白三叶不同叶龄叶片对不同季节温度适应的生理调控机理

对不同季节白三叶(Trifolium repens)不同叶龄叶片(幼叶、中叶和老叶)抗氧化酶(SOD、POD和CAT)活力、渗透调节物(可溶性糖、可溶性蛋白和游离脯氨酸)含量、MDA含量和叶绿素含量进行分析,揭示白三叶不同叶龄叶片对不同季节温度适应的生理调控机理和白三叶叶片短寿在维护匍匐茎生长中的生态作用。结果表明:(1)冬季低温生出的幼叶MDA含量较低,而叶绿素a、POD和SOD活力、可溶性糖和脯氨酸含量均最高;夏季高温生出的幼叶MDA和叶绿素b含量较高,而POD和SOD活力、可溶性糖和脯氨酸含量较低。白三叶幼叶具有较强的生理调控可塑性以适应冬夏季温度。(2)不同季节幼叶成长过程中,其生理调控模式相近,随叶片长大成熟,叶绿素含量和SOD、POD、CAT活力及脯氨酸和可溶性糖含量均增高,而MDA含量降低。(3)不同季节老化叶片生理特征相同,叶片中可溶性糖和脯氨酸含量趋于增高,CAT活力及MDA含量均下降。研究表明,抗氧化酶和渗透调节物通过维护氧自由基代谢和水分代谢平衡而在幼叶适应不同季节温度、叶片快速生长中起重要保护作用。不同季节叶片抗氧化能力下降和持续积累的脯氨酸、可溶性糖抑制光合作用可能是叶片衰老和短寿的诱因。不同季节匍匐茎上叶片的短寿、快速衰老可使匍匐茎将能量物质分配给其顶部,促进匍匐茎顶部幼叶萌生和匍匐茎的延伸生长及种群的扩散,其在维护白三叶植株持续生存中具有重要的调控作用。     

香荚兰光合特性与室内栽培措施合理性探讨

笔者采用红外线CO₂微量分析仪和¹⁴CO₂标记,测定玻璃室内栽培的香荚兰不同生育期叶片的光饱和点、光补偿点及植株器官间CO₂的吸收、固定量。并测定玻璃室内大面积种植的香荚兰叶面积系数和空间分布。结果表明,香荚兰对CO₂吸收和固定属于CAM类型。不同生育期叶片的光饱点为10000勒克斯,光补偿点为500勒克斯。并根据其光合特性,对玻璃室内香荚兰栽培措施合理性进行了探讨。     

土三七(Sedum aizoon)光合作用的季节转变和CAM的诱导

土三七的CO_3交换曲线在六月中旬以前呈C_3型的“方波”形,白天能大量吸收CO_2,夜间有CO_2放出,含酸量无显著的昼夜波动。夏季的其余时间,夜间有净的CO_2吸收(阶段Ⅰ),早晨有CO_2吸收峰(阶段Ⅱ),随后有光下的脱羧作用(阶段Ⅲ),并有明显的昼夜酸波动,呈CAM型,但无阶段Ⅳ。CAM季节出现前,水分胁迫可使成年叶子转变为CAM型,所需时间2～6天,再经浇灌(5 h)可恢复到原来的C_3型,表明诱导的CAM是可逆的。     

长药景天的叶龄与CAM活性

用CO_2分析。含酸量和PEP羧化酶活性测定的方法对长药景天(Sedum spectabile)光合型进行研究,其成熟叶浇水时表现为C_3型,干旱条件下转变成CAM型,但极度的干旱又使其CAM活性降低。浇水植株的幼叶PEP羧化酶活性和含酸量低,成熟叶较高。但在干旱过程中,幼叶酶活性和含酸量的增加比成熟叶更为显著,表明幼叶对水分胁迫更敏感。水分胁迫中,叶最大PEP羧化酶活性和最大含酸量在植株由下而上各叶位转移。     

谷子生长过程中光合特性的变化

谷子是C_4植物,但叶片中核酮糖1,5-二磷酸羧化酶(RuBPCase,E.C.4.1.1.39)和磷酸烯醇式丙酮酸羧化酶(PEP Case,E.C.4.1.1.31)的活性变化,CO_2补偿点的变化与叶位和叶龄有关。其初生叶和衰老叶并不表现典型的C_4特征,与成熟叶比较,RuBP Case活性和CO_2补偿点都相对较高,而且,也存在着结构上的差别。本实验结果表明所测植物在生长过程中存在着光合特性的变化。     

瓦松的CAM活性

瓦松是生长于屋顶或岩石上的肉质植物,在自然条件下研究了它们的昼夜酸波动、CO_2气体交换和气孔阻力。其幼叶和成熟叶在浇灌条件下仍为CAM型,是一种典型的CAM植物。经三周的水分胁迫后,阶段2与阶段4相应消失,即白天完全无CO_2吸收;未见有无效CAM的出现。     

CAM途径和调节

景天酸代谢(简称CAM)是植物光合作用中固定CO_2的一种特殊方式。由于它有昼夜的苹果酸波动,早在1815年就被Heynes所发现。近十余年关于CAM研究的工作非常之多,而且涉及的内容非常广泛,包括CAM植物的生理、生态、生化、结构和分布等诸方面。作者曾对CAM的现代概念的形成作过     

热带作物木瓜C~3/C_4属性的鉴别

林植芳等(1982)从光、CO_2等环境因素对木瓜光合作用的影响进行了研究,并认为某些性状近似于C_3植物,但迄今尚没有人从叶解剖结构、RuBP羧化酶分布角度进行研究来确定木瓜的C_3/C_4属性。我们用免疫荧光直接法研究木瓜叶片内RuBP羧化酶的分布,并用气体交换法测定CO_2补偿点,以鉴别它的C_3/C_4属性。     

不同碱度条件下中华水韭昼夜CO_2气体交换的特征

运用pH-drift的方法研究了在不同碱度条件下中华水韭(Isoetes sinensis)的沉水叶片昼夜CO_2吸收的特征.结果表明中华水非的沉水叶片具有昼夜吸收水中CO_2的能力,而不具备利用水中的HCCO3的能力,进一步证明了水生植物中华水韭的光合碳同化途径具有景天酸代谢(CAM)的特征.中华水韭沉水叶片光照条件下对水中CO_2的吸收速率在一定的浓度范围内正相关于水中的CO_2浓度.光照条件下,中华水韭的pH-drift实验的pH补偿点分别为(8.1±0.3)和(7.9±0.1)mmol·L~(-1),最终[C_T]/Alk值为(1.009±0.01)和(1.022±0. 004).碱度对中华水韭夜晚CO_2的吸收速率有显著的影响(F=38.73,P<0.0001).总碱度1.70mmol·L~(-1)溶液中的中华水韭沉水叶片在相对较低的CO_2浓度(0.04±0.001mmol·L~(-1))水平下即表现出对CO_2的净吸收.调查了野外一处中华水韭沉水种群的生境pH值及CO_2浓度的昼夜变化,发现水体碱度约为1.59mmol·L~(-1),一昼夜的pH值波动不大,平均为(6.1±0.04),昼夜CO_2浓度存在波动,午夜水中的CO_2浓度是午后的近3倍.     

人参叶片的叶龄对光合作用和呼吸作用的影响

叶片光合作用效率受叶龄的影响。在叶片发育期间光合作用发生明显变化。人参为多年生草本阴生植物,在整个生长季节只形成一次叶片。前人对其光合作用特征的研究已有报道,但关于人参叶片发育过程中光合作用的变化尚未见到报道。研究人参植株不同     

A Unique Protease Cleavage Site Predicted in the Spike Protein of the Novel Pneumonia Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Potentially Related to Viral Transmissibility

正Dear Editor,In December 2019, a novel human coronavirus caused an epidemic of severe pneumonia(Coronavirus Disease 2019,COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei, China(Wu et al. 2020; Zhu et al. 2020). So far, this virus has spread to all areas of China and even to other countries. The epidemic has caused 67,102 confirmed infections with 1526 fatal cases     

Curcuminoids as inhibitors of thioredoxin reductase: A receptor based pharmacophore study with distance mapping of the active site

Curcumin is the yellow pigment of turmeric that interacts irreversibly forming an adduct with thioredoxin reductase (TrxR), an enzyme responsible for redox control of cell and defence against oxidative stress. Docking at both the active sites of TrxR was performed to compare the potency of three naturally occurring curcuminoids, namely curcumin, demethoxy curcumin and bis-demethoxy curcumin. Results show that active sites of TrxR occur at the junction of E and F chains. Volume and area of both cavities is predicted. It has been concluded by distance mapping of the most active conformations that Se atom of catalytic residue SeCYS498, is at a distance of 3.56 from C13 of demethoxy curcumin at the E chain active site, whereas C13 carbon atom forms adduct with Se atom of SeCys 498. We report that at least one methoxy group in curcuminoids is necessary for interation with catalytic residues of thioredoxin. Pharmacophore of both active sites of the TrxR receptor for curcumin and demethoxy curcumin molecules has been drawn and proposed for design and synthesis of most probable potent antiproliferative synthetic drugs.     

Comparative morphology of the carpel in the Liliaceae: Hewardieae, Petrosavieae, and Tricyrteae

The young pistils in the melanthioid tribes, Hewardieae, Petrosavieae and Tricyrteae, are uniformly tricarpellate and syncarpous. They lack raphide idioblasts. All are multiovulate, with bitegmic ovules. The Petrosavieae are marked by the presence of septal glands and incomplete syncarpy. Tepals and stamens adhere to the ovary in the Hewardieae and the Petrosavieae but not in the Tricyrteae. Two vascular bundles occur in the stamens of the Hewartlieae and Tricyrtis latifolia. Ventral bundles in the upper part of the ovary of the Hewardieae are continuous with compound septal bundles and placental bundles in the lower part. Putative ventral bundles occur in the alternate position in the Tricyrteae and putative placental bundles in the opposite. position in the Petrosavieae. The dichtomously branched stigma in each carpel of the Tricyrteae is supplied by a bifurcated dorsal bundle.     

Enterovirus 71 3C proteolytically processes the histone H3 N-terminal tail during infection

Highlights
1. The N-terminal tail of histone H3 is specifically cleaved during EV71 infection.
2. Viral protease 3C is identified as a protease responsible for proteolytically processing the N-terminal H3 tail.
3. Our finding reveals a new epigenetic regulatory mechanism for Enterovirus 71 in virus-host interactions.     

Detection of EBV and HHV6 in the Brain Tissue of Patients with Rasmussen’s Encephalitis

Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) is a rare pediatric neurological disorder, and the exact etiology is not clear. Viral infection may be involved in the pathogenesis of RE, but conflicting results have reported. In this study, we evaluated the expression of both Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and human herpes virus (HHV) 6 antigens in brain sections from 30 patients with RE and 16 control individuals by immunohistochemistry. In the RE group, EBV and HHV6 antigens were detected in 56.7% (17/30) and 50% (15/30) of individuals, respectively. In contrast, no detectable EBV and HHV6 antigen expression was found in brain tissues of the control group. The co-expression of EBV and HHV6 was detected in 20.0% (6/30) of individuals. In particular, a 4-year-old boy had a typical clinical course, including a medical history of viral encephalitis, intractable epilepsy, and hemispheric atrophy. The co-expression of EBV and HHV6 was detected in neurons and astrocytes in the brain tissue, accompanied by a high frequency of CD8⁺ T cells. Our results suggest that EBV and HHV6 infection and the activation of CD8⁺ T cells are involved in the pathogenesis of RE.     

Perinatal Vertical Transmission of Chikungunya Virus in Ruili,a Town on the Border between China and Myanmar

正Dear Editor,Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arbovirus in the family of Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus, is transmitted by the A.aegyptii or A. albopictus mosquito, and causes disease in humans characterized by fever, rash, and arthralgia (Silva and Dermody 2017; Suhrbier 2019). It was first reported in 1953 in Tanzania, and caused only a few outbreaks and sporadic cases in Africa and Asia in last century. However, in the epidemic in 2004, CHIKV acquired mutations that conferred enhanced transmission by the A. albopictus mosquito(Schuffenecker et al. 2006). Since then, it has successively caused outbreaks in Africa, the Indian Ocean, South East Asia, the South America, and Europe (Zeller et al. 2016).     

Development of a Novel Reverse Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2

In conclusion, the novel visual RT-LAMP assay is a simple, rapid, and sensitive approach for detection of SARS-CoV-2, and it is ready for application in primary care and community hospitals or health care centers, and even patients' own houses in response to the current SARS-CoV-2 epidemic because the assay does not require sophisticated equipment and skilled personnel. Furthermore, it is also ready to be used in fields for screening samples from wild animals and environments to facilitate the identification of potential intermediate hosts that mediate the cross-species transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from bats to humans.