Anatomical variation in some perennial Triticeae

JARVIE, J. K. & BARKWORTH, M. E., 1992. Anatomical variation in some perennial Triticeae. Cross-sectional anatomy of glumes and leaf blades was examined in 22 taxa of the perennial Triticeae. The taxa included diploids and polyploids based largely on various combinations of the E, J and S genomes. The objective was to determine how much correlation exists between anatomical characteristics and genomic constitution. The data were analysed by principal co-ordinate and cluster analyses. The results showed that monogenomic species based on different genomes were readily distinguishable on glume and leaf blade features. Most heterogenomic taxa exhibited some aspects of each genome present except in the case of JE allotetraploids, which exhibited no E genome characteristics.     

某些酸类物质对水稻开颖的效应

将稻穗置不同种类、浓度的酸溶液中浸泡后,观察其对颖花开放及颖花活性的影响,发现0．5％～10％的甲酸、乙酸和丙酸均能显著地诱导水稻开颖。当甲酸浓度在0．5％－1．5％、乙酸和丙酸浓度在0．5％－2％的范围内对颖花无不良影响。硝酸、盐酸和硫酸等在一定的浓度下能诱导开颖,但同时又对颖花产生伤害。另外,水杨酸、苹果酸等在适宜的浓度下也能诱导水稻开颖。酸可以促使浆片细胞壁的松弛,加快浆片吸水膨胀。酸诱导开颖的时间约为30s,作用部位为浆片;酸的诱导效应可被呼吸抑制剂NaN3所抑制。     

中国看麦娘属植物颖片与外稃微形态研究

通过扫描电子显微镜对中国看麦娘属7种植物的颖片和外稃微形态进行观察,以明确颖片和外稃微形态特征的系统分类学意义。结果显示:(1)看麦娘属颖片的长细胞为长筒状,细胞壁多为波状弯曲;短细胞为近圆形或肾形;气孔器常见或缺如或稀少;冠细胞密布或者稀少;刺细胞常见或少见;硅细胞的形状多为椭圆形或者近圆形。颖片的不同主要体现在冠细胞和气孔器的有、无及刺细胞的分布。(2)看麦娘属外稃的长细胞长筒状或短筒状,细胞壁波状弯曲;短细胞椭圆形或近圆形或近长方形;气孔器常见或无;刺细胞均常见;硅细胞多椭圆形或近圆形或长方形;冠细胞偶见或密布。外稃的不同主要体现在短细胞和气孔器的分布或缺如及硅细胞的不同形状。(3)对看麦娘属的颖片和外稃微形态特征进行聚类分析,看麦娘属植物分成了2个分支,分支Ⅰ由看麦娘、长芒看麦娘和日本看麦娘组成,分支Ⅱ包括苇状看麦娘、大看麦娘、短穗看麦娘和大穗看麦娘;7种植物的颖片和外稃微形态分类检索表依次列出。研究表明,颖片和外稃微形态特征都可以作为看麦娘属植物种间的分类依据,除短穗看麦娘外,颖片和外稃聚类分析的结果与看麦娘属内划分的组一致,颖片和外稃微形态支持短穗看麦娘划入sect.Alopecurus。     

A putative lipase gene EXTRA GLUME1 regulates both empty-glume fate and spikelet development in rice

Recent studies have shown that molecular control of inner floral organ identity appears to be largely conserved between monocots and dicots, but little is known regarding the molecular mechanism underlying development of the monocot outer floral organ, a unique floral structure in grasses. In this study, we report the cloning of the rice EXTRA GLUME1 ( EG1 ) gene, a putative lipase gene that specifies empty-glume fate and floral meristem determinacy. In addition to affecting the identity and number of empty glumes, mutations in EG1 caused ectopic floral organs to be formed at each organ whorl or in extra ectopic whorls. Iterative glume-like structures or new floral organ primordia were formed in the presumptive region of the carpel, resulting in an indeterminate floral meristem. EG1 is expressed strongly in inflorescence primordia and weakly in developing floral primordia. We also found that the floral meristem and organ identity gene OsLHS1 showed altered expression with respect to both pattern and levels in the eg1 mutant, and is probably responsible for the pleiotropic floral defects in eg1 . As a putative class III lipase that functionally differs from any known plant lipase, EG1 reveals a novel pathway that regulates rice empty-glume fate and spikelet development.     

水分胁迫对燕麦穗颖渗透调节和抗氧化能力的影响

以抗旱性不同的燕麦品种‘蒙燕1号’(抗旱性强)和‘坝莜3号’(水分敏感)为试验材料,采用盆栽方式研究了抽穗期和灌浆期水分胁迫对燕麦穗颖渗透调节和抗氧化能力的影响。结果表明:(1)水分胁迫处理均显著促进了不同抗旱性品种穗颖渗透调节物质(游离脯氨酸和可溶性蛋白)含量增加,并以抗旱品种累积水平高于水敏感品种,且两种渗透调节物质对抽穗期胁迫的反应比灌浆期胁迫更敏感。(2)两时期的水分胁迫处理均能降低不同抗旱性品种穗颖SOD和POD活性,抗旱品种的保护酶活性要高于水敏感品种,抗旱品种的SOD活性降低幅度明显低于水敏感品种,而POD活性降低幅度在两品种间差异不明显。(3)水分胁迫导致2个品种穗颖丙二醛(MDA)含量和相对电导率显著增加,细胞膜结构受到严重伤害,且水敏感品种受害程度大于抗旱品种。(4)水分胁迫使2个品种单株籽粒产量下降,且在中度胁迫和重度胁迫下,抗旱品种的减产幅度要低于同期水敏感品种;水分胁迫下,水敏感品种‘坝莜3号’减产4.54%~30.29%,抗旱品种‘蒙燕1号’减产6.69%~23.54%。可见,抗旱性强的燕麦品种在受到水分胁迫的条件下能通过增强穗颖渗透调节和抗膜质过氧化能力、减弱穗颖细胞质膜损伤程度来适应干旱胁迫,最大限度减少水分胁迫对穗颖的伤害,有利于稳产。     

Effect of Heat Stress During Grain Filling on Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase and Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase Activities of Various Green Organs in Winter Wheat

In two winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars differing in their response to high temperature, JD8 (tolerant) and J411 (sensitive) we studied the effect of heat stress on the activities of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (RuBPC) in green organs during grain-filling. There were significantly higher PEPC activities and lower RuBPC activities in each of the non-leaf organs (awn, glume, lemma, peduncle, and sheath) than in the flag leaf blade. Under heat stress for 12 d, the activity of RuBPC quickly declined and the activity of PEPC first increased and later declined in all organs, resulting in a great increase of the PEPC/RuBPC ratios in the organs, particularly in non-leaf organs which had a higher PEPC/RuBPC than the flag leaf blade in all times. The PEPC activity and PEPC/RuBPC ratio in every organ of JD8 were higher than those in the same organ of J411. Thus the differences in PEPC activities and PEPC/RuBPC may be associated with the differences in photosynthetic heat tolerance among the organs of the same plant or between the two cultivars.     

Identification of mutable slender glume gene in rice (Oryza sativa L.).

The segregation pattern and chromosomal location of a slender glume mutation, induced by gamma-ray irradiation, was investigated. The mutation is genetically unstable: in the selfed progenies of slender glumed plants, not only plants with normal glumes but also plants that are chimeric for glume shape almost always appear at low frequency. The results showed that the mutation is controlled by a single recessive, mutable mutant gene slg. The frequency of reversion of slg to its wild-type state was little affected by crossing, backcrossing, genetic background or cytoplasmic factors. Conventional trisomic and linkage analyses revealed that the slg locus was located close to the rfs (rolled fine stripe leaf) locus on chromosome 7. In a subsequent RFLP analysis, slg was found to be located between the two RFLP loci XNpb20 and XNpb33, with recombination values of 3.0 and 3.2%, respectively. Southern analysis indicated that the mutability of slg is caused by none of the known transposable elements in rice. From these results, we infer that slg has a novel transposable DNA insert in its vicinity, which was possibly activated by gamma-ray irradiation. Received: 28 September 1998 / Accepted: 18 December 1998     

Wheat genome structure: translocations during the course of polyploidization

The genomic organization of Triticum timopheevii (2n=28, A^tA^tGG) was compared with hexaploid wheat T. aestivum (2n=42, AABBDD) by comparative mapping using microsatellites derived from bread wheat. Genetic maps for the two crosses T. timopheevii var. timopheevii × T. timopheevii var. typica and T. timopheevii K-38555×T. militinae were constructed. On the first population, 121 loci were mapped, and on the second population 103 loci. The transferability of the wheat markers to T. timopheevii was generally better for the A genome-specific markers (76–78% produced amplification products; 26 and 29% were polymorphic) than for B genome-specific markers (54% produced amplification products; 14 and 16% were polymorphic). Of the D genome-specific markers, one third produced amplification products in T. timopheevii, but only 5 and 2% were polymorphic in the corresponding mapping populations. The maps constructed confirmed the previously described translocation between chromosome arms 6A^tS and 1GS and revealed at least two yet unknown rearrangements on chromosomes 4A^t and 6A^t. The presence of other translocations and rearrangements between T. timopheevii and T. aestivum was demonstrated by a variety of markers mapping to nonhomoeologous positions.     

Map-based analysis of the tenacious glume gene Tg-B1 of wild emmer and its role in wheat domestication

The domestication of wheat was instrumental in spawning the civilization of humankind, and it occurred through genetic mutations that gave rise to types with non-fragile rachises, soft glumes, and free-threshing seed. Wild emmer (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides), the tetraploid AB-genome progenitor of domesticated wheat has genes that confer tenacious glumes (Tg) that underwent genetic mutations to give rise to free-threshing wheat. Here, we evaluated disomic substitution lines involving chromosomes 2A and 2B of wild emmer accessions substituted for homologous chromosomes in tetraploid and hexaploid backgrounds. The results suggested that both chromosomes 2A and 2B of wild emmer possess genes that inhibit threshability. A population of recombinant inbred lines derived from the tetraploid durum wheat variety Langdon crossed with a Langdon — T. turgidum ssp. dicoccoides accession PI 481521 chromosome 2B disomic substitution line was used to develop a genetic linkage map of 2B, evaluate the genetics of threshability, and map the gene derived from PI 481521 that inhibited threshability. A 2BS linkage map comprised of 58 markers was developed, and markers delineated the gene to a 2.3 cM interval. Comparative analysis with maps containing the tenacious glume gene Tg-D1 on chromosome arm 2DS from Aegilops tauschii, the D genome progenitor of hexaploid wheat, revealed that the gene inhibiting threshability in wild emmer was homoeologous to Tg-D1 and therefore designated Tg-B1. Comparative analysis with rice and Brachypodium distachyon indicated a high level of divergence and poorly conserved colinearity, particularly near the Tg-B1 locus. These results provide a foundation for further studies involving Tg-B1, which, together with Tg-D1, had profound influences on wheat domestication.