水稻颖花开裂SRS突变体的鉴定

利用扫描电镜观察了水稻（Ｏｒｙｚａ ｓａｔｉｖａ Ｌ．）颖花开裂突变体ＳＲＳ（ｓｐｌｉｔ ｒｉｃｅ ｓｐｉｋｅｌｅｔ）花器官形态发生过程,该突变体表现为内外稃变软变长,不抱合,外稃基部又着生一颖花,浆片呈稃片状,但是雌雄蕊着生位置和形态表现正常。利用ＳＲＳ突变体为父本,“窄叶青８号”为母本配制杂交组合,其Ｆ２代群体中正常与突变植株的分离比例为３：１,表明该突变性状是由单隐性基因控制的。作为对照,同     

低叶绿素b高产水稻突变体及其光合特性的研究

最近发现了一个在田间条件下自然产生的低叶绿素b高产水稻突变体(Oryza sativa L. cv.Zhenhui 249),该突变体主要降低了外周捕光天线复合体的含量.这种变化主要表现在叶片全展前后,到叶片发育后期则接近野生型.与以往所研究的突变体不同的是,该突变体叶绿素b含量仅适量减少,因而不影响类囊体膜的稳定性.突变体的光合机构在叶片一生中较稳定,这可能表明突变减少了光系统截获的光能,相对提高了光能的利用率,减少了O-2的产生.     

一种重组抗胰蛋白酶单体人胰岛素突变体的设计、制备和鉴定

用缺口双链DNA的定向突变方法分别将胰岛素前体中B链第 2 2、2 8、2 9和 3 0位改变为Asp、Lys、Pro和Lys,酵母分泌表达的前体经胰蛋白酶直接酶切 ,得到重组 [B2 2Asp、B2 8Lys、B2 9Pro、B3 0Lys]人胰岛素。它与受体的结合能力约为猪胰岛素的 6% ,而体内生物活力保留 5 0 %。通过FPLC分子筛测定其自身结合能力 ,在生理条件下浓度达 10 -4mol/L时它以单体形式存在。作为可抗胰蛋白酶酶解的单体胰岛素类似物 ,它可能具有一定的应用前景     

一种筛选拟南芥突变体的有效方法

经甲基磺酸乙酯（EMS）诱变处理的拟南芥种子,接种于MS培养基上,垂直放置培养4天后,将幼苗转移至胁迫培养基中,以倒置幼苗180°所形成的弯曲生长根作为指标筛选拟南芥耐营养胁迫突变体。利用这种方法,成功地筛选到一个耐低钾的隐性单基因拟南芥突变体。本方法同样适用于其他类型突变体的筛选。 Abstract：his paper introduces a root-bending assay for isol ation of Arabidopsis mutants tolerant to nutrition stress. Seeds of wild-ty pe Arabidopsis thaliana (ecotype Landersberg erecta) were mutagenized wi th ethyl methyl sulfide (EMS),and M2 populations were screened for mutants. Fo ur-day-old seedlings with 1-to 1.5-cm-long roots were transferred from the vertical agar plates onto to a second agar medium that was supplemented with det erminate stress. The seedlings were arranged in rows, and the plates were orient ed vertically with the roots pointing upward. After another 4 days, the root be nding seedlings were selected for putative mutants and transferred to soil to gr ow to maturity.Seeds from the putative mutants were screened again to determine the true mutants.By using this root-bending assay we have isolated a low-K+-tolerant (lkt1) mutant which is caused by single recessive nuclear mutation. F or lkt1 mutant screening,K+concentration of the medium was 100μmol/L because root growth of wild type seedlings was completely inhibited at or below this con centration.This root-bending assay is also applicable to other type of Arabid opsis mutant isolation.     

Molecular Cloning and Construction of agp Gene Deletion-mutant in Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Nine compounds were isolated from Elsholtzia blanda (Benth.) Benth. Their　structures were identified with spectral and chemical methods as follows: 5,6-dihydro-6-styry-2-pyrone (1), friedelin (2), 4-hydroxy-3-methoxystyrene (3), 5,2′-dimethoxy-6,7-methylene dioxyflavanone (4), 5-hydroxy-7-methoxy-6-O-［α- L -rhamnopyranosyl(1→2)-β- D -fucopyranosyl］ flavone glycoside (5), 5,5′-dihydroxy-7-acetoxyl-6,8,3″,3″-tetramethylpyran　(3′,4′)　flavone (6), 5,5′-dihydroxy-7-(α-methyl) butyroxyl-6,8,3″,3″-tetramethylpyran (3′,4′) flavone (7), 5,5′-dihydroxy-6,7-methylenedioxy-8,3″,3″-trimethylpyran　(3′,4′)　flavone (8), glucosyringic acid (9). Among them, 6, 7 and 8 are new compounds, named as sifanghaoine Ⅰ,Ⅱ and Ⅲ, respectively.     

Purification and Characteristics of Mn-containing Nitrogenase Component

A mutant UW3, which is unable to fix N2 in the presence of Mo (Nif-) but undergo phenotypic reversal to Nif+ under Mo deficiency, was able to grow in Mo- and NH3-deficient medium containing Mn, and the growth was accelerated by Mn at low concentration. A partly purified nitrogenase component Ⅰ protein separated from UW3 grown in the Mn-containing medium was shown to contain Fe and Mn atoms (ratio of Fe/Mo/Mn: 10.41/0.19/1.00) with C2H2- and H+-reducing activity which almost equal to half of that of MoFe protein purified from wild-type mutant of Azotobacter vinelandii Lipmann. This protein was obviously different from MoFe protein in both absorption spectrum and circular dichroism, and the molecular weight of subunits in Mn-containing protein was close to that of α subunit in MoFe protein. The preliminary results indicated that the protein containing Mn might be a nitrogenase component Ⅰprotein.     

番木瓜抗病突变体阻碍环斑病毒体内运转

应用RT-PCR一步法检测了PRSVYs株系在感病番木瓜及其抗病突变体植株体内的运转动态,结果表明在感病植株中,接种后48hr接种叶的未接种部位可检出病毒,第4天部分接种叶柄可检出病毒,第6天植株各部位均能检出病毒;而在抗病植株中,接种后可以而且仅能在接种部位检出病毒;因而认为抗病突变体能够阻碍病毒从接种部位运出及（或）向未接种部位运入。     

拟南芥AST基因的精细作图

拟南芥(Arabidopsis thaliana(L.)Heynh.)ast(anthocyanin spottedtesta)突变体是由碳离子辐射诱导产生的与花青苷生物合成有关的基因突变体,受单隐性核基因控制.根据拟南芥数据库中的SNPs(single nucleotide polv-mophisms)序列和插入/缺失多态性(insertion/deletion polymorphisms)序列,设计了一系列分子标记.采用图位克隆策略,应用这些分子标记完成了对拟南芥AST基因的精细作图,成功地将AST基因定位到BAC克隆T13M11上,初步认为该BAC克隆中的基因T13M11.8可能是AST基因.该基因的DNA序列长1432bp,含有6个外显子和5个内含子,编码的蛋白与花青苷生物合成途径中的二氢黄酮醇-4-还原酶有较高的同源性.将进一步通过功能互补实验验证图位克隆的结果.     

A pleiotropic mutant of Rhodopseudomonas capsulata defective in nitrogen metabolism

Wild type strains of Rhodopseudomonas capsulata typically can use N₂, NH ₄ ⁺ , or various nitrogenous organic compounds as N sources for photosynthetic growth. One class of mutants selected for inability to grow on N₂ (Nif^–) also shows simultaneous loss of capacity to obtain N from numerous organic substrates. When supplied at relatively high concentrations, ammonia can be used as the sole N source for growth of such strains. Enzymatic analysis of one mutant (W11) indicates that the pleiotropic effect on N nutrition is neither due to detectable alteration in the activities of nitrogenase or the initial enzymes responsible for bulk assimilation of ammonia (glutamine synthetase and glutamate synthase) nor to absence of systems required for catabolism of organic N sources. The phenotype of W11 (Nit^–; defective in N metabolism) appears to result from loss of ability to grow using low concentrations of ammonia (supplied externally or generated in vivo).