虾钳菜披龟甲生物学的研究

虾钳菜披龟甲是湘南危害空心莲子草的重要害虫,1年发生4代,以成虫越冬。成虫产卵期长达25～45天,平均每雌产卵64粒。各虫态历期,因代别而异,卵期在3～9天,幼虫期在16～26天,蛹期3～8天。成虫寿命长达60天或200余天（越冬代）。发生为害与温、湿度关系密切,高温、干旱对其不利。     

Shortened snRNA promoters for efficient CRISPR/Cas-based multiplex genome editing in monocot plants

正Dear Editor,CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas genome editing is a powerful tool for introducing specific mutations in organisms including plants. The system is composed of a nuclease such as Cas9 or Cas12a and an engineered single-guide RNA (sgRNA) incorporating a target sequence (Li et al., 2019). A Cas9/sgRNA complex re-     

An Efficient Rice Mutagenesis System Based on Suspension-Cultured Cells

Plant mutants are important bio-resources for crop breeding and gene functional studies. Conventional methods for generating mutant libraries by mutagenesis of seeds with physical or chemical agents are of low efficiency. Here, we developed a highly-efficient ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) mutagenesis system based on suspension-cultured cells, with rice (Oryza sativa L.) as an example. We show that treatment of suspension-cultured tiny cell clusters with 0.4% EMS for 18-22h followed by differentiation and regeneration produced as high as 29.4% independent mutant lines with visible phenotypic variations, including a number of important agronomic traits such as grain size, panicle size, grain or panicle shape, tiller number and angle, heading date, male sterility, and disease sensitivity. No mosaic mutant was observed in the mutant lines tested. In this mutant library, we obtained a mutant with an abnormally elongated uppermost internode. Sequencing and functional analysis revealed that this is a new allelic mutant of eui (elongated uppermost internode) caused by two point mutations in the first exon of the EUI gene, representing a successful example of this mutagenesis system.     

A Physical Map of Arabidopsis thaliana Chromosome 3 Represented by Two Contigs of CIC YAC, P1, TAC and BAC Clones

We have constructed a physical map of Arabidopsis thaliana chromosome3 by ordering the clones from CIC YAC, P1, TAC and BAC librariesusing the sequences of a variety of genetic and EST markersand terminal sequences of clones. The markers used were 112DNA markers, 145 YAC end sequences, and 156 end sequences ofP1, TAC and BAC clones. The entire genome of chromosome 3, exceptfor the centromeric and telomeric regions, was covered by twolarge contigs, 13.6 Mb and 9.2 Mb long. This physical map willfacilitate map-based cloning experiments as well as genome sequencingof chromosome 3. The map and end sequence information are availableon the KAOS (Kazusa Arabidopsis data Opening Site) web siteat http://www.kazusa.or.jp/arabi/.     

长吻鮠血细胞发生的研究

用Wright-Giemsa和PAS染色对长吻鮠头肾、肾脏、脾脏、肝脏等器官组织的涂片、印片染色观察发现,头肾、肾脏和脾脏是其主要造血器官。红细胞、粒细胞和淋巴细胞主要在肾脏和头肾中发生,其次是脾脏。单核细胞则主要在肾脏和脾脏中发生,头肾中也有少量单核细胞产生。肝脏中无原始型血细胞,可能不是其造血器官。红细胞的发育经历四个阶段,其胞体体积经历了由大到小,由小到大再变小的"两大两小"发育过程;粒细胞的发育经历五个阶段,其胞体体积均由大变小,双叶或多叶核的粒细胞可能是衰老的粒细胞亦即核的分叶是粒细胞衰老的标志;淋巴细胞和单核细胞的发育各经历了三个阶段,两者发育成熟过程中胞体体积均由大变小。巨噬细胞由单核细胞发育而来。原血细胞和部分早期幼稚血细胞可以进行有丝分裂,部分成熟红细胞和血栓细胞可以进行直接分裂。红细胞在整个发育过程中,PAS反应均呈阴性,各类白细胞的发育过程中,PAS反应由阴性到阳性并逐渐增强,这显示随着白细胞的逐渐发育成熟,细胞内糖原物质含量逐渐增多。     

Cytoplasmic male sterility of rice with boro II cytoplasm is caused by a cytotoxic peptide and is restored by two related PPR motif genes via distinct modes of mRNA silencing

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) and nucleus-controlled fertility restoration are widespread plant reproductive features that provide useful tools to exploit heterosis in crops. However, the molecular mechanism underlying this kind of cytoplasmic-nuclear interaction remains unclear. Here, we show in rice (Oryza sativa) with Boro II cytoplasm that an abnormal mitochondrial open reading frame, orf79, is cotranscribed with a duplicated atp6 (B-atp6) gene and encodes a cytotoxic peptide. Expression of orf79 in CMS lines and transgenic rice plants caused gametophytic male sterility. Immunoblot analysis showed that the ORF79 protein accumulates specifically in microspores. Two fertility restorer genes, Rf1a and Rf1b, were identified at the classical locus Rf-1 as members of a multigene cluster that encode pentatricopeptide repeat proteins. RF1A and RF1B are both targeted to mitochondria and can restore male fertility by blocking ORF79 production via endonucleolytic cleavage (RF1A) or degradation (RF1B) of dicistronic B-atp6/orf79 mRNA. In the presence of both restorers, RF1A was epistatic over RF1B in the mRNA processing. We have also shown that RF1A plays an additional role in promoting the editing of atp6 mRNAs, independent of its cleavage function.     

Development of new transformation-competent artificial chromosome vectors and rice genomic libraries for efficient gene cloning

The transformation-competent artificial chromosome vector (TAC) system has been shown to be very useful for efficient gene isolation in Arabidopsis thaliana (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96 (1998) 6535). To adapt the vector system for gene isolation in crops, two new TAC vectors and rice genomic libraries were developed. The new vectors pYLTAC17 and pYLTAC27 use the Bar gene and Hpt gene driven by the rice Act1 promoter as the plant selectable markers, respectively, and are suitable for transformation of rice and other grasses. Two representative genomic libraries (I and II) of an Indica rice variety Minghui63, a fertility restorer line for hybrid rice, were constructed with pYLTAC17 using different size classes of partially digested DNA fragments. Library I and library II consisted of 34,560 and 1.2 x 10(5) clones, with average insert sizes of approximately 77 and 39 kb, respectively. The genome coverage of the libraries I and II was estimated to be about 5 and 11 haploid genome equivalents, respectively. Clones of the library I were stored individually in ninety 384-well plates, and those of the library II were collected as bulked pools each containing 30-50 clones and stored in eight 384-well plates. A number of probes were used to hybridize high-density colony filters of the library I prepared by an improved replicating method and each detected 2-9 positive clones. A method for rapid screening of the library II by pooled colony hybridization was developed. A TAC clone having an 80 kb rice DNA insert was successfully transferred into rice genome via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. The new vectors and the genomic libraries should be useful for gene cloning and genetic engineering in rice and other crops.     

The effects of starvation on digestive tract function and structure in juvenile southern catfish (Silurus meridionalis Chen)

The size and functional capacity of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and associated organs vary in response to environmental cues. The GI tract and associated organs are also very metabolically active in animals. Hence, animals may reduce the size and function of their GI tract to conserve energy when deprived of food. The main aims of this study were to investigate how Silurus meridionalis regulates the function and structure of its GI tract and associated organs during starvation. Starvation induced a decrease in both maintenance metabolism (MO(2rest), decreased by approximately 50%) and respiratory frequency (indicated by double side gill activity and notated as f(R), decreased by 29%). Lipase, trypsin and aminopeptidase-A showed a similar reduction in mass-specific activities during starvation, but pepsin and α-amylase did not. The starvation of experimental fish resulted in a significant reduction in body weight, the wet mass of the liver and the digestive-somatic system, the hepato-somatic index and the condition factor whereas the wet masses of the GI tract, pancreas, gall bladder and the relative intestinal length did not vary significantly during starvation. The reduction in liver wet mass was the main reason for the decrease in the wet mass of digestive-somatic system in this species. Only the mucosal area of the PI was affected significantly by starvation, decreasing by 34% at the end of the experiment. S. meridionalis displayed a decreasing intestinal mucosal area towards the distal intestine, and this gradient was not affected by starvation. The morphology and structure of both the GI tract and the liver were greatly down-regulated, as indicated by decreases in liver cell size, the mucosal thickness of the stomach and intestine, the density of goblet cells and microvilli surface area (MVSA), implying that food deprivation greatly impaired the digestive and absorptive functions of the GI tract in S. meridionalis. When deprived of food, S. meridionalis can endure harsh periods of starvation and adaptively down-regulate the function and structure of the digestive tract with physiological and biochemical strategies.     

唇受精卵的皮层反应及其引发机制

唇皮层小泡1-4层,在光镜和透射电镜下均具5种形态,由外及内,小泡内颗粒直径逐渐减少。在H．E染 色中,动物极低纬度区和精孔器附近的卵膜和质膜之间,具少量均匀的着色非常深的紫色斑点,与Ⅰ型皮层小泡内 容物形态结构相似,在透射电镜下,这些斑点和卵膜、质膜有明显的界限,其外没有包被膜相结构,我们称之皮层反 应引发斑,这是在鱼类受精卵中发现的一个新的结构。扫描电镜下,引发斑成絮状。引发斑对皮层反应的引发具 有重要作用。皮层反应可分为潜伏期、始发期、高潮期、衰退期四个时期,潜伏期没有皮层反应发生,始发期只是位 于受精卵外围的少量皮层小泡释放,高潮期为多个皮层小泡相互融合形成一个大的泡状体,泡状体再与质膜接触、 融合后,随后破裂,释放内容物,可分为两个阶段,衰退期释放Ⅴ型皮层小泡和其他残存的皮层小泡以及未完全降 解卵黄颗粒碎屑;皮层反应是由Ⅰ型皮层小泡和引发斑诱导的爆发性的链式反应,卵子外侧的皮层反应可以诱导 内侧皮层反应。皮层反应有两个起始区域,在受精后35s开始于动物极低纬度区,稍后出现在精孔器前庭附近,随 后在这两个始发区向四周扩散,并在前庭以外的区域愈合、打通。皮层小泡分批多次释放,质膜多次重组。精子入 卵位点附近没有皮层小泡,不发生皮层反应,这提示皮层反应对鱼类多精受精的抑制效应有限。     

南方鲇脑垂体发育的研究

对不同发育阶段南方鲇脑垂体的显微和超微结构进行了研究。结果表明 :南方鲇脑垂体由两个不同部位的胚胎细胞形成。源自胚胎原始口腔顶壁的上皮细胞团构成垂体的前、中腺垂体和部分后腺垂体 ;从间脑腹面漏斗体分离出来的细胞构成神经垂体和部分后腺垂体。受精后 32h ,原始口腔上皮细胞增生 ,口腔顶壁细胞群内凹 ,开始向内迁移 ;受精后 38h ,上皮细胞与口腔顶壁分离 ,形成实心细胞团 ,并沿着前脑腹面向间脑方向迁移 ;受精后4 5h ,细胞团迁移到间脑底部下方 ;初孵仔鱼原始口腔顶壁上皮细胞团位于间脑底部 ,与漏斗体接触 ;出膜后 36h ,上皮细胞团与漏斗体分离出来的细胞结合 ;出膜后 4 8h ,腺垂体和神经垂体清晰可辨 ;出膜后 4d ,腺垂体可区分前、后两部分 ;出膜后 6d ,GH细胞开始分化 ;出膜后 10d ,前、中、后腺垂体分化形成 ;出膜后 4 8d ,除GTH细胞外 ,其他分泌细胞均已分化 ;6月龄 ,分泌细胞分化完成。 1冬龄和 2冬龄幼鱼脑垂体仅前、中、后腺垂体体积及分泌细胞比例和部分细胞的超微结构与成鱼不同。