In vitro androgenesis of wheat: from fundamentals to practical application

Wheat anther cultures have a history of almost 30 years and are nowemployed efficiently in many countries of the world for the developmentof doubled haploid lines for breeding. The present paper discusses keyquestions of the elaboration and perfection of the method: cytologicalaspects of in vitro androgenesis, the conditions required for theembryogenic development of microspores and the applicability of anthercultures in the Martonvásár wheat breeding programme.     

The Cytological Status of Plants Regenerated from Shoot-Meristem Culture of Pisum sativum L

The cytological status of plantlets regenerated from shoot apical meristems of Pisum sativum was investigated. Chromosome counts in root apices of in vitro regenerated plants showed a preponderance of diploid cells. Moreover, the karyotypes of root-tips from plants derived from culture and from normal plants were basically the same. Topics such as the treatment of chromosomal armlength data, simple statistical comparison of samples derived from normal and regenerated plants are discussed.     

光照对棉花胚珠纤维离体发育的影响

分析了光照和黑暗条件下,对培养棉花胚珠纤维离体发育的影响。表明在其它条件相同时,纤维离体发育在基因型之间有很大的差异,光照对纤维的发育起了明显的抑制作用。无论受精胚珠还是未受精胚珠,在光照条件下其胚珠成活率、纤维诱导率、纤维生长量、胚珠鲜重均低于在黑暗条件。尤其是未受精胚珠,在光照条件下珂３１２ 与ＴＭ－ １虽能诱导产生纤维,但纤维诱导率很低,仅有８．１９％ 和４．９６％ ,纤维生长量为０．１６３７和０．１１３２,而浙５０６、罗甸铁子和徐州１４２无絮突变体均不能产生纤维。本试验表明：只有在黑暗条件下才适合纤维离体发育。     

Molecular cytogenetic identification of wheat-Elymus tsukushiense introgression lines

Elymus tsukushiense Honda (syn. Roegneria kamoji C. Koch) (2n = 6x = 42, S^tsS^tsH^tsH^tsY^tsY^ts) is a hexaploid species, distantly related to bread wheat Triticum aestivum L. em Thell (2n = 6x = 42, AABBDD). Apart from the delineation of evolutionary relationships, this species is a potential source of resistance to scab, a devastating disease of wheat caused by Fusarium graminearum Schw. A standard C-banded karyotype was established identifying all 21 chromosome pairs of E. tsukushiense. By using C-banding and genomic in situ hybridization analyses, three wheat-E. tsukushiense chromosome addition lines, one ditelosomic addition line, and one disomic substitution line were identified in BC₂ progenies from wheat × E. tsukushiense hybrids. Twenty DNA markers specific for the seven homoeologous groups of the Triticeae were used to determine the homoeology of the added E. tsukushiense chromosomes. The E. tsukushiense chromosomes in the addition lines NAU702, NAU703, and NAU701 were identified as belonging to homoeologous groups 1, 3, and 5, and thus, were designated as 1Ets#1, 3Ets#1, and 5Ets#1, respectively. NAU751 was identified as a disomic substitution line with chromosome 3A of wheat replaced by chromosome 3Ets#1. Line NAU702 has a high level of resistance to scab and will be used in chromosomal engineering and development of improved wheat germplasm for scab resistance breeding. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Designing optimal training sets for genomic prediction using adversarial validation with probit regression

Genomic selection (GS) is a disruptive methodology that is revolutionizing animal and plant breeding. However, its practical implementation is challenging since many times there is a mismatch in the distribution of the training and testing sets. Adversarial validation is an approach popular in machine learning to detect and address the difference between the training and testing distributions. For this reason, the adversarial validation method in this research was implemented using probit regression to detect the mismatch in distributions and also to select an optimal training set. We evaluated the proposed method with 14 datasets, and the results were benchmarked regarding of using the whole reference population and simple random samples. We found that the proposed method is effective for detecting the mismatch in distributions and outperformed in prediction accuracy by 11.67% (in terms of mean square error) and by 5.35% (in terms of normalized mean square error) when the whole reference population was used as training sets. Also, in general, this outperformed some existing methods for optimal training designs in the context of GS.     

A methodology for evaluating a location as a selection site for an international plant breeding program

Summary A method for comparing locations as selection sites based upon their abilities to predict yield and disease reaction over a target region is proposed. The probability of coincidence in selection for a site is defined as the probability for a line selected at the site to be selected at other sites within the region. The probability of divergence in rejection is defined as that associated with regional selection of a line given that is discarded by the site where selection is being conducted. The ideal selection site would maximize the probability of coincidence in selection and minimize the probability of divergence in rejection. The method is illustrated using a set of data from the rice yield nurseries of the International Rice Testing Program for Latin America planted under the rainfed conditions of Central América and México during the period 1978–1984. Five locations were compared for their predictive ability in selecting for the rainfed rice growing region, based on yield and disease reaction. Selection for yield was defined as performance superior to the best check in each location. Selection for disease reaction was based on an index derived from the Standard Evaluation System for Rice for diseases of regional importance. Locations varies 10–15 percent in their selection coincidence with the region for both yield and disease selection criteria applied independently.     

生物质炭添加对生菜Cd积累的影响

为探究添加生物质炭对Cd胁迫下生菜Cd吸收累积的影响,以生菜为试验材料,通过盆栽试验,在添加外源镉含量为3 mg/kg的土壤中分别添加0%、1%、2%、3%的生物质炭,待生菜收获后,测得土壤pH、有机碳、生菜产量、生菜体内Cd富集和转运情况及Cd在土壤中的赋存形态的数据。结果表明：添加生物质炭可以显著提高土壤有机碳含量(P≤0.05),其中生物质炭添加量为3%,相比CK组土壤有机碳增加了35.14%～40.87%;添加生物质炭可以显著降低生菜Cd含量,尤其是3%量的生物质炭添加后,生菜叶Cd含量由0.79 mg/kg降低至0.44 mg/kg。生物质炭可以显著降低生菜中Cd的富集、转运系数,并使残渣态Cd含量增多,酸可提取态、可还原态、可氧化态Cd含量显著降低。因此,生物质炭的施用对Cd污染土壤和生菜体内Cd的积累有显著的阻控作用,特别是生物质炭添加量为3%时效果最优。     

Elastic_Brittle Fracture Analysis of Micro_Crackin Concrete Loaded by Stretching Stresses

The concrete is a typical brittle material.The fracture and propagating failure of the micro-crack in loaded concrete are very important problem in civil engineering.In this paper,from the equilibrium differential equations and failure criterion,the elastic-brittle static fracture analysis of the plane stress micro-crack in concrete loaded by stretching stresses was done near crack line.The relations between the stretching stresses and the length of brittle fracture zone on the crack line were obtained.     

Research on Adaptive Control of the Feeding System of WEDM Machine Based on Identifying Machining Status

With rapid development of the civil\institutional\commercial central air conditioning system,the energy consumption problem becomes serious.From the view point of operation and management,this paper provides some measures to save energy through choosing suitable cooling and heating equipments,air handling units,terminal units or designing a better water system.     

水头可调薄壁堰式渠道流量智能测控系统优化试验研究

采用巴赞堰流公式计算流量的水头可调薄壁堰式渠道流量智能测控系统通过渠道流量量测与控制试验,验证了其精准的测流功能和智能控制技术的可行性。为进一步提高该测控系统运行的效率和稳定性,减少运行能耗,对矩形薄壁堰堰流公式进行水力试验研究,通过分析堰上水头和流量关系,拟合出矩形薄壁堰流量计算公式。通过向该拟合公式引入修正系数λ=0.848,将测控系统测得的堰上水头数据值代入该拟合公式求得的流量值与电磁流量计测得流量值的差值的平均值为-0.004L/s,标准差为0.119,线性相关系数R2=0.989 1。该拟合公式相对于巴赞堰流公式形式简单、参数较少、运算简便,同时也满足节水灌溉对精准测流的要求,更适用于水头可调薄壁堰式渠道流量智能测控系统,对于在灌区推广和使用该测控系统具有重要的意义。