The morphology, systematics, and ecology of the extinct juglandaceous genus Polyptera are interpreted on the basis of infructescences, fruits, staminate catkins, pollen, and compound leaves from the Paleocene of Wyoming and Montana. The elongate infructescences of Polyptera manningii bear numerous helically arranged sessile fruits. The fruit is a pyramidal nut with a vascularized husk and a multilobed disk-like wing adaptive for wind dispersal. Associated staminate catkins bear numerous helically arranged florets, each with six or more stamens. Pollen from the anthers is triporate and isopolar, with ultrastructure diagnostic of Juglandaceae, but with a pattern of exinous thinning characteristic of the extinct dispersed pollen type Maceopolipollenites anellus (Nichols et Ott) comb. nov. The correlated leaves, Juglandiphyllites glabra (Brown ex Watt) comb. nov., are deciduous, pinnately compound, and have five to seven petiolulate finely serrate leaflets. Systematically, Polyptera shows relationships both with the Hicorieae and the Juglandeae. Occurrences in the Torrejonian and Tiffanian stages of the Paleocene place Polyptera as the oldest unequivocal record of Juglandaceae. Polyptera manningii typically occurs in low-diversity assemblages of 8-15 species, and usually is a dominant or subdominant constituent of floodplain assemblages. It may have been an early-successional colonizer. 相似文献
Steralized leaf pieces of eight plants (Eucalyptus rostrata, Phoenix dactylifera, Phragmites australis, Musa nana, Salix subserrata,
Cyperus alopecuroides, Ricinus communis and Eichhornia crassipes) were submerged in the Nile stream. Thirty-nine species of
aquatic hyphomycetes were colonized on the plant leaves. Eucalyptus was the best substratum (30 species) for colonization
by aquatic hyphomycetes. Phoenix (14 species), Phragmites (11 species), Salix (9 species), Musa (8 species), Ricinus and Cyperus
(6 species) were also good substrata for aquatic hyphomycetes colonization. Echhornia (aquatic plant) was not suitable for
aquatic hyphomycetes colonization. Alatospora acuminata, Triscelophorus monosporus and Tetracladium marchalianum were found
to be the major colonizers on all leaf materials. Temperature and dissolved oxygen were the highest physico-chemical parameters
affecting the aquatic hyphomycetes colonization. These results indicate that aquatic hyphomycetes have been shown to be successful
colonizers on plants leaf in river Nile in Egypt as subtropical region.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
Seedlings of sugar beet ( Beta vulgaris L. cv Monohill) were cultivated for 4 weeks in nutrient solution containing different concentrations of CdCl2 (0 to 10 μ M ). The effects of Cd on appearance and function of stomata and leaf cuticle were investigated by water loss measurements and microscopy. The leaf transpiration rate increased with increasing Cd concentrations while the sum total of stomatal aperture area per unit leaf area decreased. Already at low Cd levels. an increase of defective and undeveloped stomata was found in Cd treated plants. These stomata are closed or have small apertures and probably lack a functional closing mechanism. The number of intact stomata per unit leaf area was lower in leaves of Cd treated plants than in controls, and Cd induced closure of intact stomata. The total number of stomata per leaf area slightly increases with increasing Cd concentration. as does the percentage of small stomata. Furthermore. specific leaf area increased, while the density of leaf structure was decreased by Cd. From this observation we conclude that the increase in transpiration rate caused by Cd is primarily due to effects on the permeability of the leaf cuticle to water. 相似文献
In whole intact potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) plants, the gene families of class-I patatin and proteinase inhibitor II (Pin 2) are constitutively expressed in the tubers. However, they are also induced in detached potato leaves in the presence of light. To further characterize this light action, the detached leaves were subjected to monochromatic light of different wavelengths and to darkness in the presence of metabolites and inhibitors. Patatin genes could be induced by the simultaneous application of sucrose (sugars) and glutamine in darkness. Neither of these metabolites was active when supplied alone. When photosynthesis was blocked by 3-(3,4-Di-chlorophenyl)-1, 1-dimethylurea (DCMU) in the light, patatin genes were not expressed; however, the inhibition was overcome in the presence of sucrose. This indicates that besides its role in photosynthetic carbohydrate production, light may be essential for the supply of amino acids (or reduced nitrogen). Unlike patatin, Pin 2 genes were, to a small extent, also active in darkness, and sucrose weakly enhanced this expression. However, DCMU did not affect Pin 2 expression in the light. Both abscisic acid and methyl jasmonate strongly promoted the accumulation of Pin 2 mRNA independent of the light conditions, indicating that the gene family is probably under hormonal control. The phytohormones did not affect patatin gene expression. Inhibitors of cytosolic (cycloheximide) and organellar (chloramphenicol) translation had opposite effects on the two gene families. Careful evaluation of the inhibitors' action indicates that protein synthesis (cytosol) is required for the expression of Pin 2 genes but not for the patatin genes. These results clearly demonstrate that, although in situ both gene families are constitutively expressed in the same plant organ (tuber) in intact plants, their expression is mediated by different factors.Abbreviations ABA
cis-abscisic acid
- DCMU
3-(3,4-dichlorphenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea
- GUS
-glucuronidase activity
- MeJA
methyl jasmonate
- Pin 2
proteinase inhibitor II
We thank Beate Küsgen and Regina Breitfeld for the greenhouse work. This work was supported by a grant from the Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie. 相似文献
When illuminated leaf discs and detached leaves of spinach ( Spinacia oleracea L. cv. Estivato) were exposed to 0.4 and 0.25 μl 1-1 H2S, respectively, pool sizes of cysteine and glutathione increased. In the dark, apart from these compounds, the level of γ-glutamyl-cysteine also increased. Incubation of leaf discs with 1.0 m M buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) resulted in the accumulation of cysteine only, both in the light and in darkness. When glycine was supplied to the petioles of detached leaves exposed to H2S in the dark, the accumulation of glutathione was stimulated, while γ-glutamyl-cysteine accumulation was prevented completely. Glycolate and glyoxylate, precursors of glycine in the glycolate pathway, had nearly the same effect as glycine. Although other amino acids were apparently taken up equally well as glycine when supplied to the petiole, they were much less effective, or not effective at all, in restoring glutathione synthesis in the dark. These results provide evidence, that H2S-induced glutathione accumulation in spinach leaves in the dark is limited by the availability of glycine, giving rise to the accumulation of the metabolic precursor γ-glutamyl-cysteine. 相似文献
Primary leaves of bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) were treated with benzyladenine (BA) from 7 days after sowing. Nuclei were isolated and the DNA content per nucleus was determined. BA increased the amount of DNA per nucleus of untreated controls by about 50% without nuclear division. 相似文献
Shoots of poplar (Populus euramericana L. cv. Flevo) were exposed to filtered air, SO2, NH3 or a mixture of SO2 and NH3 for 7 weeks in fumigation chambers. After this exposure gas exchange measurements were carried out using a leaf chamber. As compared to leaves exposed to filtered air, leaves pretreated with 112 μg m?3 SO2 showed a small reduction in maximum CO2 assimilation rate (Pmax) and stomatal conductance (gs). They also showed a slightly higher quantum yield and dark respiration. In addition, the fluorescence measurements indicated that the Calvin cycle of the leaves pretreated with 112 μg m?3 SO2 was more rapidly activated after transition from dark to light. An exposure to 64 μg m?3 NH3 had a positive effect on Pmax, stomatal conductance and NH3 uptake of the leaves. This positive effect was counteracted by an SO2 concentration of 45 μg m?3. The exposure treatments appeared to have no effect on the relationship between net CO2-assimilation and gs. Also, no injury of the leaf cuticle or of epidermal cells was observed. Resistance analysis showed that NH3 transfer into the leaf can be estimated from data on the boundary layer and stomatal resistance for H2O transfer and NH3 concentration at the leaf surface, irrespective of whether the leaves are exposed for a short or long time to NH3 or to a mixture of NH3 and SO2. In contrast SO2 uptake into the leaves was only partly correlated to the stomatal resistance. The results suggest a large additional uptake of this gas by the leaves. The possibility of a difference in path length between SO2 and H2O molecules is proposed. 相似文献
The distribution of anthocyanins in spring sprouted and/or autumn coloured leaves of Dipteronia sinensis and Acer (119 taxa) was studied.
Dipteronia contained four cyanidin glycosides: the 3-glucoside, 3-rutinoside, 3-galloylglucoside and 3,5-diglucoside. Acer contained five cyanidin glycosides: 3-glucoside, 3-rutinoside, 3-galloylglucoside, 3-galloylrutinoside and 3,5-diglucoside, two delphinidin glucosides: 3-glucoside and 3-rutinoside and three unidentified anthocyanins. Both Dipteronia and Acer contained the recently reported cyanidin 3-galloylglucoside. The anthocyanin constituents in spring leaves were more complex than those found in autumn coloured leaves: nine in spring and six in autumn. The presence/absence of the major anthocyanins in the spring sprouted leaves of 111 Acer taxa analysed were grouped into 17 distribution patterns. In the autumn the number of anthocyanin distribution patterns was found to be 11. In Acer, cyanidin glycosides were found in 20 sections and delphinidin glycosides in 17 out of the 21 sections analysed. Although the distribution of anthocyanins showed no clear relations among sections, delphinidin glycosides were mainly found in sections Macrantha, Goniocarpa and Saccharina. There were no differences in the pigment constituents in the species native to different countries, such as A. rubrum in North America and A. pycnanthum in Japan, both containing the same pigments: cyanidin 3-glucoside, 3-rutinoside, 3-galloylglucoside, 3-galloylrutinoside and 3,5-diglucoside. 相似文献
Abstract. Poplar shoots ( Populus euramericana L.) obtained from cuttings were exposed for 6 or 8 weeks to NH3 concentrations of 50 and 100 μgm−3 or filtered air in fumigation chambers. After this exposure the rates of NH3 uptake, transpiration, CO2 assimilation and respiration of leaves were measured using a leaf chamber. During the long-term exposure also modulated chlorophyll fluorescence measurements were carried out to obtain information about the photosynthetic performance of individual leaves. Both fluorescence and leaf chamber measurements showed a higher photosynthetic activity of leaves exposed to 100 μg NH3 m−3. These leaves showed also a larger leaf conductance and a larger uptake rate of NH3 than leaves exposed to 50 μg m−3 NH3 or filtered air. The long-term NH3 exposure did not induce an internal resistance against NH3 transport in the leaf, nor did it affect the leaf cuticle. So, not only at a short time exposure, but also at a long-term exposure NH3 uptake into leaves can be calculated from data on the boundary layer and stomatal resistance for H2O and ambient NH3-concentration. Furthermore, the NH3 exposure had no effect on the relation between CO2-assimilation and stomatal conductance, indicating that NH3 in concentrations up to 100 μg m−3 has no direct effect on stomatal behaviour; for example, by affecting the guard or contiguous cells of the stomata. 相似文献