Differences in Cold Inactivation of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase among C4 Species: The Effect of pH and of Enzyme Concentration

Among various C4 plants we found a wide range in the level of inactivation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) at low temperature (0 °C). The activity of the 2-fold diluted enzyme in crude leaf extracts after 60 min incubation (compared to zero time incubation) at pH 7.5, remained above 87 % at low temperatures for the species Setaria verticillata, Portulaca oleracea, and Saccharum officinarum, and between 11 and 17 % in the species Cynodon dactylon and Atriplex halimus. The enzyme exhibited intermediate levels of inactivation (42 to 58 %) for the species Amaranthus sp., Zea mays, Salsola kali, and Digitaria sanguinalis. The enzyme activity for S. verticillata was unaffected between pH 5.7 and 8.4 during incubation at room and low temperatures. Under similar conditions, the activity of the enzyme from C. dactylon was stable between pH 5.7 and 7.0 and decreased at pH above 7.0, but for Z. mays it was enhanced between pH 5.7 and 6.8 and decreased at pH above 7.0.     

中国十倍体割手密资源抗逆功能标记的遗传多样性分析

整倍体割手密是现代甘蔗品种重要的野生亲本和抗逆性状基因源,为了明确其抗逆相关基因的遗传背景,该研究选用来自脱水绑定因子DREB、水通道蛋白AQP、热激蛋白HSP70、WRKY1转录因子和随机引物组成的5对抗旱和耐高温相关功能标记,以63份甘蔗常用亲本材料和8份甘蔗原种作为对照,对中国保育的50份十倍体割手密(Saccharum spontaneum L.)进行遗传多样性分析。结果显示:(1)5对引物共获得119个扩增片段,其中110个为多态性条带,平均多态性条带比例为92.44%,平均多态信息量为92.53%,十倍体割手密抗旱功能标记多态性最高,甘蔗常用亲本材料耐高温功能标记多态性最高。(2)十倍体割手密在抗旱功能标记上具有较低的平均相似性系数值(0.541)和最大的分布范围(0.347~0.800),且主要集中在0.400~0.600之间,而在耐高温功能标记上甘蔗常用亲本材料虽拥有最大的分布范围(0.238~1.000),但甘蔗原种具有最低的平均相似性系数值(0.481),且相似性系数范围主要集中在0.400~0.600之间。(3)UPGMA聚类可将参试材料划分为较明显的两个大组,十倍体割手密与甘蔗常用亲本和甘蔗原种在聚类关系上表现出明显的不同。研究表明,十倍体割手密资源无论是在抗旱功能标记DBF、Aqua方面,还是在耐高温功能标记SCB174、SCB190方面都与甘蔗常用亲本和甘蔗原种具有较大的遗传差异,而且在抗旱功能标记方面表现出更为丰富的遗传变异,因此在后续甘蔗品种抗逆性状改良和亲本创新上应进一步加大十倍体割手密资源的利用。     

Towards a dynamic photosynthesis model to guide yield improvement in C4 crops

The most productive C4 food and biofuel crops, such as Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane), Sorghum bicolor (sorghum) and Zea mays (maize), all use NADP-ME-type C4 photosynthesis. Despite high productivities, these crops fall well short of the theoretical maximum solar conversion efficiency of 6%. Understanding the basis of these inefficiencies is key for bioengineering and breeding strategies to increase the sustainable productivity of these major C4 crops. Photosynthesis is studied predominantly at steady state in saturating light. In field stands of these crops light is continually changing, and often with rapid fluctuations. Although light may change in a second, the adjustment of photosynthesis may take many minutes, leading to inefficiencies. We measured the rates of CO₂ uptake and stomatal conductance of maize, sorghum and sugarcane under fluctuating light regimes. The gas exchange results were combined with a new dynamic photosynthesis model to infer the limiting factors under non-steady-state conditions. The dynamic photosynthesis model was developed from an existing C4 metabolic model for maize and extended to include: (i) post-translational regulation of key photosynthetic enzymes and their temperature responses; (ii) dynamic stomatal conductance; and (iii) leaf energy balance. Testing the model outputs against measured rates of leaf CO₂ uptake and stomatal conductance in the three C4 crops indicated that Rubisco activase, the pyruvate phosphate dikinase regulatory protein and stomatal conductance are the major limitations to the efficiency of NADP-ME-type C4 photosynthesis during dark-to-high light transitions. We propose that the level of influence of these limiting factors make them targets for bioengineering the improved photosynthetic efficiency of these key crops.     

甘蔗叶乙酸乙酯部位化学成分研究

甘蔗是糖类加工产业主要的经济作物,甘蔗叶作为广西特色瑶药,在广西民间及瑶族地区具有悠久的药用历史。该课题组前期发现甘蔗叶乙酸乙酯部位具有抗肿瘤活性,为进一步明确其乙酸乙酯部位的化学成分,,该文采用硅胶柱色谱、Sephadex LH-20柱色谱、制备型高效液相色谱等多种分离纯化的方法对甘蔗叶乙酸乙酯部位进行研究。结果表明:从甘蔗叶乙酸乙酯萃取部位分离且鉴定了20个化合物,分别为原儿茶醛(1)、3,4-二羟基-苯甲酸甲酯(2)、3, 4-二羟基苯甲酸(3)、3-羟基-4-甲氧基苯甲酸(4)、对羟基苯甲酸(5)、对羟基苯甲醛(6)、对羟基肉桂酸(7)、丁香酸(8)、3, 5-二甲氧基对苯二酚(9)、1-hydroxy-benzoyl-4-O-α-L-rhamnopyranoside(10)、对羟基苯甲酸-β-D-吡喃葡萄糖酯苷(11)、槲皮素(12)、小麦黄素(13)、异柽柳素(14)、异鼠李素(15)、5, 3'', 4''-三羟基-7-甲氧基二氢黄酮(16)、7-O-甲基圣草酚(17)、[(E)-4-(1S,3R,4R)-1-hydroxy-4,5,5-trimethyl-7-oxabicyclo [4.1.0]heptan-1-yl]but-1-en-3-o-ne(18)、blumenol A(19)和胸腺嘧啶脱氧核苷(20)。其中,化合物1-4、6、9-11、13-16、18和20均为首次从甘蔗叶中分离得到。该研究结果为日后甘蔗叶乙酸乙酯部分的进一步开发提供了依据     

甘蔗几丁质酶基因的电子克隆与生物信息学分析

用电子克隆方法获得甘蔗几丁质酶基因SCCHI1,采用生物信息学方法,对该基因编码蛋白从氨基酸组成、理化性质、跨膜结构域、疏水性/亲水性、亚细胞定位、高级结构及功能域等方面进行了预测和分析。结果表明:SCCHI1基因全长1236bp,包含一个完整的990bp的ORF,编码329个氨基酸。SCCHI1基因属于糖苷水解酶19家族,含有N-端信号肽、交连区、催化区,与高粱等其它植物的几丁质酶基因具有高度的相似性。为SCCHI1基因的分子克隆、功能鉴定和应用提供参考。     

Target enrichment sequencing of 307 germplasm accessions identified ancestry of ancient and modern hybrids and signatures of adaptation and selection in sugarcane (Saccharum spp.), a ‘sweet’ crop with ‘bitter’ genomes

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is a highly energy‐efficient crop primarily for sugar and bio‐ethanol production. Sugarcane genetics and cultivar improvement have been extremely challenging largely due to its complex genomes with high polyploidy levels. In this study, we deeply sequenced the coding regions of 307 sugarcane germplasm accessions. Nearly five million sequence variations were catalogued. The average of 98× sequence depth enabled different allele dosages of sequence variation to be differentiated in this polyploid collection. With selected high‐quality genome‐wide SNPs, we performed population genomic studies and environmental association analysis. Results illustrated that the ancient sugarcane hybrids, S. barberi and S. sinense, and modern sugarcane hybrids are significantly different in terms of genomic compositions, hybridization processes and their potential ancestry contributors. Linkage disequilibrium (LD) analysis showed a large extent of LD in sugarcane, with 962.4 Kbp, 2739.2 Kbp and 3573.6 Kbp for S. spontaneum, S. officinarum and modern S. hybrids respectively. Candidate selective sweep regions and genes were identified during domestication and historical selection processes of sugarcane in addition to genes associated with environmental variables at the original locations of the collection. This research provided an extensive amount of genomic resources for sugarcane community and the in‐depth population genomic analyses shed light on the breeding and evolution history of sugarcane, a highly polyploid species.     

云南割手密创新种质F_2的主成分聚类分析及其评价

云南割手密是甘蔗育种中比较宝贵的野生种质资源。对68份云南割手密F2创新种质材料的9个主要工农艺性状进行主成分分析,并以前3个主成分为基础,分别作聚类分析和二维排序图。结果表明:68份云南割手密F2创新种质的变异系数为10.57%～35.30%,11月份理论含糖量和单产的变异系数超过30%,说明11月份理论含糖量和单产性状的变异潜力较高。主成分分析结果表明,单茎重产量因子、锤度糖分因子和丛有效茎含糖量这3个主因子提供了原始性状80.8292%的信息;在欧氏距离为10.00处将68份材料分为4类,各个类群具有不同的特点,在甘蔗杂交育种上可以根据不同类群的特点加以利用;二维排序表明云割F211-50、云割F211-56、云割F211-40、云割F211-66、云割F211-77、云割F211-10、云割F211-19、云割F211-85、云割F211-45、云割F211-37、云割F211-25、云割F211-23、云割F211-18等13份材料的3个主成分构成因子协调性最好,可在育种中加以利用。     

甘蔗乙烯合成酶基因家族三个成员的克隆与序列分析

ACC（1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid）合成酶是高等植物乙烯生物合成途径中的限速酶.根据已克隆的植物ACS（1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid synthase）基因同源序列,设计简并引物,以甘蔗叶片总DNA为模板,通过PCR扩增,得到3条特异性强的扩增片段：Sc-ACS1为1 041 bp、Sc-ACS2为1 345 bp和Sc-ACS3为1 707 bp.将序列在GenBank核酸数据库进行同源性搜索,结果表明,3个片段均为ACS基因,推导编码的蛋白质序列分别包含326、242和310个氨基酸.其中,Sc-A CS1和Sc-ACS3同源性最高,核苷酸序列和蛋白质氨基酸序列分别有98%和96%同源,与禾本科植物玉米Zm ACS6、水稻OS-ACS2、毛竹等ACS基因家族也有很高的同源性,核苷酸序列同源性为88%-98%,蛋白质氨基酸序列同源性为73%-81%.甘蔗Sc-ACS2与水稻OS-ACS5在核苷酸和氨基酸序列上分别有91%和79%同源性,但与甘蔗Sc-ACS1和Sc-ACS3基因成员之间,氨基酸同源性分别只有45%和49%.系统进化分析表明,Sc-ACS1和Sc-ACS3基因与玉米Zm ACS6基因亲缘关系最近,而Sc-ACS2基因与水稻OS-ACS5基因亲缘关系最近.Southern杂交表明三基因在基因组中确实存在而且是多拷贝基因.三个片段已在GenBank数据库中注册,注册号分别为AY620985、AY620986和AY788919.