Diversification in flowering time due to tandem FT-like gene duplication, generating novel Mendelian factors in wild and cultivated rice

The complex structure of a single Mendelian factor widespread in the Asian cultivated rice ( Oryza sativa ) and its wild progenitor ( Oryza rufipogon ) that caused diverse phenotypes in the timing of flowering under natural field conditions was investigated in near isogenic lines. These near isogenic lines showed differences in flowering time despite all eight accessions collected from tropical regions possessing a recessive gene allelic to the se-pat gene. Fine mapping in two of these near-isogenic lines revealed that cultivated (Patpaku) and wild (W593) accessions had three and two linked quantitative trait loci (QTL) in the candidate regions, respectively, showing that Patpaku and W593 possessed linked QTLs with different effects in addition to the commonly-observed recessive gene ( se-pat ). Molecular dissection suggested that the tandemly duplicated FT-like genes ( Hd3a and RFT1 ) could be the candidate genes for these QTLs. Interestingly, the linked QTLs differed in their epistases, degree of dominance, and genotype × environment interactions. The nucleotide sequences showed that RFT1 has diverged more rapidly than Hd3a during rice evolution, suggesting phenotypic diversification of the two genes. Phylogenetic analysis implied that the se-pat ⁺ alleles might have emerged in different lineages within O. sativa . The present results strongly suggest that nucleotide divergence and shuffling of the linked QTLs by recombination might have created novel Mendelian factors that probably contribute to responding to local environments.     

水稻游离小孢子培养最新研究进展

水稻小孢子培养技术不但可用来生产单倍体植株和加倍单倍体植株,而且可望成为转基因的理想受体系统。目前转基因技术、分子杂交技术与小孢子培育技术的有机结合已成为加快水稻育种速度的有效途径。本文从水稻小孢子分离纯化、影响愈伤组织或胚状体发生的因素以及植株再生三个方面综述了水稻游离小孢子培养的最新研究进展。最后就水稻小孢子培育技术急需解决的问题进行了讨论,并对小孢子培育技术发展前景进行了展望。     

水稻内生真菌Fusarium moniliform ZSU-1次级代谢产物研究

为了探索内生镰刀菌对稻田病害生物防治的物质基础,对一株来自健康水稻茎部的串珠镰刀菌Fuscrium moniliform ZSU-1进行发酵培养,用色谱技术分别对其菌体提取物、发酵液提取物进行活性次级代谢产物分离,得到4个化合物,通过1D、2D NMR、质谱等波谱分析,分别鉴定为镰刀菌酸(1)、镰刀菌酸·脱氢镰刀菌酸缔合物(1:1)(2)、白僵菌素(3)和甘露醇(4).鉴于镰刀菌酸、镰刀菌酸·脱氢镰刀菌酸缔合物(1:1)有较强的抗菌活性,推测这两个化合物对稻田病害生物防治可能有一定的意义.     

陕西朱鹮黑米酒氨基酸成份分析

采用121MB型氨基酸分析仪测定了陕西朱鹮黑米酒中的氨基酸质量浓度。结果表明:朱鹮黑米酒中含有18种氨基酸和γ-氨基丁酸,氨基酸总质量浓度为9133.5 mg.L-1,必需氨基酸占氨基酸总量的51.7%。半必需氨基酸占氨基酸总量的10%。味觉氨基酸占氨基酸总量的73.8%。与文献中报道的发酵酒氨基酸总量相比是啤酒的5倍、红葡萄酒的5.4倍、黄酒的1.35倍、清酒2.18倍、沉缸酒的2.8倍,此外必需和半必需氨基酸的含量、味觉氨基酸含量与之比较也均为最高。     

稻田杂草稻发生情况调查

2007年杂草稻在江苏省海安县各类稻田中的发生率达44．35％,平均每公顷穴数和穗数分别为1023穴和10796穗,最高田块分别达12万穴和180万穗,已成为水稻生产上的潜在威胁。杂草稻在不同稻田的发生程度表现以下趋势：轻-中壤〉砂-轻壤〉重壤土稻田、直播〉抛栽〉机插〉手栽稻田、非统一供种〉统一供种稻田。     

重金属增强核因子与水稻金属硫蛋白基因启动子的结合

植物金属硫蛋白(metallothioneins, MT)被认为在植物应答重金属胁迫方面发挥了重要作用,但该基因的转录调控机制目前仍不清楚.我们以前的研究初步鉴定出位于-331/-194的水稻MT基因(ricMT)启动子区对于金属激活ricMT的表达是必需的.为了明确 -331/-194启动子序列在控制ricMT表达中的作用,本课题开展了该序列 与核因子的结合特性研究.从2周龄水稻嫩叶中提取了几乎不含叶绿体污染的细胞核,并制备 了核蛋白用于凝胶阻滞实验,发现核因子能够与-331/-194启动子序列特异 结合.本研究还进一步考察了重金属对核因子结合活性的影响,发现在结合体系中去除重金 属离子,核因子与-331/-194序列的结合能力会丧失,而在结合体系中加入重金属离子, 结合能力则会随着外加的离子浓度提高而增强,证明这种结合确实依赖于重金属.这些证据 结合以前的结果表明,某些金属响应的核因子可能通过结合-331/-194启动子区域来调控 ricMT基因表达.     

根癌农杆菌介导Bt基因转化水稻的研究

为了培育出无筛选标记基因的转基因水稻,试验将loxp-hpt-loxp基因与成基因连锁在-起转化水稻方法,得到loxp-hpt—loxp—Bt转基因水稻植株,再与同质的带有ere基因的水稻杂交,以定向删除潮霉素抗性筛选标记。试验表明以水稻品种“皖粳97”为供试材料,将成熟胚来源的愈伤组织用根癌农杆菌EHA105／pCAMBIA1305．1感染后,筛选出抗性愈伤组织并获得再生植株。经PCR验证,得到20棵转基因水稻植株。     

Rice resistance to blast caused by leaf surface moistening prior to inoculation

Effect of water droplets placed onto rice (Oryza sativa L.) leaves before inoculation with blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea (Hebert) Barr on disease severity and superoxide radical generation by the leaves was investigated. The leaves were inoculated by placement of spore suspension droplets. One day before, droplets of distilled water were placed to the same sites as an inoculum. It was found, that such a pretreatment decreased frequency of susceptible-type lesions by 2 to 2.5 times and increased that of symptomless outcome by 1.5 times in comparison with the nontreated control. Besides, the pretreatment enhanced superoxide radical generation in diffusates of healthy leaves of susceptible cultivar and in diffusates of infected leaves of resistant cultivar one day post inoculation. It is suggested that water contacting with the leaf surface for a rather long time washes out from its cells compounds possessing properties of plant endogenous elicitors. The latter induce superoxide radical formation by plants and, as a consequence, their disease resistance. This may be interpreted as plant adaptation to high humidity, which usually favors infections.     

不同倍性水稻亚种间杂种小孢子发生的细胞学观察

利用塑料半薄切片对水稻同源四倍体亚种间杂种F1及其对应的二倍体杂种F1小孢子母细胞减数分裂过程的细胞学变化进行观察研究.结果表明,同源四倍体水稻亚种间杂种造孢细胞期和小孢子母细胞期已经表现出较高频率的异常;减数分裂过程中,小孢子母细胞出现异常更加复杂,主要包括小孢子母细胞液泡化和退化两大类,这些异常是导致杂种花粉败育和花粉低育性的重要原因之一;此外,绒毡层异常也是导致杂种的花粉育性降低的因素.二倍体杂种小孢子母细胞在减数分裂过程的异常类型与水稻同源四倍体亚种间杂种基本相似,其绒毡层异常频率较低,对其花粉低育性影响不大.