高原人体生理适应学理论在进藏旅游中的应用

青藏铁路的贯通运行,带来了国内外进藏旅游热.然而,青藏高原毕竟是世界屋脊,高海拔带来的低氧及其引发的高原疾病依然威胁着游客的身体健康.健康高原旅行是当前游客进藏旅游的基本前提,通过综合国内外高原医学工作者对高原医学生理学的研究成果,提出阶梯进藏旅游的方法.旨在对越来越多的短期赴西藏高原旅行的人群以正确的健康指导,从而减...     

重视有害蚜虫研究,确保作物安全

<正>蚜虫隶属半翅目蚜虫总科,是世界上分布最广的微小昆虫之一。世界已知4 700余种,中国分布约1 100种[1-2]。蚜虫种类多、繁殖快、世代重叠,还存在孤雌生殖与两性生殖世代交替等独特生物学现象。许多蚜虫种类是非常重要的农作物害虫,其刺吸式口器可吸食植物汁液,造成植物生长不良,其唾液也对植物有毒害作用[3-4]。受蚜虫为害的植物具有多种不同症状,如生长率降低、产生叶斑、泛黄、发     

稻瘟病菌对三环唑抗药性测定方法的建立

研究了稻瘟病菌对三环唑抗药性的测定方法,确定了保绿培养基的成分,建立了抗药性测定的标准化模型。4叶I心期将稻苗在三环唑系列浓度药液中浸根处理36 h,剪取稻苗叶段插于100 μg/mL苯并咪唑+0.5％水琼脂保绿培养基上,用孢子含量为10⁵个/mL的稻瘟病菌孢子悬浮液喷雾接种,保湿培养8 d后调查结果,计算EC₅₀值。该测定方法与小苗测定相比较结果更加稳定且灵敏度高,重复性好。     

白刺花(Sophoraviciifolia)适应土壤干旱的生理学机制

用盆栽的方法人工控制土壤干旱条件,研究白刺花天然实生幼苗适应土壤干旱的生理学机制。结果表明:随土壤含水量的减少,白刺花叶水势在胁迫前期下降缓慢,随胁迫时间的延长,水势大幅度下降。白刺花通过在叶片内积累大量渗透保护性物质可溶性糖和K ,增加细胞的保水力,维持细胞生长所需膨压。白刺花游离脯氨酸含量变化与水分关系不大,可溶性蛋白质含量随土壤含水量减少而下降,可能是水分胁迫下受伤害的表现。随土壤水分含量的减少,白刺花SOD的活性明显升高,POD活性不高但随胁迫时间延长其活性较稳定,CAT活性下降但幅度不大,且CAT活性变化趋势与POD活性相反,说明三个保护酶能够相互配合协同作用,降低膜脂过氧化程度,减少水分胁迫造成的伤害,提高质膜稳定性,维持细胞膜的完整性,表现出很强的抗旱适应性。     

Heritability of Ulmus minor resistance to Dutch elm disease and its relationship to vessel size,but not to xylem vulnerability to drought

Dutch elm disease (DED) is a vascular wilt disease that causes the occlusion and cavitation of xylem vessels. Therefore, it is hypothesized that those elms that are less vulnerable to cavitation by drought might be more resistant to DED. To test this hypothesis, the relationship between xylem vulnerability to cavitation and susceptibility to DED was examined in progenies of crosses between susceptible and resistant individuals of Ulmus minor. Hydraulic conductivity and xylem vulnerability curves were evaluated and anatomical features such as vessel size, length and grouping were measured. Next, elms were inoculated with Ophiostoma novo‐ulmi, the cause of DED, and pre‐dawn and midday water potentials, stomatal conductance and wilting percentages were assessed. Progenies of R × R crosses showed significantly lower mean wilting percentages (30–50%) than the progeny of S × S crosses (75%). Fifty percent conductivity loss was reached at c. ?1 MPa, pointing out a high vulnerability of this species to drought‐induced cavitation. Crown wilting percentage as a result of inoculation and xylem vulnerability to cavitation by water stress did not show any significant correlation. Nevertheless, significant differences in theoretical hydraulic conductivity and vessel size parameters (diameter, length and size distributions) were found among the tested progenies. Susceptible trees had significantly wider and longer vessels. Xylem structure of resistant elms seems to restrict pathogen spread rather than prevent cavitation.     

A grower-friendly method to transfer predacious mites to commercial orchards

The establishment of predacious mites in commercial orchards may be accelerated by the transfer of pruned wood in winter and summer from donor orchards to release orchards. Following winter pruning, 3-year-old and older wood is collected and transported as soon as possible in bundles to a release orchard for distribution. If the release orchard is composed of dwarf trees, then one or two bundles of 5 kg each are placed vertically at the base of the trunk of every tree in the block (0.5 to 1 ha); if the trees are of standard size, then four or five bundles used. Following summer pruning, annual shoots and suckers are distributed immediately in a release orchard composed of dwarf trees by placing 12–15 branches on the foliage of fruit-bearing branches; if the release orchard is composed of standard trees, then 50 branches are used. The pruned wood should have 20–25 leaves and not less than one predator per leaf. The release orchard should have a light infestation (two or three mites per leaf) of pest tetranychids. These phytophagous mites would serve as food and help establish the predators. The release orchard grower should develop a pest management program based on the same groups of pesticides used in the donor orchard. http://www.phytoparasitica.org posting Aug. 31, 2005.     

Note to chew on: insect damage to musical instruments

Insects have a diverse range of ecologies that leaves many pre‐adapted to exploiting manufactured products as food sources, including musical instruments. To review what is known and to make recommendations for preventing and managing insect damage to musical instruments, we conducted a systematic search and a narrative review of the area. Of 339 papers, only eight peer‐reviewed publications met the inclusion criteria, and all were on xylophagous insects causing damage to wooden instruments. To supplement this material, we report a case of damage to the key pads (composed of felt enclosed in fish buoyancy bladder skin) of a clarinet by carpet beetles (Anthrenus verbasci (Dermestidae)), the first reported case of non‐woody damage and the first instance of insect damage rendering an instrument unplayable. To avoid such damage, regular inspection of instruments is recommended, and rapid treatment of any insect infestations in the immediate environment that could extend to affecting stored instruments. Instruments themselves can be extremely expensive, and if insects are still present these should only be treated by an expert; instrument cases can be more easily dealt with by heat treatment (black plastic bag in the sun) or application of a residual insecticide. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry     

Contribution of Fimbrial and Afimbrial Adhesins of Xylella fastidiosa to Attachment to Surfaces and Virulence to Grape

ABSTRACT The role of fimbrial and afimbrial adhesins of Xylella fastidiosa in biofilm formation was assessed by visualization of cell aggregates of mutant strains after incubation on glass surfaces. FimA- or FimF- fimbrial mutants adhered as solitary cells at a slightly lesser frequency to glass surfaces than the parental strain; however, cell aggregates were not formed, unlike the wild-type strain. Conversely, whereas the XadA- and HxfB- nonfimbrial mutants also exhibited a much lower frequency of adherence to glass surfaces than the wild-type strain, most of the cells retained on the surfaces were in cell aggregates of different sizes, much like that of the parental strain. Neither fimbrial or afimbrial mutants formed a mature biofilm on the sides of flasks of broth cultures, unlike the dense biofilm formed by the wild-type strain. Although FimA- and FimF- mutants did not form cell aggregates on glass surfaces when incubated as individual strains, aggregates of a FimA- or FimF- mutant were observed when co-incubated with either a XadA- mutant or HxfB- mutant, respectively. These results are consistent with a model in which the fimbrial adhesins FimA and FimF are involved preferentially in cell-to-cell aggregate formation whereas the afimbrial adhesions XadA and HxfB preferentially contribute to initial cell binding to surfaces, whereupon further cell aggregation can occur. In each of five separate experiments, FimA, FimF, XadA, and HxfB mutants of X. fastidiosa all were less virulent to grape than the corresponding wild-type strain. Fimbrial and afimbrial mutants might produce a reduced biofilm within vessels of grape and, hence, be deficient in various cell-density-dependent traits required for movement through the plant and, thus, virulence.     

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