Age-related resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato is associated with the transition to flowering in Arabidopsis and is effective against Peronospora parasitica

As plants mature it has been observed that some become more resistant to normally virulent pathogens. The ability to manifest the Age-Related Resistance (ARR) response in Arabidopsis to Pseudomonas syringae pathovars tomato (Pst) coincided with the transition to flowering in plants both delayed and accelerated in the transition to flowering. ARR was also associated with a change in PR-1 gene expression, such that young plants expressed PR-1 abundantly at 3 days post inoculation (dpi) while mature plants expressed much less. The Arabidopsis ARR response requires SA accumulation via isochorismate synthase (ICS1) [24]. ICS1 was expressed one dpi with virulent and avirulent Pst in both young and mature plants. The ARR response was also effective versus avirulent Pst providing an additional 4-fold limitation in bacterial growth. Arabidopsis ARR was found to be ineffective against two necrotrophs, Erwinia carotovora subspecies carotovora (bacterium) and Botrytis cinerea (fungus) and one obligate biotroph, Erysiphe cichoracearum (fungus). However, mature wild type, SA-deficient sid2 and NahG plants supported little growth of the obligate biotrophic oomycete, Peronospora parasitica. Therefore ARR to P. parasitica appears to be SA-independent, however the level of ARR resistance was somewhat reduced in these mutants in some experiments. Thus, there may be numerous defence pathways that contribute to adult plant resistance in Arabidopsis.     

拟南芥霜霉病抗眭分子机制研究进展

随着近年分子生物学技术的发展与应用，植物霜霉病抗性的研究有了长足的进展。本文就拟南芥抗霜霉病基因的克隆与结构分析，抗病信号传导，防卫反应和系统获得抗性，以及寄主一寄生菌共进化冲突方面进行了综述，并就今后的研究进行了展望。     

Delaying weed adaptation to herbicide by environmental heterogeneity: a simulation approach

BACKGROUND: Environmental heterogeneity in space or time can drive the evolutionary trajectory of an adaptive trait. This concept could be of practical significance in pesticide resistance management that aims to delay the evolution of a resistance allele. Using a population genetics model, the dynamics of herbicide resistance in a weed species was simulated in a heterogeneous environment with alternation of two unrelated herbicides in time, in space or in both time and space. The level of the environmental heterogeneity (habitat grain) was simulated by a variation in the size of the herbicide-treated areas. RESULTS: The model confirms that several strategies based on habitat heterogeneity efficiently slow down and even prevent resistance evolution. For a recessive resistant trait in outcrossing species, a medium level of environmental heterogeneity (intermediate habitat grain) was found to be the best for delaying herbicide resistance, as previously observed for insecticide resistance management. In selfing species or for a dominant resistant trait in outcrossing species, a low level of environmental heterogeneity (coarse-grained habitat) was more efficient in delaying resistance evolution when heterogeneity in both space and time were considered. CONCLUSION: This model suggests that the choice of optimal tactics for delaying herbicide resistance by enhanced heterogeneity in space or time firstly depends on the interactions between the breeding system and the dominance of the resistance allele in the presence of herbicide, then on the value of the fitness cost and lastly on the dominance of this fitness cost.     

辣椒疫霉侵染拟南芥的酵母双杂交cDNA文库构建及其应用

正辣椒疫霉(Phytophthora capsici)是一种重要的植物病原卵菌,其寄主范围较广,可引起辣椒、番茄、黄瓜、南瓜等多种重要蔬菜作物的疫病。辣椒疫病是一种毁灭性病害,在田间发病经常造成幼苗猝倒、茎秆枯死和果实腐烂,危害相当严重,每年给全世界蔬菜产业造成的损失就高达10亿美元~([1])。辣椒疫病1918年在美国首次发生,之后在世界范围内迅速扩展。20世纪50年代我国最早在江苏     

拟南芥晚花突变体fve-1和fca-1营养生长时相转变

拟南芥胚后发育经历了营养生长和生殖生长两个主要阶段,在营养生长的过程中,由幼龄期向成熟期的转变称为营养生长时相转变。有关这个转变的基因调控网络仍不清楚。本文对拟南芥晚花突变体fca-1、fve-1的营养生长时相转变过程进行了形态学观察和基因表达分析。结果表明：与野生型相比,fve-1、fca-1植株幼龄期延长,导致营养生长时相转变延迟。自主开花基因FVE、FCA参与了植物营养生长时相转变的调控。     

Epiphytic colonization of Ustilaginoidea virens on biotic and abiotic surfaces implies the widespread presence of primary inoculum for rice false smut disease

Ustilaginoidea virens (Uv), the causative agent of rice false smut disease, infects developing rice spikelets at the booting stage, and transforms individual grains of the panicle into smut balls. Epidemics of the disease occur when the rice booting and heading stages coincide with rainy days. Using a green fluorescent protein (GFP)‐labelled Uv isolate that can form false smut balls on rice panicles, it was found that under high humidity and free water conditions the Uv isolate could colonize leaves of plants belonging to various families including the Poaceae (Oryza sativa, Echinochloa crusgalli, Digitaria sanguinalis and Leptochloa chinensis), the Brassicaceae (Arabidopsis thaliana) and the Solanaceae (Nicotiana benthamiana) without symptoms. Over several days, some conidia could germinate on the leaves of these plants and in water on the surface of Parafilm and cellophane, form hyphae and differentiate conidiophores to generate a large number of secondary conidia, while other conidia were able to directly produce secondary conidia. Conversely, in the absence of water some conidia could either bud to form new conidia or were converted into chlamydospores. These data indicate that Uv is one of a few fungal pathogens reported to have epiphytic characteristics. The rapid generation of a large number of spores on biotic and abiotic surfaces greatly increases the inoculum that can infect rice spikelets, resulting in the occurrence of rice false smut disease epidemics. These findings are important in the development of disease control strategies.     

拟南芥AtHOS10基因的克隆及其表达载体的构建

AtHOS10基因对植物冷调节起到重要作用,可以通过控制ABA合成来改变植物的脱水胁迫耐性。本文利用PCR方法从Columbia生态型的拟南芥基因组中扩增出冷调节基因AtHOS10,并插入克隆载体。序列分析表明,克隆片段长3453bp,与目前发表的序列完全一致。将pUC-AtHOS10和pBI-HEM进行酶切重组构建表达载体pBI-AtHOS10,然后将表达载体转化导入农杆菌中,为侵染烟草作准备。