findings showed that in order to resist the biotic and abiotic stresses, expression of microRNA (miRNA) genes will be induced and their transcripts (miRNAs) can regulate gene expression by guiding target mRNA cleavage or translation inhibition. This paper focused on the advances of plant miRNAs research in stressed conditions, especially induced expression of miRNA and target gene regulation and its role on adaptation under stressed conditions. Then, the methods of miRNA researches in stressed environments are dis-cussed.

This paper describes a harmonic analysis model for CRH2 EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) and provides a harmonic power flow algorithm for its traction power supply system. This algorithm gives full consideration to coupling influence between the traction networks (harmonic voltage), and the fundamental wave results are used as the final convergence condition, aiming to determine modulation characteristics and harmonic current characteristics of SPWM converter for EMU based on results of harmonic power flow, and to calculate harmonic power flow and to update fundamental power of harmonic source for fundamental power flow calculation. Analysis of harmonic power flow with single harmonic source and multi-harmonic sources shows that the algorithm is applicable to traction power supply system of high-speed rail with single harmonic source, multi-harmonic sources, and background harmonic.

Different stressed conditions impair plant growth and further, cause great loss of crop yield and even lead to lose production completely. Increasing resistance/tolerance of crops under stressed conditions is a major goal of numerous plant breeders, and many elegant works are focusing on this area to uncover these complicated mechanisms underlying it. However, the traditional strategies including physiological and biochemical methods, as well as studies on a few genes, can not well understand the overall biological mechanism. Microarray analysis opens a door to uncover these cryptic mechanisms, and has the ability of detecting gene transcription and regulation at genomic level in different plant tissues. And works in association with related methods of proteomics and metabolomics. Therefore, it is possible to locate genes in certain key metabolism pathways. Through these procedures, it is also possible to look for critical genes in the pathway and to well understand the molecular mechanism of resistance/tolerance. These results can be as a guidance for increasing the resistance/tolerance of stressed conditions using biotechnology methods in future. This paper mainly focused on and discussed the advances of microarray analysis of stressed conditions-related genes in plants.

Biotic and abiotic stresses influence plant growth and cause great loss to crop yield. In the long course of evolution, plants have developed intricate biological mechanism to resist stressed conditions. Under various stressed conditions, not only the protein-coding genes, but also the non-protein-coding genes were induced for response. More and more researches showed that the transcripts of these non-protein-coding genes played important role in regulation of gene expression. miRNA is one of the groups in these no-coding regulatory small RNAs. Recent findings showed that in order to resist the biotic and abiotic stresses, expression of microRNA (miRNA) genes will be induced and their transcripts (miRNAs) can regulate gene expression by guiding target mRNA cleavage or translation inhibition. This paper focused on the advances of plant miRNAs research in stressed conditions, especially induced expression of miRNA and target gene regulation and its role on adaptation under stressed conditions. Then, the methods of miRNA researches in stressed environments are discussed.

The genetic linkage map was constructed with 146 SSR markers based on a maize population consisting of 229 F2 individuals from the cross R15 (resistant) x 478 (susceptible), covering 1666cM on a total of ten chromosomes, with an average interval length of 11.4 cM. The disease index from the population of 229 F24 lines were evaluated for BLSB resistance under artificial inoculation at elongating stage and heading date. With the method of composite interval mapping (CIM) described in QTL cartographer v2.0 procedure, 9 QTLs among of 17 QTLs were identified on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 chromosomes at Jointing Stage, accounting for 3.72% to 9.26% of the phenotypic variance. The other 10 QTLs were identified on 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 chromosomes at elongating stage and heading date, accounting for 4.27% to 9.27% of the phenotypic variance. Among of them, two QTLs were detected at two stages, which were located between bnlgl600-umc1818 and umc1006-umc1723 on chromosome 2 and 6, respectively. The result indicated that the significant difference about QTL Controlling Resistance between the two stages had a close connection with Developing Stages, which was showed on the resistance of banded leaf and sheath blight in maize. So this result provided new information to the resistance breeding of maize.