Epicuticular waxes and regulation of ear wetting and pre-harvest sprouting in barley and wheat

Morphological features of the cereal ear, including awns, alter pre-harvest sprouting damage by changing the rate of water absorption during rainfall. In this paper, the potential for wheat (Triticum sp.) arid barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) waxes to reduce sprouting by increasing water repellency of the mature ear has been examined. Six barley F₂ populations segregating for different non-glaucous single-gene mutants controlling waxes on ears were examined. Water repellency was assessed by measuring both the contact angle of a water drop placed on the lemma surface (internal angle) and by repetitive weighings of whole ears during their exposure to simulated rainfall. The lemma of glaucous (wild type) lines had larger water drop contact angles, an indication of poorer spread of water over the surface. In simulated rainfall, ears of the glaucous lines showed a clear reduction of wetting (20–30% less) and, after 72 h of wetting, their in-ear sprouting was reduced by 50 to 65%. When pre-wet, the glaucous ears also shed water more readily when shaken to simulate the combined effect of wind and rainfall. To reduce pre-harvest sprouting of barley it may be possible to screen visually for ears that are more glaucous but a more specific screen would be to select for lemma water drop contact angle since it is a good indicator of ear wettability and so allows differences in surface properties to be assessed. For bread wheat (T. aestivumL.), as for barley, the more glaucous the ear, the greater the water drop contact angle and the more tubular surface wax coverage seen in scanning electron microscope images. In addition, surface wax amount apparently affected in-ear wettingin lines of durum wheat, (T. turgidum L.). Possible genetic relationships between waxy/waxless genes in wheat and barley are suggested with the aim, ultimately, of altering ear glaucousness to give increased water repellency and a reduction of in-ear sprouting of wheat. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

种植密度对2个青稞品种抗倒伏及秸秆饲用特性的影响

种植密度是影响青稞抗倒伏和秸秆饲用特性的重要因子。以抗倒伏品种昆仑14号和倒伏品种门源亮蓝为试验材料,比较研究种植密度对这2个品种生长发育、抗倒伏特性和秸秆饲用特性的影响。结果表明,种植密度对2个品种的抗倒伏和秸秆饲用特性的影响存在差异。随着种植密度的增加,昆仑14号根长、根体积、根数和根干重先增后降,茎粗和壁厚依次下降;门源亮蓝根系和茎秆相关指标则随种植密度增大而下降。昆仑14号抗倒伏相关指标先增后降,但整个生育期未发生倒伏;门源亮蓝各指标均显著降低,诱发倒伏现象提前发生,致使倒伏率增大、倒伏程度加剧。昆仑14号茎秆中性洗涤纤维、酸性洗涤纤维、半纤维素、纤维素和木质素等化学成分含量随密度增加先增后降,门源亮蓝各成分含量呈下降趋势,相对饲喂价值随密度增加呈现增高的趋势。综合抗倒伏特性与秸秆饲用特性,昆仑14号最佳种植密度为375×104株hm^-2,门源亮蓝粮饲兼用时适宜密度为300×104～375×104株hm^-2。     

Possibility of exploiting the Yd2 resistance to BYDV in spring barley breeding

The effects of the Yd2 gene on tolerance to barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) and other agronomically important characters in spring barley were evaluated in a set of randomly selected doubled haploid (DH) lines of an‘Igri’/‘Atlas 68’ cross and three crosses between CIMMYT Yd2 materials and the Czech malting barley ‘Akcent’. The cleaved amplified polymorphic site (CAPS) diagnostic marker Yd2 was used for identification of the Yd2 gene and this analysis showed high agreement with the results of field infection tests. Yd2 lines exhibited significantly lower symptom scores and lower reductions of some grain yield characters, but their resistance level was not consistent over the years. The presence of secondary stresses (high temperature/drought) in 2000 led to relatively higher sensitivity to BYDV infection, strengthened by the long life cycle of genotypes. In cases where secondary stresses were mild (in 2002), the longer life cycle significantly increased sensitivity to BYDV infection only in the absence of the Yd2 gene (in susceptible genotypes). The examination of different vegetative, grain yield and malting quality characters separately for groups of Yd2 and non‐ Yd2 lines did not show any evidence of adverse effect of the Yd2 gene on any character.     

苹果腐烂病菌诱导产孢方法

为了研究一种能诱导苹果腐烂病菌快速大量产孢的方法,测试了6种培养基对苹果腐烂病菌的诱导产孢效果。结果发现,苹果腐烂病菌在加蜂蜜水和蛋白胨的带壳大麦上能大量产孢。接种苹果腐烂病菌菌丝的带壳大麦,在黑暗中培养15天后可产生大量黑色子实体。已形成子实体的大麦粒在黑光灯下诱导25天后开始产生分生孢子。每颗大麦粒平均产生11个子实体,其中15%的子实体能溢出分生孢子角。70 g大麦粒上所产生的分生孢子可配制浓度为106个孢子/mL的孢子悬浮液1500~2000 mL。试验还发现,不同的腐烂病菌菌株在同一条件下产孢量存在很大差异。     

气候变化对牧草生长发育的影响研究综述

牧草作为草地生态系统的特殊群落,对气候变化响应十分敏感,因此,牧草生长动态及其与气候变化相互关系一直是草原管理及研究的重要内容。本文系统归纳了近几十年来国内外气候变化对牧草生长发育的影响研究进展和成果,提出了当前研究存在的问题:资料密度和序列长度不够;单一气候因子及其多因子协同影响选择方法困难;缺乏系统的集成方法,机理模型较少或半统计半机理模型共存。并探讨了气候变化对草原生态系统研究领域的重点任务,深入研究站点资料转化成面域资料技术及多源资料融合或资料同化技术;集中力量研究多个因子综合影响牧草生产技术方法;建立能完整反映气候要素对牧草生长发育综合影响的机理模拟模型;制定科学的、开放性的、动态的草原管理方案。为草原生态平衡和可持续发展提供科学依据。     

不同棱型大麦品种混种增产效果初探

为了探索不同棱型大麦品种混种的增产机理及效果,以保山市大面积推广的多棱品种保大麦14号、二棱品种82-1为材料,设5个处理,进行单种和混种比较试验,结果表明,混种能充分利用空间、利用光能,从而提高产量,产量比单种二棱矮秆品种增加139.5～719㎏/hm2,比单种多棱高秆品种增40.5～720㎏/hm2;产量构成因素中,有效穗与单种二棱品种(单种中有效穗最多)相近,穗实粒数比单种二棱矮秆品种增7.8～10.7粒,千粒重比单种多棱高秆品种增1.2～5.5g,同时,混种还能减轻倒伏;二棱品种82-1与多棱品种保大麦14号混种基本苗最佳比例为6:4(折合种子重量≈7:3)。     

Effects of CO2 Enrichment and Drought on Photosynthesis,Growth and Yield of an Old and a Modern Barley Cultivar

Susceptibility of crops to drought may change under atmospheric CO₂ enrichment. We tested the effects of CO₂ enrichment and drought on the older malting barley cultivar Golden Promise (GP) and the recent variety Bambina (BA). Hypothesizing that CO₂ enrichment mitigates the adverse effects of drought and that GP shows a stronger response to CO₂ enrichment than BA, plants of both cultivars were grown in climate chambers. Optimal and reduced watering levels and two CO₂ concentrations (380 and 550 ppm) were used to investigate photosynthetic parameters, growth and yield. In contrast to expectations, CO₂ increased total plant biomass by 34 % in the modern cultivar while the growth stimulation was not significant in GP. As a reaction to drought, BA showed reduced biomass under elevated CO₂, which was not seen in GP. Grain yield and harvest index (HI) were negatively influenced by drought and increased by CO₂ enrichment. BA formed higher grain yield and had higher water‐use efficiency of grain yield and HI compared to GP. CO₂ fertilization compensated for the negative effect of drought on grain yield and HI, especially in GP. Stomatal conductance proved to be the gas exchange parameter most sensitive to drought. Photosynthetic rate of BA showed more pronounced reaction to drought compared to GP. Overall, BA turned out to respond more intense to changes in water supply and CO₂ enrichment than the older GP.     

大麦耐铝毒机制的研究进展

铝离子对根系的毒害是酸性土壤中农作物生产的主要限制因子。大麦在所有禾本科农作物中对铝离子毒害最为敏感。耐铝毒性在大麦品种间存在变异,遗传分析表明在大麦第4染色体长臂上有一个主效基因（Alp）控制大麦对铝毒的抗性。本文总结了最近几年关于大麦耐铝毒机理的研究进展,特别是大麦耐铝毒基因Alp的克隆及其功能分析,并对禾本科其它农作物中相关耐铝毒基因的研究进行了比较。     

Histological components of <Emphasis Type="Italic">Trifolium</Emphasis> L. species related to digestive quality of forage

The microscopic analysis of leaflet, petiole, stem and peduncle of 26 populations of 17 Trifolium species was carried out in order to examine their structural characteristics related to digestibility, to compare them between the populations of forage species and their wild relatives and to evaluate, from histological aspect, the potential of wild-growing species to be used as forages. Forage species had low proportion of the tissues composed of thick-walled cells and high proportion of the tissues composed of thin-walled cells in all examined plant parts. The reduction of the proportion of lignified xylem, sclerenchyma and sclerenchymatous interfascicular parenchyma, were suggested as basic selection criteria in breeding Trifolium species for improved digestibility. T. angulatum, T. medium and T. pannonicum proved to be very similar to the forage species in their histological composition, proportion of thick-walled and thin-walled cells and type of variation of the examined parameters. We believe that these species have some potential for use as forages in their own right, but aditional biochemical, physiological and morphological investigations should be conducted.     

河西灌区施钾对啤酒大麦产量及品质的影响

采用土壤养分状况系统研究法（ASI）,又称土壤养分状况综合评价法,研究河西灌区施钾对啤酒大麦产量、品质的影响,并确定甘肃河西灌区合理经济的施钾量。结果表明固定N、P及微量元素等养分后,与不施钾比较。施钾的啤酒大麦的产量增加279～1325kg／hm^2,增幅5．9％～27．9％,千粒重提高0．1～2．8g;钾水平在0～150kg／hm^2范围内,随着施钾量的增加,产量、经济效益、千粒重也随之增加,籽粒粗蛋白含量降低。说明施钾提高了啤酒大麦的产量与经济效益,改善并保证了啤酒大麦的品质,合理经济的钾用量为150kg／hm^2.