不同土壤紧实度对棉花根系生长的影响

试验于１９９２－１９９５年在扬州大学农学院进行。供试棉花品种岱１５，设砂、粘土不同溶重盆栽。结果指出，容重１．１ｇ／ｃｍ＾３处理，根系长势“前旺后衰”，容重１．４ｇ／ｃｍ＾３和１．５ｇ／ｃｍ＾３处理根系生长始终处于劣势，而容重１．２ｇ／ｃｍ＾３和１．３ｇ／ｃｍ＾３处理主根生长率与一次侧根增长率高，主根长，一次侧根量大，根系活力强，吸收氮、磷、钾多，长势“前强后稳”，为最优处理；还发现，棉根干重随土     

棉花杂种优势与几种生理生化指标的相关性

对８个陆地棉杂种及其亲本的四种生理生化指标进行了测定，并研究了这些指标与杂种产量优势的相关性，结果表明：幼芽匀浆互补法对Ｆ１皮棉超亲优势、中亲优势的预测相符率分别为８７．５％和７５．０％；杂种萌动种子ＡＴＰ含量普遍高于双亲平均值。超亲优势、中亲优势与杂种ＡＴＰ含量及双亲ＡＴＰ含量的平均值均呈正相关，且中亲优势与杂种ＡＴＰ含量相关显著（ｒ＝０．７１８８，Ｐ〈０．０５）；杂种产量优势与盛蕾期、盛花期的     

棉纤维发育相关基因时空表达与纤维品质的关联分析

以14个纤维品质差异的棉花品种(或品系)为材料,研究10个纤维发育相关基因时空表达变化与纤维品质的关系,为阐明棉纤维发育相关基因与纤维品质形成关系提供理论基础。利用实时荧光定量PCR技术检测10个基因在14个供试品种(或品系)不同纤维发育时期的相对表达量,结果表明,虽然遗传背景完全不同,但它们具有某些共同表达特征。GhExp1、GhCIPK1、GhSus1、GhSusA1和GhPL这5个基因都是在纤维伸长期优势表达;GhACT1、GhRacA和GhRacB是在纤维伸长前期和次生壁加厚期高表达;而GhCelA1和GhcelA3是在纤维伸长后期和次生壁加厚期优势表达。这些基因表达谱与纤维品质关联分析显示,GhRacA在23DPA高表达且表达量与纤维品质显著正相关,其余基因在低表达时其表达量与纤维品质呈显著性相关,而在高表达时其表达量与纤维品质无相关性。GhExp1在20DPA的表达量与纤维比强度和整齐度呈显著负相关,与伸长率呈极显著正相关;GhPL在23DPA的表达量与纤维长度呈显著负相关;GhRacA在5DPA和23DPA的表达量均与伸长率呈极显著正相关;GhRacB在10DPA的表达量与长度和整齐度呈显著负相关;GhCelA1基因在5DPA的表达量与纤维长度呈显著正相关,与马克隆值呈显著负相关,在10DPA的表达量与马克隆值呈显著正相关,与伸长率达到极显著正相关,与比强度呈显著负相关,与长度和整齐度呈极显著负相关;GhCIPK1、GhACT1、GhSus1、GhSusA1和GhCelA3 这5个基因在纤维发育各时期的表达量与纤维品质各指标未检测到相关性。     

棉花质核不育材料晋A的发现与观察

发现并系统观察了棉花雄性不育材料晋Ａ。通过镜检、自交、测交、回交、开放授粉和网罩试验表明，此材料不育性完全而稳定，陆地棉品种可作其完全保持系，海岛棉品种可使其育性恢复，是我国新发现的又一质核不育材料。其不育胞质来自陆地棉，但与其它胞质系不同，这一发现为棉花三系配套、实现产量上的突破提供了新的胞质基因源。     

陆地棉与7个野生棉杂种细胞学研究

分析了四倍体栽培种陆地棉与辣根棉、哈克尼西棉、旱地棉、雷蒙德氏棉、裂片棉、异常棉和司笃克克棉等二倍体野生棉种间杂种Ｆ１的细胞学，花粉母细胞中期Ｉ染色体平均构型依次为：１４．６２Ⅰ＋１１．９３Ⅱ＋０．１７Ⅲ、１４．２１Ⅰ＋１２．３６Ⅱ＋０．０２Ⅲ、１１．７０Ⅰ＋１３．５２Ⅱ＋０．０９Ⅲ、１３．５６Ⅰ＋１２．７２Ⅱ、１４．１０１＋１２．２７Ⅱ＋０．１２Ⅲ、２８．１９Ⅰ＋５．１６Ⅱ＋０．１６Ⅲ和３１．２     

中国科学家在棉花纤维发育研究领域取得最新进展

在最近短短的几年时间里,中国科学家群体在相关国家科学基金的支持下,利用功能基因组学技术手段在棉花纤维发育研究领域取得了令人瞩目的突破性进展,使我国在棉纤维发生发育的分子机制研究方面处于世界领先地位,其中重要的研究结果发表在国际著名的期刊《ThePlantCell》等杂志上。从分子水平弄清控制棉纤维细胞伸长的真正机制,对于棉花纤维的发生与伸长的调控以及高等植物的生长和形态的建成具有重要科学意义和显著的学术意义。通过棉花纤维发育的基础研究,建立了棉纤维品质分子改良的技术平台,同时为棉花分子育种提供了纤维品质改良的关键功能基因,为进一步显著提高棉花纤维品质,创制纤维品质优异的新材料奠定了重要的基础。     

Simple sequence repeats as useful resources to study transcribed genes of cotton

Microsatellites or Simple Sequence Repeats(SSRs) are informative molecular genetic markers in many crop species. SSRs are PCR-based, highly polymorphic, abundant, widely distributed throughout the genome and inherited in a co-dominant manner in most cases. Here we describe the presence of SSRs in cDNAs of cotton. Thirty one SSR primer pairs of 220 (∼14%) tested led to PCR amplification of discrete fragments using cotton leaf cDNA as template. Sequence analysis showed 25% of 24randomly selected cDNA clones amplified with different SSR primer pairs contained repeat motifs. We further showed that sequences from the SSR-containing cDNAs were conserved across G. barbadense and G. hirsutum, revealing the importance of the SSR markers for comparative mapping of transcribed genes. Data mining for plant SSR-ESTs from the publicly available databases identified SSRs motifs in many plant species,including cotton, in a range of 1.1 to4.8% of the submitted ESTs for a given species. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Tillage, cover crops, and nitrogen fertilization effects on soil nitrogen and cotton and sorghum yields

Sustainable soil and crop management practices that reduce soil erosion and nitrogen (N) leaching, conserve soil organic matter, and optimize cotton and sorghum yields still remain a challenge. We examined the influence of three tillage practices (no-till, strip till and chisel till), four cover crops {legume [hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth)], nonlegume [rye (Secaele cereale L.)], vetch/rye biculture and winter weeds or no cover crop}, and three N fertilization rates (0, 60–65 and 120–130 kg N ha⁻¹) on soil inorganic N content at the 0–30 cm depth and yields and N uptake of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) and sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]. A field experiment was conducted on Dothan sandy loam (fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic, Plinthic Paleudults) from 1999 to 2002 in Georgia, USA. Nitrogen supplied by cover crops was greater with vetch and vetch/rye biculture than with rye and weeds. Soil inorganic N at the 0–10 and 10–30 cm depths increased with increasing N rate and were greater with vetch than with rye and weeds in April 2000 and 2002. Inorganic N at 0–10 cm was also greater with vetch than with rye in no-till, greater with vetch/rye than with rye and weeds in strip till, and greater with vetch than with rye and weeds in chisel till. In 2000, cotton lint yield and N uptake were greater in no-till with rye or 60 kg N ha⁻¹ than in other treatments, but biomass (stems + leaves) yield and N uptake were greater with vetch and vetch/rye than with rye or weeds, and greater with 60 and 120 than with 0 kg N ha⁻¹. In 2001, sorghum grain yield, biomass yield, and N uptake were greater in strip till and chisel till than in no-till, and greater in vetch and vetch/rye with or without N than in rye and weeds with 0 or 65 kg N ha⁻¹. In 2002, cotton lint yield and N uptake were greater in chisel till, rye and weeds with 0 or 60 kg N ha⁻¹ than in other treatments, but biomass N uptake was greater in vetch/rye with 60 kg N ha⁻¹ than in rye and weeds with 0 or 60 kg N ha⁻¹. Increased N supplied by hairy vetch or 120–130 kg N ha⁻¹ increased soil N availability, sorghum grain yield, cotton and sorghum biomass yields, and N uptake but decreased cotton lint yield and lint N uptake compared with rye, weeds or 0 kg N ha⁻¹. Cotton and sorghum yields and N uptake can be optimized and potentials for soil erosion and N leaching can be reduced by using conservation tillage, such as no-till or strip till, with vetch/rye biculture cover crop and 60–65 kg N ha⁻¹. The results can be applied in regions where cover crops can be grown in the winter to reduce soil erosion and N leaching and where tillage intensity and N fertilization rates can be minimized to reduce the costs of energy requirement for tillage and N fertilization while optimizing crop production.     

海岛棉零式果枝与长果枝品种间杂交F1目标产量性状的决策分析

采用MINQUE（1）统计方法，利用AD模型对9个海岛棉品种（系）及其20个F1组合产量性状的两年资料进行了相关分析和目标产量性状的决策分析。结果表明，不同性状间遗传组分相关系数的大小顺序并不能代替其他性状对霜前皮棉产量和皮棉总产决策系数的大小顺序。还确定了提高海岛棉零式果枝与长果枝品种间杂交杂种后代霜前皮棉产量     

栽培株种纤维不同部位的电镜观察

应用扫描电镜对四个栽培棉种纤维的基部、中部、顶部位进行了观察研究，不同株种成熟纤维的形态差别以中部最为明显，表现出种间的遗传特征。在纤维表面观察到有似梭脊和沟槽的皱纹，它的分布和数量在二倍体棉种（亚洲棉和草棉）与四倍体棉种（海岛棉和陆地棉）间存在明显差异。棉纤维表面的皱纹能增加单纤维间的接触面和摩擦