After‐effects of drought did not predispose young Picea abies to infection by the bark beetle‐transmitted blue‐stain fungus Ophiostoma polonicum

The defence of Norway spruce against a combined attack of the bark beetle Ips typographus and its associated blue‐stain fungi is based upon a) constitutive resin stored in ducts of the bark and sapwood, and b) induced resinosis in reaction zones surrounding the point of infection. Empirically, beetle epidemics are associated with external stresses, drought being a particularly prominent factor. An attempt was made to mechanistically explain the apparent link between drought and infestations, through studying after‐effects of drought on the induced defence in stressed trees. In the field, 3–5.5 m tall trees were exposed to artificial drought over three growth seasons to investigate whether this treatment would predispose them to fungal infection in a fourth season when drought was absent. Pre‐dawn xylem water potentials down to ‐1.85 MPa and a considerable foliage depletion were recorded. In the fourth season, the trees were inoculated with Ophiostoma polonicum, a pathogenic associate of Ips typographus. No difference in susceptibility could be seen between drought stressed trees and unstressed controls. Carbohydrate concentrations of foliage and branch bark were slightly enhanced and mineral nutrient concentrations strongly reduced in stressed trees.     

油木奈 果实生长发育机制初步研究

（福建农林大学园艺学院，福州 350002）     

碳水化合物降解产物对酿酒酵母乙醇发酵的影响

研究了木质纤维原料预处理产生的主要碳水化合物降解产物对酿酒酵母乙醇发酵的影响,以及酿酒酵母对玉米秸秆酶水解液的乙醇发酵.碳水化合物降解产物对酿酒酵母NLH13乙醇发酵毒性依次为:甲酸>乙酸>糠醛>羟甲基糠醛,酿酒酵母NLH13乙醇发酵可耐受的甲酸和乙酸质量浓度分别为1和4 g/L,酿酒酵母NLHl3在2～10 g/L范...     

Heritability estimates and progeny testing of phenotypic selections for soluble solids content in dehydrator onion

Soluble solids comprise most of onion bulb dry mass, and dehydrator onion cultivars are developed from breeding populations that have high dry mass content. Realized and narrow-sense heritability estimates were obtained for the soluble solids content (SSC) trait in two open-pollinated dehydrator onion breeding populations (BP) using response to selection and half-sib family analysis. Parental populations, designated as BP9335-U and BP9243-U, were derived from two-way crosses of lines advanced as open- pollinated (OP) populations to the F7 or F_6 generation, respectively. BP9335-U had one previous selection cycle for increased SSC and BP9243-U had three SSC selection cycles. In these experiments, parental populations were screened again for high SSC, and selected bulbs were intermated to form half-sib progeny groups, designated as BP9335-S and BP9243-S. Mean SSC was increased by 6.6% and a realized heritability estimate of 0.64 was obtained for BP9335-S. Mean SSC was increased by 6.3% and a realized heritability estimate of 0.36 was obtained for BP9243-S. Narrow-sense heritability estimates of 0.58 ±0.05 and 0.30 ±0.03 were obtained for parental populations BP9335-U and BP9243-U, respectively. Narrow-sense heritability estimates of 0.40 ± 0.03 and 0.63 ± 0.23 were obtained for progeny populations derived from selected high-SSC bulbs of these lines (BP9335-S and BP9243-S), respectively, indicating that there is significant additive genetic control of the SSC trait in these populations. Significant differences in half-sib family performance in the advanced groups BP9335-S and BP9243-S demonstrate that progeny testing was effective for evaluating phenotypic selections. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

An Assessment of Variation for Nutritional and Non-nutritional Carbohydrates in Lentil Seeds (Lens culinaris)

The levels of the raffinose family of α-galactosides (raffinose, stachyose, verbascose and ciceritol) and of the nutritional carbohydrates (fructose, sucrose and starch) were determined in the seed of a range of lentil lines from germplasm collections and commercial Spanish cultivars. Significant levels of variation were found for all the measured characters, and particularly for the α-galactosides. The greatest variation was found in verbascose content, which ranged from about 1 % of the seed dry weight to undetectable amounts. The relationship between these chemical components and morphological seed characteristics was assessed. The only significant relationship between the different groups of characteristics was a positive correlation between the level of verbascose and the average seed weight for each genotype.     

长白山岳桦体内碳素供应状况

低温条件常常驱动的碳缺乏导致高海拔处植物生长缓慢,生长季的高寒低温更是限制高海拔地区树木向上分布的关键因素之一。高海拔地区的不利     

Injuries to Reproductive Development Under Water Stress,and Their Consequences for Crop Productivity

Summary

Reproductive development of plants, from meiosis to seed set, is highly vulnerable to water deficit. Two peaks of high sensitivity are encountered during this period. The first one occurs during meiosis in reproductive cells, and is common to all species studied. Water deficit at this stage causes pollen sterility, but usually affects female fertility only when the stress is severe. Pollen sterility does not result from a desiccation of the reproductive organs, but is an indirect consequence of water deficit in the vegetative parts, and may be mediated by a transportable sporocidal signal. The second peak of sensitivity occurs during flowering, and is conspicuous in rice, maize and some dicots. Depending on species, stress during this period can cause loss of pollen fertility, spikelet death or abortion of newly formed seed. These injuries, unlike those caused by the meiotic-stage stress, are associated with a decline in the water status of the reproductive structures. Changes in carbohydrate availability and metabolism appear to be involved in the effects of stress at both these stages.     

低磷条件下熊猫豆光合特性及碳水化合物累积变化研究

利用水培方法研究了熊猫豆对低磷胁迫随时间的生理响应.结果表明,磷胁迫下熊猫豆根系最大根长增加46％;但叶片面积变小,且发育延迟.缺磷时熊猫豆幼苗叶片光合速率、气孔导度、叶绿素含量以及蒸腾速率均下降,但是胞间CO2上升;缺磷植株还原性糖、可溶性总糖含量均降低,但是还原糖向根系的分配比例增加;缺磷植株根系活力上升、酸性磷酸...     

Diurnal variations in uptake,transport and assimilation of NO3 ‐and efflux of OH‐ in maize plants

Maize plants, grown for 7 and 21 days on a nutrient solution with NO₃ ^‐ as the sole nitrogen source showed a clear diurnal pattern with respect to the in vivo NRA. Especially in roots dark/light fluctuations of the enzyme activity were high. Also in NO₃ ^‐ uptake, OH^‐ efflux and endogenous content of water soluble carbohydrates a diurnal variation was found. The plant age did not significantly affect the daily rhythm.

Because day/night changes of the in vivo root NRA and nitrate uptake were proportional, the relative content of reduced N in the xylem sap of the plants was constant during a day/night interval. At both day 7 and day 21 about 40–50% of the N was transported via the xylem as amino N. As a result of non‐synchronous variation of the specific root and shoot NRA, root reduction capacity showed a great within‐day variation. It varied between 20 and 40% of the whole plant reduction capacity. Since the ratio N‐organic to N‐total in the xylem sap was about 0.5, cycling of organic nitrogen was very likely in these maize plants.     

Changes in herbage chemical composition due to proportion of species in alfalfa‐orchardgrass mixtures

Abstract

Legumes and grasses are widely grown in mixtures throughout the United States and Canada. This study was conducted to determine the changes in chemical composition of herbage that occur as proportion of legume and grass change in the mixture. Composition of mixtures of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.) were studied after their herbage had been mixed by weight into seven different proportions: 100% alfalfa ‐ 0% orchardgrass, 80% ‐ 20%, 65% ‐ 35%, 50% ‐ 50%, 35% ‐ 65%, 20% ‐ 80%, and 0% ‐ 100%, respectively. The forages were grown in rows of pure alfalfa or pure orchardgrass spaced 45 cm apart on fertilized Dodge silt loam (Typic Hapludalf). Alfalfa was at late bud and orchardgrass was a few days from the appearance of the first anthers when harvested on May 29, 1975. Four replications of each of the mixtures were prepared, and the mixtures were made after tissues had been ground to 40‐mesh size.

No significant differences among mixtures were found for S, Cu, total nonstructural carbohydrates (TNC), or in vitro digestible dry matter (IVDDM). Concentrations of N, P, Ca, Mg, Na, Al, Ba, Fe, Sr, B, Zn, starch, and acid‐detergent lignin (ADL) were highest in pure alfalfa herbage and significantly decreased in concentration as amount of orchardgrass in the mixture increased. In direct contrast, concentrations of K, Mn, total sugars, fructosan, cell wall constituents (CWC), cellulose, hemicellulose, and acid detergent fiber (ADF) were lowest in pure alfalfa herbage and significantly increased in concentration as amount of orchardgrass in the mixture increased. These data show that an increase in amount of orchardgrass in a mixture with alfalfa reduced the concentrations of most herbage constituents important to animal nutrition and increased the fibrous constituents.