裂叶牵牛花色变异株后代的表型分析

以花色变异的裂叶牵牛的15株自交后代为材料,对其植物学性状、花冠性状、花粉育性、花粉纹饰及结实性进行了表型分析。结果表明：15株后代植株生长较慢,藤蔓右旋、节间变短、攀缘能力差;每叶腋间着生1个花蕾,偶有2个同时着生。15株观察后代都开有蓝色和蓝白相间的花冠,在400多朵蓝白相间的牵牛花中,没有完全相同的花纹。在蓝自相间的花朵中有部分雄蕊出现瓣化现象,花粉观察表明雄蕊瓣化的花粉育性严重下降。蒴果和种子调查表明,雌蕊的育性并未降低,但电镜扫描观察发现,两者的表面性状(如纹饰)无差异,这种现象有待进一步研究。     

Ameliorating Nickel Stress by Jasmonic Acid Treatment in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Zea mays</Emphasis> L.

Plants need various micro and macronutrients for their growth and metabolism. Of these nickel (Ni) plays a role of micronutrient but causes adverse effects when present above optimum level. To combat such situations plants possess different growth regulators. Jasmonates are a class of plant growth regulators modulating various growth and physiological responses in plants. Aiming to evaluate the effect of nickel and jasmonic acid on growth and antioxidant enzymes Superoxide distmutase (SOD), Catalse (CAT), Ascorbate peroxidase (APX), Guaiacol peroxidase (GPX) and glutathione reductase (GR), seeds of Zea mays L. were sown in field after giving presowing treatment of NiSO₄ · 6H₂O (8 mM), jasmonic acid JA (10^–6, 10^–8 and 10^–10 M) alone and JA (10^–6, 10^–8 and 10^–10 M) in 1: 1 combination with NiSO₄ · 6H₂O (8 mM) in plant conservatory, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India. Plants of each treatment group were then subjected to spraying treatment with the respective treatment solutions at regular intervals of 22 days up to 66 days after sowing (DAS). The present findings signified reduced growth with Ni treatment but co-application of JA alleviated the effect of nickel through activity of antioxidant enzymes.     

Biomolecular relationships among isolates of<Emphasis Type="Italic">Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Tanzania Virus</Emphasis>

An investigation of the biological properties of the virus causing tomato yellow leaf curl disease in Tanzania was initiated to compare it with other known tomato yellow leaf curl viruses. Properties relating to acquisition and inoculation feeding time, persistence, mechanical inoculation, seed transmission and host range were studied. Results obtained indicate that the virus was transmitted persistently byBemisia tabaci Genn., but it was not mechanically, sap- or seed-transmissible. Minimum acquisition and inoculation feeding time was 30 min.Capsicum annuum, Datura stramonium, Nicotiana glutinosa, N. tabacum andLycopersicon esculentum were found to be hosts of the virus among the plant species tested, whereasPhaseolus vulgaris was not. It is concluded that the properties of the agent causing yellow leaf curl symptoms in tomato plants from different regions in Tanzania are similar to those ofTomato yellow leaf curl Sardinia virus species studied elsewhere. http://www.phytoparasitica.org posting Feb. 20, 2003.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Coumaric can alter the composition of cucumber rhizosphere microbial communities and induce negative plant-microbial interactions

Phenolics from root exudates or decaying residues are usually referred as autotoxins of several plant species. However, how phenolics affect soil microbial communities and their functional significances are poorly understood. Rhizosphere bacterial and fungal communities from cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) seedlings treated with p-coumaric acid, an autotoxin of cucumber, were analyzed by high-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA gene and internal transcribed spacer amplicons. Then, feedback effects of the rhizosphere biota on cucumber seedlings were evaluated by inoculating non-sterilized and sterilized rhizosphere soils to sterilized background soils. p-Coumaric acid decreased the bacterial diversity of rhizosphere but increased fungal diversity and altered the compositions of both the bacterial and fungal communities. p-Coumaric acid increased the relative abundances of microbial taxa with phenol-degrading capability (such as Chaetomium, Humicola, and Mortierella spp.) and microbial taxa which contained plant pathogens (such as Fusarium spp.). However, p-coumaric acid inhibited the relative abundances of Lysobacter, Haliangium, and Gymnoascus spp., whose species can have pathogen-antagonistic and/or plant-growth-promoting effects. The positive effect of cucumber rhizosphere microbiota on cucumber seedling growth was reduced by p-coumaric acid. Overall, our results showed that, besides its direct phytotoxicity, p-coumaric acid can inhibit cucumber seedling growth through generating negative plant-soil microbial interactions.     

Assessment of Genetic Diversity in Upland Cotton (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Gossypium hirsutum</Emphasis> L.) Breeding Lines by using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) Markers and Morphological Characteristics

Genetic diversity in 24 advanced breeding lines of cotton was studied by using six amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) primer-pairs and 14 morphological characters. The six selected AFLP primer-pairs generated a total of 535 amplification products, of which 460 were found to be polymorphic resulting in 85.9% polymorphism. The observed genetic distances using AFLP markers ranged from 30% to 87% with an average of 34%. A wide range of variability was observed for all the morphological traits studied. The range in taxonomic distance was from 0.60 to 2.77. Most of the lines could be clustered in two major clusters in both the analyses. But the correlation coefficient between the pair-wise distances estimated from AFLPs and the average taxonomic distances estimated from morphological characters was found to be 0.04. UPGMA cluster analysis revealed inconsistencies in the clustering patterns, as the co-phenetic correlation coefficient between the dendrograms for morphological and AFLP data indicated a poor fit for the two data types. From combined information, genotypes ‘RST-12’, ‘H 1226’, ‘P 348’, ‘KDCAKD’, ‘CISV 24’ and ‘H1222’ were found to be distinct from rest of the material.     

紫杆柽柳cDNA文库构建与硫氧还蛋白基因的克隆

以NaHCO3胁迫的紫杆柽柳(Tamarixandrossowii)为材料建立了cDNA文库。经检测,文库的初始滴度为5.7×105pfu,重组率为96%,插入片段的长度在0.3~3.0kb之间,平均长度为1.2kb,扩增后文库的滴度为4.0×109pfu/ml。对文库克隆进行随机测序,获得了紫杆柽柳的硫氧还蛋白(Thioredoxin)基因序列。生物信息学分析表明获得的硫氧还蛋白基因全长683bp,其中5'非翻译区长56bp,3'非翻译区长204bp,开放读码框长423bp,编码140个氨基酸,蛋白的分子量为15.1kD,理论等电点为5.59,其氨基酸序列中具有硫氧还蛋白的保守活性位点“WCGPC”序列,Clustal分析表明该硫氧还蛋白与蓖麻(Ricinuscommunis)的硫氧还蛋白氨基酸序列同源性高,达65%。本研究构建的cDNA文库为柽柳基因克隆和系统研究柽柳抗逆分子机理奠定了基础。     

Growth and yield of soybean varieties inoculated with <Emphasis Type="Italic">Bradyrhizobium</Emphasis> spp in N-deficient calcareous soils

This research reports the effect of Bradyrhizobium spp strains on dry matter yield, nodulation and seed yield of soybean varieties grown in N-deficient soil in Uzbekistan in pot and field experiments, in 2001 and 2002. The results of experiments revealed that significant positive effects on growth, nodule number and yield of soybean were obtained after inoculation with Bradyrhizobium spp strains; and, generally, strains S62 and S63 were more effective than strain S61. The protein content of seeds also increased after inoculation. Both Orzu and Uzb2 soybean varieties gave a higher response than the Uzb6 variety.     

Isolation,Characterization and Quantification of Tricin and Flavonolignans in the Medicinal Rice Njavara (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Oryza sativa</Emphasis> L.), as Compared to Staple Varieties

Njavara is an important medicinal rice variety of Kerala, India, widely used in Ayurveda as a ‘health food’ and in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, paralysis, neurodegenerative diseases and in rejuvenation therapy. Phytochemical investigations and spectroscopic studies of the diethyl ether fraction of methanolic extract of Njavara Black (NB) rice bran gave three important compounds namely, tricin and two rare flavonolignans- tricin 4′-O-(erythro-β-guaiacylglyceryl) ether and tricin 4′-O-(threo-β-guaiacylglyceryl) ether. The EC₅₀ values of these compounds in DPPH system were 90.39, 352.04 and 208.1 μg/ml, respectively. Quantification of the compounds by HPLC in NB and staple, non-medicinal rice varieties Sujatha (SJ) and Palakkadan Matta (PM) showed that tricin is present 39.64 and 16.12 fold higher in NB, compared to SJ and PM, respectively. This is the first report on the occurrence of tricin at significantly higher levels in Njavara and occurrence of the two flavonolignans in Oryza sativa species. Of the three compounds, tricin and the threo- form of flavonolignan showed anti-inflammatory effect of >65% after 5 h, at 2 mg/kg, in carrageenan-induced, paw edema experiments in rats. The results of the study corroborate with the preferential use of Njavara in indigenous medicine, over staple varieties.     

Movement of the fluvial form of masu salmon, <Emphasis Type="Italic">Oncorhynchus masou masou</Emphasis>, in a mountain stream in Kyushu,Japan

Using mark-recapture methods, the movements of the fluvial form of masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou masou) in a mountain stream on the island of Kyushu, Japan, were studied. Most (78%) of the masu salmon were recaptured in the pool in which they had been originally caught and tagged. Of those that moved between pools, the proportion of individuals that moved during the breeding period was not significantly higher than the proportion that moved during the non-breeding period. However, during the breeding period, a higher proportion of larger salmon moved than did smaller fish. The proportion of mobile large males during breeding period was higher than that for small males. Also, it was found that a few individuals showed long-range movement in the autumn. As a long-term movement, 78 individual fish (65%) that were recaptured more than three times showed high sedentary tendencies. Sixteen individual mobile fish (13%) moved and returned to the original pool. Fluvial form of masu salmon in Kyushu show a high sedentary nature; however, large mature males seem to actively move in search of female during breeding period.