毛喉鞘蕊花的化学成分

从毛喉鞘蕊花分离得到两个新二萜醌 :鞘蕊酮S(1) ,鞘蕊酮T(2 )和六个已知成分 :α 雪松醇 ,愈创木酚甘油醚 ,芫花素 ,鞘蕊醇B ,β 谷甾醇 ,豆甾醇。依据光谱和化学方法 ,它们的化学结构已被鉴定     

Assimilate Partitioning in the Variegated Coleus Leaf

Mature leaves of a variegated cultivar of Coleus blumei Benth. with a green border and central albino region constitute a source-sink system suitable for studies on assimilate partitioning. Leaves treated with ¹⁴CO₂ on a small part of the intact green border export assimilate via the shortest path into the stem. Leaves with all but a small lobe of the green border removed show different partitioning of labeled assimilates when the leaf is exposed to ¹⁴CO₂ (Fisher and Eschrich, 1985): The whole albino region of the leaf is supplied but no tracer is exported into the stem. When the green border is completely removed, ¹⁴CO₂-treatment of the albino region leads to the fixation of CO₂, obviously by PEP carboxylase, as indicated by the occurrence of labeled malate. Results show that the albino region of the variegated leaf constitutes a potential sink when deprived of its green border. In addition, CO₂-fixation by PEP carboxylase in albino tissue seems to indicate a common capacity of leaves which is normally masked by photosynthesis. The difference of assimilate partitioning between leaves with intact and leaves with partly removed green borders demonstrates that the unlabeled assimilates control the movement of labeled assimilates.     

Growth of ornamental plants irrigated with nutrient or polyethylene glycol solutions of different osmotic potentials

Summary Six ornamental species (Petunia hybrida, Callistephus hortensis, Coleus blumei, Celosia pyramidalis, Antirrhinum majus andTagetes erecta) were grown in solutions containing high concentrations of polyethylene glycol (MW 4000) or of Nitrogen: Phosphorus: Potassium. At equal osmotic potentials, top dry weight, leaf area and leaf elongation rate were all reduced more by polyethylene glycol than by NPK. Polyethylene glycol also produced some leaf damage which did not occur with NPK solutions. Osmotic potentials of –600 kPa due to NPK reduced growth of the six species by at least 25% compared with growth of control plants (at –20 kPa). Tolerance ranking to high fertilizer in the irrigation solution increased from Snapdragon (most sensitive), Marigold Coleus, Aster, Celosia and Petunia (most tolerant).     

Localization of ubiquitin to differentiating vascular tissues

The selective degradation of proteins, an essential process of any developmental program, may entail conjugation of the protein to be destroyed to the polypeptide ubiquitin. Experiments were designed to localize ubiquitin as a first step in determining whether this molecule is crucial for certain developmental processes in plant tissues and cells. Antibodies to ubiquitinated protein were detected on tissue prints of cross sections of bean petioles (Phaseolus vulgaris, Fabaceae), cotton hypocotyls (Gossypium hirsutum, Malvaceae), and Coleus stems (Coleus x hybridus, Lamiaceae). For most of the material investigated, there appears to be an accumulation of ubiquitin antibodies in vascular tissues, but not preferentially in the abscission zone of bean petioles. Vascular localization was confirmed using immunohistochemical methods on fixed and sectioned internodal tissues of Coleus. Antibodies to ubiquitin are detected in parenchyma cells of the cortex and pith, but are most concentrated in the xylem, especially secondary xylem, and in the cambial region, and in the phloem. Thus, ubiquitin accumulates in certain vascular tissues, some of which may be undergoing programmed cell death. Ubiquitin can also be detected in nondifferentiating cells, and its level is elevated in rapidly dividing cambial cells.