Development of shoot inHydrangea macrophylla I. Terminal and axillary buds

The structure of shoots, in particular of winter buds, ofHydrangea macrophylla was examined. The non-flower-bearing shoot is usually composed of a lower and an upper part, between which a boundary is discernible by means of a distinctly short internode. This internode is the lowermost of the upper part, and it is usually shorter than the internodes immediately above and below, although the internodes tend to shorten successively from the proximal to the distal part of the shoot. Variations exist in the following characters among the terminal bud, the axillary bud on the lower part of the shoot and the axillary bud on the upper part: (1) length of bud; (2) character of the outermost pair of leaf primordia; (3) degree of development of secondary buds in the winter bud; and (4) the number of leaf primordia. Usually, the terminal bud contains several pairs of foliage leaf primordia with a primordial inflorescence at the terminal of the bud, but the axiallary bud contains only the primordia of foliage leaves in addition to a pair of bud scales.     

莼菜休眠芽解除休眠及生根的研究

莼菜为世界著名珍稀水生蔬菜,具有很高的食用和药用价值。已有研究显示,可通过冬芽实现莼菜复壮,找出休眠解除的最佳方法是复壮的基本前提。本实验以莼菜冬季型休眠芽（冬芽）为实验材料,通过光照、温度等处理探求莼菜冬芽的休眠解除方法。莼菜冬芽生根率随着光照强度的增加,其生根率由全黑暗0%显著增长至（16.0±1.3）%;温度和处理时间对莼菜冬芽生根率、根长、生根根数和含水量有显著性影响。其中,35 °C水浴处理6 h后各项指标均到达较大值,上述指标分别为（96.1±2.8）%、（7.2±0.2） cm、74.5±6.0和（83.6±0.3）%;40 °C（6 h）、45 °C（1、3和6 h）和50 °C（10、20和30 min）水浴处理后莼菜冬芽绝大部分失绿变黄;随着培养时间的延长,其冬芽全部腐烂。光照能够促进莼菜冬芽生根;土培生根效果较为显著;适度水浴加热处理能有效解除莼菜冬芽的休眠,35 °C水浴处理6 h为最佳处理方案。     

Dormancy-associated gene expression in pea axillary buds.

Pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. Alaska) axillary buds can be stimulated to cycle between dormant and growing states. Dormant buds synthesize unique proteins and are as metabolically active as growing buds. Two cDNAs, PsDRM1 and PsDRM2, were isolated from a dormant bud library. The deduced amino acid sequence of PsDRM1 (111 residues) is 75% identical to that of an auxin-repressed strawberry clone. PsDRM2 encodes a putative protein containing 129 residues, which includes 11 repeats of the sequence [G]-GGGY[H][N] (the bracketed residues may be absent). PsDRM2 is related to cold- and ABA-stimulated clones from alfalfa. Decapitating the terminal bud rapidly stimulates dormant axillary buds to begin growing. The abundance of PsDRM1 mRNA in axillary buds declines 20-fold within 6 h of decapitation; it quickly reaccumulates when buds become dormant again. The level of PsDRM2 mRNA is about three fold lower in growing buds than in dormant buds. Expression of PsDRM1 is enhanced in other non-growing organs (roots root apices; fully-elongated stems >elongating stems), and thus is an excellent “dormancy” marker. In contrast, PsDRM2 expression is not dormancy-associated in other organs. Received: 10 December 1997 / Accepted: 23 January 1998     

黄连木雌花芽形态分化研究

采用石蜡切片法观察了黄连木雌花芽的分化过程,以揭示黄连木雌花芽分化规律,为合理调控雌花芽分化质量和数量提供依据.结果表明:黄连木雌花芽的分化时期为当年4月中旬至10月底和翌年3月中下旬至4月上旬,历时345 d左右.具有分化时间早、分化速度快但整个花序分化持续时间长的特点.黄连木雌花芽分化包括花序分化和小花分化2个过程,可划分为未分化期、花芽分化始期、苞片分化期、花序形成期、小花原基分化期、被片分化期、雌蕊原基分化期、雌蕊分化期等8个时期.     

离体条件下花芽分化研究的概况

本文论述了在离体条件下,外植体生理状态及培养条件对外植体花芽分化的影响,概述了国内外在这方面的工作进展,并对离体条件下花芽分化的研究作了理论上和应用上的评价。     

Modelling compensatory regrowth with bud dormancy and gradual activation of buds

Many plants show compensatory regrowth after herbivory and dormant buds often have an important role in compensatory responses. Theoretical models have shown that herbivore damage may select for a bud bank, i.e., a pool of dormant buds that are protected from herbivory and that are activated after herbivore damage. Earlier models assumed that undamaged plants cannot activate their dormant buds without damage, although they apparently have sufficient resources for successful seed production through the additional shoots dormant buds could produce. However, many plants are able to gradually activate buds over an extended period of time without any cue from damage. The aim of this study was to analyze how herbivory imposes selection for gradual mobilization of the bud bank. I assume that selection pressures that affect the fraction of buds active at each time point include damage by herbivores, time left to the end of season, and the opportunity costs of dormant buds. I modelled bud dynamics with gradual activation when there is a single damage event and (i) when the seed set of a shoot is not dependent on the time it is active, or (ii) when the seed set of a shoot diminishes with later activation. In addition, I analyzed how (iii) risk of repeated herbivory affects selection for gradual activation. Under these models, gradual activation is optimal over a wide range of herbivory pressures. Selection appears to favour activation of all buds at the beginning of the season only when herbivore pressure is weak and when early shoots have a higher seed set than late shoots. Alternatively, strong herbivore pressure and late damage may select for a large bud bank throughout the growing season, without gradual activation; the bud bank is only mobilized after damage. In this case, damaged plants can overcompensate, i.e. they have a higher seed set than undamaged plants with the same bud activation pattern. Selection for overcompensation demands a stronger herbivore pressure in this current model than in earlier bud bank models. The model never predicts selection for overcompensation when there is a risk of repeated herbivory. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

VARIATION IN HYDRA'S TENTACLE NUMBERS AS A FUNCTION OF TEMPERATURE

Chlorohydra uiridissima whose tentacle number is altered at different temperatures, was studied to see how other developmental variables changed as a function of temperature. The results suggest that temperature is instrumental in establishing the size of bud and tentacle primordia, but the number of primordia present may play a limiting role.

Animals were cultured at 18, 23 and 28°C and shifted between the extreme temperatures. Large animals with 8 tentacles, small animals with 5 tentacles, and intermediate animals with 6 and 7 tentacles served as parents. Buds and parents were monitored daily and scored for numbers of buds and tentacles.

Temperature, not parental size, determined the size of the buds. At the lower temperature buds were produced more slowly and initiated less frequently, but occurred in greater numbers per parent and had more tentacles than at the higher temperatures. The duration of bud development also increased at lower temperature, but at the lowest temperature the duration of bud development was not correlated with tentacle numbers on buds.

Changes in the frequency of bud initiation and the duration of bud development induced by changing temperature did not parallel changes in the number of tentacles produced on buds. Animals shifted from 18°C to 28°C underwent rapid increases in the rate of bud initiation and rapid shortening in the duration of bud development, while animals shifted from 28°C to 18°C underwent equally rapid changes in the opposite directions. The number of tentacles produced on buds, however, changed slowly to that characteristic of buds acclimated to the new temperatures. The frequency of bud initiation and the duration of bud development, therefore, do not determine tentacle number.

The number of tentacles already present seems to limit possibilities for adding new tentacles. Parents with five tentacles were especially likely to undergo upward changes in their tentacle number while parents with eight tentacles were resistant to such changes.     

拟南芥矮小丛生突变体的分离与分子鉴定

顶端优势是指侧生分生组织的生长被主茎或主花序所抑制.最近的研究通过分离和鉴定顶端优势发生改变的突变体开始揭示顶端优势的分子机制.通过T-DNA标签法分离了拟南芥矮小丛生(bushy and dwarf 1, bud1 )突变体.突变体植株的表型包括顶端优势丧失、株型矮小,表明bud1 突变体存在生长素代谢、运输或信号传导的缺陷.一个对生长素特异反应的启动子驱动的报告基因在bud1 中表达模式改变.生长素敏感性和运输能力的测定表明这两个过程在 bud1中均正常.以上结果显示bud1 表型是生长素代谢缺陷的结果.遗传分析表明BUD1 为半显性突变且与一个T-DNA插入共分离,可通过iPCR方法分离.     

光周期对菊花花芽分化及其叶片和芽内源多胺含量的影响

以切花菊品种神马为材料,研究不同光周期(16h昼/8h夜;12h昼/12h夜;8h昼/16h夜)对菊花花芽分化过程中叶片和芽内腐胺(Put)、亚精胺(Spd)和精胺(Spm)含量的影响.结果显示:(1)16h/8h处理植株始终没有花芽分化,8h/16h处理的花芽分化开始和完成分别在处理后第13.9天和第23.1天出现,比12h/12h处理的分别提前1.7d和2.8d.(2)16h/8h处理叶片和芽中Put、Spd和Spm含量始终都没有明显变化,而8h/16h和12h/12h处理的叶片和芽中Put、Spd、Spm含量都比16h/8h处理的明显增加,而且8h/16h和12h/12h处理的叶片Put和Spd含量在处理第10天和第20天时出现2个高峰,芽中Put和Spd含量在处理第15天时出现一个高峰;另外,8h/16h处理的叶片和芽中Put、Spd含量比12h/12h处理的有所增加,但差异不显著.结果表明,菊花神马是质型短日照植物,短日照可诱导神马叶片和芽内合成多胺,而且日照时数越短,越有利于叶片和芽内Put、Spd、Spm的积累和促进花芽分化.     

The dose of 1-naphthaleneacetic acid determines flower-bud regeneration in tobacco explants at a large range of concentrations

Short-term applications of very high concentrations of 1-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) to expiants from flower stalks of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Samsun) induced flower-bud regeneration to the same extent as longer or continuous incubation on lower concentrations. The maximum number of flower buds per explant after 15 d of culture was obtained not only by continuous culturing at 1 mol·l^–1 NAA but also by 12 h of culturing at 22 mol·l^–1 or 0.5 h at 220 mol· l^–1, followed by incubation on medium without auxin for the remaining period. Continuous application of such high concentrations resulted in callus formation or caused the death of the explanted tissue. In all experiments in which auxin concentration and time of application were independently varied, the product of concentration and time determined the number of buds formed. Most, but not all, of the NAA taken up by the tissues was converted into conjugates. In expiants which had received a dose which was optimal for regeneration, the internal concentration of free NAA remaining beyond the pulse period was between 1.7 and 6.2 mol·l^–1. Suboptimal applications led to lower values, supraoptimal treatments to much higher internal concentrations. The physiological effect, which depends on the internal hormone concentration, thus manifested itself as dose-dependent with regard to applied hormone.Abbreviations BAP N⁶-benzylaminopurine - NAA 1-naphthaleneacetic acid     

Bud and shoot structure may relate to the distribution area of South American Proteaceae tree species

The capacity of preformation and neoformation and the structure of winter buds are vegetative attributes that may vary between plant species and according to ontogenetic stages of the same species. The present study describes and evaluates these features for the four tree species of Proteaceae occurring in Patagonia. In particular, it analyzes the structure and development of the distal buds of the trunk and the preformed or neoformed nature of the organs involved. Two of the species, Embothrium coccineum and Lomatia hirsuta, have scaly buds, in which primordia of green leaves are covered by cataphylls. The shoots of both species may include neoformed organs, more frequently so in juvenile trees. Lomatia ferruginea and Gevuina avellana have naked buds with a low number of primordia; in juvenile and adult trees of both species trunk shoots are entirely preformed. The structure of buds and shoots suggests two different growth modalities of the axes, which would be related to ecological breadth (narrower in the species with naked buds than in those with scaly buds) and distribution area of these species. The considerable morphological differences between the two Lomatia species studied raise the question whether they ought to be included in the same genus.     

长白落叶松生殖生物学特性研究──Ⅰ．球花芽分化与早期发育

本文研究了长白落叶松（ＬａｒｉｘｏｌｇｅｎｓｉｓＨｅｎｒｙ）大小孢子叶球的分化及其分布规律．获得如下结果：（１）６月下旬芽鳞形成期终止,７月初进入小孢子叶分化期,７月未至８月上旬小孢子叶分化期结束．８月上旬进入小孢子囊分化期,８月下旬出现造孢细胞,９月中旬形成小孢子母细胞．１０月底小孢子母细胞保持在细线期阶段,小孢子叶球进入冬季休眠期．（２）９月初苞片原基开始形成,９月中旬珠鳞原基形成;１０月上旬出现胚珠原始体,１０月下旬大孢子母细胞形成,１０月底大孢子叶球芽进入冬季休眠．（３）小孢子叶球芽主要分布在树冠的中、下部．数量上远远大于大孢子叶球芽的数量,约为大孢子叶球芽的１９倍。大孢子叶球芽主要集中分布在树冠中部,而且树冠下部多于树冠上部。     

Comparative morphology and development of inflorescence adnation in rattan palms

The morphology and development of inflorescences in 14 genera and 52 species of rattans and related genera of Lepidocaryoid palms were examined. Inflorescences are free (not adnate) in Ancistrophyllum, Eremospatha and Oncocalamus. Adnation between the inflorescence and internode above occurs in Korthalsia, Myrialepis, Plectocomia and Plectocomiopsis. Adnation between the inflorescence and both the internode and leaf sheath above occurs in Calamus, Calospatha, Ceratolobus and Daemonorops. This leaf-borne, but initially axillary, bud is displaced on to the base of the next younger leaf primordium by the second plastochrone. Later elongation of the internode further separates the inflorescence from its original node. Stages of initiation and early development of adnate buds are illustrated for ten species. Vegetative buds of some Calamus species develop like inflorescence buds. However, other species have unusual bud positions which cannot be interpreted at present. The degree of inflorescence adnation tends to be greater in presumably specialized species than in unspecialized ones.     

叶芽花芽需热量差异导致植物先花后叶

为探究植物先花后叶的影响因素,本研究以1963—1988年间北京地区杏和山桃展叶和始花物候资料及相应的日最高、最低温度数据为基础,利用偏最小二乘回归法确定杏和山桃叶芽及花芽的需冷期和需热期,进而利用动态模型和生长度小时模型分别估算叶芽和花芽的需冷和需热量。结果表明,依据长期物候观测资料,利用偏最小二乘回归法进行植物需冷和需热量的估算非常有效。先花后叶植物叶芽和花芽需冷量几乎相同,需热量的差异是导致植物先花后叶的主要原因。杏和山桃花芽的需热量分别为2829．7±876．2和1457．2±581．2生长度小时,而相应叶芽需热量却是花芽的两倍之多。基于物候观测的重要性及实用性．中国物种水平上的地面观测应得到进一步深入发展。     

巨峰葡萄花芽分化的研究

以巨峰葡萄(Vitis vinifera L.×V.Labrusca L.cv.Kyoho)为材料,用摘叶、去穗法判定花芽的生理分化期,并用GMA半薄切片法观察花芽分化进程。结果表明:从新梢顶端到第9个展开叶之间的芽处于生理分化期,花芽生理分化期分为成花诱导期和花芽孕育期。葡萄的花序分化阶段可分为未分化期、花序原基分化期和花序第二穗轴分化期3个时期。第1年只进行花序分化,次年进行花器官分化。原分生组织衍生的组织中淀粉粒分布较多,蛋白质则在分裂旺盛的原基组织中含量高。     

Differences in Heat Requirements of Flower and Leaf Buds Make Hysteranthous Trees Bloom before Leaf Unfolding

To clarify which agroclimatic requirements control the sequential occurrence of flowering and leaf unfolding in hysteranthous plants, Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression analysis was used to identify the chilling and forcing period of leaf and flower buds. The Dynamic Model and the Growing Degree Hour Model were applied to estimate the chilling and heat requirement for leaf unfolding and flowering, based on the phenological records of apricot and mountain peach and daily maximum and minimum temperature data in Beijing during 1963-1988. The results indicated that PLS regression analysis is a useful approach to calculate the chilling and heat requirements of plants when long term phenological observations are available. Leaf and flower buds were found to have similar chilling requirements but different heat requirements, which explained the earlier occurrence of flowering compared to leaf unfolding. The heat requirements of flower buds of apricot and mountain peach were 28297±8762 and 14572±5812 Growing Degree Hours, respectively, while heat requirements of vegetative buds were almost twice as high. In view of the importance and usefulness of phenological observations, species level ground observations in China should be continued and extended.     

Effects of temperature and gibberellin on the activity of endogenous cytokinin-like substances in leaves of Begonia x cheimantha

Changes in activity of endogenous cytokinin-like substances were examined in intact plants and excised leaves of Begonia x chemantha Everett cv. Prinsesse Astrid (Christimas Begonia) by means of the tobacco callus bioassay. Cytokinin activity in the leaves of intact plants was higher in plants grown at 18°C than in those grown at 21° or 24°C. In excised leaves, an increase in cytokinin activity was observed during the first 4 days following leaf detachment. However, after the seventh day cylokinin activity decreased again. This decrease was more profound in leaves exposed to 24°C than in those exposed to 18°C.
Treatment of detached leaves with gibberellic acid (2.8 m M ) caused an increase in measurable cytokinin activity. This increase was more profound in the zones of activity which correspond with zeatin glucosides on paper and Sephadex LH-20 chromatography. Additional zones of activity appeared after Sephadex chromatography. These were of a more slow moving nature with elution volumes corresponding to N^b-(Δ²-isopentenyl)adenine and its derivaties. Water-treated control leaves had higher activity in the regions corresponding to zeatin and zeatin riboside.     

烟草茎薄层芽分化过程内源玉米赤霉烯酮含量的变化(简报)

自李季伦等首次发现越冬的冬小麦茎尖中存在玉米赤霉烯酮(zearalenone,以下简称ZEN)的类似物以后,大量的工作证实了高等植物可内源产生ZEN,并发现ZEN与植物的春化作用,光周期(短日)诱导以及花器官的分化、成熟乃至开花都密切相关。薄细胞层(Thin cell layers,以下简称TCL)具有外植体小和组成均匀,易于进行组织培养、对环     

Spatiotemporal regulation of morphogenetic molecules during in vitro branching of the isolated ureteric bud: toward a model of branching through budding in the developing kidney

In search of guiding principles involved in the branching of epithelial tubes in the developing kidney, we analyzed branching of the ureteric bud (UB) in whole kidney culture as well as in isolated UB culture independent of mesenchyme but in the presence of mesenchymally derived soluble factors. Microinjection of the UB lumen (both in the isolated UB and in the whole kidney) with fluorescently labeled dextran sulfate demonstrated that branching occurred via smooth tubular epithelial outpouches with a lumen continuous with that of the original structure. Epithelial cells within these outpouches cells were wedge-shaped with actin, myosin-2 and ezrin localized to the luminal side, raising the possibility of a "purse-string" mechanism. Electron microscopy and decoration of heparan sulfates with biotinylated FGF2 revealed that the basolateral surface of the cells remained intact, without the type of cytoplasmic extensions (invadopodia) that are seen in three-dimensional MDCK, mIMCD, and UB cell culture models of branching tubulogenesis. Several growth factor receptors (i.e., FGFR1, FGFR2, c-Ret) and metalloproteases (i.e., MT1-MMP) were localized toward branching UB tips. A large survey of markers revealed the ER chaperone BiP to be highly expressed at UB tips, which, by electron microscopy, are enriched in rough endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi, supporting high activity in the synthesis of transmembrane and secretory proteins at UB tips. After early diffuse proliferation, proliferating and mitotic cells were mostly found within the branching ampullae, whereas apoptotic cells were mostly found in stalks. Gene array experiments, together with protein expression analysis by immunoblotting, revealed a differential spatiotemporal distribution of several proteins associated with epithelial maturation and polarization, including intercellular junctional proteins (e.g., ZO-1, claudin-3, E-cadherin) and the subapical cytoskeletal/microvillar protein ezrin. In addition, Ksp-cadherin was found at UB ampullary cells next to developing outpouches, suggesting a role in epithelial-mesenchymal interactions. These data from the isolated UB culture system support a model where UB branching occurs through outpouching possibly mediated by wedge-shaped cells created through an apical cytoskeletal purse-string mechanism. Additional potential mechanisms include (1) differential localization of growth factor receptors and metalloproteases at tips relative to stalks; (2) creation of a secretory epithelium, in part manifested by increased expression of the ER chaperone BiP, at tips relative to stalks; (3) after initial diffuse proliferation, coexistence of a balance of proliferation vs. apoptosis favoring tip growth with a very different balance in elongating stalks; and (4) differential maturation of the tight and adherens junctions as the structures develop. Because, without mesenchyme, both lateral and bifid branching occurs (including the ureter), the mesenchyme probably restricts lateral branching and provides guidance cues in vivo for directional branching and elongation as well as functioning to modulate tubular caliber and induce differentiation. Selective cadherin, claudin, and microvillar protein expression as the UB matures likely enables the formation of a tight, polarized differentiated epithelium. Although, in vivo, metanephric mesenchyme development occurs simultaneously with UB branching, these studies shed light on how (mesenchymally derived) soluble factors alone regulate spatial and temporal expression of morphogenetic molecules and processes (proliferation, apoptosis, etc.) postulated to be essential to the UB branching program as it forms an arborized structure with a continuous lumen.