SOME EFFECTS OF HOST NUTRITION ON THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF PLANTS TO INFECTION BY CERTAIN VIRUSES

Fertilizer treatments that greatly influenced the growth of tobacco and potato plants in pots had little effect on the number that became infected with potato virus Y when the plants were colonized by equal numbers of infective aphids, though the number was slightly decreased by nitrogen and increased by phosphorus.
The number of local lesions produced on leaves of tobacco and Nicotiana glutinosa by tomato aucuba mosaic and tobacco mosaic viruses was increased by additions of both nitrogen and phosphorus, provided that these also increased growth. The predominant effect of both nutrients in increasing susceptibility was indirect by increasing plant size, but over certain critical ranges both elements also increased the numbers of lesions produced per unit leaf area. Conditions of maximum susceptibility approximated closely to those producing optimal growth, and susceptibility, whether measured by lesions per half-leaf or per unit area, was decreased by a deficiency or excess of either element. Sometimes the addition of nitrogen reduced susceptibility when still increasing plant growth.     

SOME EFFECTS OF HIGH TEMPERATURE ON THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF PLANTS TO INFECTION WITH VIRUSES

When plants were kept at 36°C. for some time before inoculation, their susceptibility to infection by five mechanically transmissible viruses was greatly increased. When kept at 36° after inoculation, fewer local lesions were produced than at lower temperatures, but the effects of the post-inoculation treatment differed with different viruses. Tomato spotted wilt and tobacco mosaic viruses multiply in plants at 36°, and the post-inoculation treatment reduced the local lesions they caused to numbers that varied between 10 and 90% of the control; these two viruses also have large thermal coefficients of heat inactivation. By contrast, tobacco necrosis, tomato bushy stunt and cucumber mosaic viruses, were much affected by post-inoculation treatment, lesion formation being completely prevented by exposure to 36° for a day or more. These three viruses appear not to multiply in plants at 36°, and although they have high thermal inactivation points, they have small temperature coefficients of thermal inactivation.
The extent to which lesion formation was affected by pre- or post-inoculation exposure of plants to 36° depended not only on the length of the treatment, but also on the physiological condition of the plants.
The symptoms of infected plants changed considerably if kept at 36°. At 36° Nicotiana glutinosa , inoculated with tobacco mosaic virus, gave chlorotic local lesions instead of necrotic ones, and became systemically infected. When systemically infected plants were brought to ordinary glasshouse temperature, the infected tissues all collapsed and died in a day.     

SOME EFFECTS OF NITROGEN NUTRITION ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND ANATOMY OF MARROW-STEM KALE

Marrow-stem kale plants grown on plots receiving frequent additions of sulphate of ammonia showed a 40% increase in length of internode and a 25% increase in number of nodes per plant, and the leaf size was increased by between 50 and 70% over plants in plots receiving no N fertilizer. Leaves of kale continue to increase in area until they turn yellow, and the high N leaves showed a greater rate of increase in area at every stage in the life of the leaf.
Various features of leaf structure, such as stomatal index, and thickness of palisade and mesophyll, were unaffected by N treatment. The size of the epidermal cells of the leaves was very variable, and although the high N leaves showed a 12% increase in area per epidermal cell over the low N leaves, this difference is not statistically significant. The increased area of the high N leaves can therefore be attributed mainly to increased cell division during the life of the leaf. Only a very slight increase in rate of cell division is necessary to produce the observed effect.
The greater leaf area of the high N plants can be attributed mainly to increased size of individual leaves, but there was also a significantly greater number of living functional leaves per plant on the high N plants; at 23 weeks from sowing the high N plants had an average of 13.4 living leaves, while the low N plants had only 11.7 living leaves per plant.
There was an appreciable degree of N succulence in the high N kale leaves, which showed a 2% greater moisture content than the low N leaves.
A seasonal drift in epidermal cell size, palisade thickness, and total leaf thickness, is shown to be fully significant, statistically. Marked variations in stomatal frequency are barely significant at the 5% level.     

无机营养对春小麦抗旱适应性的影响

本文研究了无机营养对春小麦一些抗旱适应性的影响,主要包括:渗透调节的大小和变化过程、可溶性糖的积累、脯氨酸的积累、叶片导度的变化、离体叶片的失水速率、叶面积和耗水量的变化、根系生长和根/植冠值,并且分析了各个处理植株的水分利用效率(WUE)和产量的变异。认为,在干旱条件下,无机营养对于春小麦不同器官、不同生理功能,并不都具有一致的作用。有的利于提高植株的抗旱性,有的可以改变一些适应性产生的时间和发展过程,有的则不利于植株的抗旱性。通过综合分析,提出旱地施肥使作物增产的主要原因是,营养元素满足了作物生长所需,促进了根系发育,利于吸收水分、维持水分平衡和正常生理功能,但对作物自身的耐旱性并没有产生显著影响。     

SOME EFFECTS OF MIXED CROPPING ON THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF INSECT PESTS

Mixed- or inter-cropping of plant species and cultivars is a common cultural practice in many countries and amongst its potential advantages are effects on the population dynamics of pests which may minimise crop damage. This paper outlines some of these effects in relation to initial colonisation of crops and the feeding, reproduction, mortality and dispersal of pests within the crop. Ways in which the chemical or physical features of mixed cropping which confer advantages in pest control can be transferred to agronomically acceptable monocultures are discussed with reference to (1) Brassical tomato, (2) Phaseolus/weed grass and (3) undersown Brassica systems. EINIGE EFFEKTE VON MISCHKULTUREN AUF DIE POPULATIONSDYNAMIK VON INSEKTENSCHÄDLINGEN Mischkulturen oder Streifenkulturen verschiedener Pflanzenarten oder -sorten sind in vielen Ländern üblich. Zu ihren potentiellen Vorteilen gehören Einflüsse auf die Populationsdynamik von Schädlingen und die Verringerung von Ernteausfällen. Einige dieser Effekte werden dargelegt im Zusammenhang mit der Anfangsbesiedlung der Kulturen sowie der Futteraufnahme, der Vermehrung, der Mortalität und der Ausbreitung der Schädlinge innerhalb der Kulturen. Es wird diskutiert, wie die inbezug aug Schädlingsauftreten günstigen chemischen und physikalischen Eigenschaften von Mischkulturen auf Monokulturen übertragen werden könnten. Folgende Beispiele werden behandelt: 1. Brassica/Tomaten 2. Phaseolus/Unkräuter3. Brassica mit Einsaat.     

稀土离子(Nd3+)对金黄色葡萄球菌细胞壁结构的影响

本文的研究目的是探索稀土离子Nd^3＋对金黄色葡萄球菌细胞壁结构的影响作用。采用透射电镜、氨基酸自动分析仪和红外光普法等检测手段,提出了Nd^3＋可使金黄色葡萄球菌细胞壁的形态和结构发生改变;低于抑菌浓度的NdCl3对金黄色葡萄球菌细胞壁的古成具有促进作用：高浓度（指杀菌浓度和抑菌浓度）Nd^3＋可断裂细胞壁中肽聚糖的大部分肽键和氢键,致使细胞壁中肽聚糖的交联网状结构被破坏。     

SOME EFFECTS OF DERIVATIVES OF VITAMIN K ON THE METABOLISM OF UNICELLULAR ALGAE

Vitamin K₁, 2-methyl-3-phytyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, is a substance found in all plant chloroplasts. It is, therefore, interesting to know whether it has any influence upon the metabolism of plants. Experiments made with the phytol-free derivatives like 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone or the corresponding 3-oxy compound, phthiocol, gave the following results. These substances accelerate the respiration of Chlorella or Scenedesmus in a way similar to the action of the dinitrophenols. They inhibit photosynthesis and the compensation of respiration in the light strongly like hydroxylamine. In Scenedesmus they hinder the adaptation to the anaerobic utilization of hydrogen. If given after adaptation in amounts sufficient to stop photosynthesis they do not prevent photoreduction but rather stabilize this reaction against reversion. Their presence destroys the coupling between the reduction of carbon dioxide in the dark and the oxyhydrogen reaction in adapted algae. One can expect, therefore, that the natural vitamin K present in plants in concentrations of about 10^–3 M takes part in some metabolic reaction as a catalyst or regulator.