商洛低山丘陵区农林复合生态系统中大豆与丹参的光合生理特性

农林复合系统作为一种传统而又新兴的土地利用和经营方式在改善商洛生态环境、增加该区农民收入、促进其生态和经济协调发展等方面发挥着非常重要的作用.为了研究林下作物的生理生态特性,对研究区农林复合系统中不同处理大豆、丹参的光合、叶绿素荧光参数进行了系统观测.结果表明,从单作到距核桃1m处,距核桃树越近,遮光愈多.各处理大豆的光合速率(Pn)、气孔导度(Gs)和蒸腾速率(Tr)表现出与光合有效辐射(PAR)基本一致的日变化趋势.不同处理丹参光合速率日变化趋势各不相同,且出现“午休”现象.与单作相比,各处理大豆、丹参的光合速率、气孔导度和蒸腾速率均有不同程度的降低.随着遮荫程度的提高,大豆、丹参叶绿素含量和表观量子效率(Φ)升高,光饱和点(LSP)和光补偿点(LCP)降低.二者叶绿素荧光参数最大光能转换效率(Fv/Fm)、PSⅡ电子传递量子效率(ΦPsⅡ)以及光化学猝灭系数(qP)均有不同程度的升高,而非光化学猝灭系数(qNP)却逐渐降低.说明大豆、丹参能适应弱光环境,在较低的光照条件下正常生长.     

黄土区农林复合生态系统中大豆和绿豆的光合生理特性

用Li-6400光合测定系统和FMS-2.02荧光仪测定了单作及间作农林复合系统中大豆和绿豆的光合荧光参数日变化特征,进一步解析复合系统光能竞争机理.结果表明:(1)从单作到间距核桃1 m间作模式,距核桃树越近,遮光愈多,各处理大豆、绿豆的净光合速率(Pn)、气孔导度(Gs)和蒸腾速率(Tr)表现出与光合有效辐射(PAR)基本一致的先升后降的日变化模式.(2)随着遮荫程度的提高,大豆、绿豆叶绿素含量和表观量子效率(Ф)升高,而光饱和点(LSP)和光补偿点(LCP)降低.(3)随着遮荫程度的提高,大豆、绿豆叶绿素荧光参数最大光能转换效率(Fv/Fm)、PSⅡ电子传递量子效率(ФPSⅡ)以及光化学猝灭系数(qP)均有不同程度的升高,而非光化学猝灭系数(qN)却逐渐降低.研究发现,大豆和绿豆能适应间作系统的弱光环境,在较低的光照条件下正常生长,植物的光合特性与其生境特点相符.     

γ-氨基丁酸(GABA)对低氧胁迫下甜瓜幼苗光合作用和叶绿素荧光参数的影响

采用营养液水培方法,研究了低氧胁迫下外源γ-氨基丁酸(GABA)对甜瓜幼苗光合色素含量、光合作用及叶绿素荧光参数的影响.结果表明:低氧胁迫导致甜瓜幼苗光合色素含量显著下降,光合作用降低;外源GABA能显著提高正常通气和低氧胁迫下甜瓜幼苗的光合色素含量、净光合速率、气孔导度、胞间CO2浓度、CO2羧化效率、最大光化学效率、光化学猝灭系数、表观光合电子传递速率和PSⅡ光合电子传递量子效率,而气孔限制值、初始荧光和非光化学猝灭系数显著降低,GABA在低氧胁迫下的提高效果更明显;同时添加GABA和GABA转氨酶抑制剂γ-乙烯基-γ-氨基丁酸(VGB)处理显著降低了低氧胁迫下GABA对甜瓜幼苗光合特性的缓解效果.     

外源Ca~(2+)对高温强光下西葫芦幼苗形态特征、光合特性及荧光参数的影响

选用西葫芦(Cucurbita pepo)品种"阿兰"一代为试验材料,研究了外源Ca2+处理对高温强光交叉胁迫下西葫芦幼苗生长特征、光合特性及叶绿素荧光参数的影响.结果表明:高温强光胁迫下,5～20mmol·L-1Ca2+处理的西葫芦幼苗具有较高的株高和较大的叶面积,其叶绿素、类胡萝卜素含量及光合速率(Pn)、气孔导度(Gs)、蒸腾速率(Tr)、PSⅡ最大光化学效率(Fv/Fm)、PSⅡ实际光化学效率(ΦPSⅡ)和光化学猝灭系数(qP)均较高,而胞间CO2浓度(Ci)和非光化学猝灭系数(NPQ)较低,其中以10mmol·L-1Ca2+处理效果最好.说明5～20mmol·L-1Ca2+处理能有效缓解高温强光对西葫芦光合机构的不可逆伤害,使其保持较快的光合电子传递速率和较高的PSⅡ电子传递活性.Ca2+处理浓度超过40mmol·L-1时对高温强光胁迫没有缓解效应.     

低温胁迫对广玉兰幼苗光合及叶绿素荧光特性的影响

以广玉兰幼苗为材料,对其进行0,-4℃、-8℃,-12℃和-16℃ 5个梯度低温处理,研究了广玉兰幼苗的光合作用与叶绿素荧光特性变化.结果表明:随着温度降低,广玉兰幼苗叶片的净光合速率(Pn)、蒸腾速率(Tr)、气孔导度(G3)、叶肉细胞间隙CO2浓度(Ci)、叶绿素含量均逐步降低,最大光化学效率(Fv/Fm)、潜在光化学效率(Fv/F0)、最大量子产额(Yield)、光合电子传递速率(ETR)、光化学猝灭系数(qp)也均同时下降,而初始荧光(F0)、非光化学猝灭系数(qN)则逐步上升.可见,低温胁迫除导致光合作用的气孔抑制外,还直接损伤光合机构使PSⅡ反应中心失活,引起其光能原初捕捉能力和光能同化率减弱,增加了通过热辐射消耗的光能比例,最终导致广玉兰幼苗光合作用能力减弱.     

短期UV-B辐射对青藏高原美丽风毛菊PS Ⅱ光化学效率的影响

通过短期增补UV-B辐射模拟试验,研究了青藏高原典型天气(晴天、多云、阴天)下高山植物美丽风毛菊叶片的叶绿素荧光参数变化.结果表明:随天气由晴变阴,美丽风毛菊叶片暗适应3 min的PSⅡ最大光化学量子效率(Fv/Fm)显著升高,实际PSⅡ光化学效率(ФPSⅡ)和光化学猝灭系数(qp)也升高,而非光化学猝灭系数(NPQ)则降低,可见光辐射(PAR)是影响PSⅡ光能转化效率的主要因素.增补UV-B辐射后,3种典型天气下,美丽风毛菊叶片的Fv/Fm和NPQ略有降低,ФPSⅡ和qp略微增加,但对光合气体交换过程没有产生负影响.叶片净光合速率Pn和ФPSⅡ的增高趋势与增补UV-B辐射下相对较多的UV-A成分有关,同时也得益于叶片厚度的增加.UV-B辐射对叶片光合机构具有潜在负影响.     

两种化感物质对茄子幼苗光合作用及叶绿素荧光参数的影响

采用基质栽培,研究不同浓度的2,6-二叔丁基苯酚及邻苯二甲酸二甲酯对茄子幼苗光合作用及叶绿素荧光参数的影响.结果表明,两种化感物质使茄子叶片叶绿素含量、光合速率（P_n）、气孔导度（G_s）下降,细胞间隙CO₂浓度（C_i）先降低后升高;使茄子叶片的初始荧光(F_o)增加,PSⅡ最大光化学效率(F_v/F_m)、光系统Ⅱ光合电子传递量子效率(Ф_PSⅡ)、光化学猝灭系数(q_P)、天线转化效率(F_v^' /F_m^′)降低.2,6-二叔丁基苯酚使茄子叶片非光化学猝灭系数(q_N)先升高后降低,邻苯二甲酸二甲酯使q_N低于对照,对茄子叶片光合机构造成了伤害.     

土壤水分对冬小麦生育后期叶片气体交换及叶绿素荧光参数的影响

通过防雨棚小区栽培,控制土壤供水系数(Kw)分别为0.8、0.6、0.4、0.2,以自然状况下的小区为对照(CK),研究土壤水分条件对冬小麦生育后期叶片气体交换及叶绿素荧光参数的影响。结果表明:Kw为0.6处理的冬小麦叶片叶绿素含量与0.8处理接近,且显著高于其他处理(P<0.05);Kw为0.6处理对冬小麦叶片的气孔导度和蒸腾速率有轻度抑制,但其光合速率却高于0.8处理,而Kw为0.2处理的光合速率、气孔导度及蒸腾速率均为最低;气孔限制值在Kw为0.4处理下最高,其次为0.2处理,0.8处理下最低;冬小麦叶片的表观量子效率在Kw为0.4处理下最高,光补偿点总体上随着土壤水分含量的降低呈下降趋势,而光饱和点及最大光合速率则以Kw为0.6处理最高,其次为0.8处理,0.2处理最低;冬小麦叶片的天线转化效率Fv’/Fm’、电子传递速率ETR、实际量子效率ФPSII及光化学猝灭qP均以Kw为0.6处理最高,其次为0.8处理,0.2处理下最低;在Kw为0.2处理下,冬小麦光合作用主要受非气孔因素限制,而在0.4处理下,则主要受气孔因素限制。     

外源硫对镉胁迫下马齿苋光合性状和矿质元素吸收的影响

从光合反应系统揭示外源硫(S)诱导马齿苋镉(Cd)耐受性的生理机制,为外源S缓解重金属毒害提供理论依据.采用营养液培养,研究外源S供体(NH4)2SO4对100 mg/L Cd胁迫下马齿苋叶片光合色素、光合特性、叶绿素荧光参数和矿质营养元素的影响.结果表明,Cd胁迫可显著降低马齿苋叶片中叶绿素a和叶绿素b含量;净光合速率、蒸腾速率、气孔导度均显著降低,而胞间二氧化碳浓度上升,表明非气孔因素是Cd胁迫诱导马齿苋光合抑制的主要因素;同时,PSⅡ实际光化学效率(ФPSII)、电子传递效率(J)、化学猝灭系数(qP)显著下降,而非化学猝灭系数(qN)显著上升,表明Cd胁迫影响马齿苋PSⅡ反应系统的正常运行.外施400 mg/L(NH4)2SO4显著提高马齿苋叶片叶绿素a含量、叶绿素b含量和叶绿素a/b比值,增强马齿苋叶片光合作用和PSⅡ原初光化学反应量子效率.对5种与光反应系统密切相关的矿质元素含量进行分析发现,Cd处理显著增加马齿苋叶片中的Ca和Fe含量,显著抑制马齿苋对Mg、Mn和Cu的吸收.Cd胁迫下马齿苋叶片的变黄与Mg、Mn的亏缺有关,而与Fe缺乏无关;添加外源S可显著提升马齿苋叶片中Ca、Mg、Fe、Cu和Mn含量,从而增强Cd胁迫下马齿苋叶片的PSII反应系统功能.     

胡杨、灰叶胡杨光合及叶绿素荧光特性的比较研究

比较研究了两年生胡杨和灰叶胡杨叶片的光合及叶绿素荧光特性.结果表明:胡杨和灰叶胡杨均表现出净光合速率(Pn)日变化呈单峰曲线,只是在12:00时胡杨的Pn略微降低;气孔导度日变化均呈单峰型曲线;胞间CO2浓度日变化呈近“V”字型曲线.相同的试验条件下,胡杨的净光合速率、气孔导度高于灰叶胡杨,净光合速率与气孔导度峰值出现在上午10:00时;胡杨胞间CO2浓度低于灰叶胡杨,胞间CO2浓度最低值均出现在中午14:00时.经充分暗适应后的叶片叶绿素荧光参数初始荧光、PSⅡ原初光能转换效率和PSⅡ潜在活性均为胡杨显著大于灰叶胡杨.以太阳光为光化学光,测定的叶绿素荧光参数日变化显示,胡杨PSⅡ实际的光化学反应量子效率、非循环电子传递速率、光化学猝灭系数均大于灰叶胡杨,而非光化学猝灭系数却较灰叶胡杨小.胡杨与灰叶胡杨在光合与叶绿素荧光特性上的差异,是胡杨更能适应干旱荒漠区高光、高温与低相对空气湿度环境,从而表现出高净光合速率的部分生理学原因之一.     

Distribution of the chalcone,isosalipurposide, in the onagraceae

Isosalipurposide was present in 13 species and absent from 27 other species of the Onagraceae.     

Stress,adaptation, and speciation in the evolution of the blind mole rat,Spalax, in Israel

Environmental stress played a major role in the evolution of the blind mole rat superspecies Spalax ehrenbergi, affecting its adaptive evolution and ecological speciation underground. Spalax is safeguarded all of its life underground from aboveground climatic fluctuations and predators. However, it encounters multiple stresses in its underground burrows including darkness, energetics, hypoxia, hypercapnia, food scarcity, and pathogenicity. Consequently, it evolved adaptive genomic, proteomic, and phenomic complexes to cope with those stresses. Here I describe some of these adaptive complexes, and their theoretical and applied perspectives. Spalax mosaic molecular and organismal evolution involves reductions or regressions coupled with expansions or progressions caused by evolutionary tinkering and natural genetic engineering. Speciation of Spalax in Israel occurred in the Pleistocene, during the last 2.00–2.35 Mya, generating four species associated intimately with four climatic regimes with increasing aridity stress southwards and eastwards representing an ecological speciational adaptive trend: (Spalax golani, 2n = 54 → S. galili, 2n = 52 → S. carmeli, 2n = 58 → S. judaei, 2n = 60). Darwinian ecological speciation occurred gradually with relatively little genetic change by Robertsonian chromosomal and genic mutations. Spalax genome sequencing has just been completed. It involves multiple adaptive complexes to life underground and is an evolutionary model to a few hundred underground mammals. It involves great promise in the future for medicine, space flight, and deep-sea diving.     

Bonding, biophilia, biosynergy, and the future of primates in the wild

Human and nonhuman primates bond with one another in countless ways, and the results are varied and vital to the individuals and species involved. The manifesto that is the basis for the collection of essays in which this commentary is included proposes that the "human/nonhuman bonds that arise in primatological research and practice deserve and demand study and research." An essential corollary of this proposal is that the primatologists themselves must be studied. The aim of this essay is to explore the influence of human/nonhuman primate bonding on conservation practice and on the future of primates in the wild. This commentary applies the author's professional experience as a conservation psychologist and his research on the impact of profound interspecies bonds on human worldviews, attitudes, and behavior. It examines two general categories of bonds: those driven by Biophilia (human fascination with life) and those influenced by Biosynergy (mutual enrichment of life). It is the author's premise that biosynergy promotes complex collaborative interspecies bonds that broaden the conservationist's desire to enhance synergy among all organisms in an ecosystem. Conversely, biophilia induces relatively simple unidirectional bonds between humans and other animals that deepen the conservationist's desire to understand and protect certain species. This contrast raises some crucial questions. Do biophilia-driven bonds between conservationists and their favorite primates blind them to the synergistic needs of all species and impair their ability to work for sustained preservation of threatened habitat? Does biosynergy-based human/nature bonding enhance focus on conservation as an ecological science and thus ignore species-specific factors crucial to assure survival of endangered primates? How can both types of bonds be optimally applied to the conservation of wildlife and wilderness?     

Species variation in the distribution of cholinesterases in the ovary of the plains viscacha, cat, ferret, rabbit, rat, guinea-pig and roe deer

Synopsis Sections of ovary from plains viscacha, cat, ferret, rabbit, rat, guinea-pig and roe deer have been histochemically processed to demonstrate acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) in nervous and non-nervous tissue. The effects of different reproductive states on enzyme activity were observed in some animals. AChE-containing nerves were sparse in rabbit and rat but plentiful in cat and roe deer. Nerves containing BuChE were not detectable in ferret or guinea-pig and were rare in cat. Species variations in the activity and type of enzyme were also found in non-neuronal tissues. Some blood vessels in the ovaries of guinea-pig and viscacha contained AChE. No other species showed a reaction for AChE in non-neuronal stromal tissue but BuChE was present at this site in all animals except rat. Granulosa cells reacted for AChE only in cat and rabbit while luteal cells were reactive in cat, rabbit and roe deer. Some BuChE activity was present in granulosa and or luteal cells in all species except roe deer. In rat, BuChE activity in luteal cells increased during oregnaney and the early phase of pseudopregnancy. The difficulty of assigning a function to ovarian cholinesterases is discussed.     

Seasonal Variability in the Levels of Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn, and Cd in the Hepatopancreas of the Japanese Scallop Mizuhopecten yessoensis

The relationships between concentrations (g/g of tissue) and content (g/organ) of the metals Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn, and Cd with seasonal changes in the weight of the hepatopancreas in the Japanese scallop Mizuhopecten yessoensis are studied. It is shown that, during a year, the weight of the hepatopancreas in the mollusk shows significant (more than twofold) changes. A positive correlation is revealed between the seasonal changes in the concentrations of the physiologically important metals Fe, Zn, Cu, and Mn and the weight of this organ, although no general consistent pattern of seasonal variability in the metal concentrations is found. For toxic Cd, a negative correlation is found between its concentration and the weight of the hepatopancreas.     

The parasitic chytrid, Zygorhizidium, facilitates the growth of the cladoceran zooplankter, Daphnia, in cultures of the inedible alga, Asterionella

In food-web studies, parasites are often ignored owing to their insignificant biomass. We provide evidence that parasites may affect trophic transfer in aquatic food webs. Many phytoplankton species are susceptible to parasitic fungi (chytrids). Chytrid infections of diatoms in lakes may reach epidemic proportions during diatom spring blooms, so that numerous free-swimming fungal zoospores (2-3 microm in diameter) are produced. Analysis shows that these zoospores are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids and sterols (particularly cholesterol), which indicates that they provide excellent food for zooplankters such as Daphnia. In life-table experiments using the large diatom Asterionella formosa as food, Daphnia growth increased significantly in treatments where a parasite was present. By grazing on the zoospores, Daphnia acquired important supplementary nutrients and were able to grow. When large inedible algae are infected by parasites, nutrients within the algal cells are consumed by these chytrids, some of which, in turn, are grazed by Daphnia. Thus, chytrids transfer energy and nutrients from their hosts to zooplankton. This study suggests that parasitic fungi alter trophic relationships in freshwater ecosystems and may be the important components in shaping the community and the food-web dynamics of lakes.     

Fate of bacteria, Aeromonas caviae, in the midgut of the housefly, Musca domestica

Abstract. The role of houseflies as agents in the spread of bacterial diseases has been thoroughly investigated, yet the fate of bacteria ingested by flies has not. We examined the physical location of the bacterial enteropathogen Aeromonas caviae in the midgut of laboratory‐reared adult houseflies. Food ingested by houseflies was separated from the midgut epithelium by a double‐layered peritrophic matrix (PM). The inner PM intimately enveloped the food as fecal pellets (food boluses), while the outer PM appeared as a long continuous tube. In flies fed a suspension of A. caviae, live bacteria were not observed within the inner PM, but were compartmentalized between folds of the PM in the inter‐PM space. Similar observations were made for flies fed a suspension of Serratia liquefaciens and for highly contaminated feral flies. Isolates of both A. caviae and S. liquefaciens were chitinolytic (as demonstrated by clearing zones on chitin agar), but the potential role of bacterial enzymes in the alteration of PM morphology or formation needs further investigation.     

Reversibility of Propranolol-Induced Changes in the Biosynthesis of Monoacylglycerol, Diacylglycerol, Triacylglycerol, and Phospholipids in the Retina

Abstract: The biosynthesis and metabolism of phospholipids and neutral glycerides were studied in the bovine retina. Radioactive glycerol was used as a precursor. Phentolamine and d - and dl -propranolol were found to produce similar effects on lipid metabolism in the retina. Marked stimulation of phosphatidylinositol (PhI) synthesis and maximal inhibition of phosphatidylcholine (PhC), diacylglycerol (DG), and triacylglycerol (TG) formation were observed within 5 min after exposure to 0.5 m M dl -propranolol. Pulse-chase experiments showed a high turnover rate in DG and a reversibility of the propranolol-induced changes produced during the synthesis of PhC, TG, DG, monoacylglycerol (MG), and phosphatidylserine. All reversals of the drug-induced biosynthetic profiles approached control values 60 min after incubation in drug-free medium. However, complete reversal was not achieved in any of the cases under these conditions. Propranolol appeared to inhibit both the formation of DG from phosphatidic acid and the further metabolism of DG, probably to MG. Phosphatidylethanolamine biosynthesis showed some recovery from this inhibition. Synthesis of Phi was greatly stimulated by preincubation with propranolol and was further enhanced by reincubation in the presence of propranolol. However, this effect was not reversed by reincubation without the drug. The active de novo biosynthesis of retinal phospholipids and glycerides is a very dynamic pathway that may be redirected by amphiphilic drugs. In addition, the partial reversal of modifications induced in the flux of [2-³H]glycerol through the lipids can occur during short-term reincubations of retinas in drug-free medium.