Overexpression of Arabidopsis acyl‐CoA‐binding protein ACBP2 enhances drought tolerance

Arabidopsis thaliana acyl‐CoA‐binding protein 2 (ACBP2) is a stress‐responsive protein that is also important in embryogenesis. Here, we assign a role for ACBP2 in abscisic acid (ABA) signalling during seed germination, seedling development and the drought response. ACBP2 was induced by ABA and drought, and transgenic Arabidopsis overexpressing ACBP2 (ACBP2‐OXs) showed increased sensitivity to ABA treatment during germination and seedling development. ACBP2‐OXs also displayed improved drought tolerance and ABA‐mediated reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in guard cells, thereby promoting stomatal closure, reducing water loss and enhancing drought tolerance. In contrast, acbp2 mutant plants showed decreased sensitivity to ABA in root development and were more sensitive to drought stress. RNA analyses revealed that ACBP2 overexpression up‐regulated the expression of Respiratory Burst Oxidase Homolog D (AtrbohD) and AtrbohF, two NAD(P)H oxidases essential for ABA‐mediated ROS production, whereas the expression of Hypersensitive to ABA1 (HAB1), an important negative regulator in ABA signalling, was down‐regulated. In addition, transgenic plants expressing ACBP2pro:GUS showed beta‐glucuronidase (GUS) staining in guard cells, confirming a role for ACBP2 at the stomata. These observations support a positive role for ACBP2 in promoting ABA signalling in germination, seedling development and the drought response.     

遮荫对桂南种植罗汉果净光合速率和品质的影响

通过大田栽培试验,探讨生育后期不同遮荫处理(遮荫率0、30%、50%和70%)对罗汉果净光合速率和罗汉果品质的影响。经过遮荫处理,罗汉果净光合速率日变化曲线由对照组(遮荫率为0)的双峰型转变为单峰型,曲线峰值出现在中午12:00时。遮荫率50%处理的曲线峰值、罗汉果苷Ⅴ含量和干果重比其它遮荫处理和对照组的高。结果表明,在桂南种植的罗汉果,生育后期给予遮荫率50%的处理对增加罗汉果的净光合速率,提高罗汉果苷Ⅴ含量和干果重较为有利。     

岩溶区和非岩溶区两种优势植物凋落叶分解的比较研究

应用野外分解网袋法对岩溶地区和非岩溶地区两种优势树种桂花和青冈栎凋落叶的分解速率和养分释放规律进行研究。结果表明:分解1年后,凋落叶失重率桂花大于青冈栎,同一物种岩溶区大于非岩溶区。凋落叶各元素浓度随分解时间变化也有一定差异,C含量均表现为初期上升,后下降,最后上升的趋势;N含量前半年呈波动状态,后半年逐渐上升;P含量处波动状态,总体呈上升趋势。N、P含量和凋落叶失重率均表现为极显著正相关,而C:N、C:P、N:P与凋落叶失重率呈极显著负相关(P<0.01),说明凋落叶分解过程中失重率与N、P含量及C:N、C:P、N:P关系密切。凋落叶桂花N、P含量比青冈栎高,分解速率也比较快。     

不同倍性香石竹杂交受精过程及胚胎发育研究

采用石蜡切片法对以四倍体香石竹品种‘紫蝴蝶’(2n=4x=60)为母本,单瓣中间材料‘NH6’(2n=2x=30)为父本杂交后受精过程及胚胎发育进行研究。结果表明:(1)授粉后17h,花粉管进入助细胞并释放内容物,精核进入极核细胞内,与二极核细胞融合形成初生胚乳核;授粉后1d,精核向卵核方向移动,贴伏于卵核核膜上;授粉后2d,形成合子及游离的胚乳核;随后,胚发育经过原胚、球形胚、心形胚、鱼雷形胚阶段。(2)杂交障碍发生在受精过程及胚胎发育的各个时期,表现为:精子与卵细胞不相融合或精子与二极核不相融合、合子未分裂或初生胚乳核未分裂及胚胎的败育。(3)胚败育虽能发生在原胚、球形胚、棒状形胚、三角形胚、心形胚、鱼雷形胚及子叶形胚阶段,但主要发生在球形胚阶段。     

海南岛龟鳖资源保护与可持续利用

目的 海南岛地处热带,具有丰富的龟鳖物种多样性.为了有效保护这一珍贵资源,对该地区龟鳖的多样性、养殖现状及保护管理需求进行总结和讨论.方法 根据有关文献和我们的调查结果,从龟鳖多样性、养殖现状、保护和可持续利用的管理等方面进行分析.结果 海南岛现有龟鳖6科14属18种,占中国龟鳖的50%,其中有1种野外灭绝,有5种处于极度濒危状态,有11种处于濒危状态;国家一级重点保护的有1种,二级保护的有9种.海南岛是我国龟鳖养殖种类最多、规模最大的地区,有龟鳖养殖户330多户,养殖龟鳖120余种.结论 海南岛龟鳖资源丰富,养殖规模巨大.应进一步加强野生龟鳖资源的保护和管理,将龟鳖纳入国家重点保护的野生动物范围,继续开展保护繁育放归活动.同时,从多方面加强龟鳖养殖的产业化发展,促进龟鳖资源的可持续利用.     

Diversity patterns of leaf-associated aquatic hyphomycetes along a broad latitudinal gradient

Information about the global distribution of aquatic hyphomycetes is scarce, despite the primary importance of these fungi in stream ecosystem functioning. In particular, the relationship between their diversity and latitude remains unclear, due to a lack of coordinated surveys across broad latitudinal ranges. This study is a first report on latitudinal patterns of aquatic hyphomycete diversity associated with native leaf-litter species in five streams located along a gradient extending from the subarctic to the tropics. Exposure of leaf litter in mesh bags of three different mesh sizes facilitated assessing the effects of including or excluding different size-classes of litter-consuming invertebrates. Aquatic hyphomycete evenness was notably constant across all sites, whereas species richness and diversity, expressed as the Hill number, reached a maximum at mid-latitudes (Mediterranean and temperate streams). These latitudinal patterns were consistent across litter species, despite a notable influence of litter identity on fungal communities at the local scale. As a result, the bell-shaped distribution of species richness and Hill diversity deviated markedly from the latitudinal patterns of most other groups of organisms. Differences in the body-size distribution of invertebrate communities colonizing the leaves had no effect on aquatic hyphomycete species richness, Hill diversity or evenness, but invertebrates could still influence fungal communities by depleting litter, an effect that was not captured by the design of our experiment.     

Phylogenies and traits provide distinct insights about the historical and contemporary assembly of aquatic insect communities

The assumption that traits and phylogenies can be used as proxies of species niche has faced criticisms. Evidence suggested that phylogenic relatedness is a weak proxy of trait similarity. Moreover, different processes can select different traits, giving opposing signals in null model analyses. To circumvent these criticisms, we separated traits of stream insects based on the concept of α and β niches, which should give clues about assembling pressures expected to act independently of each other. We investigated the congruence between the phylogenetic structure and trait structure of communities using all available traits and all possible combinations of traits (4095 combinations). To account for hierarchical assembling processes, we analyzed patterns on two spatial scales with three pools of genera. Beta niche traits selected a priori – i.e., traits related to environmental variation (e.g., respiration type) – were consistently clustered on the smaller scale, suggesting environmental filtering, while α niche traits – i.e., traits related to resource use (e.g., trophic position) – did not display the expected overdispersion, suggesting a weak role of competition. Using all traits together provided random patterns and the analysis of all possible combinations of traits provided scenarios ranging from strong clustering to overdispersion. Communities were phylogenetically overdispersed, a pattern previously interpreted as phylogenetic limiting similarity. However, our results likely reflect the co‐occurrence of ancient clades due to the stability of stream habitats along the evolutionary scale. We advise ecologists to avoid using combinations of all available traits but rather carefully traits based on the objective under consideration. Both trait and phylogenetic approaches should be kept in the ecologist toolbox, but phylogenetic distances should not be used as proxies of traits differences. Although the phylogenetic structure revealed processes operating at the evolutionary scale, only specific traits explained local processes operating in our communities.     

濒危植物金花猕猴桃繁殖生物学初步研究

繁殖生物学是目前濒危植物保护生物学研究的重点领域之一,金花猕猴桃(Actinidia chrysantha)是猕猴桃属濒危物种之一,目前未见其繁殖生物学相关报道。因此,该文以分布于花坪国家级自然保护区的野生金花猕猴桃为研究对象,用游标卡尺测量了花器官及果实形态,通过野外观察记录了其物候、访花昆虫及开花结果习性,用人工授粉和套袋法确定其传粉媒介,开展田间播种试验确定种子繁殖力,对其繁殖生物学开展了较为系统的研究。结果表明：金花猕猴桃物候因海拔高度不同而不同,较低海拔地区5月中下旬开花,高海拔地区5月下旬至6月上旬开花,花期持续7~10 d,果实每年9月下旬至10月上旬成熟;雄株花枝率76.5％,雌株果枝率61.9％,果实长圆柱形、短圆柱形或椭圆形,平均单果重7.34~27.53 g,最大果重35.0 g;金花猕猴桃为虫媒和风媒共同授粉,主要访花昆虫有蜜蜂科、细蜂科、鼻蝇亚科、食蚜蝇科、蜡蝉科、大蚊科长脚蚊属昆虫等;金花猕猴桃种子发芽率低,参试的3个居群的种子发芽率存在差异,分别为花坪17.5％,资源车田15.36％,贺州姑婆山0;4种不同种子处理方式中,低温＋GA3处理的种子发芽率(22.67％)最高。综上所述,金花猕猴桃不存在传粉障碍,种子萌发率低可能是致其濒危的重要原因。该研究结果为保护金花猕猴桃种质资源提供了科学依据。     

广藿香香叶醇合酶基因克隆及表达分析

香叶醇合酶(geraniol synthase,GES)是香叶醇形成过程中非常重要的酶,是萜类代谢途径的限速酶。根据课题组广藿香转录组数据中的GES 转录本序列设计基因全长扩增引物,采用RT PCR方法克隆了广藿香GES基因的全长cDNA序列。对该基因进行了相关的生物信息学分析,并利用荧光实时定量PCR法检测了PcGES1基因在4个广藿香栽培种中不同时期茎、叶中的表达情况。结果显示：广藿香GES基因包含一个完整的ORF框,长1 734 bp,编码577个氨基酸,命名为PcGES1,GenBank登录号为KF926075 ;PcGES1基因编码的氨基酸序列与罗勒GES基因编码的氨基酸序列最为相近。广藿香GES蛋白定位在叶绿体中,无跨膜区域。PcGES1主要在叶中表达,老叶中表达量最高;从不同栽培种来看,PcGES1在石牌广藿香和高要广藿香中表达模式相似,在海南广藿香与印尼广藿香中表达相似,在海南广藿香老叶中表达最高。该研究结果为进一步阐明广藿香萜类代谢途径奠定了基础。