川楝素对菜青虫中肠组织的影响

川楝素是从楝属植物树皮中提取出来的一种三萜烯类物质。过去主要作为医用药品驱除人体蛔虫,后来发现具有杀虫活性,已有较全面的综述(赵善欢和张兴,1987)。在杀虫作用研究中曾发现,川楝素对菜青虫(Pieris rapae L.)具有高的生物活性(赵善欢等,1985;张兴等,1988),可应用于田间防治。为了揭示川楝素对菜青虫幼虫致毒作用的毒理机制,曾从生理、生化等方面作了研究,本文主要报道对中肠组织病变的观察结果。     

印楝素对亚洲玉米螟幼虫生长发育的影响

本文报道印楝素对亚洲玉米螟Ostrinia furnacalis Guene幼虫生长发育的抑制作用和引起幼虫各器官的病变症状。用含20ppm印楝素的人工饲料饲喂亚洲玉米螟3—4龄幼虫2天,然后换入正常饲料,可使幼虫期显著延长,最后不能化蛹而死亡。印楝素对幼虫的作用是缓慢的,虫体受药后还可发育一个龄期。处理幼虫的行为失常,取食动作逐渐消失,主要靠消耗体内的水分和脂肪来维持生命。幼虫的胸足变黑,胸部出现褐色斑,这些部位的表皮分层不正常,真皮细胞坏死或自溶。处理幼虫的大脑萎缩,生殖器官和前胸腺肿大,前胸腺细胞膜厚而松散,血淋巴中β-蜕皮酮含量显著降低。从整个中毒症状来看,印楝素可能作用于亚洲玉米螟幼虫的神经和内分泌系统,从而逐渐引起各器官的病变。     

对菌物学进展的前瞻

本文简要地讨论了菌物学发展的前景,特别是在中国的前景。讨论的问题涉及到现代菌物分类新技术的概念以及和它密切相关的学科例如植物病原菌物学,菌物病理学,菌物生理学,菌物生态学,菌物地理学,生物工程在菌物中的应用,野生食用菌和药用菌的驯化栽培,菌根和菌毒。     

黑粉菌属的聚类分析

本文对我国黑粉菌属(Ustilago)51个样本,选取33个形态学和生物学编码性状进行了类平均法的系统聚类分析。根据聚类分析结果,建议将我国黑粉菌属分为3个表观群(Phenons);茭白黑粉菌目前以放在黑粉菌属内为妥;还认为 Ustilago ocrearum 是 Ustilagokoenigiae 的变种;Ustilago kusanoi 是 Ustilago minima 的变种;Us(?)ilago aoenoe 和 Usti-lago nuda 是两个不同种。     

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF EXTRACT OF STELLERA CHAMAEJASME AGAINST FIVE PEST INSECTS

Abstract Biological activity of an extract of the root of Stellera chameajasme with ethanol by dip (SCEE) against 5 insect pests, Pieris rapae, Plutella xylostella, Spodoptera litura, Myzus persicae , and Ostrina fumalis as tested. The LD, of stomach poison of SCEE against the fifth instar larvae of P. rapae was 12. 32 μarvae day 2 after treatment. With SCEE at concentration of 5, 2. 5 and 50 mg/mL, the fifth instar larvae of P. rapae , the third instar larvae of P. xylostella , and the third instar larvae of S. litura by disc leaf dipped method, had corrected mortalities of 100%, 31. 03 % and 16. 67 % 7 days after treatment respectively. The LC₅₀ of SCEE against M. persicae was 0. 599 2 mg/mL after day 2 treatment by leaf dipped method. With SCEE at 10 mg/mL for the third instar larvae of O. furnucalis by mixture pesticide method, the corrected mortalities of 65. 52% and 85. 72% days 7 and day 14 after treatments respectively. The results showed that SCEE possessed strong biological activity to P. rapae, O. furnacalis , and M. persicae , while possessed weak biological activity to S. litura and P. xylostella .     

THE DIET, PREY SIZE AND CONSUMPTION OF PHILINE ORIENTALIS (OPISTHOBRANCHIA: PHILINIDAE) IN HONG KONG

Philine orientalis occurs on Hong Kong's beaches for {smalltilde}2 months each year, in May and June when it breeds, laysegg capsules and dies. It is believed to have a life span ofone year. Hoi Sing Wan, a sandy beach in the New Territoriesof Hong Kong is dominated at lower levels by the venerid bivalveTapes philippinarum, the population of which in May and June,following spring recruitment, mostly comprises juveniles. P.orientalis, occurring at a density of {small tilde} 1.m^–2,feeds voraciously upon these juveniles consuming, in laboratoryexperiments, a mean of 25.day^–1. At Hoi Sing Wan, P. orientalisappears to be highly prey specific. It is, however, known tofeed on other prey items and probably has a catholic diet, duringits annual migration from deeper to shallower sediments, accordingto the prevailing fauna. In terms of wet weight, P. orientalis consumes a mean of {smalltilde}4.4% (2.2–6.7%) of its body weight day^–1.In terms of dry weight, however, this figure increases to amean of 35.5% and one figure of 208% has been recorded. Althoughthis is because of the large body fluid content of this, essentiallyshell-less, gastropod, using a hydrostatic skeleton to achieveburrowing, such figures further attest to the voracity of thebreeding adults. This study joins others in questioning ourpresent understanding of the scale of energy budgets on suchshores, i.e., are our estimates of loss to predation grosslyunderestimated? ^*Present address: Department of Biology, Baptist College, WaterlooRoad, Kowloon, Hong Kong. (Received 20 May 1989; accepted 3 July 1989)     

Differential Responses of Buds along the Shoot to Factors Involved in Apical Dominance

Intact and decapitated 6-node shoots of Hygrophila sp. weregrown aseptically immersed in liquid half-strength Knop's solutionwith microelements and 2% (w/v) sucrose (control medium), andin medium with 0.1 mg l^–1 benzyladenine (BA). In intactshoots grown in control medium apical dominance suppressed outgrowthof the lateral buds; in decapitated shoots buds grew out atseveral of the most apical nodes, increasing in size acropetally.There was a lag in outgrowth of the bud at the most apical node,attributable to its initially smaller size. Lateral shoots grewout first at basal nodes of intact shoots in BA medium, decreasingin size acropetally; in decapitated shoots in BA medium lateralshoots of approximately equal size grew out at all nodes. Differentialeffects of decapitation and cytokinin treatment on lateral shootoutgrowth along the shoot could be interpreted by postulatinga basipetally decreasing gradient of endogenous auxin concentrationin the intact shoot. Application of 20 mg l^–1 indoleaceticacid (IAA) in agar to decapitated shoots completely preventedbud outgrowth for at least 7 d in control medium, inhibitingit thereafter, and inhibited bud outgrowth in BA medium, thussupporting the hypothesis. Comparison of lateral shoot outgrowthin whole decapitated shoots and severed decapitated shoots (isolatednodes) lent no support to the alternative hypothesis that theremight be an acropetally decreasing concentration gradient ofa bud-promoting substance in the intact shoot, and demonstratedmuch greater lateral shoot growth in isolated nodes. The resultsemphasize important correlative relationships between the partsof a shoot with several nodes.     

Particulate Form of DNA Polymerase in Rat Brain

THE amount of DNA in rat brain was reported to be maximal at 16–18 days after birth^1–3 and in the adult brain to exhibit little or no DNA synthesis and little DNA polymerase activity^3–6. We have found in adult rat brain nuclei, however, a very high DNA polymerase activity in a particulate form and this activity cannot usually be detected⁷.     

Grafting Experiments on Correlative Effects between Lateral Buds

Shoots of Hygrophila sp., which are decussate and have budsof unequal size at a node, were grown in liquid culture. Inexcised nodes it is known that the larger (+) bud inhibits thesmaller (–) bud in the axil of the opposite leaf, andonly one shoot grows out; in nodes split longitudinally bothbuds grow out. When nodes were split and grafted together again(+/– grafts), in general only one bud grew out; if aluminiumfoil was introduced at the nodal region both buds grew out.Thus the inhibitory effect of a + on a – bud is laterallytransmissible across a graft union. In +/– grafts of half-nodesdiffering in age by two plastochrones, a higher proportion yieldedtwo shoots, suggesting that the age differential had some importance.This view is supported by observations on sectioned material.Grafts having two + or two – buds (+/+ grafts) were madebetween half-nodes differing in age by two plastochrones; inthe majority both buds grew out. Thus a + bud inhibits a –bud but usually not another + bud; in either case a considerabledifference in stage of development of the half-nodes may affectthe results. It is concluded that bud dominance resembles apicaldominance, and is probably mediated by hormonal means.