Cryo-scanning electron microscopic study on freezing behaviors of tissue cells in dormant buds of larch (Larix kaempferi)

The freezing behavior of dormant buds in larch, especially at the cellular level, was examined by a Cryo-SEM. The dormant buds exhibited typical extraorgan freezing. Extracellular ice crystals accumulated only in basal areas of scales and beneath crown tissues, areas in which only these living cells had thick walls unlike other tissue cells. By slow cooling (5 °C/day) of dormant buds to −50 °C, all living cells in bud tissues exhibited distinct shrinkage without intracellular ice formation detectable by Cryo-SEM. However, the recrystallization experiment of these slowly cooled tissue cells, which was done by further freezing of slowly cooled buds with LN and then rewarming to −20 °C, confirmed that some of the cells in the leaf primordia, shoot primordia and apical meristem, areas in which cells had thin walls and in which no extracellular ice accumulated, lost freezable water with slow cooling to −30 °C, indicating ability of these cells to adapt by extracellular freezing, whereas other cells in these tissues retained freezable water with slow cooling even to −50 °C, indicating adaptation of these cells by deep supercooling. On the other hand, all cells in crown tissues and in basal areas of scales, areas in which cells had thick walls and in which large masses of ice accumulated, had the ability to adapt by extracellular freezing. It is thought that the presence of two types of cells exhibiting different freezing adaptation abilities within a bud tissue is quite unique and may reflect sophisticated freezing adaptation mechanisms in dormant buds.     

太白红杉小孢子的发生和雄配子体的发育

太白红杉(Larix chinensis Beissn)的雄球花7月初开始分化。小孢子囊壁一般包括5～6层细胞：表皮、药室内壁、2～3层中层和绒毡层。绒毡层属于周原质团型。造孢细胞在7月下旬形成,8月上旬形成小孢子母细胞,8月下旬开始减数分裂,于10月上旬进入双线期,并以双线期渡过休眠。翌年3月下旬解除休眠继续进行减数分裂,4月中旬形成四分体,4月下旬到5月初小孢子从四分体内释放出来,小孢子经过连续4次有丝分裂后,于5月中旬形成5-细胞型的成熟花粉粒(雄配子体)并开始散粉。小孢子母细胞发育表现出不同步现象,部分小孢子母细胞在发育过程中出现退化,在小孢子囊内形成空腔。     

太白红杉群落优势种的生态位研究

应用Levins和Shannon-Wiener生态位宽度指数及Pianka生态位重叠指数,研究了太白红杉群落12个优势种的生态位宽度和生态位重叠。结果表明,乔木层中太白红杉的生态位宽度最大,对高海拔地区的环境适应能力较强,巴山冷杉对的低海拔地区的环境适应能力较强;灌木层中香柏的生态位宽度最大,华西忍冬、华西银腊梅、太白忍冬次之,头花杜鹃的生态位宽度最小。乔木层中太白红杉与巴山冷杉的生态位重叠较大,但二者只在低海拔分布范围有重叠;灌木层头花杜鹃的分布范围较大,与其它3个种的生态位重叠也最大,另外3个种的生态位重叠较小;草本层中毛状苔草、羊茅和嵩草的生态位重叠较大,而大叶碎米荠和太白银莲花的生态位重叠较小。     

末次冰期以来北海道、萨哈林岛及亚洲东北部落叶松林演变史

萨哈林岛（库叶岛）和北海道的末次冰期沉积丰富的落叶松花粉,为了搞清楚落叶松花粉百分比和实际森林密度的关系,我们系统地分析了从苔原,森林苔原以及泰加林的表土样品,根据孢粉资料恢复了两个岛屿3万年以来的植被和气候,两个岛上3万年前后 以云杉与落叶松共生的森林为主,松和冷杉现在比现代相对较冷和干的气候条件下,萨哈林在末次冰盛期的草原和泰加林主要由落叶松和松组成,和现在西伯利亚东北部的泰加林相似,在北海道末次冰盛期的草原和泰加林主要由落叶松,松以及云杉组成,气候更加干冷,在新仙女木期森林苔原分布到中萨哈林岛,而北海道的草原和泰加林以落叶松为主,气候可能比末次冰盛期还要冷,在1万年前两个岛的落叶松含量都开始下降,6000年前在北海道消失,萨哈林岛的落叶松则残存至今。     

Resin duct size and density as ecophysiological traits in fire scars of Pseudotsuga menziesii and Larix occidentalis

Background and Aims

Resin ducts (RDs) are features present in most conifer species as defence structures against pests and pathogens; however, little is known about RD expression in trees following fire injury. This study investigates changes in RD size and density in fire scars of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and western larch (Larix occidentalis) as a means to evaluate the ecophysiological significance of traumatic resinosis for tree defence and survival.

Methods

Transverse and tangential microsections were prepared for light microscopy and image analysis in order to analyse axial and radial RDs, respectively. Epithelial cells of RDs and fusiform rays associated with radial RDs were also examined. RDs were compared between normal xylem and wound xylem at four different section heights along the fire-injured stem.

Key Results

Following fire injury, P. menziesii axial RDs narrowed by 38–43 % in the first year after injury, and the magnitude of this change increased with stem height. Larix occidentalis axial RDs widened by 46–50 % in the second year after injury. Radial RDs were of equivalent size in P. menziesii, but widened by 162–214 % in L. occidentalis. Fusiform rays were larger following fire injury, by 4–14 % in P. menziesii and by 23–38 % in L. occidentalis. Furthermore, axial RD density increased in both species due to the formation of tangential rows of traumatic RDs, especially in the first and second years after injury. However, radial RD density did not change significantly.

Conclusions

These results highlight traumatic resinosis as a species-specific response. Pseudotsuga menziesii produce RDs of equivalent or reduced size, whereas L. occidentalis produce wider RDs in both the axial and radial duct system, thereby increasing resin biosynthesis and accumulation within the whole tree. Larix occidentalis thus appears to allocate more energy to defence than P. menziesii.     

河北省华北落叶松河北群体遗传多样性分析

以来自河北8个群体共312个华北落叶松天然个体为材料,利用10对SSR引物对群体进行扩增,所得数据用于其遗传多样性和遗传结构的研究。结果表明:10对SSR位点共检测到42个位点,平均每个位点有4.2个等位基因,位点的等位基因数(Na)为2~6个。群体平均等位基因数为3.36,Shannon指数(I)平均为0.749,观察杂合度Ho为0.405、期望杂合度He为0.423,来自河北北部的围场台子水和吉字以及兴隆雾灵山的多样性水平最高,南部的阜平群体多样性水平最低。AMOVA分子差异分析显示3%的遗传变异存在于群体间,97%的遗传变异则存在于群体内,基因分化系数Gst仅为0.028,表明华北落叶松在河北的群体分化很低。聚类结果表明河北围场两个群体为一类,蔚县、隆化和涿鹿为一类,阜平和赤城为一类,兴隆雾灵山群体距离其他较远。多样性北部群体较高,南部较低,表明华北落叶松可能的衍化方向是从北向南,印证了北部可能是起源中心的结论。     

不同地点51个长白落叶松无性系苗期生长变异和遗传稳定性分析

长白落叶松是我国东北林区非常重要的速生用材树种之一。以不同地点51个长白落叶松无性系为材料,对其2年生苗高和地径进行调查分析,探讨其苗期生长变异和遗传稳定性。结果表明:长白落叶松无性系苗高和地径在地点间、无性系间、地点×无性系间差异均达到极显著水平(P<0.01);不同地点苗高和地径的表型变异系数处于23.89%~36.82%,除四平试验点的地径重复力为0.172外,不同地点苗高和地径的重复力均处于0.573~0.891;遗传稳定性分析结果表明,无性系LO 13等28个无性系的遗传稳定性较高;相关分析结果表明苗高与地径呈极显著正相关关系;利用多性状综合评价法,以20%的入选率对无性系进行选择,不同地点均选出10个综合表现较好的无性系,其中无性系LO 10和LO 26在不同地点均被入选优良无性系,且其遗传稳定性较强,可将其初选为优良无性系。     

兴安落叶松林碳平衡及管理活动影响研究 （英文）

 在利用大兴安岭地区根河落叶松(Larix gmelini)林生态系统定位研究站的实际观测资料验证CENTURY模型的基础上,探讨了林业经营管理方式对兴安落叶松林碳循环的影响,指出：1）目前兴安落叶松林是一个碳汇,每年净吸收碳2.65 t·hm-2。2）砍伐将使兴安落叶松林生物量和生产力下降,土壤碳含量则有所增加。干扰强度越大则其植物总生物量、生产力和土壤碳含量变化幅度越大,伐后恢复时间也越长。3）连年去除枯枝落叶处理使兴安落叶松林土壤碳含量下降,土壤越来越贫瘠。植物总生物量在前30年迅速增加,之后则趋于稳     

落叶松根际土壤磷的有效性研究

野外用剥落法采集落叶松(Larixgmelini)根际土与非根际土,分析P浓度的变化,结果表明,落叶松根际土与非根际土全P浓度无明显差异,但根际土有效P却明显高于非根际土.12年生时根际土有效P增加12.6%,40年生时增加23.4%,表明落叶松根际对土壤中的P具有活化作用.落叶松根际土无机P各组分与非根际土亦有差异,表现出根际土OP低于非根际土,AlP、FeP、CaP和NH4ClP则高于非根际土的趋势.落叶松根际土的pH低于非根际土,但落叶松根际并未发生明显酸化.落叶松根际有效P与pH变化相关不显著.     

太白红杉（Larix chinensis）叶的形态解剖学特征与环境因子的关系

根据生态气候学方法推断出不同海拔高度气候指标,应用多元统计方法,对分布于秦岭太白山地区海拔3000－3400m的太白红杉（Larix chinensis)叶特征进行了生态解剖学研究,分析了影响其变化的主导生态因子。观察指标包括叶形态指标（叶片总厚度、每束叶中的叶数和叶长宽比）、叶解剖学特征（叶表皮角质膜厚度、上、下表皮厚度,近上、下表皮叶肉厚度,内皮层厚度,管胞直径,叶传输组织和维管束厚度及其与叶片总厚度之比）。结果表明：（1）水热综合因子是影响太白叶长宽比和叶表皮角质膜厚度的主导因子,随着水热综合因子的增大,叶长宽比呈增加趋势,而角质膜厚度则逐渐变薄。（2）年降水量是影响其它形态解剖学指标的主导因子,随着年降水量的增加,每束叶中的叶数、叶厚度、管胞直径、叶传输组织和维管束厚度、内皮层厚度、传输组织和维管束厚度及其与叶总厚度之比呈减少和变薄的趋势,而上、下表皮厚度则逐渐增加。（3）近上、下表皮叶肉厚度与环境因子无明显相关,可能属于比较保守的性状。