杉木花粉发育过程中形态结构的变化研究

该研究以扬州地区成年杉木为材料,采用半薄切片法以及扫描电镜和透射电镜观察法,对杉木花粉发育过程进行了观察。结果表明:杉木的造孢细胞形成于10月,持续至翌年的1月底至2月初。造孢细胞位于小孢子囊最里面,呈多边形,数量多且彼此排列紧密;细胞壁很薄,细胞核较大,内含丰富的细胞器和脂类物质。造孢细胞发育成熟后彼此分离形成小孢子母细胞。小孢子母细胞的减数分裂开始于2月下旬,经两次减数分裂,先后形成二分染色体和四分染色体。小孢子从四分体释放后,体积迅速增大,发育形成花粉,这个过程中,伴随着明显的营养物质变化。杉木成熟花粉壁由薄壁区和厚壁区两部分组成,薄壁区中央有一个乳头状突起,突起上有一萌发孔。成熟花粉外壁着生了许多瘤状颗粒。该研究结果为杉木生殖发育、有性繁殖以及系统演化研究提供了重要依据。     

杉木雄性不育株与可育株小孢子囊发育的电镜研究

杉木雄性不育属“无花粉型”,败育从无孢原细胞到四分体时期,中层细胞增生,压迫小孢子母细胞,使之养分更加缺乏并引起减数分裂异常。其表皮层和药室内壁细胞中具大量蛋白体,影响了绒毡层对小孢子发育的外源蛋白的供应;表皮层具膜状溶酶体,引起淀粉粒缺乏和酶系统代谢异常;绒毡层发育后期,缺少包被小泡、乌氏体及绒毡层膜,内质同少、短而光滑,严重影响了绒毡层对小孢子母细胞或小孢子养分和合成细胞壁物质的供给;线粒体发育异常,能量代谢减弱,导致小孢子母细胞或小孢子一系列生理活动紊乱及其原生质体解体。     

杉木小孢子叶球发育过程中形态结构变化

以扬州地区生长的成年杉木为实验材料,通过采用数码相机拍摄、体视镜、扫描电镜以及半薄切片等方法,对杉木小孢子叶球发育、小孢子囊发育及其散粉规律进行详细观察。结果发现,10月中旬,杉木小孢子叶球形成并着生于新枝顶端。翌年3月中下旬,小孢子叶球成熟,进入散粉期,散粉首先从小孢子叶球基部开始依次向上部扩散。小孢子叶在孢子叶球主轴上螺旋排列,单个小孢子叶通常由3个小孢子囊组成,构成三角形。小孢子囊壁由1层表皮细胞、1~2层中间层细胞和1层绒毡层细胞组成,表皮细胞首先形成,并向内分化出2~3层细胞,分别分化形成中层和绒毡层,最后中层和绒毡层消失。杉木的小孢子囊通过开裂口控制其开裂,20℃室温下整个小孢子叶球散粉时间持续约18 h,单个小孢子叶的散粉时间为8~10 h。以上结果显示,杉木小孢子叶球的发育过程经历了体积增大、鳞片开张及散粉等阶段,这些形态和结构上的变化利于提高散粉效率,这说明杉木在长期的演化过程中,形成了许多有利于风媒传粉的结构特征。     

杉木雄性不育株与可育株小孢子囊发育的电镜研究

杉木雄性不育属“无花粉型”,败育从无也原细胞押分体时期、中层细胞增生,压迫小孢子母细胞,使之养分更加缺乏并引起减烽分裂异常。其表皮层和药室内壁细胞中具大量蛋白体,影响了绒毡层对小孢子发育的外源蛋白的供应;表皮层具膜状溶酶体,引起淀粉粒缺乏和酶系统代谢异常;绒毡层发育后期,缺少包被小泡,乌氏体及绒毡层膜,内质网少,短而光滑,严重影响了绒毡层对小孢子母细胞或小孢子养分和合成细胞壁物质的供给;     

杉木雄性不育株外部形态及输导组织和小孢子囊异常的细胞学研究

对杉木雄性不育株外部形态和细胞学研究结果表明：不育株叶色较绿;小孢子叶球簇苞片和小孢子叶异常张开,使其小孢子囊发育过程中的温湿条件不恒定;其小孢子叶球发育推迟;导致其小孢子发生和发育异常;小孢子囊外常有一包被结构和中层细胞增生以及小孢子叶球发育后期苞片和小孢子叶张开度小,使囊内细胞受挤压而引起囊内各种细胞生理代谢的异常和解体;曲枝和小枝输导组织、小孢子叶球轴维管束及小孢子叶球和小孢子叶的树脂道的不发达,以及小孢子叶球中各种细胞内淀粉粒的缺少或畸形、中层和绒毡层细胞内线粒体和内质网的异常等,都是引起雄性败育的原因之一。     

雄性可育与雄性不育籽粒苋小孢子发育研究

栽培种籽料苋（lmaranthus hypochondriacus L。）是一种很有潜力的新型作物。它营养价值高、蛋白质含量丰富、氨基酸平衡好、耐旱、耐盐碱和酸、抗逆性强、适应性广,被认为易极有潜力的、为全球提供粮食的替代作物之一。但是籽粒苋于粒重仅0．7－1．2g,种子易散落。于是,和许多其它植物一样,籽粒苋中也找到了雄性不育株。但是它的小孢子发育过程及其败育时期和不育特征尚不清楚,为它的杂交育种研究带来不便。本文通过电镜对雄性可育和不育的两种籽粒苋小孢子进行观察。发现不育小孢子败育起始于四分体释放以后的单核花粉期。在此之前小孢子的发育是一样的。花粉分化早期,孢原组织分化出初级造孢组织、绒毡层、中间层、药壁内层和表皮层（图1）;造孢组织继续分裂,细胞不断扩大,形成小孢子母细胞（图2）;小孢子母细胞不断增大,周围积累胼胝质并逐渐与绒毡层分离,出现大液泡（图3）;小孢子母细胞减数分裂,四分体形成,包埋于胼胝质中;绒毡层有丝分裂,有双核细胞;大液泡消失;细胞壁开始降解（图4）。胼胝质逐渐消失,小孢子从四分体中释放以后（单核花粉期）,在雄性可育籽粒苋里,小孢子有丝分裂、迅速膨大变圆,可见两个深色雄仁,花粉壁加厚（图5）;进入收缩期,绒毡层降解,突入花药腔,环绕小孢子周围（图6）;花粉壁不断加厚,小孢子更趋成熟（图7）,直直形成内含大量淀粉的完全成熟花粉粒（图8）。而在雄性不育籽粒苋里,出现如下不育特征：小孢子粉壁未能进一步加厚,小孢子形状变得怪异（图13）;花粉内含物溶解,空泡化,成为不育花粉（图14）。小孢子在花药中的发育完全依赖绒毡层细胞提供所需的营养物质和信息,绒毡层异常必然导致花粉败育,胼胝质降解不影响小孢子母细胞减数分裂,而是影响小孢子初生外壁的发育,从而导致小孢子发育退化。籽粒苋花粉败育过程中未见胼胝质降解,其原因有待进一步研究。有报道,正常花粉发育过程中常含有大量液泡,籽粒苋可育花粉的发育过程也证实液泡的发育与花粉粒的充实、花粉的形状有密切关系,而不育花粉中小液泡逐渐膨大,形成空泡后破裂。     

杉木小孢子囊败育过程中的胼胝质壁和孢粉素的消长

对杉木雄性不育株与可育株在小孢子发生和发育过程中的小孢子囊内各种细胞的胼胝质和孢粉素的变化进行研究。结果表明：杉木雄性不育株的小孢子囊发育迟缓,其败育可分为：无小孢子囊型,减数分裂Ｉ前中层细胞增生型和减数分裂Ｉ后中层细胞增生型等３种;其细胞壁厚薄不均,在其小孢子囊发育过程中,细胞内淀粉粒缺乏或异常;在早期,其胼胝质壁较可育株的薄,发出的荧光较弱;发育后期,则具有胼胝质壁,直至细胞解体。不育株小孢子     

油菜雄性核不育系及其等位可育系小孢子发育过程的比较研究

用Olympus BH2型光学显微镜对甘蓝型油菜单显性核不育系(GMS)及其等位可育系小孢子发育过程进行解剖学观察,发现在正常小孢子发育过程中,绒毡层在小孢子发育的四分体前后开始解体,为小孢子继续发育提供营养,而不育系小孢子的败育在减数分裂前就已经发生,并且不能形成四分体,小孢子逐渐解体,且小孢子解体在绒毡层解体之前发生,最后花药成为干瘪的空壳,导致不育。     

在三叶橡胶花药培养中体细胞与小孢子的关系

研究了三叶橡胶花药体细胞的愈伤组织化与花粉胚形成的关系。在只能促进花药体细胞增殖的培养基上,小孢子没有进一步发育而空瘪;在抑制体细胞增殖的培养基上,无论是花药体细胞组织或小孢子都未能进一步发育,小孢子逐渐解体,而在能诱导体细胞有一定程度的发育,同时又能诱导小孢子发育的培养基上,约有10—20%的花粉形成多细胞球。它们的发育与体细胞密切有关。还发现,在接种培养基中加入1—2毫克/升a—萘乙酸对体细胞与小孢子发育均有良好效果。对胚状体的细胞学观察表明:这些胚状体是单倍体(2n=18)。此外,花药接种前冷冻预处理(11℃24小时及3—5℃20小时),对小孢子有明显的不利影响。在经冷冻预处理后所得胚状体中,有相当多的二倍性细胞分裂相出现。这些胚状体可能来源于体细胞组织。     

花药培养过程栽培稻花粉不育杂种F1与亲本台中65的细胞学研究

利用活体压片、半薄及超薄切片技术,对栽培稻(Oryza sativa L.)花粉不育杂种F1及育性正常的亲本台中65离体培养前后的小孢子及花药壁进行细胞学研究.结果表明:与台中65相比,杂种F1的花粉小孢子在发育至单核中-晚期,出现比例较高的胞质凝聚小孢子和少量星型小孢子,正常小孢子和淀粉化小孢子比例降低.在离体条件下,胞质凝聚小孢子、星型小孢子、正常小孢子、液泡化小孢子、淀粉化小孢子的发育主要沿着胞质凝聚败育过程、孢子体发育过程、配子体发育过程、液泡化过程和淀粉化过程进行;药壁组织在离体条件下,杂种F1比台中65的绒毡层降解速度快,中层膨大程度高.杂种F1与台中65在离体培养下小孢子发育及药壁细胞学的差异主要是受到S-a座位内等位基因互作及离体培养环境的影响.     

Nuclear reconstitution in vitro: stages of assembly around protein-free DNA

We have developed a cell-free system derived from Xenopus eggs that reconstitutes nuclear structure around an added protein-free substrate (bacteriophage lambda DNA). Assembled nuclei are morphologically indistinguishable from normal eukaryotic nuclei: they are surrounded by a double membrane containing nuclear pores and are lined with a peripheral nuclear lamina. Nuclear assembly involves discrete intermediate steps, including nucleosome assembly, scaffold assembly, and nuclear membrane and lamina assembly, indicating that during reconstitution nuclear organization is assembled one level at a time. Topoisomerase II inhibitors block nuclear assembly. Lamin proteins and membrane vesicles bind to chromatin late in assembly, suggesting that these components do not interact with chromatin that is formed early in assembly. Reconstituted nuclei replicate their DNA; replication begins only after envelope formation has initiated, indicating that envelope attachment may be important for regulating replication.     

Salt-induced chloroplast protrusion is the process of exclusion of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from chloroplasts into cytoplasm in leaves of rice

Chloroplast protrusions (CPs) are often observed under environmental stresses, but their role has not been elucidated. The formation of CPs was observed in the leaf of rice plants treated with 75 mm NaCl for 14 d. Some CPs were almost separated from the main chloroplast body. In some CPs, inner membrane structures and crystalline inclusions were included. Similar structures surrounded by double membranes were observed in the cytoplasm and vacuole. Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) was detected in CPs and the similar structures in the cytoplasm and vacuole. These results suggest that CP is one of the pathways of Rubisco exclusion from chloroplasts into the cytoplasm under salinity, and the exclusions could be transported to vacuole for their degradation.     

非细胞体系核重建过程中两类膜泡在环形片层及核被膜形成中的作用

非洲爪蟾卵经钙离子载体A 23187激活后,在10,000g下离心得到爪蟾卵提取物。Lambda DNA加入上述提取物可构建出染色质结构,并在染色质表面重建核被膜,同时在染色质外的区域形成环形片层。核被膜与环形片层有相似的发生途径,它们都是由两类在形态、大小、膜结构上有明显差别的膜泡融合而来。首先是直径200nm的圆形小膜泡相互融合成双层膜片层,同时核孔复合体在双层膜上大量装配,以这些双层膜片层为基础,光滑的大膜泡与之融合导致环形片层的扩张与核被膜的成熟。     

Membrane-bound intranuclear inclusions in the Leydig cell of the Chinese hamster (Cricetulus griseus)

Membrane-bound intranuclear inclusions have been described, for the first time, in the Leydig cell of the Chinese hamster (Cricetulus griseus). The inclusions were not found in the 1-day-old animal, rarely found prior to sexual maturity, and commonly found in the sexually mature animals. The incidence of inclusions increases with aging. Their size and content varies greatly. They are surrounded by a single membrane and completely enclosed by nucleoplasm. Their close association with nuclear invaginations of cytoplasmic material, and their content of cytoplasmic structures along with some exhibiting the presence of trimetaphosphatase reaction product, suggest a cytoplasmic origin. This phenomenon involves the migration of cytoplasmic structures into the nucleus followed by detachment on the nucleoplasmic side. The presence of the inclusions is not an indication of an abnormality of the Leydig cell. The Leydig cell of the Chinese hamster may be an excellent model to study factors that initiate inclusion formation, and to determine the functional role of membrane-bound intranuclear inclusions.     

Further Observations on the Fine Structure of Acanthamoeba palestinensis (Reich, 1933). The Golgi Complex,Microbodies, and Mitochondria1

The fine structure of the trophozoite of Acanthamoeba palestinensis with a special emphasis on the Golgi complex, microbodies, and mitochondria has been examined. Golgi complexes are distributed throughout the cytoplasm but are most abundant in the perinuclear region. Usually two Goigi complexes are found in the same plane on opposite sides of the nucleus. One of them appears to be in an intimate association with the nuclear membrane. The region of contact contains compact cisternae, vesicles of various sizes, as well as granular and amorphous electron-dense material. Structural changes in the nuclear envelope are also observed in this area. A structure consisting of a Golgi complex and electron-dense microtubule organizing center, comparable to the centrosphere of other Acanthamoeba species, has been observed. Microbodies, surrounded by a single unit membrane and containing a granular matrix and tubular inclusions, are scattered throughout the cytoplasm. These organelles, circular (～1 μm in diameter) or ovoidal (～1 μm in length and ～0.5 μm in width) in section, have often an irregular outline. These microbodies are probably the morphological equivalent of peroxisomes and glyoxysomes. Most mitochondria show a typical structure including tubular cristae and intracristal inclusions. Occasionally mitochondria with two apposed double membranes running through the midline are found. Such atypical cristae have never been reported in small amoebae before.     

Structural and functional dynamics of oogenesis in Glossina austeni: general features, previtellogenesis and nurse cells.

Glossina austeni oogenesis throughout its nine-day pregnancy cycle is described with the focus on previtellogenic stages. The ultrastructural details of the oocyte-nurse cell relationship and cyst formation is presented. The oocyte develops in a syncytial association with 15 nurse cells with the entire unit surrounded by a follicular epithelium. The nurse cells have large elaborate nucleoli. Evidence of nuclear emissions and the presence of an unusual cytoplasmic membrane association were found. A variety of nuclear inclusions are seen in the oocyte. Glycogen, lipid, ribosomes and membrane organelles accumulate in the oocyte during previtellogenesis.     

Assembly of the nuclear pore: biochemically distinct steps revealed with NEM, GTP gamma S, and BAPTA

A key event in nuclear formation is the assembly of functional nuclear pores. We have used a nuclear reconstitution system derived from Xenopus eggs to examine the process of nuclear pore assembly in vitro. With this system, we have identified three reagents which interfere with nuclear pore assembly, NEM, GTP gamma S, and the Ca++ chelator, BAPTA. These reagents have allowed us to determine that the assembly of a nuclear pore requires the prior assembly of a double nuclear membrane. Inhibition of nuclear vesicle fusion by pretreatment of the membrane vesicle fraction with NEM blocks pore complex assembly. In contrast, NEM treatment of already fused double nuclear membranes does not block pore assembly. This indicates that NEM inhibits a single step in pore assembly--the initial fusion of vesicles required to form a double nuclear membrane. The presence of GTP gamma S blocks pore assembly at two distinct steps, first by preventing fusion between nuclear vesicles, and second by blocking a step in pore assembly that occurs on already fused double nuclear membranes. Interestingly, when the Ca2+ chelator BAPTA is added to a nuclear assembly reaction, it only transiently blocks nuclear vesicle fusion, but completely blocks nuclear pore assembly. This results in the formation of a nucleus surrounded by a double nuclear membrane, but devoid of nuclear pores. To order the positions at which GTP gamma S and BAPTA interfere with pore assembly, a novel anchored nuclear assembly assay was developed. This assay revealed that the BAPTA-sensitive step in pore assembly occurs after the second GTP gamma S-sensitive step. Thus, through use of an in vitro nuclear reconstitution system, it has been possible to biochemically define and order multiple steps in nuclear pore assembly.     

Nature of the nuclear inclusions formed by PQBP1, a protein linked to neurodegenerative polyglutamine diseases

PQBP1, for polyglutamine tract-binding protein-1, has been linked to progressive neurodegenerative diseases, such as spinocerebellar ataxia, that are caused by the expansion of a polyglutamine repeat in a key regulatory protein. The overexpression of PQBP1 results in the formation of nuclear inclusions, reminiscent of the protein aggregates that are detected in polyglutamine diseases. We show here that the occurrence of PQBP1-induced nuclear inclusions is dramatically increased by the co-expression of the pre-mRNA splicing factor SIPP1, a protein ligand of PQBP1. These nuclear inclusions did not co-localise with nuclear structures such as nucleoli, coiled bodies, PML bodies, speckles and stress bodies, and were not associated with (in)active chromatin or with nucleic acids. Site-directed mutagenesis showed that the facilitation in the formation of the nuclear inclusions required multiple independent interaction sites between SIPP1 and PQBP1. Moreover, the nuclear inclusions were highly dynamic and their formation did not require energy. Our data suggest that the SIPP1-PQBP1-induced nuclear inclusions are distinct from the protein aggregates that are associated with polyglutamine diseases and represent dynamic nucleoplasmic heteropolymers of SIPP1 and PQBP1.     

The transformation of male sex cells of Tetranychus urticae K. (Acari,Tetranychidae) during passage from the testis to the oocytes: an electron microscopic study

The fine structure of the spermatozoon of Tetranychus urticae is described during passage from the testis to the site of insemination in the ovary. The male sex cells differentiate from a cytoplasmic mass which is characterised by nuclei bearing tubule-like structures. Infoldings appear in peripheral membrane of the germ cells at the beginning of spermiogenesis, chromatin condenses, and the nuclear membrane is reduced. The spermatozoon is surrounded by a double membrane: the inner one is the sperm membrane and the outer one is of somatic origin. The sperm reach the glanular region of the testis where they are transformed into amoeboid cell and are next collected in the seminal vesicle.

After copulation, the sperm can be observed in the lumen of the receptaculum seminis of the female from which they soon enter the epithelial cells. Still surrounded by a double membrane, the sperm, which are now packed in clusters, develop microtubules immediately beneath the inner membrane and enlarge by decondensation of chromatin and by infiltration of cytoplasmic material. Insemination takes place in the vitellogenic region of the ovary just before the eggs close their pores; the sperm have now reached ten times their original size.     

Nature chimique des inclusions cristallines nucléaires des cellules parenchymateuses voisines de l'épithème chezStellaria media L.

Summary The chemical composition of crystalline inclusions, which have been detected in the double nuclear membrane with the electron microscope (Perrin 1969) was studied by enzymatic digestion. The crystals were digested in thin sections by pepsin and after 1 hour of incubation, nearly all the crystalline inclusions had disappeared entirely leaving empty spaces.These results demonstrate that the nuclear crystals are composed primarily of protein.