The relationship between precipitation and cloud properties in Southwest China are investigated by using the CLARA‐A2 cloud parameters data and TRMM‐3B43 precipitation data from 1998 to 2015. Ice water path (IWP) and cloud top height (CTH) are significantly and positively correlated with precipitation in all regions, indicating that ice‐phase processes and cloud development processes are the critical processes influencing prec...

The Streptomyces lateritius Z1‐26 was isolated from soil samples which showed broad‐spectrum antibacterial activity against a broad range of fish pathogens. The In Vivo Imaging System (IVIS) monitored that strain Z1‐26 could survive and colonize in the gills and abdomen of crucian carp. The effects of dietary supplementation with strain Z1‐26 were evaluated with respect to the growth performance, antioxidant capacity, and immu...

Lightning matters to human life and natural fires so much that monitoring and predicting lightning are highly important. A simple proxy for climatic cloud‐to‐ground (CG) density is evaluated defined as the product of convective available potential energy (CAPE) and precipitation rate using data from 2005 to 2017 in Sichuan of Southwest China. CAPE times precipitation rate (CP) relates the monthly distribution and magnitude of...

The basic characteristics of cloud water, precipitation, and the dependence of precipitation efficiency (PE) on the influencing factors over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are investigated. Results found that the liquid water path shows a significant downward trend in winter over the TP, and the ice water path shows a significant upward trend in the pre‐monsoon and winter seasons and a significant downward trend in the monsoon seaso...

Summary Lysine metabolism plays an important role in the formation of the insecticidal crystal proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). The genes lam , gabD and sucA encode three key enzymes of the lysine metabolic pathway in Bt4.0718. The lam gene mainly affects the cell growth at stable period, negligibly affected sporulation and insecticidal crystal protein (ICP) production. While, the deletion mutant strains of the gabD an...