巴旦杏授粉试验及花粉管生长的荧光显微观察

对巴旦杏4个主栽品种的授粉试验结果表明：自花授粉试验中“鹰嘴”、“双果”坐果率分别为19．74％和4．29％,“纸皮”和“麻壳”坐果率为零;自然授粉状态下4个主栽品种坐果率在9．37％－20．13％之间;人工异花授粉试验中4个品种9个授粉组合坐果率绝大多数都在40％以上,其中混合花粉授粉试验结果最好;人工养蜂条件下的坐果率明显高于无蜂自然授粉的坐果率,昆虫传粉可达到人工混合花粉授粉的效果。授粉试验还表现出巴旦杏雌蕊柱头的有效授粉时间为开花后花期的前4d,授粉越早,越有利于坐果。荧光显微观察表明,巴旦杏花粉管最早约于授粉第7天通过花柱基部到达子房室,第8天前后到达胚珠。     

多枝柽柳春夏两季开花物候特征与生殖特性

为了研究多枝柽柳的两季开花物候特征与生殖特性,对分布于古尔班通古特沙漠南缘莫索湾荒漠区的多枝柽柳自然种群各水平的开花物候指数、开花过程中的花部特征变化和结实特性进行了观察和统计。结果表明:(1)多枝柽柳春花期为5月下旬至6月上旬,表现为"集中开花模式",夏花期为6月中旬至9月上旬,表现为"持续开花模式"。(2)多枝柽柳春、夏花期的群体、个体、花序和单花水平的花期持续时间分别为14d、10d、3d、1d和85d、77d、2d、1d。(3)花序水平上夏花期始花日期、开花持续时间、开花数和座果数两两之间均存在显著相关关系。(4)两季花期间单花水平的开花进程与形态结构没有明显差异。(5)春花期的结实率显著高于夏花期,但两季花期结籽率差异不显著。(6)春花期昆虫访花次数显著高于夏花期。(7)两季花期的花粉活力没有明显差异,春花期的柱头可授性持续时间比夏花期长。研究认为,古尔班通古特沙漠南缘莫索湾荒漠区的生境条件恶劣,多枝柽柳特殊的春、夏两季开花结实特性在一定程度上提高了其生殖成功的可能性,是对特殊生境的适应性表现。     

巫山淫羊藿开花物候与生殖特征

研究巫山淫羊藿(Epimedium wushanense)3个种群的开花物候进程和生殖特征,分析了不同种群中的花部特征、开花物候指数和结实率差异,以及开花物候指数对巫山淫羊藿生殖成功的影响。结果表明:巫山淫羊藿花期为3月初到4月中下旬,种群开花一般历时22～27d;单株花期(花序)约12～17d;单花花期一般为3～4d。3个种群的个体水平的开花振幅曲线呈单峰型曲线,均具有较高的开花同步指数,表现出一种集中开花式样。相关分析表明:坐果数与开花高峰期、终花期、花期持续时间和花蕾数均呈极显著正相关,但坐果数与始花期无相关关系。开花物候变异系数分析表明:3个种群中花期持续时间、单花持续时间、终花期、开花高峰期和坐果数差异极显著;总花数、开花振幅和结实率差异显著;开花同步指数和始花期无显著差异性。3个种群中除同步性指数外,其余指数的变异系数均有差异,此外,巫山淫羊藿中结实率受到距的长短的影响。表明巫山淫羊藿的开花物候和生殖特征受到微环境的影响,同时生殖特征还受到花部特征距的影响。     

珍稀濒危植物沙冬青花生物学研究

沙冬青蝶形花冠,柱头具指状突起,分长柱头和短柱头。群落花期约47 d,单花花期约7 d,分为露黄、微开、盛开、凋谢4个时期。TTC法测定4个时期花粉均具活力,可保持70 d左右,苯胺蓝测定柱头可受性3~4 d。沙冬青花一般在开花前一天就开始泌蜜,开花第2~3 d,分泌量达到高峰,花后4~5 d产蜜量减少直至停止,日泌蜜和散粉集中在10:00-14:00。沙冬青开花受环境的影响。     

濒危植物长柄双花木开花物候与生殖特性

研究了长柄双花木开花过程中花部表型的变化。连续4a对其野生种群、1a对人工种群的开花物候进行了观察,并运用相对开花强度和同步性等开花物候指数分析了开花物候对其生殖的影响。结果如下：长柄双花木开花时间为9月上、中旬至11月中、下旬;单花花期一般为6～7d,单花依其形态和散粉特征可以分为4个时期：散粉前期、散粉初期、散粉盛期和凋谢期。个体开花持续时间49～55d,种群花期历时63～71d。种群内不同年度间开花物候指数没有显著差异,而种群间则存在显著差异,野生种群开花进程为渐进式单峰曲线。人工种群则为“钟”形曲线,二者均属于“集中开花模式”。长柄双花木具有2个相对开花强度的分异趋势,这种分异趋势具有进化意义。开花物候指数与生殖间的相关分析表明,始花时间与开花数量、座果率及花期长度之间均具显著负相关关系,而开花数量与花期长度之间则呈显著正相关,但均为线性相关。长柄双花木开花物候在种群间的差异和种群内年度间的相似性说明,其开花时间可能是由与其相关的复杂的微生境特征和(或)由其遗传因子决定的,同时也反映了种群间的遗传分异和种群内个体间的遗传一致性。作为一种濒危物种,长柄双花木在这种环境的选择压力之下,形成了“大量、集中开放的花”的开花模式,吸引到更多的传粉者的访问,从而达到生殖成功。     

濒危植物金花茶开花物候和生殖构件特征

对桂林雁山迁地保护的金花茶(Camellia nitidissima)开花物候和生殖构件特征进行了研究.结果表明:(1)单花开放过程可分为蕾松、初开、盛开、落花4个阶段,单花寿命约2～8 d;(2)个体花期长,始花时间变异大,单株花期平均为37 d,始花时间可相差2个多月,种群始花时间为1月上旬,3月上旬达到开花高峰期,花期持续近3个月;(3)生殖构件的数量与个体径级和树冠层次有一定关系,地径大于6 cm的个体,其单株花数、生殖枝数、生殖枝比率显著高于地径小于4 cm和4～6 cm个体,而每生殖枝花数则无显著差异;不同树冠层次之间,平均生殖枝数和生殖枝比率,以中、下层显著高于上层,而每生殖枝花数以上层最高,花数在不同冠层之间无显著差异;(4)花芽期败育率为16.33%,花期败育率为63.05%,果期败育率为44.09%,败育率在不同径级个体和不同冠层之间有一定差异;败育率高,结实率低,种子产量少,是金花茶濒危的一个主要原因;(5)开花数目与花期长度呈正相关,个体始花时间与花期长度、座果率之间存在显著的负相关关系.     

阿月浑子花序生长和花期物候学研究

以太行山区成龄(15年生)黄连木高接的阿月浑子(4年生)为材料,系统观测了10个阿月浑子雌雄品种的花序生长、花期物候以及开花节律.结果表明,阿月浑子花序生长始于3月下旬,生长期持续15~20 d;花期始于4月上旬,花期持续8~12 d;不同品种间的花期存在较大差异,雄株Peter和T491品种的花期较早,而雄株T11品种的花期较晚,其花期与雌株品种的花期基本吻合,可作为太行山地区适宜的授粉品种加以应用.     

杏开花与落花动态及访花昆虫调查

[目的]杏Armeniaca vulgaris是我国重要的传统果树品种之一,属早春开花植物,其授粉过程易受自然环境和访花昆虫因素影响。掌握杏开花与落花动态以及访花昆虫的种类和访花节律,对于研究杏花花期预测预报、访花昆虫生物学规律及田间配置具有重要意义。[方法]通过调查杏花逐日开花和落花动态,并进行逻辑斯蒂方程拟合分析,建立杏花开花和落花预测预报模型。采用目测、网捕、拍照和摄像等方法对访花昆虫种类和活动节律进行调查,并对访花昆虫活动节律进行了多项式拟合,建立回归方程。[结果]金太阳杏、凯特杏和珍珠油杏开花初见日、高峰日、终见日和历期均无显著差异;除落花历期外,3个品种杏花落花初见日、高峰日、终见日均存在显著差异。逻辑斯蒂拟合发现,3个品种开花和落花盛期历期由长到短的顺序为:凯特杏金太阳杏珍珠油杏,花期为:珍珠油杏凯特杏金太阳杏。访花昆虫共发现11种,分属6目8科10属,中华蜜蜂Apis cerana ceraca Fabricius占所有访花昆虫数量的98.7%,访花高峰期出现在10:00-14:00,其访花活动节律符合方程y=-0.2977x~3+1.6947x~2+6.4193x-11.3780。[结论]综合以上试验结果,认为珍珠油杏花期较长,有利于访花昆虫充分传粉和人工辅助授粉,但易遭受冻害、霜害影响,凯特杏次之,金太阳杏受害风险则较小,但可能授粉不充分。因此,杏产业发展应根据种植区域自然、人力条件等选择合适品种栽植。根据访花昆虫的活动节律,应尽量避免在花期尤其是10:00-14:00之间进行农事操作,以免影响昆虫传粉。     

马铃薯花芽分化与内源激素动态变化的关系

以马铃薯2个开花品种YS205和HZ88以及未开花品种YS304为材料,采用石蜡切片法观察花芽分化的解剖学特征,并用酶联免疫吸附法(ELISA)测定开花与未开花品种不同时期叶内4种内源激素——生长素(IAA)、赤霉素(GA3)、玉米核苷素(ZR)、脱落酸(ABA)含量的动态变化,探讨成花过程中叶片内源激素含量和比值的变化与成花的关系,为马铃薯花期调控、栽培和杂交育种提供理论依据。结果显示:(1)马铃薯花芽内部发育与外部形态之间有相对稳定的时序性对应关系,从花芽分化初期生长锥逐渐向上凸起,到雌雄蕊原基形成,完成整个花芽分化仅用了1周左右的时间,此阶段YS205和HZ88的花芽分化过程无明显差异,而YS304未成花。(2)随着花器官的不断发育,HZ88子房形成2室,每室多个胚珠,而YS205的子房在发育过程中发生了变异,形成完整的3室;YS205和HZ88都先后经历了授粉受精过程,HZ88具有一定的自交结实率,YS205无坐果率。(3)马铃薯3个品种的IAA、GA3、ZR和ABA含量在花芽分化前期均较低,且无明显差异性;随后,3个品种的IAA和GA3含量均呈先升后降的单峰变化曲线,但YS304上升和下降的速度较2个开花品种快,而且YS205和HZ88的ZR和ABA含量则始终高于YS304。(4)开花品种YS205和HZ88的ABA/IAA、ABA/GA3、ZR/IAA、ZR/GA3比值均高于未开花品种YS304,且随生育期变化趋势不同。研究表明,较低水平的IAA、GA3和高水平的ABA、ZR均有利于促进马铃薯花芽分化,反之则抑制花原基形态的建成。     

广州地区3种睡莲花开放的日变化规律分析

为了解睡莲属(Nymphaea)植物开花的日变化规律,以广州华南农业大学湿地公园的睡莲属植物为对象进行观察和分析。结果显示,晚上开花类的热带睡莲,其日变化是花朵于晚上开放并持续至第二天上午,白天开花类的热带睡莲和耐寒睡莲,其开放时间为白昼,开放时间因种类不同而有所差异。白天开花的热带睡莲‘独立’(Nymphaea‘Independence’)和耐寒睡莲‘科罗拉多’(Nymphaea‘Colorado’)单朵花期3~4 d,耐寒睡莲墨西哥黄睡莲(N.mexicana)单朵花期2 d,雌雄蕊先后成熟以达到异花授粉的目的,单朵睡莲开放期间雄蕊群呈现不同形态。‘独立’睡莲呈现日出而开,日落则合的开花生物钟,10月至12月,光照时间缩短导致‘独立’睡莲开闭节律缩短。观察结果可为园林水景中睡莲属植物配置提供准确的数据支持。     

北京城区气传花粉季节分布特征

研究北京城区气传花粉种类、数量及季节消长规律,为防治花粉症及建设合理城市绿地提供有效资料.应用Burkard采样器于2010年12月31日至2011年12月31日对北京城区气传花粉浓度进行监测,并对花粉浓度进行统计学分析.研究结果显示,2011年北京城区的花粉季节从3月20日起始,至10月18日截止,持续213d,占全年天数的58％;全年花粉含量月分布呈现两个高峰,第1个高峰为3-4月,主要花粉为木犀科、杨属、柳属等树木花粉,占全年花粉总量的30％;第2个高峰为8-9月,主要花粉为菊科、藜科及苋科等莠草花粉,占全年花粉总量的50％;2011年度北京城区最具代表性的气传花粉来自于菊科,比重占了收集到气传花粉的35％.研究结果还表明,秋季的气传花粉致敏性强,所以北京花粉症的高发季节主要集中在秋季,以8-9月为最高,其中有95％的病人在此期间出现花粉症症状.花粉浓度及飘散规律受当地植被状况及气候等多种因素影响,因此,北京城区空气中气传花粉飘散种类、数量及季节分布规律的调查结果,可以为本地区花粉症防治及绿化品种的选择提供可靠依据.     

华南地区冬季开花植物及其园林应用

据调查,华南地区常用园林植物在冬季开花的有48科100余种（含部分品种和变种）。根据其生物学与生态学特性可划分为冬季开花、早春开花、四季开花、热带引种、人工育成新品种或促成栽培等五大类型。在园林上可作年宵花卉、行道树或景观树、地被植物以及切花等用途。     

15个小苍兰品种的花粉形态研究

以15个小苍兰品种为试材,利用场发射扫描电镜（SET）对其进花粉形态观察,通过对花粉形状、大小、外壁纹饰及萌发器官等特征,分析不同品种间花粉形态之间的异同。结果表明：15个小苍兰品种的花粉均呈单粒存在且两侧对称,具远极单沟萌发孔,花粉外部形态均呈椭球形,极面观为舟形或心形,赤道面观除Castor外均为超长球形。花粉外壁纹饰均有小刺状凸起,多数品种表面有小穿孔和圆形斑纹。进一步聚类分析表明,15个小苍兰品种根据花粉形态特征可以分成3大类。本文首次报道了小苍兰的花粉形态,并且发现,不同品种间花粉形态特征具有一定差异,尤其是外壁纹饰细部特征和萌发器官的差别,体现了不同小苍兰品种间存在一定的遗传多样性和遗传分化,可为今后分析品种间亲缘关系及种质创新等提供有价值的科学依据。     

COMPARATIVE REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF HERMAPHRODITIC AND MALE-STERILE IRIS DOUGLASIANA HERB. (IRIDACEAE)

A comparative study of the reproductive biology of male-sterile and hermaphroditic plants in a gynodioecious population of Iris douglasiana Herb. (Iridaceae) was conducted at the University of California's Marine Laboratory at Bodega Bay, California, between 1976–1979. Each year of the study, there were 11.1% male-sterile plants in the population, some of which began blooming at the same time as the earliest blooming hermaphrodites. Male-sterile flowers made up between 7–21% of the flowers produced during the male-sterile flowering period. Male-sterile flowers had smaller sepals and petals than hermaphrodites, there were fewer of them per square meter, and they had fewer pollinated stigmas than did hermaphroditic flowers. In a test to determine pollinator preference, intact hermaphroditic flowers tended to have more pollinated stigmas than did hermaphrodites with their stamens removed or those flowers with shortened sepals made to resemble the smaller male-sterile flowers. Floral phenology and nectar-flow patterns were similar in both types of flowers as were the kinds of amino acids and sugar rewards in the nectar. Male-sterile flowers, however, produced much less nectar per flower. There were no significant differences in the number of ovules per flower or the number of seeds produced per capsule between the two flower types, but the loss of seeds through larval predation was much greater in capsules from hermaphroditic flowers. Early flowering and setting of seed by plants with male-sterile flowers could give them a reproductive advantage over plants with hermaphroditic flowers which experience higher levels of larval predation later in the growing season.     

香茶菜属3种植物花粉形态的扫描电镜观察

应用扫描电子显微镜对香茶菜(Isodon amethystoides)、大萼香茶菜(I. macrocalyx)、显脉香茶菜(I. nervosa)8个居群的花粉进行了形态观察.结果表明,不同居群的香茶菜的花粉在形态上具有一定共同特性 ,但在外壁纹饰、大小、穴的形状上存在差异.香茶菜属不同种在花粉形态、大小、外壁纹饰、穴分布情况存在较明显的差异.这些花粉表面微观形态的差异可为品种鉴定提供依据.     

Floral characteristics affect susceptibility of hybrid tea roses, Rosa x hybrida, to Japanese beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

The Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica Newman, feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses. Rosa x hybrida. Beetles attracted to roses land almost exclusively on the flowers. This study evaluated characteristics of rose flowers including color, size, petal count and fragrance, as well as height of plants and blooms within plant as factors in attractiveness to Japanese beetles. Artificial flowers that had been painted to match the spectral reflectance of real blooms were attached to potted nonflowering rose plants in the field and the number of beetles that landed on each model was recorded. More beetles landed on the yellow- and white-colored flower models than on the five other bloom colors that were tested. Large (15 cm diameter) yellow flower models attracted more beetles than did smaller (8 cm diameter) yellow models. There was no difference in beetle response to yellow flower models of the same size that differed in bloom complexity (i.e., number of petals). Experiments in which blooming rose plants were elevated above controls, or in which flower models were placed at different heights within plant canopies, failed to support the hypothesis that height per se accounts for beetles' attraction to flowers over leaves. Attractiveness of selected rose cultivars that varied in fragrance and flower color also was evaluated in the field. Yellow-flowered cultivars were more susceptible than those with red flowers, regardless of fragrance intensity as rated by breeders. Growing cultivars of roses that have relatively dark and small-sized blooms may have some benefit in reducing Japanese beetles' attraction to roses.     

金沙江中游地区山茶组4居群植物形态及花粉特征观察及其分类讨论

对金沙江中游地区4个山茶组居群进行长期形态特征观察,并对其中32株的花粉进行了光学显微镜和电镜扫描观察。结果表明:不同居群及同一居群内不同植株间具有某些共同的形态特征,但具有明显的多样性、连续的变异性和性状的交叉性;花粉粒多为大型,形状为长球形,偶有超长球形、近长球形和不规则形状,极面观为三裂圆形、三裂近圆形和三裂钝三角形;花粉粒的外壁纹饰具有较明显差异,具皱疣状、皱网状、皱穴状、脑纹状、条状和网穴状等多种纹饰类型,但属于种内多型现象。研究结果认为该地区山茶虽在某些表征上差异明显,但幼枝和叶背无毛,叶片先端长渐尖或尾尖,花丝无毛,花柱合生,花、果及叶均较大等共同特征,均应属于山茶组的西南山茶。     

孢粉药材及花类药材的孢粉形态(续)

 利用光学显微镜和扫描电子显微镜对10种孢粉药材及花类药材进行了孢子或花粉的显微和亚显微研究,为孢粉药材及花粉药材的鉴别提供了新的方法和科学依据。     

Walnut development affects chemical composition and codling moth performance

1 We investigated for early and late blooming walnut cultivars in California whether variation in nut phenology resulted in differences in nutritional quality and whether this, in turn, affected the performance of the codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.), and the extent of nut damage. 2 Mid‐season, during the period of nut growth, nuts from the early cultivars were larger than those from the late cultivars and had higher nitrogen content in both husk and kernel tissue, while kernel phenolic content was significantly lower. No major differences were observed later in the season after nuts from all cultivars had reached their final size. 3 Throughout the season establishment of neonate larvae was highest on nuts from the early cultivars but this was only significantly so at the beginning of the third codling moth generation. During the second codling moth generation (mid season) relative growth rates of third‐instar larvae were significantly higher on early than on late cultivars. Nut damage in the field was also significantly greater on early than on late cultivars during generation 2, while no significant differences were observed during generation 3. 4 The data suggest that the variation in codling moth damage among walnut cultivars is related to bloom phenology due to the influence of nut phenology on larval performance.     

Malformation of gynoecia impedes fertilisation in bud‐flowering Calluna vulgaris

In Calluna vulgaris, a common bedding plant during autumn in the northern hemisphere, the bud‐blooming mutation of flower morphology is of high economic importance. Breeding of new bud‐blooming cultivars suffers from poor seed set in some of the desirable bud‐flowering crossing partners. In the current study, fertilisation and seed development in genotypes with good or poor seed set were monitored in detail in order to examine pre‐ and post‐zygotic cross breeding incompatibilities. Whereas no distinct differences were detected in seed development, pollen tube growth was impeded in the pistils of genotypes characterised by poor seed set. Detailed microscopic analysis revealed malformations of the gynoecia due to imperfect fusion of carpels. Hence, a pre‐zygotic mechanism hindering pollen tube growth due to malformation of gynoecia was deduced. An interaction of putative candidate genes involved in malformation of gynoecia with floral organ identity genes controlling the flower architecture is discussed.