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More Corn For Biofuels Would Hurt Water, Study Shows

ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2009) — More of the fertilizers and pesticides used to grow corn would find their way into nearby water sources if ethanol demands lead to planting more acres in corn, according to a Purdue University study.

The study of Indiana water sources found that those near fields that practice continuous-corn rotations had higher levels of nitrogen, fungicides and phosphorus than corn-soybean rotations. Results of the study by Indrajeet Chaubey, an associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and Bernard Engel, a professor and head of agricultural and biological engineering, were published in the early online version of The Journal of Environmental Engineering.

"When you move from corn-soybean rotations to continuous corn, the sediment losses will be much greater," Chaubey said. "Increased sediment losses allow more fungicide and phosphorus to get into the water because they move with sediment."

Nitrogen and fungicides are more heavily used in corn crops than soybeans, increasing the amounts found in the soil of continuous-corn fields. Sediment losses become more prevalent because tilling is often required in continuous-corn fields, whereas corn-soybean rotations can more easily be no-till fields, Engel said.

"The common practice is there is a lot of tillage to put corn back on top of corn," Engel said. "Any time we see changes in the landscape, there is a potential to see changes in water quality."

Chaubey said there was no significant change in the amount of atrazine detected in water near fields that changed to continuous-corn rotations. The commonly used pesticide sticks to plant material and degrades in sunlight, keeping it from reaching water through runoff or sediment.

U.S. Department of Agriculture data has shown that corn acreage has increased with the demand for ethanol, with 93 million acres in 2007, an increase of 12.1 million acres that year.

"As we look forward here, if corn stover is going to be a preferred bio-feedstock, we would see more corn acreage being planted," Engel said. "We need to know how that will affect water quality."

The USDA and Purdue funded the study. Chaubey and Engel are expanding their research to Iowa, Tennessee and Arkansas. That three-year study will include impacts of various biofeedstock, such as switch grass, and developing management practices to reduce sediment, nutrient and pesticide losses.

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USE OF DNA TYPING FOR CRIMINAL CASEWORK IN SRI LANKA

USE OF DNA TYPING FOR CRIMINAL CASEWORK IN SRI LANKA
Nalin C.W. Goonesekere, Ph.D., Maya B. Gunasekera, Ph.D., and Neil Fernandopulle, B.Sc.
Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka is a small island of 17 million people, situated in the Indian Ocean.  It is a member of the
Commonwealth of Nations, and its system of justice has elements of both English Law as well as Roman
Dutch Law.  There has been no special legislation enacted specifically to deal with DNA evidence.  Under
the current laws of evidence, blood samples can be obtained from suspects for DNA typing, provided
prior consent is obtained.  However, it is possible to obtain a buccal swab, or hair samples, without
consent from the suspects.
We began our work on DNA typing in Sri Lanka in 1996, due to the considerable public interest in this
field.  The reason for this is that apart from its relevance to routine criminal investigations, DNA typing can
also be applied to identify victims in mass graves, and victims of bomb blasts.  We selected the short
tandem repeat (STR) method
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 of DNA typing, because it has the twin advantages of high sensitivity, and
the easy assignment of alleles.  Further, this method does not require the use of radioactive chemicals,
and is also technically less demanding than methods based on minisatellites.
We began by establishing population databases for some selected STR markers through a research
grant from the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka.  The STR markers we selected included the
CTT system, the FFv system and the Silver STR system (Promega Corporation, U.S.A.).  While we were
engaged in our research project, a particularly gruesome mass murder took place in Sri Lanka shocking
the entire nation.

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