香辣蓼,中国春蓼属(蓼科)一新归化植物

报道了中国春蓼属一新归化植物：香辣蓼[Persicaria odorata（Lour.） Soják],并对其形态学特征进行了详细描述,提供了形态照片,同时分析了其用途。该种原产于中南半岛,被作为香料植物在云南、广西、广东及江西等地的傣族或客家人聚居区广泛栽培,现在云南西双版纳傣族自治州及德宏傣族景颇族自治州发现大量归化居群。香辣蓼与特产于中国江西的武功山春蓼（P.wugongshanensis B.Li）最为近似,二者叶片均具有强烈的气味,叶片及花被片具腺点,二型花柱,花序基部间断,花梗长于苞片,区别在于本种为多年生草本植物,具发达的根状茎,叶片披针形至狭披针形,果实表面光滑有光泽。     

THE ROLE OF CLIMATIC TOLERANCES AND SEED TRAITS IN REDUCED EXTINCTION RATES OF TEMPERATE POLYGONACEAE

The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is one of the most striking and consistent biodiversity patterns across taxonomic groups. We investigate the species richness gradient in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae, which exhibits a reverse LDG and is, thus, decoupled from dominant gradients of energy and environmental stability that increase toward the tropics and confound mechanistic interpretations. We test competing age and evolutionary diversification hypotheses, which may explain the diversification of this plant family over the past 70 million years. Our analyses show that the age hypothesis, which posits that clade richness is positively correlated with the ecological and evolutionary time since clade origin, fails to explain the richness gradient observed in Polygonaceae. However, an evolutionary diversification hypothesis is highly supported, with diversification rates being 3.5 times higher in temperate clades compared to tropical clades. We demonstrate that differences in rates of speciation, migration, and molecular evolution insufficiently explain the observed patterns of differential diversification rates. We suggest that reduced extinction rates in temperate clades may be associated with adaptive responses to selection, through which seed morphology and climatic tolerances potentially act to minimize risk in temporally variable environments. Further study is needed to understand causal pathways among these traits and factors correlated with latitude.     

基于叶绿体trnL-F,rbcL序列和核核糖体ITS序列探讨蓼属（蓼科）头状蓼组的系统发育

选用叶绿体基因trnL-F,rbc-L序列和核核糖体ITS序列对蓼属头状蓼组的分类和系统发育进行了分析。以药用大黄为外类群,用最大简约法对3个片段的单独和联合矩阵分别构建系统发育树。结果表明,头状蓼组是一个较自然的类群,与春蓼组、刺蓼组和金线草属的亲缘关系较近;支持头状蓼组作为一组放在春蓼属,细茎蓼和蓝药蓼从头状蓼组转移至冰岛蓼属;不支持将刺蓼组并入头状蓼组;对于小叶蓼的系统学位置有待于进一步研究。     

Small Celastraceae and Polygonaceae twigs from the Upper Cenozoic (Ituzaingó Formation) of the La Plata Basin,Argentina

Two new wood types from the Late Cenozoic of the Ituzaingó Formation, La Plata Basin, Northeast Argentina add to our knowledge of South American Cenozoic plants. The materials were preserved by siliceous cellular permineralization, and they were prepared for microscopic examination by surface polishing and in thin sections. The anatomy of these new species was described. The relationship and comparison with the nearest living relatives (NLRs) are discussed. Maytenoxylon perforatum Franco gen. and sp. nov. is described as the first fossil wood referable to Celastraceae from South America. This new fossil species is related to extant Maytenus Molina. The other fossil twig, Ruprechtioxylon breae Franco sp. nov., has features of the Polygonaceae family and particularly resembles the extant specie Ruprechtia laxiflora Meisn. The occurrence of these fossil woods in south-eastern South America suggests that a relatively warm and dry to seasonally dry climate prevailed over this region of Gondwana during the Upper Cenozoic. It also provides new evidence for the hypothesis of the more wide distribution of Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest (SDTF) during the Upper Cenozoic.     

Heterostyly promotes compatible pollination in buckwheats: Comparisons of intraflower,intraplant, and interplant pollen flow in distylous and homostylous Fagopyrum

Premise of the Study

Heterostyly, the reciprocal positioning of stigmas and anthers in different floral morphs, has long been thought to promote intermorph pollination. However, extensive intramorph pollination occurs commonly in heterostylous species, leading to recurrent questions about the functional and evolutionary significance of heterostyly.

Methods

To identify the sources of stigmatic pollen (autogamous [intraflower], geitonogamous [intraplant], vs. interplant), we emasculated either one flower or entire plants in experimental populations of the two closely related buckwheat species, distylous Fagopyrum esculentum and homostylous F. tataricum. Differences in pollen size allowed unambiguous identification of pollen on stigmas.

Results

Only 2.4% of F. tataricum pollen and 1.5% of F. esculentum pollen arrived successfully on compatible stigmas of other plants. In the former (homostylous) species, 71.3% of the pollen load on stigmas was autogamous, 10.8% was geitonogamous, and 17.9% was interplant. In the latter (distylous) species, 37.45% of the pollen on stigmas was autogamous, 13.8% was geitonogamous, 17.0% was intramorph, and 31.75% was intermorph. The amount of incompatible pollen arriving on stigmas was greatly decreased by both one‐flower and whole‐plant emasculations, and thus, the proportion of compatible pollen deposited increased with one‐flower emasculation and increased even more with whole‐plant emasculation.

Conclusions

Our quantification of pollen‐donor sources in these two species indicated that heterostyly in Fagopyrum esculentum provided a nearly 2‐fold fitness advantage (in terms of compatible pollination) over expected (random) pollen transfers between morphs. Because of reduced herkogamy, the homostylous F. tataricum was highly autogamous.     

Purification and characterization of a flavonol 3-O-beta-heterodisaccharidase from the dried herb of Fagopyrum esculentum Moench

A flavonol-3-O-beta-heterodisaccharide glycosidase (FHG I) was isolated from dried aerial tissues of Fagopyrum esculentum Moench (Fagopyri herba). It has a specific enzyme activity of ca. 3.5 nkat mg(-1) protein in buffered extracts when rutin (quercetin-3-O-rutinoside) was used as substrate and an optimal enzyme activity was seen at around pH 4.8 and 30 degrees C. FHG I was purified about 156-fold to apparent homogeneity by hydrophobic interaction, anion exchange and size exclusion chromatographic steps. The apparent molecular mass of FHG I was 74.5+/-2 kDa as determined by SDS-PAGE and it is a monomeric glycoprotein with a carbohydrate content of 23%. The isoelectric point as determined by isoelectric focusing was 5.7 and the energy of activation was 32 kJ mol(-1). FHG I exhibits a high substrate specificity, preferring flavonol 3-O-glycosides comprising the disaccharide rutinose. The K(m) and V(max) values for the natural substrate rutin were calculated to be 0.561 microM and 745 nkat mg (-1) protein, respectively. Two oligopeptide fragments obtained after enzymatic digestion of FHG I were sequenced and showed similarities to sequences of beta-glucohydrolases from other plant species. Polyclonal antibodies were raised and their specificities determined. Another flavonol 3-O-beta-heterodisaccharide glycosidase (FHG II) could also be detected in buckwheat herb, having a molecular mass of 85.3+/-2 kDa and an isoelectric point between pH 6.0 and 6.5.     

3 beta,13-dihydroxylated C20 gibberellins from inflorescences of Rumex acetosa L

Using full scan GC-MS a wide range of gibberellins (GAs) was identified in the young inflorescences of the dioecious species Rumex acetosa L., consistent with the ubiquitous early 13-hydroxylation pathway in both male and female plants. In addition, R. acetosa is the first species in which all three 3beta,13-dihydroxylated C(20)-GAs-GA(18), GA(38) and GA(23)-have been identified in the same organism, suggesting an early 3beta,13-dihydroxylation biosynthesis pathway in this species. Authentic GA(18), GA(38) and GA(23) were synthesized and their effects and that of GA(1), a GA common to both pathways, on the time to inflorescence emergence was investigated. GA(1) accelerated the emergence of inflorescences in both male and female plants. In addition some evidence for biological activity per se of the C(20)-GA(38) was obtained.     

The lack of movement of [14C]-phenylalanine and [14C]-cinnamate after administration to leaves of Polygonum and wheat

U-¹⁴C-phenylalanine and 3-¹⁴C-cinnamic acid were fed to detached Polygonum leaves through the cut petioles and to the bases of detached wheat leaves. After feeding, the leaves were divided into basal, middle and terminal segments; for each treatment of each plant more than 80% of the total radioactivity incorporated remained in the basal segment. The distribution of radioactivity between ethanol-soluble and insoluble fractions in each segment was examined. The basal segments contained more insoluble radioactivity than the terminal ones; the differences were far more marked for both plants when cinnamate rather than phenylalanine was administered. In view of the gross differences in distribution of radioactivity between the basal and terminal segments of each leaf, it is concluded that basal infusion of precursors is not the most suitable technique for studies of phenolic biosynthesis.     

An angiotensin-I converting enzyme inhibitor from buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) flour

A compound that inhibited angiotensin-I converting enzyme (ACE) activity was isolated from buckwheat powder. This compound is thought to be the hydroxy derivative of nicotianamine and its chemical structure is 2'-hydroxynicotianamine. This compound showed a very high inhibitory activity toward ACE, and the IC(50) was 0.08 microM. Only this hydroxy analog was found in buckwheat powder, at about 30 mg/100g, and no nicotianamine was detected. However, nicotianamine was detected in the buckwheat plant body. 2'-hydroxynicotianamine was also found in other polygonaceous plants.     

青藏高原东缘的锈菌资料Ⅶ.蓼科植物上柄锈菌属的新记载

本文报告了蓼科植物上的柄锈菌属二新种和一中国新记录种,它们是抱茎蓼PolygonumamplexicauleD．Den上的巴克利柄锈菌PucciniabarchaiS．Ahmad、牛皮消蓼Fallopiacynanchoides（Hemsl.）Harald．上的宽乳柄锈菌PnccinialatimammaJ.Y.Zhuang＆S．X．Weisp．nov．以及蓝药蓼PolygonumcyanandrumDiels和细茎蓼PolygonumfilicauleWall.exMeisn．上的蓝药蓼柄锈菌Pucciniapolygoni-cyanandriJY．Zhuang＆SX.Weisp．nov。新种有拉丁文描述。每个种都作了讨论并附有线条图。标本保藏在中国科学院菌物标本馆（HMAS）。