一种新发现的铜积累植物——密毛蕨

对铜尾矿上生长的密毛蕨(Petridium revolutum)进行了野外调查分析和温室营养液砂培实验.结果表明,密毛蕨所生长的废铜矿土壤中Cu含量平均为2 432 mg·kg^-1 DW,最高达7 554 mg·kg^-1 DW;地上部生物量平均为18.33 g·plant^-1 DW,最高达40.05 g·plant^-1 DW;地上部Cu含量平均为201 mg·kg^-1 DW,最高达567 mg·kg^-1 DW;地下部Cu含量平均为346 mg·kg^-1 DW,最高达1 723 mg kg^-1 DW;密毛蕨对Cu的转移系数平均为0.81,最高达3.88.在营养液砂培的条件下,Cu 7 mg·L^-1处理没有抑制密毛蕨地上部的生长;密毛蕨体内的Cu含量随着介质中Cu浓度的增加而显著增加,但是大部分的Cu积累在地下部.密毛蕨对Cu具有较强的忍耐和较高的积累能力,可作为修复Cu污染土壤的新材料.     

一种新发现的镉超积累植物--钻叶紫菀(Aster subulatus Michx.)

通过野外调查和温室营养液砂培试验,发现并鉴定出钻叶紫菀（Aster subulatus Michx.）是一种新的镉（Cd）超积累植物。调查结果发现,钻叶紫菀对土壤中高含量的Cd有很强的忍耐、吸收和积累能力,其地上部茎、叶Cd含量分别为90.0-150.7mg/kg和119.8-172.6mg/kg,平均值分别为132.8mg/kg和139.2mg/kg。砂基营养液培养试验证明,钻叶紫菀对生长介质中的Cd有很强的忍耐能力,当生长介质中Cd浓度高达150mg/L时,植株仍生长正常,其株高与对照相比无显著差异;地上部Cd含量及其积累量均随生长介质中Cd浓度的增加而增加,当生长介质中Cd浓度为120mg/L时,地上部茎Cd含量和积累量达到最高值,分别为5672.50mg/kg、4.93mg/株。结果表明,钻叶紫菀是一种新的Cd超积累植物,为今后探明植物超积累Cd的机理和Cd污染土壤的植物修复提供一种新的种质资源。     

中国首次发现的锰超积累植物——商陆

自2000年以来。对位于湖南省湘潭锰矿污染区的植物和土壤进行了一系列的野外调查,以着力寻找锰的超积累植物。结果表明。商陆科植物商陆对锰具有明显的富积持性。叶片内锰含量最高达l9299mg／kg。这一发现填补了我国锰超积累植物的空白。为探讨锰在植物体中的超积累机理和锰污染土壤的植物修复提供了一种新的种质资源。     

超积累植物吸收重金属的根际效应研究进展

阐述近年来国内外在超积累植物吸收重金属的根际微生态效应这一领域的最新研究成果 ,介绍了根际微生态效应在植物修复中的应用 ,并对当前超积累植物在根际微生态效应研究中的不足之处和需要进一步深入研究的方向进行讨论。     

植物超积累重金属的生理机制研究进展

土壤重金属污染已经成为一个全球性问题。重金属超积累植物在修复土壤重金属污染中具有重要的应用前景。重金属超积累植物通常具备三个基本特征,即：根系具有从土壤中吸收重金属的强大能力、能从根到地上部分高效转运重金属、在叶片中能解毒和隔离大量重金属。本文总结了重金属超积累植物吸收、转运、隔离和解毒重金属的生理机制研究进展,以期为进一步阐明植物超积累重金属的机制及其在植物修复中的应用提供参考。     

中国苔类植物新记录种——尖瓣合叶苔(Scapania ampliata)

报道了以前记录于日本,澳大利亚和韩国的尖瓣合叶苔（Scapania ampliata Steph.）在中国广东和台湾的分布,并对该新记录种进行了详细的描述和绘图。     

一种兼具研究与应用开发价值的盐生植物——海马齿

海马齿(Sesuvium portulacastrum L.)是一种生长在热带和亚热带滨海地区的多年生兼性草本盐生植物。综述了海马齿在耐干旱、高盐及重金属离子机理等方面的研究进展,探讨了其潜在的开发价值及可能的用途。     

植物修复——治理土壤重金属污染的新途径

介绍了重金属污染土壤的植物修复的概念、原理与研究动态以及重金属超积累植物的特性 ,及其在治理污染土壤中的潜力 ,为土壤重金属污染的整治及其生态的修复提出新途径。     

青藏高原不同生境下湿生扁蕾(Gentianopsis paludosa)个体大小依赖的繁殖分配

植物对资源的投资和分配是生态学中的重要问题,它反映了植物应对环境变化时的生活史策略。选择青藏高原东缘同一海拔下的嵩草草甸(Kobresia sp.meadow)、金露梅灌丛(Potentilla fruticosa shrub meadow)以及草甸-灌丛交错带3种生境类型,并以3种生境下的湿生扁蕾(Gentianopsis paludosa)为对象,研究了其繁殖分配特征。结果发现:(1)在种群水平上,在生境从草甸经交错带到灌丛的变化中,湿生扁蕾个体大小和繁殖分配比例逐渐增加;3个种群湿生扁蕾的总花数目没有显著差异,但草甸生境湿生扁蕾的蕾期花数目显著高于灌丛生境,而果期花数目则显著低于灌丛生境;(2)在个体水平上,湿生扁蕾的繁殖绝对投入与个体大小显著正相关,且各种群植株都存在繁殖所需的个体大小阈值,而繁殖阈值在生境从草甸经交错带到灌丛的过渡中逐渐减小;湿生扁蕾的繁殖相对投入与个体大小负相关,但相关系数随着生境从草甸经交错带到灌丛的过渡中逐渐减小;各种群花数目与湿生扁蕾植株个体大小显著正相关。研究表明,湿生扁蕾的繁殖投资存在大小依赖效应,但生境差异会对其繁殖投资和生活史策略造成显著影响,而这种影响主要是由不同生境下自然条件的不同造成的。同时,资源分配也与湿生扁蕾的遗传特性和延迟自交的繁育系统特征有关。湿生扁蕾这种不同生境下个体大小依赖的繁殖投资差异是湿生扁蕾与其生境长期适应和进化(生境选择)的结果。     

北疆荒漠几种盐生(耐盐)植物抗逆附属结构的初步研究

利用石蜡切片、扫描电镜、临时装片等方法,对北疆荒漠的3种藜科植物—灰绿藜、费尔干猪毛菜、蒙古猪毛菜和1种菊科植物—花花柴的表皮附属结构进行了显微和超微观察研究.结果表明:(1)对四种植物的解剖结构观察显示,其叶片都含有角质层;气孔器下陷;茎中含有大量的维管束;多数种的细胞中含有簇状晶体结构;(2)四种植物表皮附属结构研究表明:花花柴表皮具有多细胞组成的盐腺和表皮毛结构;灰绿藜表皮有大量囊泡结构;蒙古猪毛菜叶表皮有短硬毛和乳突状结构;费尔干猪毛菜表皮具大量表皮毛,且表皮毛有节.上述结构和特征反映出不同植物对干旱、盐碱土生境适应的多样性,也为旱生和盐生植物的生理学研究提供了新的实验依据.     

Decontamination of soil containing oil by natural attenuation,phytoremediation and chemical desorption

Abstract

An experiment was performed for 240 days to evaluate the oil removal through natural attenuation (NA) and phytoremediation (PH) combined with surfactant (SF), in soil up to 76,585?mg kg^?1 of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH). A completely randomized design was applied using a 4?×?6 factorial arrangement, with four concentrations of oil and six recovery technologies. The technologies were combinations of Leersia hexandra (Lh) grass, NA (native microorganisms), and doses of Tween^® 80. The results recorded treatment means with statistical differences (Tukey, p?≤?0.05 and 0.01). Oil in presence of 5% SF stimulated the formation of grass roots. The SF promoted a significant increase in the biomass of grass stems and leaves but did not contribute to oil removal or microbial density. Unexpectedly, the PH inhibited the removal of oil and induced a decrease in fungi, hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria, and heterotrophic fungi. NA combined with 2.5% SF removed 95% of 48,748?mg of TPH. The best technology for soil decontamination was bioremediation through hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria stimulated with 2.5% SF.     

Geographical variation in acoustic signals of the planthopper, Nilaparvata bakeri (Muir), in Asia: species recognition and sexual selection

Populations of the planthopper .Nilaparvata bakeri (Muir) were sampled from the Philippines (Luzon), Indonesia (Bali), India (Bihar) and Sri Lanka (Central Province) from the grass Leersia hexandra (Schwartz), and cultured in Cardiff. Low intensity vibratory signals produced by males and females during mate location and courtship were recorded and analysed. Obvious differences were found between male calling songs of insects from the Philippines and those from the other three areas. Smaller differences were detected between the Indonesian, Indian and Sri Lankan populations. Hybrids between Philippine and Indonesian, and Indonesian and Sri Lankan, insects were obtained freely in the laboratory. Male calls of F, hybrids were variable and intermediate between parentals. Mate choice experiments showed no significant assortative mating between the different populations. There was no indication of reproductive isolation and therefore of different biological species. The assumption that different male calling songs necessarily indicate the presence of different biological species is not confirmed in this example.     

Arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization of semi-aquatic grasses along a wide hydrologic gradient

The effect of soil flooding on arbuscular-mycorrhizal (AM) fungal colonization of wetland plants was investigated using Panicum hemitomon and Leersia hexandra , two semi-aquatic grasses (Graminaceae) that grow along a wide hydrologic gradient in Carolina bay wetlands of the southeastern US coastal plain. Three related investigations were conducted along the dry-to-wet gradient in these wetlands; a field survey of AM fungal root colonization in eight wetlands, monthly monitoring of colonization patterns in P. hemitomon over a growing season, and an inoculum potential bioassay of soils collected along the gradient. The field survey showed that AM fungal colonization was strongly negatively correlated with water depth, but colonization was present in most root samples. The monthly assessment indicated that AM fungal colonization was lowest in plots that were consistently wet but rose as some plots underwent seasonal drying. The inoculum potential assay of dry, intermediate, and wet soils performed under both dry and saturated conditions showed that soils that were wet for >1 yr had the same ability to form mycorrhizas in bait plants as those that had remained dry. These findings suggested that the lower degree of colonization in wet areas observed in the field survey was because of the presence of surface water rather than low numbers of mycorrhizal propagules in the soil. Overall, the results of these investigations show that flooding is partially but not totally inhibitory to AM fungal colonization of wetland grasses.     

Cadmium for all meals – plants with an unusual appetite

Since the beginning of the Bronze Age the acquisition of metals and the mastering of metal processing has been a driving force in human civilisation. It is difficult to imagine, however, how a plant could possibly profit from accumulating excessive amounts of a metal for which there is no metabolic need. Leaving behind an environmentally degraded wasteland, human mining and smeltering activities contributed to providing the niches for such plants, sometimes even accomplishing seed dispersal – through seeds attached to the boots of migrating miners. A stunning example of this is found in the healthy populations of Thlaspi caerulescens in the Cevennes (southern France), the leaves of which have been found to contain the toxic and non-essential metal cadmium (Cd) at concentrations between 1000 and 3000 mg kg⁻¹ dry biomass (R. D. Reeves, unpublished). In this issue, experiments under controlled experimental and glasshouse conditions are reported, confirming an extraordinary level of Cd accumulation and tolerance in these populations (Lombi et al ., pp. 11–20).     

Diaphragms and flooding survival

Why don't the gas spaces of submerged organs of wetland plants flood extensively when damaged? In addressing this intriguing question, Soukup et al . (pp. 71–75 in this issue) report on the role of rhizome diaphragms as barriers to flooding in Phragmites australis . This should prompt some reappraisal of the ways in which flooding resistance can be realized, even perhaps in undamaged organs.
Most emergent wetland macrophytes have an abundance of interconnected internal gas space, much of it in the form of large voids transversely partitioned at intervals by perforated cellular plates termed diaphragms. Functionally, it provides a low-resistance pathway for internal oxygen transport to support the respiratory needs of submerged and buried organs (Armstrong, 1979; Armstrong et al ., 1988; Crawford, 1992) and facilitates carbon dioxide removal. However, it does more than this, since it enables oxygen to be released from the root to where it can support aerobic microbial activity in otherwise anaerobic sediments, and phytotoxin immobilization or destruction (Armstrong et al ., 1992; Begg et al ., 1994; Gilbert & Frenzel, 1998). This oxygen release is regarded by some as a valuable aid to effluent purification by constructed wetlands. Perhaps a less desirable property of this gas-space provision is its recently discovered role in enhancing the emissions of greenhouse gases such as methane from wetlands (Brix et al ., 1992; Chanton & Whiting, 1996; Crutzen, 1991; Dacey & Klug, 1979).     

Variation in hostplant relations and courtship signals of weed-associated populations of the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens (Stål), from Australia and Asia: a test of the recognition species concept

Populations of the morphological species, Nilaparvata lugens (Stål), were found to breed and feed on the grass, Leersia hexandra Schwartz, at six sites in Queensland, Australia. They differ from sympatric rice-feeding populations in characters of pulse repetition frequencies of male and female acoustic courtship signals. The two host-derived populations hybridize freely in the laboratory, but in mate choice experiments show very significant preferences for homogametic matings. No indication of field hybridization has been found, so that the two morphologically inseparable populations represent sympatric biological species in Australia.
Populations from L. hexandra are also reported from four localities in Sri Lanka and one in Orissa, India. These resemble previously studied populations from the Philippines. They differ significantly in courtship call characters, both from sympatric rice-associated populations and from allopatric Leersia -associated populations from Australia.
The geographical variation reported for acoustic signals is not consistent with Paterson's recognition concept of species, but may be interpreted in terms of theories of allopatric speciation involving sexual selection for mate recognition signals.     

The status of weed-associated populations of the brown planthopper,Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) - host race or biological species?

Populations of the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens (Stål), from the Philippines were collected from and reared on the grass weed, Leersia hexandra Swartz. Six different populations from five localities were studied and compared with a sympatric rice-feeding population.
Experiments on survival, virulence and oviposition preferences demonstrated that populations from one host plant survived poorly on the other and showed a strong preference for the species from which they derived. Crosses between the two populations showed some barriers to hybridization, but viable and fertile hybrids were obtained. Mate choice experiments demonstrated that, when a choice was available, no heterogametic matings occurred.
Pulse repetition frequencies of female and male calls differed consistently and significantly between rice- and Leesia -associated populations. Hybrid calls were intermediate between the parental calls. Playback experiments showed that the call differences were primarily responsible for maintaining the identities of the host-associated populations.
It was concluded that the populations from rice and from L. hexandra represent two distinct, but very closely allied, sympatric species in the Philippines.     

水位和氮浓度对三江藨草幼苗生长和生物量分配的影响

以莫莫格国家级自然保护区常见植物三江藨草(Scirpus nipponicus)为研究对象,设置低(5 cm)、中(35 cm)、高(65 cm) 3个水位和低(4 mmol·L-1)、中(8 mmol·L-1)、高(12mmol·L-1) 3个氮浓度交互的室内控制实验,探究不同水位和氮浓度对湿地植物三江藨草幼苗生长及生物量分配的影响。结果表明:水位对三江藨草幼苗生长、生物量及其分配均产生显著影响(P<0.05),随着水位的升高,三江藨草株高增加,分株数、球茎数及根生物量降低,根茎、球茎、地下、地上和总生物量均呈先增加后降低的趋势;植株地上生物量分配增加,地下(包括根和球茎)生物量分配降低;氮浓度仅对植株株高、球茎数以及地下与地上部分的生物量分配有显著影响(P<0.05),对分株数及生物量的累积均无显著影响(P>0.05);综合三江藨草幼苗的生长特征和生物量累积,认为其生长的最适宜水位为35 cm;且低水位有利于植株对氮的吸收,高水位和高氮浓度限制植株的生长。