利用ISSR技术分析禾谷镰孢菌群体遗传多样性的研究

采用ISSR标记对采自我国11个省的玉米茎腐病相关禾谷镰孢的遗传多样性进行分析。利用筛选出的14个ISSR引物对供试的115株禾谷镰孢菌株进行扩增,共获得63条扩增清晰、重复性高的条带,其中多态性条带为60条,占95.2%。扩增条带分子量为150～2000bp,平均每个引物扩增出4.5条带。遗传多样性分析表明,在地理种群水平上,基因多样性指数在0～0.2919之间,平均为0.1591;Shannon‘s多样性指数在0～0.4252之间,平均为0.2360,表明不同地理种群间存在一定的遗传变异。多样性指数、等位基因数的增大与各种群内样本数量增加有关。遗传相似性分析证明,山东省种群与河南省种群间的遗传相似性最高,内蒙古种群与河北省种群间遗传相似性最低。在相似性系数为0.682时,可将115个菌株区分为2个聚类组,各组下又可分为3个亚组,分组结果与菌株的地理来源有一定相关性,表明禾谷镰孢的遗传分化与生态地理有关。     

我国水稻主栽品种SSR多样性的比较分析

采用40个SSR标记,比较分析了151份20世纪50年代(78份）和近10年（73份）我国常规稻主栽品种的遗传差异,发现有39个标记具有多态性,多态性位点共检测到213个等位基因,每个位点2～11个,平均5.5个;平均Nei基因多样性指数(He)为0.649,范围在0.309（RM174）～0.869（RM418）。籼粳亚种间SSR多样性差异明显,籼稻平均等位基因数（Na）和Nei基因多样性指数（Na = 4.4,He = 0.458）均高于粳稻品种（Na = 4.0,He = 0.395）。比较了78份20世纪50年代与73份近10年水稻主栽品种的遗传多样性,籼、粳亚种表现出相近的变化趋势,即Nei多样性指数和等位基因数20世纪50年代主栽品种高于近10年的。虽然Nei基因多样性指数的变化并不显著（籼稻：z= 1.471,P=0.141;粳稻：z= 1.932,P=0.053）,但等位基因数目的变化达到显著水平（籼稻：z= 2.677,P=0.007;粳稻：z= 3.441,P=0.001）。分子方差分析(AMOVA)表明,遗传变异绝大部分存在于两时期内,尽管时期间平均贡献的遗传变异仅占1.9％,但仍然达到5％的显著水平;籼、粳亚种两时期间平均贡献的遗传变异高于整个分析样本,分别为5.0％和8.2％;籼、粳亚种不同位点的遗传分化程度也各不相同,籼稻和粳稻品种分别有13个（占33.3％）和11个（占28.2％）SSR位点的等位基因在两时期间差异显著,而其余位点的遗传变异则是因时期内品种间的差异引起的。研究表明近10年我国常规稻主栽品种丢失了一部分等位基因,水稻育种仍应加强更广泛的种质亲本的选择。     

基于COI基因解析我国茶网蝽种群遗传多样性和遗传结构

茶网蝽(Stephanitis chinensis)是我国西南茶区的重要害虫，近年有入侵成灾事件发生。为解析茶网蝽的生态适应机制和成灾规律，测定了茶网蝽12个种群共240头成虫COI基因序列，利用Dna SP 6.12.03、Arlequin3.5.2.2、MEGA 7.0.26等软件进行了遗传分化程度、基因流(N_m)以及分子变异情况的分析。结果显示，茶网蝽12个地理种群的240条COI基因序列共包含75个变异位点和38个单倍型，其中仅Hap13是共享单倍型。茶网蝽总群体的单倍型多样性指数(H_d)为0.827 79，地理种群的H_d在0.00～0.85，总群体的遗传分化固定系数(F_ST)为0.864 26,N_m为0.039 87，表明我国茶网蝽群体遗传分化程度较高，基因交流较小。重庆城口、重庆巫溪、湖北恩施、湖北十堰、陕西汉中等5个种群相互之间遗传分化程度较低，基因交流频繁(F_ST<0.06,N_m>4.50)，其他种群对之间...     

SSR荧光标记毛细管电泳分析24个广西常规香稻品种的遗传多样性

分析香稻品种的遗传多样性和理清香稻品种之间的亲缘关系,可为选育优质香稻品种提供参考。为分析广西审定的24个常规香稻品种的遗传多样性,明确其遗传差异,本研究利用SSR荧光标记毛细管电泳技术对24个广西常规香稻品种进行遗传多样性分析。结果表明,48对SSR引物共检测出170个等位基因位点;遗传多样性参数中观测等位基因数（Na）变化幅度为1～9,平均为3.54;有效等位基因数（Ne）的变化幅度为1～4.5534,平均为2.0736,其中有效等位基因数最高是RM21,其次是RM481、RM493和RM258,说明这4对引物有较高的检测效率;Shannon’s指数（I）的变化幅度为0～1.7942,平均为0.7726;多态信息含量（PIC）值的变化幅度为0～0.7541,平均为0.3732,属于中度多态位点,说明24个广西常规香稻品种具有一定的遗传变异。24个品种遗传相似系数范围为0.3299～0.9600,其中‘三香628’与‘农香32’遗传相似系数最小,说明这2个品种遗传基础差异最大,亲缘关系最远,‘万香696’与‘广粮香2号’遗传相似性系数最大,说明这2个品种遗传基础差异较小,亲缘关系接近...     

基于SSR标记的山西野生大豆种质资源遗传多样性分析

分析山西野生大豆资源的遗传多样性和遗传结构有助于了解山西野生大豆起源与进化,为野生大豆优异种质挖掘及资源高效利用等提供理论基础。本研究采用52对SSR分子标记对来自于山西省9个地区32个县市的70份野生大豆资源进行了遗传多样性分析。结果表明:共扩增出450个等位基因,平均每对引物扩增出8.7个等位基因,变幅为3～19。等位基因频率为0.185 7～0.885 7,平均0.421 0;基因遗传多样性指数为0.210 2～0.871 8,平均0.710 0;多态性信息含量为0.201 9～0.858 4,平均0.679 7。将所有供试材料按地理来源分类,并进行遗传多样性分析。结果表明,中部野生大豆资源的平均等位基因数、平均基因多样性指数和平均多态信息含量最高,北部次之,南部最低。而各组的平均主要等位基因频率结果与之相反。基于遗传结构和基于遗传距离的聚类分析都可将试验材料分为3个类群,两种分类结果基本相同。第一类群主要包括山西中部部分资源,第二类群主要包括山西中部部分资源和山西北部资源,第三类群主要包括山西南部资源。聚类结果与地理来源较为一致。山西野生大豆资源遗传多样性较高。中部野生大豆资源的遗传多样性最高,北部资源次之,南部资源最低。推测山西中部和北部曾经发生过种质交流,导致中部资源遗传多样性最高,该区域可能为山西野生大豆的遗传多样性中心。     

吉林省玉米新品种SSR标记指纹数据库的构建及其分析

以SSR标记为技术手段,利用20对核心引物,构建吉林省2005～2009年审定的174份普通玉米新品种的DNA指纹数据库,同时分析不同年份间审定品种的等位基因频率、等位基因数目、多态性信息指数的变化.结果表明,2005～2009年供试174份材料的平均等位基因数目略有下降,但平均多态性信息指数没有明显变化,不同年份间玉米品种的个别等位基因频率变化比较明显,分析可能在育种过程中人为施加了较强的定向选择而保留了下来,说明随着年份的变化,个别稀有等位基因可能在减少,但遗传多样性并没有降低.同时说明在评价玉米品种遗传多样性变化时,多态性信息指数反映的应该更加客观-些.吉林省玉米品种不同年度间的遗传多样性无明显变化,说明近些年吉林省审定的品种在育种资源、育种模式以及育种方向上变化较小,没有较大的突破.     

热带水稻优异种质资源的表型遗传多样性分析

有效管理和充分挖掘遗传多样性丰富的稻种资源对水稻育种具有重要意义。利用15个表型性状对来自9个热带国家和地区的127份热带水稻育种优异种质进行综合评价,比较分析不同来源热带水稻优异种质的表型差异和遗传多样性指数。结果表明：热带水稻种质资源表型性状差异明显,数量性状的变异系数为7.0%～23.8%,平均为12.04%,其中单株穗数比较大,谷粒长较小;Shannon-Wiener多样性指数分析结果表明,15个表型性状遗传多样性指数变化为0.603～2.066,平均为1.579,其中每穗总粒数比较高,穗型较小;9个不同来源地的热带水稻资源多样性指数为0.780～1.547,平均为1.219。不同来源的热带水稻种质各性状变异范围较大,各性状间存在显著差异,遗传多样性指数较高,可进一步发掘优异资源和有利基因,为培育和筛选优良热带水稻品种提供亲本来源。     

SSR标记对野生大豆种群遗传结构的研究

使用40对SSR引物分析了8个省区天然野生大豆种群的遗传结构和遗传多样性.结果表明:15个种群共检测到633个等位基因,平均每对引物等位变异基因数平均值15.83个;种群平均Shannon指数(Ⅰ)0.7835,种群平均期望杂合度(He)0.4070,种群平均观察杂合度(Ho)0.0012,平均种群内遗传多样度(Hs)...     

基于MSAP技术的中国野生大豆群体遗传多样性分析

为探究中国不同纬度的野生大豆天然种群的遗传多样性及其遗传结构,本研究利用MSAP技术分析研究27°～46°N的7个野生大豆种群的DNA甲基化多态性。结果表明:(1)223份材料、8对MSAP引物共扩增到1 617个位点,对所有位点的甲基化模式分析表明,Ⅳ型甲基化模式(位点缺失或者全甲基化)占比最多,为53.55%,Ⅱ型(半甲基化)和Ⅲ型(内侧甲基化)甲基化模式占比较少,分别为11.75%和13.25%。(2)基于非甲基化位点的Shannon指数在巴彦种群最低(I=0.279 6),在安化种群最高(I=0.313 0),遗传多样性呈现随纬度降低而逐渐升高的渐变趋势;而基于甲基化敏感位点的Shannon指数在巴彦种群最低(I=0.585 1),在桐柏种群中最高(I=0.603 0),其表观遗传多样性随纬度渐变呈现不规则波动。(3)基于非甲基化位点和甲基化敏感位点的遗传结构分析显示,在遗传上,同属于一个种群的材料能够聚类到一组,不同种群间出现了明显的遗传分化,而在表观遗传上,除了巴彦、衡山、安化的材料能各自聚类到一组以外,其余4个种群的材料交织在一起。(4)基于甲基化敏感位点的表观遗传距离和基于非甲基化位点的遗传距离相关性分析显示,二者在6个种群相关性显著,说明表观变异在多数情况下依赖于遗传变异,但也会在某些情况表现出一定的独立性。     

我国北方部分玉米自交系的遗传多样性分析

利用SSR分子标记技术,分析我国北方部分玉米自交系的遗传多样性。从79对SSR核心引物目录中,选出43对引物对52份玉米自交系进行遗传多样性研究,共检测到174个等位基因位点,每对引物检测到2～8个等位基因,平均每个位点的等位基因数4.35个,平均多态性信息量为0.593。UPGMA聚类分析结果表明,52份自交系划分为兰卡斯特群、瑞德群、旅大红骨群、塘四平头群和综合种群5个类群。生产上主要推广杂交种的亲本大多来自不同的类群。     

Comparative Assessment of the Efficacy of Various Nitrogen Fertilizers

Summary

The efficiency of N fertilizers is usually poor; often less than 50% of the applied N is taken up by the crop. This review focuses on various N fertilizers with respect to the significance of different N loss pathways, namely (i) ammonia volatilization, (ii) dinitrogen and nitrogen oxide emissions, and (iii) nitrate leaching. Further, the significance of biological N immobilization, ammonium fixation and, finally, the impact of nitrate vs. ammonium uptake on crop yield are also discussed. The reviewed literature shows that N fertilizers may differ markedly in their susceptibility to losses. There is, however, considerable scope to improve N efficiency of each N source by proper N management practices.     

Novel food and non-food uses for sorghum and millets

Sorghum and millets have considerable potential in foods and beverages. As they are gluten-free they are suitable for coeliacs. Sorghum is also a potentially important source of nutraceuticals such antioxidant phenolics and cholesterol-lowering waxes. Cakes, cookies, pasta, a parboiled rice-like product and snack foods have been successfully produced from sorghum and, in some cases, millets. Wheat-free sorghum or millet bread remains the main challenge. Additives such as native and pre-gelatinised starches, hydrocolloids, fat, egg and rye pentosans improve bread quality. However, specific volumes are lower than those for wheat bread or gluten-free breads based on pure starches, and in many cases, breads tend to stale faster. Lager and stout beers with sorghum are brewed commercially. Sorghum's high-starch gelatinisation temperature and low beta-amylase activity remain problems with regard to complete substitution of barley malt with sorghum malt . The role of the sorghum endosperm matrix protein and cell wall components in limiting extract is a research focus. Brewing with millets is still at an experimental stage. Sorghum could be important for bioethanol and other bio-industrial products. Bioethanol research has focused on improving the economics of the process through cultivar selection, method development for low-quality grain and pre-processing to recover valuable by-products. Potential by-products such as the kafirin prolamin proteins and the pericarp wax have potential as bioplastic films and coatings for foods, primarily due to their hydrophobicity.     

Evolutionary aspects of the trade-off between seed size and number in crops

Whereas the concept that availability of resources drives seed production is sound in principle, it is incomplete as there are many solutions to the allocation of resources that derive from the trade-off between number and size. This paper examines evolutionary aspects of this trade-off in annual grain crops. The analysis is centred on the working hypotheses that, for a given species and environment, allocation of resources to reproduction involves (H1) high plasticity in seed number, which allows for variable resource availability, and (H2) a relatively narrow range of seed size that results from evolutionary and agronomic selection. Comparisons between crops and fish are used to highlight common evolutionary elements in taxa where parents provide little or no care to their offspring, with the consequence that both number and early survival of offspring, hence fitness of parents, are partially related to embryo size and reserves.

The plasticity of seed number in relation to availability of resources is analysed against the established relationship between offspring number and parent growth rate during critical stages. The notion that seed size is under stabilising selection is analysed against three conditions: (1) mean seed size is conservative for a given species and environment, (2) seed size affects fitness, and (3) seed size is heritable. Databases from published papers were compiled to analyse the relative variability of seed size and number, and the heritability of seed size. Evidence for and against the link between seed size and parental fitness is revised using the Smith–Fretwell model as framework (Am. Nat., 108, 499–506).

The proposal of high plasticity of seed number and narrow variability of seed size resulting from stabilising natural selection is generally consistent with evolutionary and genetic considerations. Agronomic selection may have reinforced natural selection leading to relatively narrow seed size in species such as wheat and soybean, where cultivated types retained high plasticity for seed number. In contrast, selection for one or few inflorescences in crops like sunflower and maize may have morphologically reduced seed number plasticity and increased variability of seed size and its responsiveness to resource availability in relation to their wild ancestors.     

Citrus Flavonoids in Fruit and Traditional Chinese Medicinal Food Ingredients in China

Flavonoids-enriched tissues of citrus such as peel, immature fruit and flower are consumed as culinary seasonings, tea ingredients in China for centuries. This HPLC quantitative study on the five citrus flavonoids, naringin, hesperidin, neohesperidin, sinensetin and nobiletin on a wide range of Chinese citrus fruits and several Traditional Chinese Medicinal food ingredients in East China, revealed a great diversity in flavonoid composition. Huyou peel (C. paradisi cv. Changshanhuyou) was found to be the best naringin (3.25%) and neohesperidin (2.76%) source; C. aurantium, a major ingredient of several citrus-related TCM, is also a suitable source of naringin and neohesperidin, and a good juice source for flavanone glycosides; the peel of Wenzhoumiju (C. unshiu) is one of the richest local species in hesperidin (up to 6.25%); Zaoju (C. subcompressa) has the highest content of nobiletin (0.59%), a polymethoxylated flavone. LC-ES-MS analysis of Zanthoxylum genus for flavonoids revealed for the first time the presence of significant amounts (0.74%) of hesperidin in the root of Liangmianzhen (Z. nitidum (Roxb.) DC), a relative of Sichuan pepper, which is a spice widely used in China.     

Effect of a continuous hot water treatment of potato tubers on seed-borne fungal pathogens

Summary The viability of five pathogens was decreased by treatment with hot water when tested in vitro.Polyscytalum pustulans was most sensitive andRhizoctonia solani least sensitive. Potato tubers were exposed to 55°C for 5 min in a commercial continuous hot water treatment plant using naturally contaminated seed tubers and tubers which had been inoculated by dipping in comminuted cultures. The frequency of eyes colonised byP. pustulans, Helminthosporium solani, andR. solani was reduced to virtually zero and the effect persisted on tubers subsequently stored at 4°C and at 15°C for up to 16 wk. Results withColletotrichum coccodes were inconclusive. Treatment suppressedPenicillium spp. which, however, rapidly recolonised the eyes during storage, leading to higher contamination levels in the treated than in the untreated tubers. With tubers inoculated withPhoma foveata, good control was achieved when the incubation period before treatment was 10 d but not when the period was 42 d.     

Role of Benzoxazinones in Cereals

Summary

Heterocyclic 1,4-benzoxazin-3-ones and related benzox-azolinones are important natural products of the cereal crops maize, wheat and rye. Much research has focused on the role of these compounds as defensive agents against plant diseases and pests. Studies of a wide variety of biological effects on herbivores and nematodes, plant pathogenic fungi and bacteria are reviewed in this article. Phytotoxic activity of the compounds is also considered with respect to allelopathic interaction with higher plants. Recent investigations of molecular aspects of interactions of cyclic hydroxamic acids and related benzoxazo-linones with acceptor organisms have demonstrated different effective detoxification strategies and tolerance mechanisms. This research has greatly advanced our knowledge about the multiple roles that these allelochemicals play in ecological systems.     

Potential of dry fractionation of wheat bran for the development of food ingredients,part I: Influence of ultra-fine grinding

Wheat bran is an undervalued by-product of white flour and has great nutritional potential due to its high content in fibres and bioactive compounds. Micronized bran could be used as a food ingredient to improve the nutritional potential of cereal products, or be used as a starting material for other processes (bioactive compound extraction or bran fractionation). The aim of this work was to find a way to efficiently decrease the particle size of bran. The influence of the grinding temperature (ambient or cryogenic grinding) on the granulometric distribution of particles, their composition, and their microstructure was studied, at lab-scale and pilot-scale. It showed that the intrinsic characteristics of bran (glass transition within intermediate layers at −46 °C) had more influence on its grinding behaviour than the type of grinding device used: the particles size distributions obtained after grinding at lab-scale and pilot-scale were very similar. At both scales, the granulometric curves were narrow for cryogenic grinding, while for ambient grinding they were spread over the whole particle size range. Ultrafine particles were obtained in both ambient and cryogenic conditions. Negative temperatures, by increasing the material’s brittleness, favoured a fast fragmentation of bran: one step of cryogenic grinding allowed a median particle size of nearly 50 μm to be reached, whereas three successive steps of ambient grinding were needed for the same result. On the other hand, ambient temperature favoured the dissociation of the different constituent layers of wheat bran, and produced less composite particles than cryogenic grinding.     

Multiple use of plants: Studies on selenium incorporation in some agricultural species for the production of organic selenium compounds

The technique of spraying plants with inorganic forms of selenium can be employed for phytochemical production of organic selenium compounds. Fractionation of the plant material makes it possible to produce a highly concentrated and well defined selenium supplement with potential use in animal and human nutrition. The fractionation also gives opportunities to combine production of organic selenium compounds with other products, for example plant fibres. Multiple use of plants can contribute to a more efficient utilization of land area (in comparison to monocultures solely adapted to food production). It also gives the opportunity to develop systems suitable for long term fixation of carbon, as long as the plant material is not reoxidised to carbon dioxide. Plant fibres could provide raw material for the production of paper or building materials in combination with the production of organic selenium compounds preferentially accumulated in another fraction of the processed plant.     

Biological factors influencing the transmission of potato leafroll virus by different aphid species

Summary Macrosiphum euphorbiae, collected in the field from potato plants infected with potato leafroll virus (PLRV), transmitted the virus to fewer potato plants in a field trial than did laboratory-rearedMyzus persicae. In the laboratory,M. persicae was the only efficient vector of PLRV fromPhysalis floridana seedlings, potato sprouts or excised leaves toP. floridana. Two clones ofM. euphorbiae and one clone ofAulacorthum solani transmitted PLRV from infected potato plants toNicotiana clevelandii as effeciently asM. persicae but a clone ofAphis gossypii was an inefficient PLRV vector. An isolate of PLRV, whichM. persicae transmitted inefficiently from potato toN. clevelandii, was also transmitted inefficiently byM. euphorbiae andA. solani.