Insect-resistant transgenic cabbage plants and their progenies

An insecticidal crystal protein gene of Bacillus thuringiensis was transferred into cabbage genome with the method of Agrobacterium infection. Cotyledons with petioles as explants were cocultivated with Agrobacterial suspension. Calli generated at the basis of petiole were subjected to selection on the MS medium containing 15-30 mg/L kanamycin (Km). About 5% explants produced calli growing continuously on the selective medium. Green shoots appeared on these calli when they were transplanted onto medium with Km and 6-BA for plant differentiation. The shoots were separated and cultivated on medium with kanamycin. About 80% shoots were rooted. Non-transformed control calli could not give normal shoots and roots and brownized and died gradually. Larvae of Pieris rapae showed poisonous symptoms: growth inhibition and mortality when fed with the leaf of the transgenic plants. About 80% of regenerated plants showed positive hybridization bands when their DNA were probed with crystal protein sequence of Bacillu     

上海东佘山竹林土壤中原尾虫区系和生态调查

自首次在欧洲发现原尾虫以来,迄今已有七十余年的历史,在此期间虽然五大洲均有原尾虫的发现,但有关生态方面的报道却很少见。偶或在土壤昆虫区系研究中涉及一些,往往非常笼统,大多只有一项“原尾目”,连分科的资料也没有。直到今立源太良(Imadate,1973)才做了出色的报道,Tuxen(1978)也发表了在巴西亚马逊河流域调查的情况。     

抗虫转基因甘蓝及其后代的研究

通过农杆菌感染法将苏云金杆菌杀虫蛋白基因转移进了甘蓝的基因组,带子叶柄的子叶作为外植体与农杆菌共培养.发生在子叶柄基部的愈伤组织在含卡那霉素(Km)15～30mg/L的MS培养基上进行筛选,约5%外植体上的愈伤组织继续长大,当移到含Km和6-BA的分化培养基上时,愈伤组织分化出绿色的芽.将芽分离培养,约80%在加有Km的培养基上被诱导生了根.未转化的对照组织在筛选培养基上不能分化出正常的芽和根系,并且逐渐褐化死亡.小菜粉蝶的幼虫被饲喂以转基因植株的叶片,幼虫出现中毒症状,表现为发育受阻和死亡.约20%受试植物的DNA与苏云金杆菌杀虫蛋白基因探针杂交显阳性带.由转基因植株的种子长成的第2代甘蓝幼苗的卡那霉素抗性和植株的抗小菜粉蝶的活力均符合孟德尔单基因分离规律.