作物根系形态对施肥措施的响应

氮磷钾是植物生长所必需的营养元素,但土壤中植物能利用的有效成分低,限制作物生长发育,而植物可以形成特有的适应机制来应对不同的生长环境。本文综述了作物为适应不同施肥条件所产生的一系列根系形态学变化。分析了不同施肥处理对作物根系形态指标(根长、根表面积、根直径、根体积和根冠比等)的影响：氮对作物影响主要在侧根,低氮胁迫下,根系纵向伸长,增加根长、根体积;低磷条件下,植物普遍抑制主根生长,刺激侧根发育生长,诱导根毛形成;缺钾抑制细根生长,根表面积、根体积等也显著降低;普遍随元素水平的提高,作物根长、根体积、根直径、根表面积和其他根系特征均呈先增加后减少的趋势,植物根系发育产生“低促高抑”的现象;有机肥比化肥可以弥补化肥养分单一和供肥不平衡的缺点,与化肥配合施用更能促进根系生长发育,增加根系体积和总表面积;作物不同基因型品种对肥料胁迫的响应也不尽相同,高效基因型具有良好的根系形态和根系分布,以获得更多的养分。为有效利用有限的肥料资源以及高效作物品种的选种提供理论基础,对作物进一步达到经济收益最大化和环境污染最小化具有重要意义。     

辣木的染色体制片优化及核型分析

以辣木分生组织为材料,采用酶解去壁低渗法制片,探讨不同取材部位、预处理方式和酶解时间对辣木染色体制片的影响,并对其进行核型分析,以期为辣木的起源、演化及遗传育种提供一定理论依据。结果表明:以辣木新枝茎尖为最佳取材部位,用饱和对二氯苯预处理2 h,再用4%纤维素酶和5%果胶酶混合物酶解4 h,制片所得染色体效果最佳。核型分析表明,辣木染色体属于小染色体,有28条,核型公式为2n=2x=2n=28m,属于1B类型,核型不对称系数60.29%,核型对称程度较高,这表明辣木在进化中可能处于比较原始类型。     

滴灌施肥对幼龄茶树生长和养分吸收的影响

通过田间试验,研究了龙井43、白叶1号品种茶园滴灌施肥对幼龄茶树生长、养分吸收、品质成分等的影响,分析了不同施肥模式下的施肥成本投入情况。结果表明,与常规开沟施肥相比,采用滴灌施肥后,即使在化肥减量25%的情况下,树高、主干直径、树幅都显著增加,修剪物生物量增加明显;茶树对养分的吸收量明显增加,而养分的渗漏损失明显减少,从而提高了养分利用效率。从滴灌施肥的次数上分析,龙井43品种,在试验条件下年施肥次数7次可以达到较好效果,而白叶1号品种,年施14次的效果较好。     

甜玉米茎秆强度相关性状的数量性状基因座定位

为选育抗倒伏玉米品种,挖掘甜玉米茎秆强度相关性状的数量性状基因座（quantitative trait locus,QTL）,应用复合区间作图法以甜玉米组合T49×T56的F₂为作图群体,通过测定F_2：3家系的茎秆穿刺强度、茎秆抗压强度和茎秆弯折性能3个性状进行相关性状的QTL定位。结果表明,遗传连锁图谱包含153个SSR标记位点,覆盖玉米基因组1 199.1 cM,平均图距7.83 cM。3个性状共检测到10个QTL,其中与茎秆穿刺强度相关的2个QTL位于第3、7染色体上,解释11.81%和22.15%的表型变异,与茎秆抗压强度相关的4个QTL位于第1、3、7染色体上,单个QTL可解释3.68%~33.26%的表型变异,与茎秆弯折性能相关的4个QTL位于第3、6、8染色体上,单个QTL可解释3.55%~18.58%的表型变异。第7染色体检测到1个同时控制茎秆穿刺强度和茎秆抗压强度2个性状的QTL,位于umc1015~umc1987标记区间,分别可解释11.81%和33.26%的表型变异,第3染色体检测到1个同时控制茎秆穿刺强度、茎秆抗压强度、茎秆弯折性能3个性状的QTL,位于umc1400~dupssr23标记区间,分别可解释22.15%、13.27%和18.58%的表型变异。3个茎秆强度性状共同检测到的主效QTL,可在育种实践中用于分子标记辅助选择和抗倒伏玉米品种的选育。     

Community structure and carbon and nitrogen storage of sagebrush desert under grazing exclusion in Northwest China

Overgrazing is regarded as one of the key factors of vegetation and soil degradation in the arid and semi-arid regions of Northwest China.Grazing exclusion(GE)is one of the most common pathways used to restore degraded grasslands and to improve their ecosystem services.Nevertheless,there are still significant controversies concerning GE’s effects on grassland diversity as well as carbon(C)and nitrogen(N)storage.It remains poorly understood in the arid desert regions,whilst being essential for the sustainable use of grassland resources.To assess the effects of GE on community characteristics and C and N storage of desert plant community in the arid desert regions,we investigated the community structure and plant biomass,as well as C and N storage of plants and soil(0-100 cm depth)in short-term GE(three years)plots and adjacent long-term freely grazing(FG)plots in the areas of sagebrush desert in Northwest China,which are important both for spring-autumn seasonal pasture and for ecological conservation.Our findings indicated that GE was beneficial to the average height,coverage and aboveground biomass(including stems,leaves and inflorescences,and litter)of desert plant community,to the species richness and importance values of subshrubs and perennial herbs,and to the biomass C and N storage of aboveground parts(P<0.05).However,GE was not beneficial to the importance values of annual herbs,root/shoot ratio and total N concentration in the 0-5 and 5-10 cm soil layers(P<0.05).Additionally,the plant density,belowground biomass,and soil organic C concentration and C storage in the 0-100 cm soil layer could not be significantly changed by short-term GE(three years).The results suggest that,although GE was not beneficial for C sequestration in the sagebrush desert ecosystem,it is an effective strategy for improving productivity,diversity,and C and N storage of plants.As a result,GE can be used to rehabilitate degraded grasslands in the arid desert regions of Northwest China.     

茎用芥菜新品种1年2代繁育研究初报

为了探索福建省茎用芥菜1年2代繁育技术,选择6个茎用芥菜品种,分别进行冬春季正常繁育和夏秋季高山加代繁育的2代繁育试验,并对比各品种2代繁育的生育期、株高、株幅和种子产量。结果表明：所有参试茎用芥菜品种只要通过打破种子休眠、衔接好2代繁育的播种期都能完成1周年2代繁育,夏秋季高山加代繁育的全生育期比冬春季正常繁育平均缩短约50 d;冬春季繁育比夏秋季高山加代繁育株高增加31.2%～132.9%,株幅增加1.5%～21.8%,所有参试品种冬春季繁育的种子产量都极显著高于相应夏秋季高山加代繁育,种子产量增加17.8%～153.6%。     

Strategy to identify resistance to white mould associated with high yield for irrigated common bean in Brazil

Development of common bean cultivars with partial white mould resistance through breeding techniques has been a challenge in Brazil. As yet, lines/cultivars from breeding programmes have not been investigated for resistance; therefore, this study screened 107 lines/cultivars for their reactions to white mould in 14 preliminary trials conducted under irrigation. Thirteen resistant lines/cultivars (three of Andean origin) and six Mesoamerican cultivars (three intermediately resistant and three susceptible) were selected for further investigation. These lines/cultivars and the resistant control A195 were evaluated in six advanced trials and two straw tests to assess the effectiveness of the screening procedure. In 11 preliminary trials, screenings were performed under moderate/high or higher disease pressure. These pressures occurred in two advanced trials in which, when yields were averaged across moderate/high and high pressures, 10 Mesoamerican lines/cultivars selected for resistance yielded 14%, 23%, and 38% more than intermediately resistant cultivars, A195, and susceptible cultivars, with median disease ratings (1–9 scale) of 4.5, 5.7, 5.7, and 6.7, respectively. In the straw test, three Andean lines/cultivars (A195 included) and two susceptible cultivars in the field were among those with the highest levels of physiological resistance. Thus, field rating under high disease pressure and greenhouse rating did not correlate significantly, suggesting that field trials are critical to evaluating resistance and to identifying high-yielding beans. Therefore, lines/cultivars from breeding programmes assessed in field trials may provide a low cost and fast way to identify high-yielding bean cultivars with partial resistance to white mould in the subtropical southern hemisphere.     

Banishing barberry: The history of Berberis vulgaris prevalence and wheat stem rust incidence across Britain

Wheat stem rust, caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), is a notoriously damaging disease of wheat and barley. Pgt requires two hosts to complete its lifecycle; undergoing asexual reproduction on cereal crops and completing sexual reproduction on Berberis spp. The latter stage of its lifecycle is of particular importance in temperate regions such as western Europe, where asexual urediniospores are unable to survive cold winter weather. In the past, the crucial role of Berberis in the lifecycle of stem rust led to intensive eradication campaigns, initially carried out by farmers in the face of hostile scientific opinion. In the United Kingdom, common barberry (Berberis vulgaris) is today a relatively rare plant. Stem rust is, however, currently experiencing a resurgence; at the same time, there has been a general increase in the prevalence of barberry and an upsurge in its planting which, in the United Kingdom, is associated with attempts to encourage the endangered barberry carpet moth (Pareulype berberata). This article situates current developments within a broader chronological framework, examining changing attitudes towards barberry and rust in England in the past and the history of the plant's use and cultivation. It assesses how widespread B. vulgaris really was in the environment historically, and thus the scale of its eradication. We suggest that Berberis was never widely established as an archaeophyte in the United Kingdom. Current attempts to re-establish it are based on a misunderstanding of the plant's historical status and could potentially pose a serious threat to food security.     

Hybrid breeding for biomass yield in winter triticale: II. Combining ability and hybrid prediction

Accurate hybrid prediction and knowledge about the relative contribution of general (GCA) and specific combining ability (SCA) are of utmost importance for efficient hybrid breeding. We therefore evaluated 91 triticale single-cross hybrids in field trials at seven environments for plant height, heading time, fresh biomass, dry matter content and dry biomass. Fresh and dry biomass showed the highest proportion (23%) of variance due to SCA. Prediction accuracies based on GCA were slightly higher than based on mid-parent values. Utilizing parental kinship information yielded the highest prediction accuracies when both parental lines have been tested in other hybrid combinations, but still moderate-to-low prediction accuracies for two untested parents. Thus, hybrid prediction for biomass traits in triticale is currently promising based on mid-parent values as emphasized by our simulation study, but can be expected to shift to GCA-based prediction with an increasing importance of GCA due to selection in hybrid breeding. Moreover, the performance of potential hybrids between newly developed lines can be predicted with moderate accuracy using genomic relationship information.     

利凉处理对大棚环境、秋番茄生长与结果及其茎基腐病的影响

为验证利凉的应用效果,采用大田试验方法,研究利凉处理下大棚环境、秋番茄生长、结果和茎基腐病的状况。结果表明：在晴天和阴天条件下,利凉处理棚膜均起到降低大棚内的地温、气温和光照强度的作用,同时可提高大棚内的空气相对湿度,为秋番茄生长提供良好的环境条件。与对照大棚相比,利凉处理大棚提高了秋番茄植株的生长速率,可使秋番茄第一花序坐果率提高18.51%,第一层果实产量提高82.66%,同时可降低大棚秋番茄茎基腐病的发病率达15.28%。综上,利凉可以在大棚秋番茄生产上应用。