大豆品种资源携带的无效结瘤Rj2基因的研究

通过黑龙江省野生、半野生和栽培大豆与美国大豆根瘤菌VSDA122结瘤反应试验,本文首次报导了无效结瘤R_i2基因广泛存在中国东北大豆中,无效结瘤率为64%;同时导致大豆植株干鲜重及根瘤固氮酶活性下降,以及产生缺绿病.     

呼吸活性的下降可解释水分亏缺对银合欢根瘤固氮酶活性的抑制(英)

在温室条件下研究了水分亏缺对银合欢根瘤的水分关系、固氮酶活性（乙炔还原活性）、呼吸活性以及蔗糖代谢有关酶活性的影响。随着土壤含水量的下降,根瘤水势也相继下降。土壤干旱不但显著地抑制了根瘤乙炔还原的活性,而且对根瘤的呼吸活性、ATP的产生以及催化蔗糖降解的碱性转化酶和蔗糖合成酶的活性也具强烈的抑制作用。然而,根瘤可溶性总糖含量则不受土壤干旱的影响。用呼吸抑制剂DNP处理根瘤后,其固氮酶活性、呼吸活性及ATPI含量都受到极显著的抑制。这都表明,水分胁迫对根瘤呼吸活性及ATP产生的抑制可解释干旱条件下固氮酶活性的下降。     

大豆—根瘤菌共生固氮氢代谢的研究

检测了四株大豆根瘤菌在不同的大豆品种上形成根瘤的放氢、吸氢、固氮活性及豆血红蛋白的含量;同时测定了植株干物质的积累。结果表明,所有固氮根瘤都放氢,自生条件下Hup~-根瘤菌形成的根瘤仍不具吸氢活性,相对固氮率在0.75左右。而Hup~(?)菌株根瘤的相对固氮率在0.91～1之间。寄主植物对Hup~(?)菌株的吸氢活性有影响。相关分析表明,根瘤的豆血红蛋白与吸氢活性呈负相关。干物质积累与固氮酶活性关系最密切,氢酶活性的影响是次要的。     

台湾相思结瘤固氮与吸氢酶活性研究

台湾相思的根系具有多年生的根瘤,根瘤初发生时球状,以后发育成分叉瘤和扇状瘤。根瘤固氮活性因苗龄、成熟度不同而有明显差异。环境条件影响结瘤及固氮活性。15℃时结瘤受到明显抑制,固氮作用最适温度条件是25～30℃。光照不足降低根瘤固氮活性。短期轻度干旱不影响根瘤固氮活性,但持续干旱使固氮活性明显下降。pH4.5～8.5条件能正常结瘤,pH5.5时结瘤最好。根瘤固氮作用时不释放H_2,具有较高的吸氢酶活性,在固氮反应系统中加入5％的H_2,能提高根瘤固氮活性。     

活体植物根瘤固氮酶活性的气相色谱法测定

本文改进了利用气相色谱分析活体豆科植物根瘤内根瘤菌固氮酶活性的方法,该方法比用传统的测量离体根瘤的方法所得结果更接近共生体的实际水平。本试验使用国产仪器和材料,组装了一个适合测量大豆(Glycine max)、野大豆(Glyeine soja)-大豆根瘤菌(Bradyrhizobium japonicum/Sinothizobium fredii)共生体完整植株根瘤固氮活性的装置。其特点是不损伤被测植株,并在植物正常进行光合作用的同时测量根瘤固氮酶活性,还可同步测量植株的光合作用和呼吸作用,特别适于研究共生体的连续变化。应用此装置侧量的结果与国外使用的全自动定型仪器的侧量结果一致。     

缺磷条件下低分子量有机酸对大豆氮积累和结瘤固氮的影响

采用砂培方法在温室条件下研究了低分子量有机酸柠檬酸、草酸、苹果酸及3种酸的混合物对大豆植株氮素积累、结瘤和固氮的影响.结果表明：低分子量有机酸对大豆植株氮素积累有显著的抑制作用,使大豆地上部各时期氮素积累量的降低幅度分别为：苗期17.6%～44.9%,花期29.8%～88.4%,鼓粒期9.18%～69.6%,成熟期2.21%～41.7%;低分子量有机酸对大豆根瘤生长和固氮能力也有显著影响,表现为使根瘤数量、根瘤固氮酶活性和豆血红蛋白含量显著降低,降低幅度分别为11.4%～59.6%,80.5%～91.7%和11.9%～59.9%,从而使大豆的固氮效率降低,最终导致大豆的固氮量较对照显著降低(降低幅度9.71%～64.5%).低分子量有机酸对大豆氮积累、根瘤生长和固氮能力的抑制作用随浓度的增加而增加.3种有机酸中,草酸的抑制作用相对大于柠檬酸和苹果酸,3种有机酸混合后,抑制作用加强.     

气候因子对银合欢共生固氮的影响

本文研究气候因子对银合欢共生固氮的影响。银合欢结瘤固氮有明显的季节性变化,夏秋结瘤多,固氮酶活性高,冬天及早春结瘤少,活性低。银合欢结瘤固氮的适宜温度为25-30℃,低于10℃或高于30℃时活性显著下降,处于0℃或45℃时活性极低,逆境温度处理时间越长活性越低。温度相近的条件下,土壤湿度对银合欢结瘤固氮的影响尤其突出,水分过多或干旱都严重影响结瘤固氮。遮光条件下银合欢根瘤固氮酶活性显著降低,晴天取样的根瘤固氮酶活性比阴天的高。银合欢根瘤固氮酶活性在一天中出现两个峰,第一个峰在11时,第二个峰在17-20时。离体根瘤的固氮酶活性随离体时间的延长而降低,表明植株光合作用产物对根瘤的供应及其在根瘤中的贮备对固氮酶活性有显著影响。     

内蒙古锡林郭勒草原不同固氮植物的固氮酶活性季节变化

 本文对内蒙古锡林郭勒典型草原栗钙土地带8种植物根瘤固氮酶活性的季节变化进行了测定。结果表明：1．不同种植物固氮酶活性表现了明显的季节性变化,夏季最高,平均值达到529.6n·mol C2H4／min·g,秋季较低,而春季只有夏季的10%左右。2．不同种植物,其根瘤固氮酶活性变化有不同的特点,杂花苜蓿是8种植物中固氮酶活性一直最高的,而小叶锦鸡儿与沙棘在8种植物中根瘤固氮酶活性一直较低,扁蓿豆,沙打旺前期较低,后期相对较高。3．同种植物在不同季节固氮酶活性表现了明显差别。     

气候因子对三种豆科树种固氮的影响

研究了气候因子对台湾相思(Acacia confusa)、大叶相思(A．awriculaeformis)和南岭黄檀(Dalbergia balansae)根瘤固氮酶和吸氢酶活性的影响。3种树木根瘤均具有吸氢酶活性,外源H：可提高固氮酶活性,表明吸氢酶有助于固氮效率的提高。3树种根瘤的固氮活性有明显季节变化,夏秋活性较高,早春及冬季活性较低。离体根瘤固氮和吸H2活性表达的最适温度为25—30℃。光照强度及土壤湿度均显著影响根瘤固氮和吸H2活性。     

盐生野大豆的异黄酮积累及其生态学意义

以自然生长在盐碱地上的野大豆(Glycine soja)和不耐盐的栽培大豆(G. max)为材料,测定了它们在不同盐度条件下叶片、根部和种子的异黄酮含量,并测定了它们叶片的L-苯丙氨酸含量和苯丙氨酸裂解酶(PAL)活性,还测定了它们根部的结瘤量和固氮酶活性。通过两者比较,分析了它们的大豆异黄酮代谢和盐渍环境的关系。结果表明:盐渍处理不抑制盐生野大豆PAL酶的活性,其大豆异黄酮大量积累;相反,盐渍处理明显抑制栽培大豆PAL酶活性,其大豆异黄酮含量减少,而大豆异黄酮合成前体L-苯丙氨酸积累。结果还显示:在盐渍条件下,盐生野大豆根部异黄酮积累的同时,其根瘤结瘤量较多,且固氮酶活性也较高;而栽培大豆随着其根部异黄酮的减少,其根瘤结瘤量大大减少,且固氮活性大大下降。野大豆和栽培大豆的这些差别说明:盐生野大豆积累大豆异黄酮有其生态学意义,这很可能是野大豆通过异黄酮次生代谢途径适应盐渍环境的一种重要机制。     

Respiratory capacity,nitrogenase activity and structural changes ofFrankia,in symbiosis withAlnus incana,in response to prolonged darkness

Plants ofAlnus incana (L.) Moench in symbiosis with a local source ofFrankia were exposed to prolonged darkness under controlled climate conditions.Frankia vesicle clusters were prepared from the root nodules, and the condition ofFrankia was measured as respiratory capacity by supplying the preparation with saturating amounts of four different substrates. During darkness, nitrogenase (EC 1.7.99.2) activity decreased in intact plants and in the vesicle-cluster preparations. The respiratory capacity ofFrankia also decreased. After 4 d in darkness most respiration was lost, though all nitrogenase activity was already lost after 3 d. When the dark treatment was ended after 2 d and normal light/dark conditions restored, nitrogenase activity immediately started to recover. The respiratory capacity continued to decrease and no recovery was observed until the third day after the end of the dark treatment. Whole-plant nitrogenase activity slowly increased at a rate similar to the rate of increase observed in untreated plants. Transmission electron micrographs of the root nodules showed that the cytoplasm of infected host cells and the cells ofFrankia were structurally degraded in response to dark treatment, while young vesicles were frequent during recovery. Growth and differentiation ofFrankia cells were apparently important for recovery of the enzyme activities studied.     

Symbiotic properties of antibiotic-resistant mutants of Rhizobium galegae

Mutagenesis provoked by exposure to increased concentration of antibiotics of five indigenous Rhizobium galegae strains resulted in the generation of several antibiotic-resistant mutants. The mutants differed from the wild type and one from another in respect to the nodulation capacity, the nitrogenase activity, the nodule ultrastructure, and the plant growth response. Galega plants inoculated with mutants resistant to streptomycin and rifampicin formed nodules with higher nitrogenase activity and accumulated more shoot dry biomass than plants inoculated with the parent strains. Resistance to kanamycin and nalidixic acid was associated with significant decrease of nitrogenase activity. A correlation between nitrogen-fixing efficiency and nodule infected cell ultrastructure was found. When the bacteroids occupied about 10 times higher area in infected cells of nodule than peribacteroid spaces and host cytosol had electron dense and homogenous structure, the nitrogenase activity was the highest. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The effect of waterlogging on the synthesis of the nitrogenase components in bacteroids of Rhizobium leguminosarum in root nodules of Pisum sativum

The effect of waterlogging of root nodules on nitrogenase activity and synthesis was studied in Pisum sativum inoculated with Rhizobium leguminosarum (strain PRE). It was shown that: 1. nitrogenase activity of intact pea plants was decreased by waterlogging, 2. this decrease was paralleled by a decline of the amount of active nitrogenase determined in toluene EDTA treated bacteroids, 3. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed that the amount of nitrogenase component II (CII) decreased by waterlogging while the amount of component I (CI) was not markedly affected, and 4. analysis of bacteroid proteins after ³⁵SO₄ labeling of pea plants showed that CII synthesis was repressed while CI synthesis continued indicating that the synthesis of CI and CII is regulated by independent mechanisms.     

A small heat shock protein,GmHSP17.9, from nodule confers symbiotic nitrogen fixation and seed yield in soybean

Legume–rhizobia symbiosis enables biological nitrogen fixation to improve crop production for sustainable agriculture. Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are involved in multiple environmental stresses and plant development processes. However, the role of sHSPs in nodule development in soybean remains largely unknown. In the present study, we identified a nodule-localized sHSP, called GmHSP17.9, in soybean, which was markedly up-regulated during nodule development. GmHSP17.9 was specifically expressed in the infected regions of the nodules. GmHSP17.9 overexpression and RNAi in transgenic composite plants and loss of function in CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing mutant plants in soybean resulted in remarkable alterations in nodule number, nodule fresh weight, nitrogenase activity, contents of poly β-hydroxybutyrate bodies (PHBs), ureide and total nitrogen content, which caused significant changes in plant growth and seed yield. GmHSP17.9 was also found to act as a chaperone for its interacting partner, GmNOD100, a sucrose synthase in soybean nodules which was also preferentially expressed in the infected zone of nodules, similar to GmHSP17.9. Functional analysis of GmNOD100 in composite transgenic plants revealed that GmNOD100 played an essential role in soybean nodulation. The hsp17.9 lines showed markedly more reduced sucrose synthase activity, lower contents of UDP-glucose and acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA), and decreased activity of succinic dehydrogenase (SDH) in the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle in nodules due to the missing interaction with GmNOD100. Our findings reveal an important role and an unprecedented molecular mechanism of sHSPs in nodule development and nitrogen fixation in soybean.     

Nitrogenase Inhibition in Nodules from Pea Plants Grown Under Salt Stress Occurs at the Physiological Level and can be Alleviated by B and Ca

In order to shed new light on the mechanisms of salt-mediated symbiotic N₂-fixation inhibition, the effect of salt stress (75 mM) on N₂-fixation in pea root nodules induced by R. leguminosarum was studied at the gene expression, protein production and enzymatic activity levels. Acetylene reduction assays for nitrogenase activity showed no activity in salt-stressed plants. To know whether salt inhibits N₂-fixing activity at a molecular or at a physiological level, expression of the nifH gene, encoding the nitrogenase reductase component of the nitrogenase enzyme was analyzed by RT-PCR analysis of total RNA extracted from nodulated roots. The nifH messenger RNA was present both in plants grown in the presence and absence of salt, although a reduction was observed in salt-stressed plants. Similar results were obtained for the immunodetection of the nitrogenase reductase protein in Western-blot assays, indicating that nitrogen fixation failed mainly at physiological level. Given that nutrient imbalance is a typical effect of salt stress in plants and that Fe is a prosthetic component of nitrogenase reductase and other proteins required by symbiotic N₂-fixation, as leghemoglobin, plants were analyzed for Fe contents by atomic absorption and the results confirmed that Fe levels were severely reduced in nodules developed in salt-stressed plants. In a previous papers (El-Hamdaoui et al., 2003b), we have shown that supplementing inoculated legumes with boron (B) and calcium (Ca) prevents nitrogen fixation decline under saline conditions stress. Analysis of salt-stressed nodules fed with extra B and Ca indicated that Fe content and nitrogenase activity was similar to that of non-stressed plants. These results indicate a linkage between Fe deprivation and salt-mediated failure of nitrogen fixation, which is prevented by B and Ca leading to increase of salt tolerance.     

Nodule protein synthesis and nitrogenase activity of soybeans exposed to fixed nitrogen

Nitrate or ammonium was added to soybean (Glycine max L. Merrill cv Corsoy) plants grown in plastic pouches 10 days after nodules first appeared. By the third day of treatment with 10 millimolar nitrate, nitrogenase specific activity (per unit nodule weight) had decreased to 15% to 25% of that of untreated plants. Longer incubations and higher concentrations of nitrate had no greater effect. In addition, exogenous nitrate or ammonium resulted in slower nodule growth and decreased total protein synthesis in both the bacterial and the plant portion of the nodule (as measured by incorporation of ³⁵S). Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis revealed that the nitrogenase components were not repressed or degraded relative to other bacteroid proteins. In the presence of an optimal carbon source, the nitrogenase specific activity of nodules detached from nitrate-treated plants was equivalent to that of nodules from untreated plants. These results are consistent with models that propose decreased availability or utilization of photosynthate in root nodules when legumes are exposed to fixed nitrogen.     

Inhibition of nodule functioning in cowpea by a xanthine oxidoreductase inhibitor, allopurinol

Allopurinol (1H-pyrazolo-[3,4-d]pyrimidine-4-ol), an inhibitor of xanthine oxidation in ureide-producing nodulated legumes, was taken up from the rooting medium, translocated in xylem, and transferred to nodules of both the ureide-forming cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.) and the amide-forming white lupin (Lupinus albus L.). Cowpea suffered severe nitrogen deficiency, extreme chlorosis, and reduced growth, whereas lupin was unaffected by the inhibitor. Similar results were obtained with oxypurinol (1H-pyrazolo-[3,4-d]pyrimidine-4,6-diol). Xylem composition of symbiotic cowpea was markedly changed by allopurinol. Ureides fell to a very low level, but xanthine and, to a lesser extent, hypoxanthine increased markedly. Xylem glutamine was also reduced, but there was little change in other amino acids. Nitrogenase (EC 1.7.99.2) activity of intact nodulated plants or nodulated root segments of plants treated with allopurinol or oxypurinol for 24 hours or more was severely inhibited in cowpea but unaffected in lupin for periods of exposure up to 9 days. Nitrogenase activity of slices of nodules prepared from allopurinol-treated cowpea showed inhibition comparable to that of intact plants. Breis prepared from nodules of treated plants showed no reduction in nitrogenase, nor was there reduction in activity of breis following addition of allopurinol, xanthine, or a range of purine pathway intermediates. Increasing the O₂ concentration in assays above 20% (volume/volume) reversed inhibition of nitrogenase by allopurinol in intact nodulated roots. It was concluded for cowpea that allopurinol not only inhibited ureide synthesis but also caused inhibition of nitrogenase activity, thereby leading to progressive dysfunction and eventual senescence of nodules. The mechanistic relationships between inhibition of ureide biosynthesis, changes in gaseous diffusion resistance, and reduced nitrogenase activity remain obscure.     

Acclimation of Soybean Nodules to Changes in Temperature

This study examines how O2 status, respiration rate, and nitrogenase activity of soybean (Glycine max) nodules acclimate to short-term (<30 min) temperature change from 20 to 15[deg]C or from 20 to 25[deg]C. Acclimation responses were compared between nodules on uninhibited plants and nodules that were severely O2 limited by exposure to Ar:O2. In uninhibited nodules the decrease in temperature caused a rapid inhibition of nitrogenase activity followed by partial recovery, whereas in Ar:O2-inhibited nodules the temperature decrease caused a minor stimulation followed by a gradual decline in nitrogenase activity. In contrast, the temperature increase caused a gradual increase in nitrogenase activity in uninhibited nodules, and an initial inhibition followed by a rapid rise in Ar:O2-inhibited nodules. In both uninhibited and Ar:O2-inhibited nodules, temperature had only minor effects on the degree to which nitrogenase activity was limited by O2 supply, but nodule permeability to O2 diffusion was greater at 25[deg]C, and less at 15[deg]C, than that measured at 20[deg]C. On the basis of these data, we propose that temperature change alters the nodule's respiratory demand and that the observed changes in nodule permeability occur to maintain control over the infected cell O2 concentration as the O2 demand increases at high temperature or decreases at low temperature.     

Water relations and nitrogen fixation in potassium fedVigna radiata nodules

Drought created by withholding the irrigation at 30 and 45 d after sowing significantly decreased relative water content (RWC) and osmotic potential (ψ_s) ofVigna radiata (L.) Wilczek cv. MH-83-30 nodules. Potassium fed plants showed higher RWC, whereas ψ_s was further declined irrespective of soil moisture levels. The nitrogenase activity and leghemoglobin content of nodules markedly decreased under drought and nodules of potassium fed plants showed better recovery after rehydration. The proline content significantly increased under drought but declined upon reirrigation. Also, the C, N and K contents of nodules significantly declined under drought.