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Plant Gas Scientists have been studying natural sources of methane (甲烷,沼气) for decades but hadn’t regarded plants as a produ
Plant Gas Scientists have been studying natural sources of methane (甲烷,沼气) for decades but hadn’t regarded plants as a produ
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2011-01-02
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Plant Gas
Scientists have been studying natural sources of methane (甲烷,沼气) for decades but hadn’t regarded plants as a producer, notes Frank Keppler, a geochemist(地球化学家) at the Max Planek Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. Now Keppler and his colleagues find that plants, from grasses to trees, may also be sources of the greenhouse gas. This is really surprising, because most scientists assumed that methane production requires an oxygen-free environment.
Previously, researchers had thought that it was impossible for plants to make significant amounts of the gas. They had assumed that microbes(微生物) need to be in environments without oxygen to produce methane. Methane is a greenhouse gas, like carbon dioxide. Gases such as methane and carbon dioxide trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere and contribute to global warming.
In its experiments, Keppler’s team used sealed chambers (室,房间;腔) that contained the same concentration of oxygen that Earth’s atmosphere has. They measured the amounts of methane that were released by both living plants and dried plant material, such as fallen leaves.
With the dried plants, the researchers took measurement at temperatures ranging from 30 degrees Celsius to 70 degrees C..At 30 degrees C., they found, a gram of dried plant material released up to 3 nanograms(微克) of methane per hour (One nanogram is a billionth of a gram. ). With every 10-degree rise in temperature, the amount of methane released each hour roughly doubled.
Living plants growing at their normal temperatures released as much as 370 nanograms of methane per gram of plant tissue per hour. Methane emissions tripled (增加三倍) when living and dead plant was exposed to sunlight.
Because there was plenty of oxygen available, it’s unlikely that the types of bacteria( bacterium 的复数,细菌) that normally make methane were involved. Experiments on plants that were grown in water rather than soil also resulted in methane emissions. That’s another strong sign that the gas came from the plants and not soil microbes.
The new finding is an "interesting observation," says Jennifer Y.King, a biogeochemist(生物地球化学家) at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. Because some types of soil microbes consume methane, they may prevent plant-produced methane from reaching the atmosphere. Field tests will be needed to assess the plant’s influence, she notes.
Which of the following about methane is Not mentioned in the passage?
选项
A、Plants growing in soil release methane.
B、Plants growing in water release methane.
C、Soil microbes consume methane.
D、Microbes in plants produce methane.
答案
D
解析
最后两段告诉我们,无论在封闭中还是在水中生长的植物都能释放沼气,封闭中的微生物消耗沼气,使沼气不至于进入空气。所以A、B、C的内容均符合短文最后两段中作者的意思。D项内容短文中没有提到。
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