植物叶绿体互补作用的研究——Ⅰ.杂交双亲叶绿体的互补作用

本文报道水稻“三系”叶绿体和大豆叶绿体希尔反应(光还原DCIP)的互补作用的结果。水稻(或大豆)杂交双亲叶绿体在体外等量混合时,其希尔反应活性大于两亲本叶绿体的平均值。实验结果表明:(1)水稻不育系+恢复系或保持系+恢复系的混合叶绿体有明显的互补作用;而不育系+保持系的混合叶绿体无互补作用。(2)提取叶绿体后的上清液与叶绿体混     

玉米杂种及其亲本系叶绿体光化学活性和同工酶的研究

叶绿体是绿色植物进行光合作用的细胞器。研究杂种F_1离体叶绿体的光化学活性和同工酶的表现,是杂种优势理论研究的一个重要方面。 我们选用玉米杂种及其亲本系共9个杂交组合、16个自交系作为研究材料。材料分三期播种,同一杂交组合及其亲本系取样时生育状态是一致的。叶绿体提取按Anderson和Boardmen的方法进行。叶绿体Hill反应活性(DCIP光还原)、叶绿体互补的测定应     

杂交水稻及其亲本光合特性的研究Ⅱ.功能叶片的希尔反应、光合磷酸化、ATP酶活性和ATP含量

研究了杂交水稻青优159（母本青A,父本R159）和广优四号（母本广A,父本青六矮）及其亲本功能叶片的希尔反应活性、光合磷酸化、ATP含量及ATP酶活性等。实验结果表明了两组杂交水稻功能叶片的希尔反应活性高于其亲本,其超亲优势分别为13．44％、13、93％,平均优势分别为26．44％、1774％;功能叶片的光合磷酸化活性亦有杂种优势,其超亲优势分别为21．35％、18．81％,平均优势分别为34．06％、22．71％;杂种F1的两种ATP酶（Cd －ATP酶和Mg －ATP酶）活性和叶组织中ATP含量均高于其亲本,亦表现出明显的杂种优势。另外从我们的试验结果中还可以见到,希尔反应活性、光合磷酸化活性、ATP酶活性及ATP含量与光合速率的大小有密切的正相关关系,说明这些生理生化特性可以作为高光合速率杂交水稻鉴别的指标。     

杂交水稻及其亲本幼苗的乙醇酸氧化酶与细胞色素氧化酶活性的研究(简报)

籼型杂交水稻不育系的乙醇酸氧化酶和细胞色素氧化酶比活差异较小,而恢复系之间则较明显,杂种优势越强的杂交种(F_1),其乙醇酸氧化酶的比活性越低,细胞色素氧化酶d值(杂种与父母本平均值之差)与乙醇酸氧化酶活性的d值总的变化趋势一致。F_1代的盐溶性蛋白质含量高于亲本。     

杂交水稻灌浆期光合生理特性的研究

本文对3个杂交水稻及其亲本灌浆期叶绿体诱导荧光动力学光谱、活体叶片光合放氧速率、叶绿体低温(77k)荧光发射光谱与二磷酸核酮糖羧化酶的活性研究结果表明:强优势的杂种均表现出高活性和高效率,而弱优势的杂种则相反。并对光合优势的生理机制进行了分析。     

杂交水稻及其亲本光合特性的研究：Ⅱ.功能叶片的希尔反应,光…

研究了杂交水稻青优１５９和广优四号及其亲本功能叶片的希尔反应活性,光合磷酸化,ＡＴＰ含量及ＡＴＰ酶活性等。实验结果表明两组杂交水稻功能叶片的希尔反应活性高于其亲本,其超亲优势分别为１３．４４％,１３．９３％,平均优势分别为２６．４４％,１７．７４％;功能叶片的光全磷酸化活性亦有杂种优势,其超亲优势分别为２１．３５％,１８．８１％,平均优势分别为３４．０％,２２．７１％;要种Ｆ１的两种ＡＴＰ酶活性和     

杂种小麦及亲本旗叶老化过程中RubisCO特性的研究

小麦（ＴｒｉｔｉｃｕｍａｅｓｔｉｖｕｍＬ．）旗叶的ＲｕＢＰｃａｓｅ活性、含量及ＲｕＢＰｏａｓｅ活性在旗叶全展或全展后１０ｄ达最大值,以后逐渐下降。与亲本相比,供试杂种小麦“麦优４号”在旗叶一生中尤其老化后期上述参数皆表现明显的杂种优势。旗叶ＲｕＢＰｃａｓｅ比活性在叶绿素缓降期保持平稳,在叶绿素速降期逐渐下降。供试杂种小麦较亲本具有较高的ＲｕＢＰ羧化酶和加氧酶活性,表明杂种小麦不仅具有较强的光合羧化作用,而且叶片光合作用过程中的光呼吸也较强。结果与旗叶ＲｕｂｉｓＣＯ亲合ＣＯ２和Ｏ２的动力学常数的测定结果相符。     

玉米杂种与亲本穗分化期功能叶基因差异表达与杂种优势

为探讨玉米杂种优势的分子机理,以10个玉米自交系及其组配的38个杂交种为材料,利用cDNA-AFLP技术,分析杂种与亲本在玉米雌穗小穗分化期功能叶片的基因差异表达类型与主要农艺性状的杂种表现及杂种优势的关系。研究表明：（1）杂种的基因相对于其双亲,存在质和量的表达差异,其中质的差异表达类型包括：单亲沉默表达,双亲沉默表达,亲本显性表达和杂种特异表达等类型。（2）在雌穗小穗分化期,同一差异表达类型中不同杂交组合间差异很大;从总体平均看,杂种特异表达类型占25.22%,亲本显性表达类型占21.46%,双亲沉默表达类型占8.27%,单亲沉默表达类型占33.49%。（3）单亲沉默表达与株高的杂种表现呈显著正相关;双亲沉默表达与穗粗的杂种优势呈显著负相关,显性表达与行粒数和单株粒重的杂种优势呈显著负相关,其余表达类型与所有农艺性状杂种表现及杂种优势均不相关,并对结果进行了讨论。     

各种植物叶片上清液对不同叶绿体的环式光合磷酸化的影响——初步报告——

甜菜叶片的匀浆用10000×g和140000×g离心后,其上清液中有一种(或几种)物质,这种物质对菠菜和莴苣叶绿体的环式磷酸化反应速度有很强的促进作用,对于甜菜本身叶绿体则没有作用。上清液用丙酮沉淀或凝胶过滤后仍有活性。经过100℃温度处理后四分之三的活性丧失。初步测定这种物质的分子量在60000以上。菠菜上清液对甜菜和莴苣叶绿体的环式磷酸化亦有促进作用,对菠菜叶绿体本身则无促进作用。莴苣上清液对甜菜、菠菜和莴苣本身叶绿体的环式磷酸化都有促进作用。这种现象我们暂称之为“互补”效应。     

测定叶绿体希尔反应的电分析化学方法

希尔反应是离体叶绿体在电子受体的存在下,光能使水分解出氧气的反应。通常,希尔氧化剂用得最多的是有机染料二氯酚靛酚(DaPIP),采用分光光度法测定。而电化学分析法灵敏度高、干扰少,未见用于希尔反应研究的报道。我们曾用电化学方法研     

Heterosis in hybrids within and between yeast species

The performance of hybrids relative to their parents is an important factor in speciation research. We measured the growth of 46 Saccharomyces yeast F1 interspecific and intraspecific hybrids, relative to the growth of each of their parents, in pairwise competition assays. We found that the growth of a hybrid relative to the average of its parents, a measure of mid‐parent heterosis, correlated with the difference in parental growth relative to their hybrid, a measure of phenotypic divergence, which is consistent with simple complementation of low fitness alleles in one parent by high fitness alleles in the other. Interspecific hybrids showed stronger heterosis than intraspecific hybrids. To manipulate parental phenotypic divergence independently of genotype, we also measured the competitive growth of a single interspecific hybrid relative to its parents in 12 different environments. In these assays, we not only identified a strong relationship between parental phenotypic divergence and mid‐parent heterosis as before, but, more tentatively, a weak relationship between phenotypic divergence and best‐parent heterosis, suggesting that complementation of deleterious mutations was not the sole cause of interspecific heterosis. Our results show that mating between different species can be beneficial, and demonstrate that competition assays between parents and offspring are a useful way to study the evolutionary consequences of hybridization.     

Extensive heterosis in growth of yeast hybrids is explained by a combination of genetic models

Heterosis, also known as hybrid vigor, is the superior performance of a heterozygous hybrid relative to its homozygous parents. Despite the scientific curiosity of this phenotypic phenomenon and its significance for food production in agriculture, its genetic basis is insufficiently understood. Studying heterosis in yeast can potentially yield insights into its genetic basis, can allow one to test the different hypotheses that have been proposed to explain the phenomenon and allows better understanding of how to take advantage of this phenomenon to enhance food production. We therefore crossed 16 parental yeast strains to form 120 yeast hybrids, and measured their growth rates under five environmental conditions. A considerable amount of dominant genetic variation was found in growth performance, and heterosis was measured in 35% of the hybrid–condition combinations. Despite previous reports of correlations between heterosis and measures of sequence divergence between parents, we detected no such relationship. We used several analyses to examine which genetic model might explain heterosis. We found that dominance complementation of recessive alleles, overdominant interactions within loci and epistatic interactions among loci each contribute to heterosis. We concluded that in yeast heterosis is a complex phenotype created by the combined contribution of different genetic interactions.     

Temporal Regulation of the Metabolome and Proteome in Photosynthetic and Photorespiratory Pathways Contributes to Maize Heterosis

Heterosis or hybrid vigor is widespread in plants and animals. Although the molecular basis for heterosis has been extensively studied, metabolic and proteomic contributions to heterosis remain elusive. Here we report an integrative analysis of time-series metabolome and proteome data in maize (Zea mays) hybrids and their inbred parents. Many maize metabolites and proteins are diurnally regulated, and many of these show nonadditive abundance in the hybrids, including key enzymes and metabolites involved in carbon assimilation. Compared with robust trait heterosis, metabolic heterosis is relatively mild. Interestingly, most amino acids display negative mid-parent heterosis (MPH), i.e., having lower values than the average of the parents, while sugars, alcohols, and nucleoside metabolites show positive MPH. From the network perspective, metabolites in the photosynthetic pathway show positive MPH, whereas metabolites in the photorespiratory pathway show negative MPH, which corresponds to nonadditive protein abundance and enzyme activities of key enzymes in the respective pathways in the hybrids. Moreover, diurnally expressed proteins that are upregulated in the hybrids are enriched in photosynthesis-related gene-ontology terms. Hybrids may more effectively remove toxic metabolites generated during photorespiration, and thus maintain higher photosynthetic efficiency. These metabolic and proteomic resources provide unique insight into heterosis and its utilization for high yielding maize and other crop plants.     

Assembly of yield heterosis of an elite rice hybrid is promising by manipulating dominant quantitative trait loci

In the past, rice hybrids with strong heterosis have been obtained empirically, by developing and testing thousands of combinations. Here, we aimed to determine whether heterosis of an elite hybrid could be achieved by manipulating major quantitative trait loci. We used 202 chromosome segment substitution lines from the elite hybrid Shanyou 63 to evaluate single segment heterosis (SSH) of yield per plant and identify heterotic loci. All nine detected heterotic loci acted in a dominant fashion, and no SSH exhibited overdominance. Functional alleles of key yield-related genes Ghd7, Ghd7.1, Hd1, and GS3 were dispersed in both parents. No functional alleles of three investigated genes were expressed at higher levels in the hybrids than in the more desirable parents. A hybrid pyramiding eight heterotic loci in the female parent Zhenshan 97 background had a comparable yield to Shanyou 63 and much higher yield than Zhenshan 97. Five hybrids pyramiding eight or nine heterotic loci in the combined parental genome background showed similar yield performance to that of Shanyou 63. These results suggest that dominance underlying functional complementation is an important contributor to yield heterosis and that heterosis assembly might be successfully promised by manipulating several major dominant heterotic loci.     

The Nature of Heterosis and Methods of Enhancing and Fixing It in a Series of Generations without Hybridization

The long-standing studies into the problem of heterosis on the silkworm and other objects are reviewed. Silkworms are divided by sex for hybridization using the genetic marking of the eggs by sex, an improved method of ameiotic parthenogenesis providing all-female progeny, or the method of obtaining all-male progeny as a result of the death of eggs with female embryos under the influence of two non-allele embryonic lethals balances in the Z-chromosome. The experimental data suggest that heterosis is determined by the heterozygosity of lethals and semilethals, rather than depending on the heterozygosity of all gene types. The number of modifier genes that control viability plays a big role in the vigor of heterosis. An effective method is proposed to enhance the vigor of heterosis through the selection of one or two parents of a hybrid for viability, both of which received a strong semilethal. In hybrids, this semilethal is suppressed by the normal allele, and then a more unbalanced complex of modifier genes initiates a heterosis two to three times more vigorous than in standard hybrids. A method is developed to fix heterosis through the backcrosses of females of the high-heterosis hybrids to the absolutely homozygous males of androgenetic origin obtained from these females. These crosses preserve the main genotype of the hybrid and eliminate lethals and semilethals, and, as a result, heterosis is not damped during standard intrahybrid reproduction.     

组学技术揭示水稻杂种优势遗传机制

杂种优势是杂交后代在生长或生殖性状上表现出优于亲本的现象。虽然杂种优势在农业生产上已广为应用,但其分子机理仍不清楚。最近,中国科学家通过分析17个代表性杂交稻(Oryza sativa)品种,共10 074个F2个体的全基因组序列和表型,对水稻产量杂种优势相关位点进行了系统定位和解析。此外,中国另一个科研小组通过整合杂交稻亲本和杂交种的表型组、转录组及基因组等多层次数据,深入研究了超级杂交稻两优培九产量的杂种优势基础。这些研究不仅为杂种优势理论的建立提供了新数据,也为水稻育种实践提供了有益的指导。     

Heterosis for horticultural traits in Broccoli

Over the last three decades, broccoli (Brassica oleracea L., Italica Group) hybrids made by crossing two inbred lines replaced open-pollinated populations to become the predominant type of cultivar. The change to hybrids evolved with little or no understanding of heterosis or hybrid vigor in this crop. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to determine levels of heterosis expressed by a set of hybrids derived by crossing relatively elite, modern inbreds (n = 9). An additional objective was to determine if PCR-based marker derived genetic similarities among the parents can be useful to predict heterosis in this crop. Thirty-six hybrids derived from a diallel mating design involving nine parents were evaluated for five horticultural characters including the head characteristics of head weight, head stem diameter, and maturity (e.g., days from transplant to harvest), and the plant vigor characteristics of plant height, and plant width in four environments. A total of 409 polymorphic markers were generated by 24 AFLP, 23 SRAP and 17 SSR primer combinations. Euclidean distances between parents were determined based on phenotypic traits. About half of the hybrids exhibited highparent heterosis for head weight (1–30 g) and stem diameter (0.2–3.5 cm) when averaged across environments. Almost all hybrids showed highparent heterosis for plant height (1–10 cm) and width (2–13 cm). Unlike other traits, there was negative heterosis for maturity, indicating that heterosis for this character in hybrids is expressed as earliness. Genetic similarity estimates among the nine parental lines ranged from 0.43 to 0.71 and were significantly and negatively correlated with highparent heterosis for all traits except for stem diameter and days from transplant to harvest. Euclidean distances were not correlated with heterosis. With modern broccoli inbreds, less heterosis was observed for head characteristics than for traits that measured plant vigor. In addition, genetic similarity based on molecular markers was more highly correlated with plant vigor characteristics than head traits. Unlike with molecular marker-based estimates of genetic similarity, euclidean distance determined using phenotypic trait data was not predictive of heterosis. In conclusion, this study has documented heterosis in Brassica oleracea L., and the ability to predict heterosis in this crop using molecular marker-based estimates of genetic similarity among parents used in producing the hybrid. The contents of this publication do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the USDA, nor does the mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the US Government. The cost of publishing this paper was defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. Under postal regulations, this paper therefore must be hereby marked as advertisement solely to indicate this fact.     

Progressive heterosis in genetically defined tetraploid maize

Progressive heterosis, i.e., the additional hybrid vigor in double-cross tetraploid hybrids not found in their single-cross tetraploid parents, has been documented in a number of species including alfalfa,potato, and maize. In this study, four artificially induced maize tetraploids, directly derived from standard inbred lines, were crossed in pairs to create two single-cross hybrids. These hybrids were then crossed to create double-cross hybrids containing genetic material from all four original lines. Replicated fieldbased phenotyping of the materials over four years indicated a strong progressive heterosis phenotype in tetraploids but not in their diploid counterparts. In particular, the above ground dry weight phenotype of double-cross tetraploid hybrids was on average 34% and 56% heavier than that of the single-cross tetraploid hybrids and the double-cross diploid counterparts, respectively. Additionally,whole-genome resequencing of the original inbred lines and further analysis of these data did not show the expected spectrum of alleles to explain tetraploid progressive heterosis under the complementation of complete recessive model. These results underscore the reality of the progressive heterosis phenotype,its potential utility for increasing crop biomass production, and the need for exploring alternative hypothesis to explain it at a molecular level.