芡实种子萌发期子叶传递细胞发育的初步研究

芡实种子萌发期,子叶吸收外胚乳中养分供萌发和幼苗发育,具有吸器的功能。在种子萌发过程中,子叶的部分表皮细胞发育为传递细胞。其壁内突的生长以外切向壁为多,形成壁内突的造壁物质主要由高尔基体合成,并由其溢出的囊泡运送的。     

芡实种子萌发期的生物学特性与结构解剖

本文描述了芡实种子的结构,种子的萌发和幼苗的形态特征。成熟种子必须置于水中保存,以增大胚体,并完成后熟作用。外胚乳是种子萌发和幼苗生长的主要营养来源。萌发后在子叶叶柄基部外侧形成的突起结构可能起固着作用。     

伊贝母根系分泌物自毒作用研究

采用生物测定的方法,研究了伊贝母(Fritillaria pallidifloraSchvek)根系分泌物及其主要成分1,3,5-三烯丙基-1,3,5-三嗪-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)三酮、苯酚和二者的混合液对伊贝母生长的影响。结果表明,伊贝母根系分泌物对其种子萌发及胚根胚轴的生长有明显抑制作用,各浓度处理液对种子萌发及发芽势的影响多表现为抑制作用,随浓度升高而增强,但当超过一定浓度以后抑制作用有所下降。各浓度处理液对胚根胚轴生长的抑制作用表现为随浓度升高而增强,在较低浓度时对胚轴的生长表现为一定的促进作用。     

黄瓜种子及其萌发期的化感作用研究

以大白菜、萝卜、番茄和黄瓜种子为受体,采用实验室培养皿种子发芽生物测试法研究了黄瓜种子浸提液、种子萌发、胚根和芽苗分泌物、芽苗腐解物和芽苗浸提液的化感效应。结果表明:(1)黄瓜种子浸提液对大白菜、萝卜、番茄和黄瓜种子萌发均有化感抑制作用,即黄瓜种子内含有某些化感抑制物质。(2)在水浸提过的黄瓜种子萌发过程中,它不仅对其近邻套种的大白菜、萝卜和番茄种子萌发产生化感抑制作用,而且其胚根和芽苗分泌物对后茬播种的4种蔬菜种子发芽也表现出不同程度的化感抑制作用;黄瓜芽苗腐解物和芽苗水浸提液也对各受体蔬菜种子发芽与生长产生不同程度的化感抑制作用,且随着腐解芽苗量的增加或浸提液浓度的升高,各受体蔬菜种子的发芽指标值、化感效应指数值和综合效应值随之降低。(3)黄瓜种子浸提液及芽苗各器官的化感物质对黄瓜种子的萌发与生长产生了自毒作用,且黄瓜芽苗腐解物、芽苗浸提液、胚根及芽苗分泌物对受体黄瓜的自毒作用均为最大。研究发现,黄瓜种子浸提液、种子萌发时期以及芽苗各器官的化感物质主要是通过抑制受体胚根的生长而起化感抑制作用,即受体蔬菜种子胚根对化感效应最为敏感;因黄瓜种子及萌发期释放化感物质的途径有所不同,导致受体大白菜、萝卜、黄瓜和番茄的化感响应也不相同;在黄瓜种子萌发和芽苗生长的早期,化感物质即开始在芽苗体内进行合成与积累,一部分可通过胚根和芽苗分泌途径释放到环境中,另一部分可通过芽苗腐解途径释放化感物质,并对受体蔬菜种子萌发与生长表现出较强的化感抑制作用。     

茶树种子干热处理对幼苗生长的影响

为了探求促进茶籽萌发,缩短育苗时间及培育壮苗,提早成园。近年来研究指出,利用在播种前高温及干燥处理种子,对于提高种子的吸水力,促进萌发和生长效果明显。本试验是研究茶树种子干热处理对其萌发及生长的影响,试验结果整理如下。材料及方法试验用品种为园湄潭苔茶籽,经过筛     

新疆荒漠地区盐生植物灰绿藜种子的萌发特性及其对生境的适应性

研究新疆地区广泛分布的一年生盐生植物灰绿藜种子的萌发特性及其对生境适应性的结果表明：（1）灰绿藜种子萌发的温度范围较广,在15-45℃范围内均有50％以上的种子可以正常萌发,其对高温的耐受力较强,对光不敏感;（2）在一定浓度的聚乙二醇（PEG6000）范围内（≤25％）,PEG引起的渗透胁迫对灰绿藜种子萌发的抑制作用较小,但随着PEG浓度的加大其戍苗率逐渐下降;（3）灰绿藜种子在萌发时有较高的耐盐性,NaCl和KCl浓度达到400mmol．L^-1时种子的萌发率仍在90％以上;盐对灰绿藜种子萌发的抑制作用主要表现为种子萌发时间的延迟：低浓度的NaCl和KCl对灰绿藜幼苗生长均有促进作用,子叶生长状态明显改善,胚轴的生长也受到促进。     

鸢尾的组织培养

植物名称:鸢尾(Iris tectorum)。材料类别:种子。培养条件:培养基:(1)MS+IBA0.5mg/l(单位,下同)+BA1+KT1;(2)MS 0(无生长素的MS培养基)。培养物置于25℃恒温,光照度1000—2000lx,日照10—12小时的条件下培养。生长与分化情况:将一粒种子播于培养基(1)上,进行静置培养。约经2个月后种子萌发,伸出子叶,成为无根子叶苗。子叶苗下胚轴接触培养基处的组织形成膨大的小块突起,形似球状,以后小块数目逐渐增多,形成结节状组织。在播种后的第四个月,可见到结节组织的球状突起处分化出小苗,     

野生大豆的组织培养

植物名称:野生大豆(Glycine soja)。材料类别:将野生大豆的成熟种子经消毒后攒种在附加2,4-D2mg/L(单位下同)+BA2的MS培养基上。3天后种子开始膨胀萌发。种子萌发后与培养基接触的部分膨大,形成愈伤组织。培养20天后,切取已部分形成愈伤组织的子叶、上胚轴、下胚     

刺毛碱蓬种子多型性及其对极端盐渍环境的适应

采用盆栽和生长箱培养方法,对真盐生植物刺毛碱蓬2种形态种子的发育形态特点和萌发过程中对盐度响应的特征进行研究,以了解其对极端盐渍环境的适应.结果表明:(1)在施加0.2%～0.6% NaCl条件下刺毛碱蓬种子产量对盐度增加存在正响应,且在不同生长时期产生形态特征完全不同的2种形态种子,其中一种体积较大、种皮较软且脱水子叶为深绿色(简称软皮种子),软皮种子成熟、干燥脱水后的子叶中有叶绿素存在;另一种体积较小、种皮坚硬且子叶为白色(简称硬皮种子).(2)对2种形态成熟的脱水种子分别在去离子水和700 mmol·L-1 NaCl溶液中浸泡0、12、24 h后测定其种子萌发率、子叶叶绿素含量及光合作用能力的变化,结果发现,无论是否有盐胁迫,软皮种子吸水后的总萌发率均显著高于硬皮种子;软皮种子吸水3 h后即能检测到光合放氧,但经盐处理的种子与去离子水处理的种子其光合放氧能力无显著差别.(3)刺毛碱蓬2种形态的种子在高盐度条件下具有分批次萌发的特征;软皮种子子叶含有叶绿素在吸水后不久进行光合作用并形成幼苗,而硬皮种子萌发迟,但传播扩散远,这些特征在种子萌发和种群建成过程中起到了分摊萌发风险的作用,使刺毛碱蓬具有对更大范围盐渍环境的适应特性.     

莲种子萌发和幼苗生长时期营养物质的代谢变化

莲子叶细胞中储存了丰富的营养物质, 主要为蛋白质、淀粉和淀粉质体DNA。这些贮藏物质为种子萌发和幼苗的生长提供必需的能量和养料。通过组织化学和显微镜观察, 研究莲从种子萌发到植株生长至具有4个节时, 子叶中贮藏物质消耗的全过程。在此过程中, 子叶中的贮藏物质不断降解,营养物质发生转运。蛋白体首先发生降解, 其大量降解主要发生在幼苗三叶期。淀粉质体降解时会聚 集成团, 之后体积逐渐减小, 最后完全降解。种子萌发后65天是子叶贮藏物质消耗末期, 淀粉质体DNA的含量比萌发后20天的三叶期明显减少。细胞壁的形态结构发生多种形式的变化, 细胞壁发生的这些变化与子叶细胞间物质的运输有关。含多糖的球形颗粒通过维管束在子叶中运输。     

Role of Arabidopsis BBX proteins in light signaling

Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology - Light regulates numerous aspects of plant growth and development like seed germination, seedling de-etiolation, pigment accumulation, cotyledon...     

VARIATION IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STOMATAL COMPLEX IN THE LEAF EPIDERMIS OF MONOCOTYLEDONS AND ITS BEARING ON THEIR PHYLOGENY

Stebbins , G. L., and G. S. Khush . (U. California, Davis.) Variation in the organization of the stomatal complex in the leaf epidermis of monocotyledons and its bearing on their phylogeny. Amer. Jour. Bot. 48(1): 51–59. Illus. 1961.—Using macerated pieces of epidermal tissue from living plants and herbarium specimens, stomatal complexes of 192 species belonging to 49 families of monocotyledons were studied. Four categories are recognized, 2 with 4 or more subsidiary cells surrounding the guard cells, 1 with 2 subsidiaries, and 1 with none. Development of the 2-subsidiary type, studied in acetocarmine preparations of Juncus effusus and Sagittaria montevidensis, resembles that in Gramineae previously described. No correlation was found between type of stomatal complex and either leaf shape or type of xylem vessel, but some correlation exists between this character and type of seed germination, vascular anatomy of seedling, growth habit of mature plant, and geographic distribution. Types with 4 or more subsidiaries are most commonly phanerophytes with tropical distribution, many vascular bundles in the cotyledon, and hypogeal germination. Complexes with 2 subsidiaries occur in many families of a diverse nature, but the most primitive plants with this type are hydrophytes or helophytes with tropical or temperate distribution, 1 vascular bundle in the cotyledon, and epigeal germination. Stomatal complexes without subsidiaries are almost confined to the Liliales and their more specialized derivatives. These plants are predominantly geophytes with temperate or tropical distribution, 2 bundles in the cotyledon, and epigeal germination. Reasons are advanced for suggesting that the type with many subsidiaries is the most primitive and the other 2 types have been derived from it independently by reduction of the number of subsidiary cells.     

Arabidopsis CPR5 independently regulates seed germination and postgermination arrest of development through LOX pathway and ABA signaling

The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) and the lipoxygenases (LOXs) pathway play important roles in seed germination and seedling growth and development. Here, we reported on the functional characterization of Arabidopsis CPR5 in the ABA signaling and LOX pathways. The cpr5 mutant was hypersensitive to ABA in the seed germination, cotyledon greening and root growth, whereas transgenic plants overexpressing CPR5 were insensitive. Genetic analysis demonstrated that CPR5 gene may be located downstream of the ABI1 in the ABA signaling pathway. However, the cpr5 mutant showed an ABA independent drought-resistant phenotype. It was also found that the cpr5 mutant was hypersensitive to NDGA and NDGA treatment aggravated the ABA-induced delay in the seed germination and cotyledon greening. Taken together, these results suggest that the CPR5 plays a regulatory role in the regulation of seed germination and early seedling growth through ABA and LOX pathways independently.     

SEEDLING MORPHOLOGY IN MARAH (CUCURBITACEAE) RELATED TO THE CALIFORNIAN MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE

Studies in reproductive ecology were made in indigenous, western American plants in the genus Marah (Cucurbitaceae), with particular attention given plants of M. oreganus occurring in the Berkeley Hills near San Francisco Bay in California. These tuberous perennials produce capsular fruits on their annual aboveground shoots; the fruits dehisce in early summer, each one exposing about three large seeds with an average seed weight of 1.05 g. The embryo of a M. oreganus seed has two thick and fleshy cotyledons packed with protein granules. The embryonic axis, with shoot and root apices, is ca. 0.5-1.0 mm long, roughly ½0 or less the length of the seed. In the Berkeley Hills dispersal of the seeds is accomplished by nocturnal rodents, after which germination begins with the fall rains and cooler temperatures of November and December. Instead of a radicle emerging first from the seed at germination, the minute radicle and epicotyl are pushed or carried far out of the seed, down into the soil, by the elongating bases of the cotyledons. These cotyledon bases, or petioles, are fused, and as they elongate they form a hollow tube that bears the embryonic axis at its extreme tip. The cotyledonary petiole tube ceases elongation by January, when it may be 5-25 or more cm long in a seedling of M. oreganus. Then, from its tip, the radicle grows downward and the epicotyl upward—up the hollow petiole tube. The green shoot (epicotyl) reaches the soil surface by early March in this area, completes the first season's growth, and dries up by late May, when the arid summer season is beginning. But even before the epicotyl grows out of the petiole tube and above ground, the seedling's hypocotyl begins to enlarge, forming a tuber. The fleshy cotyledon blades remain in the seed coat below ground, and some food from the blades is transferred to the tuber that produces shoots in the following growing seasons. This pattern of germination and seedling establishment is now known for species of Marah and for a very few other dicotyledonous plants, all of them growing mainly in areas of hot and dry habitat that are generally referred to as having Mediterranean climate. This elongation of the fused hypogeal cotyledons is considered a complex adaptation in dicotyledons that helps ensure fast and successful seedling establishment in seasonally arid areas such as “Mediterranean” California.     

Seed germination time course and seedling development of Clintonia udensis Trautv. et Mey. (Uvulariaceae): a typical cool temperate woodland perennial in Japan

Seed germination time course and seedling development mechanisms of Clintonia udensis Trautv. et Mey. (Uvulariaceae) were investigated under experimental condition. Seed germination tests were carried out under four thermal regimes, i. e. 10, 15, 20, and 25°C, after seeds were harvested, and stored at 5°C in wet conditions for 6 months under light‐exposed or shaded conditions. Approximately 63% of all seeds produced had the potential to germinate beyond 4 years and 6 months. The developmental process after germination continued for over 2 years. Phase I: the radicle first breaks through the seed coat 2 years after fructification. Phase II: the radicle becomes much larger with a hypocotyle. Phase III: part of the cotyledon elongates over 20 mm. Phase IV: the plumule further develops in two steps, i. e. the plumule is first formed, while cotyledon is disappearing, and then the plumule appears with second and third radicles, growing with cotyledon.     

The effects of seed size, cotyledon reserves, and herbivory on seedling survival and growth in Quercus rugosa and Q. laurina (Fagaceae)

In a greenhouse experiment, seedling survival of two oak species (Quercus rugosa and Q. laurina) was greatly affected by the excision of cotyledons 1 mo after germination, with a greater impact on Q. laurina. The effect of seed size was also significant for both species, with a positive correlation between seed mass and survival and growth. The effect of cotyledon excision on seedling growth persisted throughout the first growing season in Q. rugosa and was not analyzed for Q. laurina due to the low number of seedlings that survived cotyledon excision. Seed size significantly affected seedling height, diameter, leaf area, and biomass at 6 mo. Seed size and cotyledon retention affected the ability of Q. rugosa to recover from herbivory, as both factors had a significant effect on relative growth rates after aerial biomass removal. The results show that seedlings originating from large seeds can better endure loss of cotyledons and aerial biomass and thus are better equipped to confront stress early in their lives.     

DELLA-mediated cotyledon expansion breaks coat-imposed seed dormancy

Seed dormancy is a key adaptive trait in plants responsible for the soil seed bank. The long established hormone-balance theory describes the antagonistic roles of the dormancy promoting plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA), and the germination promoting hormone gibberellin (GA) in dormancy control. Light, temperature, and other dormancy-breaking signals function to modulate the synthesis and perception of these hormones in the seed. However, the way in which these hormones control dormancy in the imbibed seed remains unknown. Here, we show that the DELLA protein regulators of the GA response are required for dormancy and describe a model through which hormone signal integration and dormancy regulation is achieved. We demonstrate that cotyledon expansion precedes radicle emergence during Arabidopsis seed germination and that a striking correlation exists between final seedling cotyledon size and seed dormancy in the DELLA mutants. Furthermore, twelve previously characterized seed-dormancy mutants are also defective in the control of cotyledon size in a manner consistent with their effect on germination potential. We propose that DELLA-mediated, light-, temperature-, and hormone-responsive cotyledon expansion prior to radicle emergence overcomes dormancy imposed by the seed coat and underlies seed-dormancy control in Arabidopsis.     

Seed size, seedling morphology, and response to deep shade and damage in neotropical rain forest trees

To investigate the existence of coordinated sets of seedling traits adapted to contrasting establishment conditions, we examined evolutionary convergence in seedling traits for 299 French Guianan woody plant species and the stress response in a shadehouse of species representing seed size gradients within five major cotyledon morphology types. The French Guianan woody plant community has larger seeds than other tropical forest communities and the largest proportion of hypogeal cotyledon type (59.2%) reported for tropical forests. Yet the community includes many species with intermediate size seeds that produce seedlings with different cotyledonal morphologies. A split-plot factorial design with two light levels (0.8% and 16.1% PAR) and four damage treatments (control, seed damage, leaf damage, stem damage) was used in the shadehouse experiment. Although larger-seeded species had higher survival and slower growth, these patterns were better explained by cotyledon type than by seed mass. Even larger-seeded species with foliar cotyledons grew faster than species with reserve-type cotyledons, and survival after stem grazing was five times higher in seedlings with hypogeal cotyledons than with epigeal cotyledons. Thus, to predict seedling performance using seed size, seedling morphology must also be considered.