4PU对萝卜离体子叶衰老的影响

萝卜(Raphanus sativus)离体子叶在暗中培养过程中,作为叶片衰老指标的叶绿素和蛋白质含量随着培养时间的延长而呈现出稳定的下降。4PU处理可减轻叶绿素和蛋白质含量的下降,表现出明显的延缓衰老的效应,其中以10-l mg/L效果最佳。     

豇豆叶片衰老过程中多胺氧化酶活性的变化（简报）

豇豆幼苗的连体和离体叶片衰老过程中多胺氧化酶（PAO）活性与叶绿素和蛋白质的含量都呈下降趋势,它们的降幅依次是：PAO活性大于叶绿素含量大于蛋白质含量;用氨基胍抑制离体叶圆片PAO活性,不能延缓叶绿素和蛋白质的含量下降。     

杂交水稻开花结实期间叶片衰老

在杂交水秀开花期间,通过剪却穗部部分枝梗和叶片等处理,形成不同的库源比,叶片衰老的生理生化指标变化和结实率的测定表明,杂交水稻组合的库源矛盾大,叶片衰老快;但谷粒数与旗叶面积比不一定高,降低库源比,能明显减缓杂交水稻叶片中蛋白质,叶绿素含量及倒３,４,５片叶叶绿素含量的平均值和旗叶叶绿素含量的比率的下降和丙二醛含量的升高。     

高等植物叶片的衰老

蛋白质丧失是叶片衰老的一个早期表现,降解的蛋白主要是可溶性蛋白中部分Ⅰ蛋白,随衰老加深,叶绿素含量、光合速率下降,保护酶活性降低。叶片这些衰老的表现是体内活性氧、自由基代谢失调累积的结果。     

镍对水稻离体叶片脂质过氧化作用的影响

杂交水稻离体叶片用１０－３ｍｏｌ／ＬＮｉＳＯ４处理后,镍阻抑了叶片在衰老过程中ＳＯＤ、ＣＡＴ酶活性的下降和ＡｓＡ氧化酶活性的上升,ＡｓＡ和叶绿素含量的下降得到延缓,减少了膜脂过氧化程度。     

三唑酮对绿豆幼苗叶片衰老的延缓作用

三唑酮处理可提高离体绿豆（ＰｈａｓｅｏｌｕｓｒａｄｉａｔｕｓＬ．）幼苗叶片叶绿素和蛋白质含量。叶片衰老过程中超氧物歧化酶（ＳＯＤ）、过氧化物酶（ＰＯＤ）、过氧化氢酶（ＣＡＴ）和抗坏血酸过氧化物酶（ＡｓＡＰＯＤ）活性及抗坏血酸（ＡｓＡ）和还原型谷胱甘肽（ＧＳＨ）含量降低。２０ｍｇ／Ｌ三唑酮可提高ＰＯＤ、ＡｓＡＰＯＤ活性和ＡｓＡ、ＧＳＨ含量,对ＳＯＤ、ＣＡＴ活性无影响。丙二醛（ＭＤＡ）含量在叶片衰老过程中提高,并与ＰＯＤ、ＡｓＡＰＯＤ活性和ＡｓＡ、ＧＳＨ含量呈显著负相关,三唑酮可降低ＭＤＡ含量。表明三唑酮有提高植物对膜脂过氧化作用的保护能力,延缓叶片的衰老作用。     

杂交水稻开花结实期间叶片衰老

在杂交水稻开花期间,通过剪去穗部部分枝梗和叶片等处理,形成不同的库源比,叶片衰老的生理生化指标变化和结实率的测定表明,杂交水稻组合的库源矛盾大,叶片衰老快;但谷粒数与旗叶面积比不一定高,降低库源比,能明显减缓杂交水稻叶片中蛋白质、叶绿素含量及倒3、4、5片叶叶绿素含量的平均值与旗叶叶绿素含量的比率的下降和丙二醇含量的升高。这些都说明杂交水稻叶片功能早衰与其库源矛盾较大有关。     

烟草愈伤组织生长和衰老过程中多聚核糖体类群的变化(英文)

本研究中测定了黄花烟草(Nicotiana rusticaL cv.Gansu yellow flower)愈伤组织生长和由碳水化合物亏缺引起的衰老过程中多聚核糖体类群和蛋白质含量的变化,以期查明衰老的烟草愈伤组织中蛋白质合成速率与蛋白质含量变化的相关性。 继代培养的烟草愈伤组织经过约5d的生长迟滞期,进入指数生长期,第20天后生长停止,干重缓慢下降;第25天出现类似果实成熟时的呼吸跃变现象,呼吸商(RQ)开始下降,呼吸底物由糖转向游离氨基酸,表明在本实验条件下,烟草愈伤组织在培养20～25d后由生长转向衰老,这时蛋白质含量(占细胞总蛋白的90％～95％)立即降低,第35天降低了26％。代表蛋白质合成能力的多聚核糖体相对含量和总核糖体的相对含量在培养20d后开始减少;两者的比值也降低,这与植物衰老过程中蛋白质含量的降低基本一致,表明烟草愈伤组织衰老过程中蛋白质含量的降低.与蛋白质合成能力的下降可能有一定的关系。由于多聚核糖体的解聚并不伴随有单核糖体的增加,也暗示衰老过程中单核糖体被迅速破坏。     

萝卜离体子叶衰老与膜脂过氧化的关系

萝卜离体子叶在光下或暗中衰老及激素调节衰老过程中,作为叶片衰老指标的叶绿素和蛋白质含量的降低,发生在MDA含量增高之前,更早于SOD活性的下降。表明由SOD活性降低所导致的膜脂过氧化的增强,并非衰老的原初反应,而是叶片衰老到一定程度的生理变化。因此,至少在萝卜离体子叶上,不能将其衰老的启动归因于受SOD控制的膜脂过氧化作用导致的膜累积性质变。     

蚕豆叶片发育与衰老过程中超氧物歧化酶活性与丙二醛含量变化

蚕豆植株叶片随茎节自上而下表现出明显的发育与衰老顺序,可作为衰老特征的是叶绿素和蛋白质含量明显下降。蚕豆叶中SOD活性主要定位于12 000× g离心后所得的上清液和叶绿体组分。衰老叶片的SOD总活性和叶绿体组分的相对活性都有所下降,SOD同工酶谱也发生了改变。O_2~ 产生速率随叶龄增大而稍上升;而MDA含量在叶片外观表现枯黄衰老征兆前就急剧上升。可能因为衰老叶片过氧化氢酶活性大幅度下降与SOD之间的不平衡,致使O_2~ 代谢中间产物累积而引起膜的损伤.     

营养胁迫诱导的油菜子叶衰老过程中IAA氧化酶和细胞分裂素氧化酶活性的变化

以离体油菜子叶为材料,研究了营养胁迫诱导的子叶衰老过程中吲哚乙酸氧化酶(IAA氧化酶)和细胞分裂素氧化酶活性的变化。在光照条件下,离体子叶在不含任何无机元素的0．8％的琼脂中培养9d后,出现明显的衰老迹象(叶绿素含量下降,丙二醛含量上升),15d时完全死亡。在营养胁迫诱导的衰老过程中,IAA氧化酶和细胞分裂素氧化酶的活性表现出相似的变化趋势,在诱导处理1d时,两种酶的活性均比处理前有明显下降,之后又随着衰老进程逐渐上升。IAA氧化酶活性在诱导处理11d时达到高峰,超出处理前30％以上;比对照高出1倍以上;而细胞分裂素氧化酶活性在诱导处理13d时达到高峰,比对照高出3倍以上,也超过了处理前的水平。衰老过程中IAA氢化酶和细朐分裂素氧化酶活性的上升可能是导致内源激素含量下降的重要原因。     

Translatable mRNAs for Chloroplast-Targeted Proteins in Detached Radish Cotyledons during Senescence in Darkness

A protein-import system prepared with isolated chloroplastswas used to monitor changes in levels of mRNAs for chloroplast-targetedproteins during dark-induced leaf senescence. Biologically activechloroplasts were isolated from young (9-day-old) and aged (14-day-old)radish cotyledons. Poly(A)⁺-RNA was prepared from radish cotyledonsthat had been detached from seedlings and placed in darknessto accelerate senescence. The RNA was translated in a wheatgerm system, and the products were added to an import systemprepared with chloroplasts from young cotyledons. Electrophoreticanalysis of the imported proteins suggested that most chloroplast-targeted proteins decreased in abundance during dark treatmentof cotyledons. However, the relative abundance of 38 stromaland three thylakoid proteins increased transiently or continuouslyamong the products of translation of RNA isolated during thecourse of senescence. The efficiency of the uptake of precursorproteins by chloroplasts isolated from aged cotyledons was lowerthan that by chloroplasts from young tissue. The chloroplastsfrom aged cotyledons more efficiently imported at least onestromal protein and one thylakoid protein than chloroplastsfrom the young tissue. The relative abundance of these two proteinsincreased among the products of translation of RNA from senescingcotyledons when tested in the uptake system with chloroplastsfrom young cotyledons. These results suggest that some nucleargenes for chloroplast-targeted proteins are expressed in senescingcotyledons more efficiently than in young tissue, and that themachinery for import of proteins into chloroplasts changes duringaging of the tissue to allow more efficient import of certainproteins that may be responsible for the senescence of the chloroplasts. ¹Present address: Kihara Institute for Biological Research,Yokohama City University, Mutsukawa 3-122-20, Minami-ku, Yokohama,232 Japan     

Nuclear Degeneration of Epidermal Cells of Senescing Soybean Cotyledons

The pattern of senescence of soybean cotyledons of intact seedlingswas characterized using interference microscopy, to measurenuclear dry mass, and nucleic acid staining and microdensito-metry,to measure DNA and total nucleic acid content of the epidermalnuclei. Nuclear dry mass, DNA, and total nucleic acid contentdeclined from 16 d after planting until the time of abscission.The effect of detaching cotyledons and floating them on wateror the growth hormones, kinetin or IAA, during the senescencephase was examined. During the time when cotyledons of intactseedlings senesced and abscised, detached cotyledons showedno symptoms of senescence. Further, there was no change in thedry mass of nuclei in epidermal cells from cotyledons floatedon water or kinetin but there was a significant increase inthe dry mass of nuclei from cotyledons floated on IAA.     

Are isocitrate lyase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase involved in gluconeogenesis during senescence of barley leaves and cucumber cotyledons?

The aim of this study was to investigate whether gluconeogenesis catalysed by phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) occurs during leaf senescence. This was addressed by determining changes in the abundance and intercellular location of enzymes necessary for gluconeogenesis during the senescence of barley leaves and cucumber cotyledons. PEPCK was never present in barley leaves, despite the presence of large amounts of isocitrate lyase (ICL), a key enzyme of the glyoxylate cycle, and of its product, glyoxylate. Although PEPCK was present in non-senescent cucumber cotyledons, its abundance declined during senescence. Throughout senescence, PEPCK was only present in the trichomes and vasculature, whereas ICL was located in mesophyll cells. Pyruvate,Pi dikinase (PPDK) which, in concert with NAD(P)-malic enzyme, is also capable of catalysing gluconeogenesis, was present in non-senescent barley leaves and cucumber cotyledons, but in both plants its abundance decreased greatly during senescence. The abundance of ICL was greatly reduced in senescing detached barley leaves by either illumination or by co-incubation with sucrose, and greatly increased in darkened attached barley leaves. These results argue against the large-scale occurrence of gluconeogenesis during senescence catalysed either by PEPCK or PPDK. In cucumber cotyledons, PEPCK may play a role in metabolic processes linked to the export of amino acids, a role in which phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase may also be involved. The amount of ICL was increased by starvation and during senescence may function in the conversion of lipids to organic acids, which are then utilised in the mobilisation of amino acids from leaf protein.     

Inhibition by calcium of senescence of detached cucumber cotyledons: effect on ethylene and hydroperoxide production

The effect of Ca on senescence was followed in detached cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) cotyledons floating on various solutions in the dark. Compared with those in water, cotyledons in 10⁻⁴ molar CaCl₂ exhibited reduced chlorophyll loss and H₂O₂ production, reduced and delayed ethylene production, and did not undergo a burst in CO₂ production. In contrast, Mg had little effect on cotyledon senescence, whereas K stimulated chlorophyll loss but did not increase H₂O₂ accumulation of ethylene and CO₂ production. This reduction in the rate of senescence by Ca could also be achieved by increasing the endogenous levels of Ca in the cotyledons before excision, although the reduction was less than that with Ca in the external solution. The addition of H₂O₂ to the solutions on which cotyledons were floated stimulated chlorophyll breakdown, but effects on ethylene and CO₂ were not consistent.     

Delay of Senescence of Detached Cucumber Cotyledons by Triadimefon

Changes in contents of reactive oxygen species (O₂ ⁻ and H₂O₂) and non-enzymatic antioxidants, activities of antioxidant enzymes and lipid peroxidation were investigated during senescence of detached cucumber cotyledons dipped in water (control) and 20 mg dm⁻³ triadimefon (TDM). O₂ ⁻ and H₂O₂ accumulation and lipid peroxidation were observed during senescence of cucumber cotyledons, which coincided with a drop in the contents of carotenoids (Car) and ascorbic acid (AsA), and the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX), and an increase in the activity of peroxidase (POD). However, TDM could significantly inhibit the accumulation of O₂ ⁻ and H₂O₂, and lipid peroxidation by preventing the decrease of CAT, APX, Car and AsA and the increase of POD, while TDM had little effect on SOD activity during the senescence. Therefore we can draw a conclusion that TDM protects the membrane system and retards the senescence of detached cucumber cotyledons. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

CELL CYCLE KINETICS OF ENDOREDUPLICATION IN GAMMA-IRRADIATED ROOT MERISTEMS OF PISUM SATIVUM

Label and mitotic indices and microspectrophotometry of unlabeled interphase cells were used to measure the proportion of root meristem cells of Pisum sativum in each cell cycle stage after exposure to protracted gamma irradiation. Three seedling types were investigated: 1) intact seedlings, 2) seedlings with cotyledons detached and treated with lanolin paste applied to the area of cotyledon excision, and 3) seedlings with detached cotyledons and treated with a G2 Factor applied to the area of cotyledon excision in lanolin paste. In intact seedling meristems, predominant cell arrest occurred with a 4C amount of DNA while 0.30 of the cells underwent endoreduplication to arrest with an 8C amount of DNA. Only 0.07 cells arrested with a 2C amount of DNA. Polyploid cells were produced several days after the start of irradiation and were derived from a diploid cell population. In seedlings exposed to lanolin only, without cotyledons, most cells arrested with a 2C amount of DNA with no polyploid cells. In seedlings exposed to a G2 Factor in lanolin after cotyledon excision, most cells arrested with a 4C amount of DNA but no cells underwent endoreduplication. These experimental results suggest that the G2 Factor derived from cotyledons of Pisum sativum was necessary for predominant cell arrest in G2 but alone was not sufficient for the polyploidization step.     

CULTURE OF MATURE ECOTYLEDONOUS EMBRYOS OF PHASEOLUS VULGARIS AND THE NUTRITIONAL ROLE OF COTYLEDONS

Embryos of Phaseolus vulgaris L. were excised from seeds and cultured with cotyledons removed to determine the actions of various cultural conditions upon embryo development. Four media were tested, but ecotyledonized embryos did not grow as rapidly on any of them as did embryos with intact cotyledons on agar-water media. Comparisons of growth of ecotyledonized embryos with embryos bearing fractions of cotyledons indicated ecotyledonized embryos cultured on nutrient media grew about as well as embryos bearing cotyledons from which 97% of the volume had been removed surgically. The final weight of ecotyledonized embryos was greater when detached cotyledons were placed near them and was even greater when extracts of detached and incubated cotyledons were employed in the nutrient medium. Benzyladenine, kinetin, gibberellic acid, indole-acetic acid, presence of sucrose, and light or dark culture failed to enhance the ability of incubated cotyledons to stimulate growth of embryos.