转基因作物环境安全性研究进展

随着转基因作物在全球范围内的广泛应用,转基因作物的环境安全性问题日益受到重视,科研工作者们对此开展了大量的研究工作。本文对近年来这方面的研究成果进行了综述,主要内容包括:1)转基因作物的杂草化问题,这里面又包含两层含义,一是转基因作物自身的杂草化问题,多数研究表明转基因并没有提高作物的生存竞争能力,在没有选择压力的自然条件下,即使转入了抗病抗逆基因,转基因植株的生存竞争能力也没有增加,因此杂草化的可能性很小;二是转基因作物通过基因漂移使得同种或近缘野生种或得某种抗性而成为更加难以防除的“超级杂草”,由于不同植物种间杂交能力不同,外源基因转移并稳定遗传的几率受到多种因素的影响,不同作物的风险性也不同,因此必须经过长期的监测才能得出科学的结论;2)转基因作物对作物遗传多样性、物种多样性及生态系统多样性的影响:多数观点认为转基因作物会通过基因漂移,外来基因在农家品种或野生种中固定及其竞争优势导致遗传多样性减少乃至丧失,也有观点认为,从长远看,转基因作物将会增加作物的生产力,从而少用农田,少用农药,有助于保护生物多样性;转基因作物对物种多样性的影响正反两方面的报道均有,有待进一步的研究,尤其是研究分析方法亟待规范;转基因作物对生态系统多样性的影响仍在研究争论之中,尚无定论。     

柽柳MnSOD基因

在环境胁迫下,植物体内活性氧(ROS)的大量积累会对其本身产生毒害作用。SOD酶在清除这些活性氧化酶机制中发挥关键作用。大量研究表明,MnSOD可有效增强转基因植物抵抗氧化胁迫的能力。我们从抗逆性较强的木本植物紫杆柽柳中克隆到一个新的MnSOD基因,并将该全长基因在GenBank上注册,其登录号分别为AY573576(基因序列)和AAS77885(氨基酸序列)。这将为研究木本植物的抗逆机理和该酶在抗逆基因工程中的应用奠定基础。     

籼型红米雄性不育系红宝石的选育及其特性

为了对红米红宝石实现三系配套,回交转育了红宝石A,并对红宝石A进行了以下分析:不同细胞质来源的野败型不育系珍汕97A、印尼水田谷型不育系Ⅱ-32A、D型不育系D62A、G型不育系G46A、红宝石A(来源于D62A)育性基因具有等位性.而Bg1639、R527、R881、250(CDR22/Bg403)具有的恢复这几个不育系的恢复基因等位.通过考种分析,发现在每产量上红宝石A的F1杂种显著大于常规稻红宝石,最大每公顷能增产2 392.5kg,证明了红宝石A具有强的配合力和杂种优势,具有生产利用价值.     

利用太谷显性雄性核不育基因Tal选育小麦新品种初报

太谷雄性不育基因Tal,是小麦遗传改良极为有用的工具,利用它特别适于多亲本聚合杂交和轮回选择育种。经过几年的研究,已初步育成一批各具特色的优良新品种和新种质。通过抗赤霉病基因库建拓育成了长江8809、长江8863、TFSL037、长江8807、长江8810、长江8862等,产量比对照扬麦5号增产或相当,抗赤、抗锈性明显优于扬麦5号,对赤霉病抗扩展性达抗病(R)级,大多对白粉病、纹枯病及湿害还兼具较好抗耐性,株高80～90cm,抗性与丰产,矮秆结合较好。经复合杂交育成的长江8877(红壳)和长江8877(白壳)平均亩产400公斤左右,比扬麦5号增产100公斤左右,籽粒白皮,容重较高。通过简单杂交育成的长江8802、长江8853和长江8897,各具特异优良性状。长江8802白皮抗穗发芽,长江8853早熟优质,长江8897特早熟大穗大粒,品质好。     

Population dynamics of volunteer oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) affected by tillage

Volunteer plants of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) from persistent seeds in soil can affect subsequent crops. Apart from the agricultural disadvantages, the environment and the marketing of the seeds may also be affected, particularly if plants with special ingredients or genetically modified (gm) plants are grown. In order to investigate the influence of soil cultivation and genotype on seed persistence and gene flow via volunteers, a field experiment was set up testing four tillage treatments and two cultivars in a split-plot design. The cultivars tested were near-isogenic to two gm cultivars. To simulate harvesting losses, 10 000 seeds m⁻² were broadcast on a soil in July. The subsequent tillage treatments were combinations of immediate or delayed stubble tillage by a rotary tiller, primary tillage with plough or cultivator, or zero tillage. Over the following year, the fate of the seeds was determined. Immediate stubble tillage with following cultivator or plough resulted in 586 resp. 246 seeds m⁻² in the soil seed bank. After delayed stubble tillage with following plough, 76 seeds m⁻² were found, and no soil seed bank was built up in the zero tillage treatment. Nevertheless, in the zero tillage treatment, several robust volunteer plants survived the herbicide application before the direct drilling in autumn until following spring. In the zero tillage treatment and in the cultivator treatment, 0.19 volunteers m⁻² resp. 0.06 volunteers m⁻² flowered simultaneously to ordinarily sown oilseed rape in the following crop of winter wheat and produced 73 resp. 18 seeds m⁻². Delayed stubble tillage reduced the risk of gene escape via the soil seed bank, while zero tillage resulted in the highest risk of gene escape by pollen and by production of a new generation of seeds. In terms of a labelling threshold for gm food this number of seeds would be below the threshold of 0.9% of transgenic parts in conventially bred food or feed.     

高粱9个性状的配合力分析

通过对（３×４）和（４×５）的广义遗传力分析，初步可以看出，杂交种生育期、株高、茎高主要由亲本的加性基因所控制；千粒重、穗粒数、穗粒重、角质主要由亲本基因的显性效应和基因互作效应所控制；穗长和穗柄长的遗传控制中，加性效应和非加性效应近于相等。这种情况也为狭义遗传力的估值所证实。因而，运用上述材料与具有特殊性状优良的品系组成群体，进行轮回选择，能够选育出更有价值的材料来。     

Mutation Techniques for Gene Discovery and Crop Improvement

One of the most important breakthroughs in the history of genetics ）was the discovery that mutations can be artificially induced in organisms （van Harten, 1998）. Artificially induced mutations, by physical and chemical mutagens, have greatly advanced the understanding of genetics of higher organisms. Starting in the late 1960＇s, the International Atomic Energy Agency （IAEA） and the Food and Agriculture Organization （FAO） of the United Nations sponsored extensive research on mutation induction and their application to breeding of food and indnstrial crops that resulted in the introduction of new varieties of rice, wheat, barley, apples, citrus, sugar cane, banana, and others （more than 2 500 officially released new varieties are to be found in the FAO/IAEA Mutant Varieties Database） （hitp：//www-mvd.iaea.org/MVD/default.htm）. However, the usefulness of mutation techniques has been underappreciated in research communities, particularly during the last decade, when more and more researchers and breeders were rushing into molecular marker techniques and transgenic plants. In this paper, after a brief review of the past accomplishments of mutation induction and its application, we discuss the uniqueness of induced mutations in gene discovery and how to integrate induced mutants into functional genomics programs;     

Evaluation of seedling and adult plant resistance to stem rust in European wheat cultivars

A total of 105 European wheat cultivars were assessed for seedling and adult plant resistance (APR) to stem rust using an array of Australian isolates of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici. Twenty-seven cultivars were susceptible at both seedling and adult plant growth stages. Twelve catalogued seedling stem rust resistance genes (Sr7b, Sr8a, Sr8b, Sr9b, Sr9g, Sr11, Sr15, Sr17, Sr29, Sr31, Sr36 and Sr38) were detected in the remaining cultivars, and 13 cultivars carried additional seedling resistance genes that could not be postulated with the isolates used. Low levels of APR to stem rust were found in the cultivars Artaban, Forno, Mec, Mercia, Pandas and Vlada. Although the genetic identity of this APR was not determined, it was clear that the only designated stem rust APR gene Sr2 was not present in any of the cultivars tested based on the absence of the linked traits seedling chlorosis and pseudo black chaff. One of these cultivars, Forno, is believed to carry the leaf rust APR gene Lr34, previously reported to be associated with improved resistance to stem rust. A detailed genetic characterisation of the APRs in these cultivars will be needed to understand their modes of inheritance and relationships with catalogued stem rust resistance genes. Such knowledge may help in developing cultivars with effective gene combinations that confer higher levels of protection.     

Gene flow in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

This study was conducted in Brazil in order to assess the potential risk posed by gene escape from transgenic into non-transgenic plants and wild populations. A new methodology was applied to evaluate the gene flow between common bean cultivars, by means of a specially delineated experiment in two stages. The first stage consisted of the planting of one cultivar with violet flowers (BB) as pollen source (‘Diamante Negro’), and a receiver (‘Talismã’) with white flowers (bb), at different distances. The source was sown in the center of the area. The pollen receiver cultivar was sown, in concentrical squares around it. At maturity, the rows were sampled at varied distances from the source in the four cardinal directions. In the second stage, the sampled seeds of the previous stage were sown, and the percentage of outcrossing was evaluated during flowering through the presence of violet flowers (Bb). The highest frequency of natural hybrids, 0.136%, occurred at a distance of 0.5 m between the cultivars. The natural outcrossing rate was practically zero beyond a distance of 3.25 m.     

茶树叶绿素合成相关基因克隆及在白叶1号不同白化阶段的表达

高等植物叶绿素的生物合成对其正常光合作用起关键作用。本文根据前期芯片杂交结果, 采用RT-PCR和RACE技术克隆了3个茶树叶绿素合成相关基因, 分别为谷氨酸-tRNA还原酶(CsGluTR)、叶绿素合酶(CsChlS)、叶绿素酸醋氧化酶(CsCAO), 对应的GenBank的登录号为HQ660371、HQ660370、HQ660369。序列分析表明, CsGluTR基因全长2165 bp, 开放阅读框长1665 bp, 编码554个氨基酸, 推测的蛋白分子量约为60.6 kD, 理论等电点为8.78;CsChlS基因全长1463 bp, 其中开放阅读框长1125 bp, 编码374个氨基酸, 推测的蛋白分子量约为40.5 kD, 理论等电点为8.58;CsCAO基因全长2146 bp, 其中开放阅读框长1611 bp, 编码536个氨基酸, 推测的蛋白分子量约为60.8 kD, 理论等电点为8.03。比对分析表明, 3个基因编码的氨基酸序列与其他植物中同源基因的相似性均在70%以上。利用荧光定量PCR技术检测3个基因在不同白化阶段的表达,表明, CsChlS和CsCAO基因具有明显的表达协同性, 它们在叶片中的表达量与叶片的颜色变化高度同步;而CsGluTR在白化叶片和正常叶片中的表达差异相对较小, 同时在新生芽叶转绿过程中最先恢复正常表达水平。说明在白化叶片中, 叶绿素的合成机制受到较大影响, 叶绿素合成受阻导致的叶片内色素类物质含量降低或消失是叶片白化的直接原因。