苔藓类植物对苏北湿地的可持续性发展及湿地景观的研究

在湿地中,苔藓植物的初级生产力高达50%,特别是在酸性和低营养条件下。与维管植物相比,苔藓植物的生长形式和控制水和碳平衡的生理机制显著不同。此外,许多苔藓植物可以在干燥的气氛中平衡,并在再水化后恢复正常的代谢功能。即使在湿地和溪流栖息地,苔藓植物也能在低水位时利用这种能力。这些机制影响水生和湿地生境中苔藓植物的生态分布。生长在苏北地区的苔藓类植物,已经适应了低营养和低温条件,这些水生苔藓植物有一定吸收砷能力。植物过滤是一种具有成本效益的植物修复技术,其中沉水植物用于从水系统中去除污染物。本研究通过对湿地典型植物苔藓吸收砷能力来评估湿地净化污染、可持续发展的能力以及研究了苏北湿地苔藓类植物的生态分布与湿地景观的影响。另外,苔藓是缓慢生长的植物,所以研究中进行的短期吸收实验可以不受生长影响。     

植物耐盐研究进展

综述了盐胁迫对植物的损伤和其中的各种生理生化过程,以及植物在抵抗盐胁迫过程中的耐盐机理。新的研究成果表明,植物自身的miRNA可能在植物抗逆境过程中起到了重要作用,甲基化过程参与了抗逆境相关的甜菜碱等小分子有机物质的合成。     

红树植物淹水胁迫响应研究进展

潮汐淹水是红树植物面临的主要环境胁迫之一,也是导致目前红树林造林成活率低的一个关键因子。由于长期适应于水淹生境,红树植物发育出一套适应于潮间带生长的抗淹水机制。综述了与红树植物相关的抗淹水胁迫响应机制,包括了形态结构、生长、水分和光合作用、膜脂过氧化系统和根系脱氢酶系统、内源激素和胁迫多胺等5个方面。提出应用人工潮汐系统研究红树植物的淹水抗性机理是确定不同种类红树植物的耐淹水能力的有效手段。并指出生长的研究是淹水胁迫响应研究的基础,而与分子手段相结合的激素水平的研究将在红树植物抗性胁迫研究中得到重视。     

植物细胞的抗脱水反应及其重要蛋白产物

研究植物细胞的抗脱水反应具有十分重要的意义。首先,脱水是许多植物特别是重要农作物生长过程中面临的主要胁迫之一,开展细胞的抗脱水研究事关用基因工程手段培育抗旱植物新种质的基础理论。其次,低温是许多植物生长过程中面临的另一个重要胁迫,研究表明,植物细胞的脱水反应和低温反应有共同的过程,     

植物中逆境反应相关的WRKY转录因子研究进展

WRKY转录因子是植物体内一类比较大的转录因子家族,它在植物的生长发育以及抗逆境反应中起着非常重要的作用。本文综述了WRKY转录因子在植物应对冻害、干旱、盐害等非生物胁迫与病原菌、虫害等生物胁迫反应中的重要调控功能,并概括了WRKY转录因子在调控这些逆境反应中的机制。     

重金属对植物吲哚乙酸合成与分解影响研究进展

生长素在调节植物生长和抗重金属胁迫中具有重要作用。重金属胁迫下植物为维持自身生长,必须维持生长素的内稳态和自身代谢平衡。生长素的内稳态受到生物合成、生长素结合以及水解、代谢失活等生理活动的严格控制。一些涉及生长素合成与分解的相关酶系和基因已被识别或克隆,然而重金属胁迫下与生长素合成与分解有关基因的上调或下调以及相关酶系的激活或失活却研究尚少。揭示植物遭受重金属胁迫后生长素合成与分解变化的机理,可为植物修复实践中合理使用植物生长调节剂提供理论依据。本文以生长素的主要代表物吲哚乙酸(IAA)为例,讨论重金属胁迫下,植物体内IAA合成、分解机制及其赋存形态等方面的研究进展,并从重金属胁迫下植物IAA合成途径的相对重要性、IAA形态变化和作用以及激素间的交互作用等方面探讨了该领域的研究方向。     

小立碗藓对重金属镉胁迫的应答特征

镉是植物非必需的微量重金属元素, 镉胁迫引起植物细胞的代谢紊乱, 甚至导致细胞死亡。为了探索苔藓植物对镉胁迫的应答机制, 采用高通量测序及生物信息学技术分析了藓类模式植物——小立碗藓(Physcomitrella patens)在镉胁迫下的基因表达特征。结果表明, 在镉胁迫下, 小立碗藓细胞骨架组织、微管运动、DNA修复系统、端粒维护、配子体形成与有性生殖以及与氮代谢等相关基因的表达具有明显的镉胁迫应答特征, 暗示了这些基因可能共同参与小立碗藓对镉胁迫的调控反应。该研究结果为阐明植物对镉胁迫的应答机制提供了新的线索。     

非生物胁迫下植物表观遗传变异的研究进展

植物在整个生命过程中固着生长,不能主动躲避外界不良环境的危害,需要通过自身的防御机制来抵御和适应外界胁迫,而表观遗传修饰在调控植物应对不良环境胁迫中起重要作用。该文从DNA甲基化、组蛋白修饰、染色质重塑和非编码RNA等方面进行了综述,主要阐述了近年来国内外有关非生物胁迫下植物的表观遗传变化,以期为利用表观遗传变异提高植物的抗胁迫能力提供参考。     

植物硅营养的研究进展

阐述了植物吸收硅的机理、硅与其它营养元素的关系及其对非胁迫和胁迫条件下植物生长发育的有益作用。植物吸收硅的机制目前尚不是很清楚,不同植物吸收硅的方式不同。硅可影响植物中其它营养元素的含量。在非胁迫条件下,硅可促进植物的生长;硅也参与了植物抗病、抗虫等生物胁迫,以及抗金属毒害、盐害、温度胁迫、干旱、抗倒伏等非生物胁迫的反应。目前,应从多种植物上深入研究硅的吸收方式与机理;同时,应该改变硅在细胞壁的沉积仅仅起增强组织机械强度作用的观点．而应从生理代谢调控的角度进行硅作用机制的研究,为生产实践中硅肥的应用奠定理论基础。     

苔藓植物对植物天然更新的影响

种子是天然更新的基础,幼苗和幼树的生长是天然更新过程中最敏感的阶段。苔藓植物作为许多生态系统的主要地被物,在维管植物天然更新过程中发挥着不容忽视的作用。在许多植被类型中,都有发育良好的苔藓群落,大量的研究证明它们的存在影响到维管植物的萌发、建成和生长,并且可能进一步影响到物种的共生,有一些种类甚至可能指示树种的更新。本文就苔藓植物对物种更新早期阶段的作用和影响进行了综述。包括苔藓植物的生理特性造成的微气候变化;苔藓群落对种子传播、萌发及幼苗建成的影响。并讨论了苔藓植物与更新物种的种间关系及其对幼苗生长的化感作用。     

Habitat preferences as related to the prolonged dormancy of perennial herbs and ferns

Prolonged dormancy (hereafter dormancy), a phenomenon in which a perennial herbaceous plant does not sprout for one or more years, is examined. The phenomenon may be more frequent than stated so far and discovery of its role in plant life history and performance is still underway. Data from published papers was reviewed and all known species exhibiting dormancy were analysed from the aspect of species ecological values. Adaptation to environmental factors (light, moisture, pH and nitrogen as estimated by Ellenberg indicator values) influences the maximum duration of dormancy. A higher proportion of plants are dormant in species that prefer to grow in good light conditions, dry sites and infertile soil. The duration of dormant period is longer in species that prefer to grow in dry sites and/or calcareous soils. A range of factors, we believe, control plant behaviour, however, it is suggested that environmental stress is the principal factor inducing dormancy.     

Isolation of cDNA clones for genes up-regulated in drought-treated <Emphasis Type="Italic">Alternanthera philoxeroides</Emphasis> root

Alternanthera philoxeroides is one of the rather few amphibious plants that can normally grow in both water and upland conditions. Adventitious roots of Alternanthera philoxeroides seedlings will grow long, thick, fleshy during drought stress, which are assumed to improve performance of the plant by more efficient storage and extraction of water from deep soil layers. In order to isolate cDNA clones of morphogenesis-related genes from A. philoxeroides roots, the seedlings were treated with drought and the differential display technique was used. By using 18 primer combinations, nineteen putative drought up-regulated gene segments were obtained and one of them was confirmed having been up-regulated by reverse northern blot and subsequently cloned and sequenced. A homologous analysis revealed that it might be a new gene segment. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis showed that the gene was up-regulated by drought and salt stress.     

Uptake of Zn65 from dry soil by plants

Summary Absorption of Zn⁶⁵ by plant roots from a layer of dry top soil (suction > 15 bar) was measured using a technique that obviated water stress in the plant.Roots growing through the dry layer absorbed significant amounts of Zn⁶⁵ provided they absorbed water from lower depths. Mucilage accumulated around the roots in the dry soil and may have facilitated ion transfer in the immediate vicinity of the root. The ability of roots to grow in dry soil and to absorb Zn⁶⁵ varied between plant species.     

Use of bacterial acc deaminase to increase oil (especially poly aromatic hydrocarbons) phytoremediation efficiency for maize (zea mays) seedlings

Oil presence in soil, as a stressor, reduces phytoremediation efficiency through an increase in the plant stress ethylene. Bacterial 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) deaminase, as a plant stress ethylene reducer, was employed to increase oil phytoremediation efficiency. For this purpose, the ability of ACC deaminase-producing Pseudomonas strains to grow in oil-polluted culture media and withstand various concentrations of oil and also their ability to reduce plant stress ethylene and enhance some growth characteristics of maize and finally their effects on increasing phytoremediation efficiency of poly aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil were investigated. Based on the results, of tested strains just P9 and P12 were able to perform oil degradation. Increasing oil concentration from 0 to 10% augmented these two strains population, 15.7% and 12.9%, respectively. The maximum increase in maize growth was observed in presence of P12 strain. Results of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) revealed that PAHs phytoremediation efficiency was higher for inoculated seeds than uninoculated. The highest plant growth and PAHs removal percentage (74.9%) from oil-polluted soil was observed in maize inoculated with P12. These results indicate the significance of ACC deaminase producing bacteria in alleviation of plant stress ethylene in oil-polluted soils and increasing phytoremediation efficiency of such soils.     

翅果油树幼苗抗旱性

通过盆栽试验,研究不同土壤水分条件下翅果油树（Elaeagnus mollis）幼苗的生长、叶水分和丙二醛含量等各项生理指标的变化。结果表明,轻、中度干旱（30％～35％、45％～50％）胁迫时叶片含水量和叶绿素含量下降幅度较小,水势较高,丙二醛含量较低,翅果油树幼苗能保汪基本的生长,表现出耐旱植物的生理特征;在重度干旱胁迫（20％～25％）条件下,叶含水量和叶绿素含量下降较显著,水势最低,丙二醛含量最高,植株矮小,颜色发黄,表明翅果油树幼苗受到干旱伤害严重,不能正常生长。     

植物硅营养的研究进展

阐述了植物吸收硅的机理、硅与其它营养元素的关系及其对非胁迫和胁迫条件下植物生长发育的有益作用 .植物吸收硅的机制目前尚不是很清楚 ,不同植物吸收硅的方式不同 .硅可影响植物中其它营养元素的含量 .在非胁迫条件下 ,硅可促进植物的生长 ;硅也参与了植物抗病、抗虫等生物胁迫 ,以及抗金属毒害、盐害、温度胁迫、干旱、抗倒伏等非生物胁迫的反应 .目前 ,应从多种植物上深入研究硅的吸收方式与机理 ;同时 ,应该改变硅在细胞壁的沉积仅仅起增强组织机械强度作用的观点 ,而应从生理代谢调控的角度进行硅作用机制的研究 ,为生产实践中硅肥的应用奠定理论基础     

Diversity of root-associated fluorescent pseudomonads as affected by ferritin overexpression in tobacco

A transgenic tobacco overexpressing ferritin (P6) was recently shown to accumulate more iron than the wild type (WT), leading to a reduced availability of iron in the rhizosphere and shifts in the pseudomonad community. The impact of the transgenic line on the community of fluorescent pseudomonads was assessed. The diversity of 635 isolates from rhizosphere soils, rhizoplane + root tissues, and root tissues of WT and P6, and that of 98 isolates from uncultivated soil was characterized. Their ability to grow under iron stress conditions was assessed by identifying their minimal inhibitory concentrations of 8-hydroxyquinoline for each isolate, pyoverdine diversity by isoelectrofocusing and genotypic diversity by random amplified polymorphism DNA. The antagonistic activity of representative isolates and of some purified pyoverdines against a plant pathogen (Pythium aphanidermatum Op4) was tested in vitro. In overall, isolates taken from P6 tobacco showed a greater ability to grow in iron stress conditions than WT isolates. The antagonism by some of the representative isolates was only expressed under iron stress conditions promoting siderophore synthesis and their pyoverdines appeared to have a specific structure as assessed by mass spectrometry. For other isolates, antagonism was still expressed in the presence of iron, suggesting the involvement of metabolites other than siderophores. Altogether, these data indicate that the transgenic tobacco that over-accumulates iron selected fluorescent pseudomonads, less susceptible to iron depletion and more antagonistic to the tested plant pathogen than those selected by the tobacco WT.     

植物低氧胁迫伤害与适应机理的研究进展

不良的通气条件导致了正常生长发育的植物生理性缺氧,低氧胁迫是高等植物主要的非生物胁迫因素之一。本文综述了低氧胁迫对植物生长、植株形态的影响,低氧胁迫对植物内部水分、养分吸收的变化,呼吸代谢途径的变化、激素代谢的变化,氧化系统的变化的影响,以及低氧胁迫过程中植物体内信号的传导、基因的表达、蛋白质的合成等,在不同层面分析了低氧胁迫对植物的伤害及植物对低氧逆境适应机理的最新研究成果。     

通过农杆菌介导法获得耐盐转甜菜碱醛脱氢酶基因白三叶草

通过农杆菌介导法将耐盐植物山菠菜甜菜碱醛脱氢酶(Betaine Aldehyde Dehydrogenase,BADH)基因成功地转化了白三叶草。转基因植株在经过48h 1％NaCl胁迫后相对电导率为20％左右,而非转基因植株高达40％,表明转基因植株细胞膜在盐胁迫下受到的伤害较非转基因的轻,并且转基因植株能够在含有0．5％NaCl的水培养中正常生长两周以上,而非转基因植株则呈现不正常生长。     

Cyclin dependent protein kinases and stress responses in plants

Plants have to adjust, grow and establish themselves in various changing environmental conditions. Additionally, the sessile life-style of plants requires the development of response mechanisms for their adaptation in such environmental cues. Under biotic and abiotic stress, plant growth is negatively affected mainly as a result of cell cycle inhibition. The perception of stress involves the activation of signaling cascades that result in a prolonged S-phase and delayed entry into mitosis. Although the molecular interactions that link the cell cycle machinery to perception of stress are not fully understood, recent studies indicated the involvement of Cyclin Dependent Kinases (CDKs) in the plant response machinery. CDKs are core cell cycle regulators but their activity has been implicated in additional diverse cellular processes. Here we review the impact of different types of abiotic stress on plant cell cycle progression and CDK activity, and discuss the contribution of CDK function in the signaling control of stress tolerance.Key words: abiotic stress, cell cycle, CDK, cyclin