金花茶叶片性状对不同光环境梯度的响应

金花茶叶片对光环境变化的响应包括质量性状和数量性状的变异。对广西南部金花茶的5个自然种群的光环境及其叶片数量性状等进行观测研究。结果显示:光照强度影响金花茶叶长和叶宽生长间的相关性,当相对光强20‰时,叶片长宽增长具有显著相关性,相关系数≥0.85;在相对光强≥20‰的环境中,相关系数明显变小,相关性不显著;低光照强度下金花茶倾向于形成短窄型叶片,高光照强度则使其倾向于形成长阔型叶片。并对该研究揭示的这种叶片数量性状变异规律在金花茶保护中的应用前景进行了探讨。     

多效唑对水仙生长发育的影响

为提高水仙的观赏价值,探讨复合多效唑对水仙生长发育的影响,用不同的多效唑溶液对水仙鳞茎进行处理。结果表明:多效唑能抑制水仙的营养生长,使植株矮化粗壮,叶片碧绿、挺拔,不易倒伏,根白、短而壮;复合多效唑配方使平均叶长减少37.7%,花期延长2d,花朵直径增加18.3%,延缓黄化叶片的出现,减慢叶肉薄壁细胞及其中叶绿体的解体,在后期维管束的结构相对完整,有效提高观赏价值。     

陡坡无土排岩场植被生态修复技术

针对无土陡坡排岩场特殊的立地条件,以城市污泥、粉煤灰等固体废弃物配制的人工土壤进行基质改良的基础上,以坑植式种植刺槐(Robina pseudoacacia)及棉槐(Amor-pha fruticosa),同时在种植坑中撒播牧草以培肥土壤,促进乔木生长固坡。结果表明,在人工土壤Ⅱ(粉煤灰∶城市污泥=1∶1)上种植的刺槐有较好的成活率(70%)和生长势,说明该修复技术在实现以废治废,变废为宝的同时,既解决了矿山废弃地修复中珍贵的土源问题,又改善了矿区生态环境。     

中外水质基准发展趋势和存在的问题

水质基准,是制定水质标准限值的重要依据,是科学的水质管理体系的重要组成部分。我国水体污染形势严峻,区域环境差异明显,亟需建立适合我国水环境特征的水质基准作为水质控制和管理的理论依据。本文就中外水质基准的研究情况进行了探讨,主要包括以下几个方面:1)水质基准的概念及含义;2)欧美国家水质基准的研究历史、现状、发展趋势及存在的关键问题;3)我国水质基准体系的研究重点和发展趋势:包括区域水环境特征调查、人体流行病学调查和生物毒理学研究、水质基准理论与方法学的研究。     

南瓜茎、叶、花的营养成分分析

对南瓜茎、叶、花等部位进行了粗脂肪、粗蛋白、粗纤维、总糖、Vc等主要营养成分和K、Na、Ca、Mg、Zn等矿质元素的测定。结果表明,南瓜茎、叶、花营养丰富,各种营养成分较为全面。南瓜叶中粗脂肪、粗蛋白、Vc、K、Ca、Mg、Mn、Fe、Zn等成分含量均高于南瓜茎和南瓜花。与其他8种常见蔬菜相比,主要营养成分和矿质元素含量也远远高于这8种蔬菜。为南瓜茎、叶、花的菜用价值提供了科学依据,也为增加人们的膳食营养、改变餐桌食品花样、开发蔬菜资源及其利用价值提供了参考。     

桂西南岩溶区八种适生植物光合性状的变异与关联

为探究岩溶植物的光合生理适应机制，采用Li-6400XT便携式光合作用测量系统，对广西平果市岩溶区8种适生植物的叶片净光合速率(P_n)、气孔导度(G_s)、胞间CO₂浓度(C_i)、蒸腾速率(T_r)、水分利用效率(WUE)和气孔限制值(L_s)等光合特征参数进行了测定分析。结果表明：(1)6个光合特征参数在种内和种间均存在不同程度的变异，并且种内变异均大于种间变异。(2)G_s和T_r的变化主要来源于种间变异(46.72%～49.76%),而P_n、C_i、WUE和L_s变化主要来源于种内变异(48.66%～64.50%)。在生活型水平上，P_n、G_s和T_r的种内变异表现为常绿植物小于落叶植物，而C_i、WUE和L_s则相反。(3)各参数的种间变异均表现为落叶植...     

The evolution and diversification of oakleaf butterflies

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Levels of endemism are not necessarily biased by the co-presence of species with different range sizes: a case study of Vilenkin and Chikatunov's models

Aim  To illustrate problems in the methods proposed by B. Vilenkin and V. Chikatunov to study levels of endemism and species–area relationships.
Location  The study used data on the distribution of tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) on the Aegean Islands (Greece).
Methods  A total of 32 islands and 170 taxa (species and subspecies) were included in this study. Levels of endemism were evaluated both as the proportion of endemic taxa, and according to the methods proposed by Vilenkin and Chikatunov, which are based on the number of non-endemic taxa and various relationships with area. A model of the species–area relationship proposed by these authors was also analysed.
Results  The number of endemic taxa was positively correlated with the number of taxa with different distribution types, but this positive correlation did not influence the estimation of the level of endemism. In fact, the commonly used estimate of endemicity as a percentage was strongly correlated with the endemism values calculated according to the method of Vilenkin and Chikatunov. The usual power function fitted the species–area relationship as well as the most complicated method of Vilenkin and Chikatunov.
Main conclusions  As hypothesized by Vilenkin and Chikatunov, the number of endemic taxa was influenced both by the number of taxa of other biogeographical ranks, and by an island's area. However, explanations for the positive relationship between the number of endemic taxa and taxa of different biogeographical ranks are equivocal. Importantly, this relationship did not necessarily influence the level of endemism, which could be expressed adequately by percentages. The method proposed by Vilenkin and Chikatunov to estimate the species–area relationship cannot be clearly justified on theoretical grounds and is of questionable practical utility.     

A mixture of begomoviruses in leaf curl-affected tobacco in Karnataka, South India

Tobacco leaf curl is widespread in several states in India including Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Bihar and West Bengal. Tobacco leaf curl virus (TbLCV) isolates collected from five different parts of India induced four distinct symptom phenotypes (group I, II, III & IV) on tobacco cultivars Samsun and Anand 119 (Valand & Muniyappa, 1992). PCR was performed on DNA extracted from group I and IV leaf curl‐affected tobacco from Karnataka, India using degenerate begomovirus‐specific primers. Subsequent cloning and sequencing of PCR products revealed preliminary evidence for the presence of at least three begomoviruses in the affected material following alignment of a 333 bp region of the coat protein gene (CP). The complete CP and common region (CR) of two putative begomoviruses, Tobacco leaf curl virus‐Karnataka1 (TbLCV‐Kar1) and Tobacco leaf curl virus‐Karnataka2 (TbLCV‐Kar2), were sequenced using PCR clones obtained with designed sequence‐specific primers. Phylogenetic analysis of the CP and CR of TbLCV‐Kar1 and TbLCV‐Kar2 placed them in the Asian Old World begomovirus cluster. The two viruses differed from each other significantly in both the CP gene and the CR (< 90% nucleotide sequence identity). This difference, in conjunction with distinct iterative sequences strongly suggests that these begomoviruses are distinct from one another. Group I and IV tobacco were also found to harbour a possible third begomovirus following the 333 bp CP alignment. Comparison of TbLCV‐Kar1 and TbLCV‐Kar2 with other geminiviruses, showed that both sequences shared high nucleotide sequence identity (> 90%) with other begomoviruses in either the CP or CR, thereby suggesting these viruses to be possible strains of other reported begomoviruses. Combined comparison of the CP and CR sequences however, suggests that the two viruses are not strains of other reported begomoviruses, but may be distinct begomoviruses that could have arisen through recombination events during mixed infections. Phylogenetic comparison demonstrated no significant homology between the Indian tobacco begomoviruses and a tobacco‐infecting begomovirus from Zimbabwe, again showing that as with other geminiviruses, there is a geographic basis for phylogenetic relationships rather than an affiliation with tobacco as a host.