Effects of Shuanghuanglian Propolis Oral Liquid on Growth Performance and Intestinal Microflora of Broilers

[ Objective] The paper was to investigate the effects of adding different levels of Shuanghuanglian propelis oral liquid in drinking water on growth performance and intestinal microflora of broilers. [ Method] Ninety one-day-old broilers were randomly divided into three groups （group I, group 1I and group III）： group I was the control group, and groups II and III were added with 0.5 and 1.0 mL/L Shuanghuanglian prepolis oral liquid in drinking water, respec- tively. [ Result] Compared with broilers in group I, the average daily gains of broilers in group II and group III increased significantly （ P 〈 0.05 ） ; the feed gain ratio of broilers in group III was significandy lower than that in group I （ P 〈 0.05 ） ; the number of intestinal LactobaciUus spp. in group II and group III in- creased significantly （ P 〈 0.05 ） ; the number of Salmonella spp. and Escherichia coli in group lII decreased significantly （ P 〈 0.05 ） ; the number of Bgrdobacterium spp. increased significantly （ P 〈 0.05 ）. [ Conclusion] Adding 0.5 and 1.0 mL/L Shuanghuanglian propolis oral liquid in drinking water could improve growth performance and intestinal micreflora of broilers, and the dose of 1.0 mL/L is recommended in clinical application.

Problems of New Plant Variety Protection System in China and Countermeasures

Protection of new plant varieties has been long neglected in China, which has already restricted agricultural technological renovation, and influenced export of Chinese agricultural products. The current scientific and technological management system is not favorable for the output of right of new plant variety, and high cost of protecting new plant varieties directly results in agricultural researchers' ignorance of right of new plant variety. Major causes were concluded as poor intellectual property awareness of peasants and agricultural researchers, government-arranged system for agricultural scientific and technological management, and hardship in safeguarding intellectual property due to the particularity of agricultural technology. In view of these problems, Chinese agricultural scientific and technological management system should be reformed, protection system of new plant varieties improved, more efforts devoted in protecting the right of new plant variety and also the owners' interest.

Recent Advances in Polyaniline-Based Thermoelectric Composites

Polyaniline(PANI)-based thermoelectric(TE)materials have attracted considerable attention for flexible electronic energy harvesting devices because of properties such assolution processibility,excellent environmental stability,and low cost.However,the typical opposite dependence between electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient impedes their development,and tremendous efforts have been devoted to increasing their TE efficiency.