金针菇粉孢子的生物学研究

采用单孢分离的方法分离培养金针菇粉孢子,对粉孢子的产生、萌发、核相及极性进行了研究。结果表明：单核菌丝和双核菌丝都产生粉孢子,粉孢子多呈圆柱或卵圆形,少数呈圆形或Ｙ形。粉孢子很容易萌发,其芽管直径一般较粉孢子宽。单核菌丝产生单核的粉孢子,其极性与亲本菌丝相同;双核菌丝产生的粉孢子也为单核,未观察到双核或多核的粉孢子。双核菌丝产生的粉孢子一部分与组成双核体的一个亲本单核菌丝的交配型相同。另一部分与组     

黑木耳交配型的研究*

从黑木耳Auricularia auricula沪3菌株的子实体收集、分离、鉴定得到157株单孢子萌发的单核菌丝体,以其中73株孢子单核体为材料进行交配实验,经过三轮交配反应,结果表明,木耳的交配型符合四极性交配系统的分布规律。根据四种交配反应情况把73株孢子单核体分为四组,并从四组中挑选出B17、B177、B101、B65作为四种交配型的标准菌株;与此同时,从沪3菌株的双核菌丝体制备的原生质体中获得53株原生质体单核体,对这些单核体进行交配,确定出两种亲本交配型,以Y150(A1B1)和Y121(A2B2)作为标准菌株,将两个亲本交配型标准菌株与四个孢子单核体标准菌株进行交配反应,初步确定出四种孢子单核体的交配型分别为: B17 (A2B2)、B177(A1B1)、B101(A2B1)和B65(A1B2)。     

黑木耳交配型的研究

从黑木耳Auricularia auricula沪3菌株的子实体收集,分离,鉴定得到157株单孢子萌发的单核菌丝体,以其中73株孢子单核体为材料进行交配实验,经过三配交配反应,结果表明,木耳的交配型符合四极性交配系统的分布规律。根据四种交配反应情况把73株孢子单核体分为四组,并从四组中挑选出B17,B177,B101,B65作为四种交配型的标准菌株;与此同时,从沪3菌株的双核菌丝体制备的原生质体中获得53株原生质单核体,对这些单核体进行交配,确定出两种亲本交配型,以Y150（A1B1）和Y121（A2B2）作为标准菌株,将两个亲本交配型标准菌株与四个孢子单核体标准菌株进行交配反应,初步确定出四种孢子单核体的交配型分别为：B17（A2B2）,B177（A1B1）,B101（A2B1）和B65（A1B2）。     

黄伞单孢杂交育种的初步研究

以采自山西省五台山和关帝山的WT3 和GD3两个黄伞纯化菌株为材料,显微观察了黄伞担孢子萌发的菌丝及交配特征,在PDA培养基上担孢子首先在其一端萌发出菌丝,宽度约3~4μm,接着产生分枝呈散发状向四周延伸。试验表明:单核菌丝体上可产生类似原基的凸状体,但不具结实性。两个单核菌丝交配后出现锁状联合是形成双核菌丝的典型特征,并具有结实性。     

金针菇生活史各阶段核相研究

对金针菇Flammulina velutipes生活史各阶段的菌丝体、子实体、担孢子等进行荧光显微观察。结果表明,金针菇单个担孢子发育而来的同核体菌丝为单核,无锁状联合,部分单孢菌株能形成同核子实体,同核子实体的原担子中只有1个核,该核在担子中进行一次有丝分裂形成纵向排列的2个子核,担子发育停止,同核子实体不产生担孢子;具有可亲和交配型的两个同核体菌丝经过质配形成异核体菌丝,异核体菌丝双核,具有锁状联合,能形成异核子实体,异核子实体的原担子中具有2个核,这2个核经过核配融合为1个二倍核,二倍核在担子中进行减数分裂形成4个单倍子核,4个子核分别进入4个担孢子中,随着担孢子继续发育,其中的单核再进行一次有丝分裂,成熟担孢子为双核,但这2个核是同质的。单核菌丝和双核菌丝都能产生粉孢子,且产生的粉孢子均为单核。     

基于担孢子形成过程四分体随机分离规律揭示草菇的有性生活史

本研究观察了草菇担子上着生担孢子的类型、担孢子细胞核数量,扩增了单孢菌株交配型A因子特异序列,基于减数分裂后四分体随机分离进入担孢子的遗传规律,分析了异核担孢子和同核(或单核)担孢子的比例。研究结果表明,草菇担孢子中异核担孢子的比例平均为7.14%,同核或单核担孢子的比例平均为92.86%。单核或同核的担孢子萌发后需要质配形成异核体才能完成有性生殖,交配方式类似异宗配合;异核担孢子萌发直接形成异核菌丝,其有性生殖类似同宗配合。     

金针菇担孢子核相及遗传属性的研究

以3个不同的金针菇菌株为材料,研究了其担孢子的核相及遗传属性。荧光染色观察显示,担孢子核相以双核为主,双核孢子、单核孢子和无核孢子分别占80.2%、7.5%和12.3%。源于单孢分离物的菌丝为有隔膜、无锁状联合的多核菌丝。在交配试验中,源于不同菌株单孢分离物的菌丝原生质体的配对形成具锁状联合的菌落,而源于同一单孢分离物的菌丝原生质体的配对则形成无锁状联合的菌落,暗示担孢子中的两个核具有相同的交配型。RAPD分析显示,源于同一单孢分离物的菌丝原生质体为10个随机引物所扩增的图谱彼此完全相同,印证了担孢子中的双核是同质的。此外,观察表明,一个担子上着生有4个担孢子。因此,金针菇是一种具4个含同质双核担孢子的四极性蕈菌。     

香菇亲本菌株及其杂交后代的RAPD分析

运用随机扩增多态性DNA（RandomamplifiedpolymorphicDNA,RAPD）技术对源于两个香菇（Lentinulaedodes）双核菌株的孢子单核体、原生质体单核体及其杂交后代进行了基因组DNA多态性分析。用9个随机引物共扩增出116条DNA片段,其中82．5％具有多态性。综合分析9个随机引物的扩增谱带,可将所有供试亲本单核体清楚地分开,且早核体聚类分析的结果与其来源及遗传背景相吻合。此外,用两个双核亲本菌株的各4个不同交配型的孢子单核体两两支配所得的所有杂交组合,也均可与双核亲本菌株明确地区分开来。因此,在杂交育种中,RAPD分析可为亲本的选配及杂种的鉴定提供可靠依据。     

香菇亲本菌株及其杂交后代的RAPD分析*

运用随机扩增多态性DNA（RandomamplifiedpolymorphicDNA,RAPD）技术对源于两个香菇（Lentinulaedodes）双核菌株的孢子单核体、原生质体单核体及其杂交后代进行了基因组DNA多态性分析。用9个随机引物共扩增出116条DNA片段,其中82．5％具有多态性。综合分析9个随机引物的扩增谱带,可将所有供试亲本单核体清楚地分开,且早核体聚类分析的结果与其来源及遗传背景相吻合。此外,用两个双核亲本菌株的各4个不同交配型的孢子单核体两两支配所得的所有杂交组合,也均可与双核亲本菌株明确地区分开来。因此,在杂交育种中,RAPD分析可为亲本的选配及杂种的鉴定提供可靠依据。     

香菇半亲和双单杂交研究初报

选用一栽培株苏香两种孢子单核体自交后代作双核体亲本,与相应的孢子单核体进行半亲和双单杂交,得到6个杂交后代,均具有结实能力,说明半亲和双单杂交后代可以用于育种研究。大多数杂交菌株(核基因相同)在菌丝生长速率与CMC酶活方面显示出不同程度遗传差异,其中3号与4号菌株在菌丝生长速率与CMC酶活方面呈现明显杂种优势。     

Asexual sporulation in coprinus cinereus: structure and development of oidiophores and oidia in an amut bmut homokaryon

Polak, E., Hermann, R., Kues, U., and Aebi, M. 1997. Asexual sporulation in Coprinus cinereus: Structure and development of oidiophores and oidia in an Amut Bmut homokaryon. 22, 112-126. Coprinus cinereus strain AmutBmut is a homokaryon with mutations in both mating type loci. It produces asexual spores (oidia) in sticky liquid droplets on specialized aerial structures (oidiophores). These oidiophores have uninucleate cells and are organized as those of the monokaryon 5026 from which the strain derived. However, unlike in the monokaryon, oidiophores in strain AmutBmut are induced by light. Young oidiophores are easily detected upon light induction and the process of oidiophore development is readily followed in this strain. Fully grown oidiophores consecutively give rise to short branches (oidial hyphae) that break up into two or occasionally three uninucleate oidia (arthroconidia) until up to 200 oidia are collected at the tip of the oidiophore. Mature spores are enclosed by a mucilage and a double-layered primary cell wall with hair-like structures except for the sides of former cell attachments. In a summary of our microscopic observations on developing oidiophores and nuclear stainings we present a model showing the successive steps of oidiophore and spore development.     

Morphological and cytological aspects of oidium formation in a basidiomycete,Pholiota nameko

Pholiota nameko produced abundant oidia on aerial hyphae from monokaryotic and dikaryotic test stocks, but oidia were rare on submerged hyphae. The oidia from the former stocks had a layer of hydrophobic protein between the cell wall and the inner cell membrane which was absent in the oidia from the latter. The only remarkable differences in the morphological features of the oidia from monokaryotic and dikaryotic mycelia was the slightly larger size of the latter. Observation of various test stocks on slide cultures revealed that about 80% of oidia were produced from the secondary branched hypha, and about 20% from the terminal hyphal, cell of the main hypha. In the former, the secondary hyphae were segmented to form several oidium cells; in the latter, a single or several oidia were formed at the terminal end of the main hypha. Most oidia from monokaryons and dikaryons had only one haploid nucleus, while the remainders were multinucleate. Among the stocks tested, most oidia had a DNA content with a haploid amount at the G1 phase of the cell cycle, but a few contained twice that amount corresponding to the G2 phase     

Nuclear selection in oidium formation from dikaryotic mycelia ofFlammulina velutipes

The effect of nuclear dominance in monokaryotic oidium formation from dikaryotic mycelia in a tetrapolar basidiomycete,Flammulina velutipes, was examined. A total of 46 monokaryotic stocks were used to produce 194 hybrid dikaryotic stocks by crossing. The proportion of homokaryons among the oidium isolates from dikaryotic mycelia was over 95%. The staining of nuclei of oidia with propidium iodide showed that over 90% of oidia were monokaryotic and suggested that these oidia had single haploid nuclei at the G1 stage. The monokaryotic oidium isolates from hybrid dikaryons were backrossed to parental monokaryotic stocks. Although most of the monokaryotic oidium isolates (except for those from 17 hybrid dikaryons from a total of 194 test stocks) showed nuclear types similar to only one of the parental stocks, the process seems to produce essentially the split nuclear type composition. Therefore, the monokaryotization in oidium formation from dikaryotic mycelia essentially involves the process of nuclear selection. The two separate results of hierarchies of relative dominance among two nuclei of the parental dikaryons in the monokaryotic oidium formation by grouping with incompatibility factor compositions were determined. Only a few discrepancies were found in the hierarchies between the two specific nuclear compositions of hybrid dikaryons.     

Frequent Changes in the Number of Reiterated Ribosomal RNA Genes Throughout the Life Cycle of the Basidiomycete Coprinus Cinereus

We have examined the stability of the tandemly repeated genes that encode the ribosomal RNA in Coprinus cinereus. These genes are contained within two linked HindIII fragments in a 3.0-Mb chromosome. We monitored the size of these fragments in both mitotic and meiotic segregants using the contour-clamped homogeneous electric field (CHEF) method. No length changes were observed in the smaller HindIII fragment (100 kb; 10 repeats) among the DNAs prepared from 46 asexual spore derivatives (oidia) or 128 meiotic segregants (basidiospores from 32 tetrads). However, the larger HindIII fragment (1100 kb; 120 repeats) did exhibit variability. Substantial changes, involving up to 40% of the larger HindIII fragment were recorded in 7 of 46 oidial isolates (including 4 of 22 transformed derivatives). To learn if the changes were confined to the vegetative portion of the life cycle, we examined transmission of HindIII variants through three crosses. In the first two crosses (16 tetrads total), no changes were observed in the large HindIII fragment. However, in the third cross (16 tetrads), each tetrad showed at least one alteration. In half of the tetrads from the third cross, the altered patterns segregated 2:2, suggesting that the changes occurred after mating but prior to premeiotic DNA replication. We conclude that breakage and rejoining reactions within the rDNA are frequent and are not confined to any particular stage of the life cycle. It also appears that certain repeats are sheltered from these events. Finally, marked differences in rDNA stability were observed in the crosses analyzed.     

Genetics and function of isocitrate lyase in Coprinus

Summary Thirteen chromosomal loci have been identified which affect acetate metabolism in Coprinus. Mutants at only two loci, acu-1 and acu-7, are deficient in isocitrate lyase (ICL) (EC4.1.3.1) activity, acu-1 mutants are unable to induce ICL because they lack acetyl-CoA synthetase which is required to convert acetate to the metabolic inducer of ICL. acu-7 is the structural gene for ICL. This was shown by selecting temperature sensitive acu ⁺ revertants resulting from a second mutation within the acu-7 gene. One such severtant was shown to produce an ICL protein which was more thermolabile than the wild type enzyme. Other workers have postulated that ICL activity is important during asexual morphogenesis in fungi. No evidence was found for this in Coprinus. The morphological mutant oidial, which produces abundant asexual spores even in submerged culture, had the same low uninduced level of ICL activity as the wild type. Moreover, an acu-7 mutation had no effect on the expression of the oidial phenotype.     

Blue Light Overrides Repression of Asexual Sporulation by Mating Type Genes in the Basidiomycete Coprinus cinereus

Monokaryotic mycelia of the homobasidiomycete Coprinus cinereus form asexual spores (oidia) constitutively in abundant numbers. Mycelia with mutations in both mating type loci (Amut Bmut homokaryons) also produce copious oidia but only when exposed to blue light. We used such an Amut Bmut homokaryon to define environmental and inherent factors that influence the light-induced oidiation process. We show that the Amut function causes repression of oidiation in the dark and that light overrides this effect. Similarly, compatible genes from different haplotypes of the A mating type locus repress sporulation in the dark and not in the light. Compatible products of the B mating type locus reduce the outcome of light on A-mediated repression but the mutated B function present in the Amut Bmut homokaryons is not effective. In dikaryons, the coordinated regulation of asexual sporulation by compatible A and B mating type genes results in moderate oidia production in light. Copyright 1998 Academic Press.     

Heterokaryon formation and parasexual recombination between vegetatively incompatible lineages in a population of the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica

Heterokaryosis was recently reported in the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, in which individuals contain nuclei that are isogenic except at the mating-type locus (MAT). MAT heterokaryons were found in several natural populations, including a putatively clonal population in West Salem, Wisconsin, providing an opportunity to address the question of how heterokaryons arise. We represented relationships among RFLP fingerprint haplotypes as networks in which loop formation is considered evidence of recombination. From 1990 to 1995, this population was clonal, as indicated by a simple haplotype network without loops, and the correlation of vegetative compatibility (vc) types and mating types with haplotype lineages. By 1999, we observed loops in the haplotype network involving isolates of two vc types (WS-2 and WS-3). Isolates with haplotypes in the loops were either MAT heterokaryons, carried the opposite mating type from other isolates of the same vc type, and/or had two alleles at two or more codominant SCAR (sequence-characterized amplified region) loci. Segregation of markers and recombination were evident among single-spore isolates from one heterokaryon; these single-spore isolates had novel fingerprint haplotypes, also within the loops. In contrast, vc type WS-1, which comprises 85% of the population, was represented by a simple network with no loops, indicating a clonal lineage varying only by mutation. Almost all isolates of WS-1 had the same mating type; the exceptions were five isolates that were MAT heterokaryons. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that heterokaryons formed between vegetatively incompatible individuals, and recombination occurred by a parasexual process.     

Identification of Campylobacter coli isolates from animals and humans by bacterial restriction endonuclease DNA analysis.

Ninety-nine Campylobacter coli isolates were examined by bacterial restriction endonuclease DNA analysis (BRENDA) with HindIII. Isolates from poultry from the same environment had identical patterns, patterns of isolates carried by suckling piglets were generally the same as those of isolates recovered from their dams, and one human patient yielded the same BRENDA type when sampled 6 weeks later. The 14 human isolates examined produced 11 distinct BRENDA types. Forty-three C. coli isolates from pigs were represented by 20 BRENDA types. Ten C. coli isolates from the feces of gulls yielded five different BRENDA types. Thirty-two C. coli isolates from live chickens and processed chicken yielded five different BRENDA types. Three human isolates had identical DNA patterns; two were from brothers living in the same house, and the third was from a human with no apparent relationship to the brothers. Another human isolate was identical to a poultry isolate. None of the pig strains had DNA patterns resembling those of human strains, nor were the DNA patterns like those of any strains recovered from poultry or gulls. Four C. coli isolates were subcultured onto agar 23 times over a period of 45 days, and their BRENDA patterns were preserved. BRENDA shows great promise for use in epidemiological studies of C. coli.     

Identification of Campylobacter coli isolates from animals and humans by bacterial restriction endonuclease DNA analysis

Ninety-nine Campylobacter coli isolates were examined by bacterial restriction endonuclease DNA analysis (BRENDA) with HindIII. Isolates from poultry from the same environment had identical patterns, patterns of isolates carried by suckling piglets were generally the same as those of isolates recovered from their dams, and one human patient yielded the same BRENDA type when sampled 6 weeks later. The 14 human isolates examined produced 11 distinct BRENDA types. Forty-three C. coli isolates from pigs were represented by 20 BRENDA types. Ten C. coli isolates from the feces of gulls yielded five different BRENDA types. Thirty-two C. coli isolates from live chickens and processed chicken yielded five different BRENDA types. Three human isolates had identical DNA patterns; two were from brothers living in the same house, and the third was from a human with no apparent relationship to the brothers. Another human isolate was identical to a poultry isolate. None of the pig strains had DNA patterns resembling those of human strains, nor were the DNA patterns like those of any strains recovered from poultry or gulls. Four C. coli isolates were subcultured onto agar 23 times over a period of 45 days, and their BRENDA patterns were preserved. BRENDA shows great promise for use in epidemiological studies of C. coli.     

Genetic and Physical Variability at the Mating Type Locus of the Oomycete, Phytophthora Infestans

Mating type in the oomyceteous fungus, Phytophthora infestans, is determined by a single locus. In a previous study of a few isolates, the locus segregated in a manner genetically consistent with its linkage to a system of balanced lethal loci. To determine the prevalence of this phenomenon within P. infestans, genetic analyses were performed using isolates representative of the diversity within the species that had been selected by DNA fingerprinting using probes linked to mating type. Non-Mendelian segregation of the mating type locus was observed in crosses performed with each isolate. An unusual group of isolates was identified in which the mating type determinants had been rearranged within the genome; these strains also produced an aberrantly large number of self-fertile progeny. Curiously, in all isolates, markers linked to the mating type locus appeared prone to duplication, transposition, deletion, or other rearrangement. This was not observed for loci unlinked to mating type. Data from the crosses and analyses of marker variation were used to erect models to explain the bases of mating type determination and of the unusual segregation of the chromosomal region containing the mating type locus.