小麦胚芽鞘切段延长生长对脱落酸和外源ATP的反应及两者间的关系

本实验结果证明,脱落酸(ABA)和2,4-二硝基酚(2,4-DNP)都明显抑制小麦胚芽鞘切段延长生长,并促进切段对氧的吸收。ABA 和2,4-DNP 对胚芽鞘切段的上述影响均发生于切段接受处理后的1小时内。但当给切段供以 ATP 时,其延长生长受到显著促进,而且,当切段经 ATP 预处理3小时后,可大大降低 ABA 对切段延长生长的抑制作用。文中对 ABA影响小麦胚芽鞘延长生长的可能作用机理进行了讨论。     

油菜素甾醇与IAA对黄化稻二叶切段倾斜效应的比较及相互关系

利用“黄化水稻第二叶切段倾斜法”探讨了BS与IAA对黄化水稻第二叶切段倾斜效应的比较及相互关系。结果显示,两激素都能促进切段倾斜,其效应均被抗IAA运输的TIBA抑制,但切段对BS敏感得多。两激素在这一效应上有协同作用。     

油菜素甾醇与IAA对黄化稻二叶切段倾斜效应的比较及相互关系

利用“黄化水稻第二叶切段倾斜法”探讨了BS与IAA对黄化水稻第二叶切段倾斜效应的比较及相互关系。结果显示,两激素都能促进切段倾斜,其效应均被抗IAA运输的TIBA抑制,但切段对BS敏感得多。两激素在这一效应上有协同作用。     

金鱼草下胚轴不同部位切段形态发生能力的研究

金鱼草（ＡｎｔｉｒｈｉｎｕｍｍａｊｕｓＬ．）下胚轴不同部位切段的形态发生能力有很大差异。在外源添加ＢＡ,ＮＡＡ的情况下,金鱼草下胚轴近基部切段培养物的芽、根发生明显高于其上各部位切段,以近基部切段为外植体培养时,其形态发生能力以ＢＡ和ＮＡＡ配合为好,最适剂量为ＢＡ１０ｍｇ／Ｌ＋ＮＡＡ０１５ｍｇ／Ｌ。     

黄瓜和绿豆下胚轴不定根发生的研究

在MS基本培养基上,黄瓜和绿豆幼苗的下胚轴切段培养4d时即可见不定根发生。下胚轴不同部位切段的发根能力不同。下胚轴切段反插时比正插时发根快1-2d,发根率也高于正插的;0.01-0.05mg/L的NAA还诱导下胚轴切段在形态学上端发根。TIBA对正插或反插的下胚轴切段的不定根发生都有抑制作用。结果提示,生长素极性运输活性对不定根形成起着重要作用。     

芒果子叶切段不定根形成的影响因素分析

分别用不同成熟时间、不同取材部位、不同品种、不同大小的芒果子叶切段为外植体进行不定根的诱导,以探讨影响芒果子叶切段不定根形成能力的原因.结果表明,芒果子叶切段的生根能力随着芒果成熟度的增加而逐渐提高,花后50和60 d的2.0 cm长子叶切段都无不定根形成,从花后70 d开始有不定根形成,此时生根率为28.6%,之后其生根能力迅速提高,在花后90 d生根率达到76.7%,之后生根率稳定保持直到110 d果实成熟.成熟芒果的子叶切段长度(2.0、1.0、0.5和0.2 cm)对不定根的形成有显著影响,0.2 cm的子叶切段上无不定根形成,另外3个长度的切段都有不定根形成,且生根能力随着长度的增大而逐渐提高.取材位置(靠近或远离胚轴)则对生根影响不大,且紫花芒、红芒、青皮芒等几种常见芒果品种的不定根形成能力基本相同.     

富贵竹同一枝条不同切段扦插生根能力的比较（简报）

同一富贵竹枝条,其基部切段扦插的成活率、生根率和生根量大于中部和上部的切段。插条生根率与成活率、生根量均存在极显著相关（r≈0．9）。La（NO3）3和2,4－D对插条生根有明显的促进作用,La（NO3）3对上部切段插条不定根的诱导效果较2,4-D显著。     

元麦叶切段与其原生质体的~(86)Rb~ 吸收及H~ 分泌的比较分析

叶切段和原生质体的~(86)Rb 吸收在1 h内与时间成正比,H~ 分泌在pH 5.4～5.6时明显减弱。两者的~(86)Rb~ 吸收和H~ 分泌对FC、CCCP、DES、DCMU、NaN_3、黑暗处理的反应程度相似。酶处理及脱壁没有使~(86)Rb~ 吸收和H~ 分泌发生很大的改变。 高渗条件下的叶切段的~(86)Rb~ 吸收速率比等水势条件下的快,但两者对上述多种处理的反应程度相似。~(86)Rb~ 吸收都与时间成正比。等渗及高渗条件下的叶切段的H~ 分泌对供气不足的敏感性相似。高渗处理没有使~(86)Rb~ 吸收的基本机制发生很大的改变。 0.6 M甘露醇的高渗条件下的叶切段的~(86)Rb~ 吸收速率比0.4 M甘露醇的高渗溶液下的叶切段大得多。说明膨压不是~(86)Rb~ 吸收的调节信号。 漂浮叶切段没有供氧不足的现象,DCMU处理不能使叶切段及原生质体的~(86)Rb~ 吸收和H~ 分泌减少到黑暗水平,说明氧化磷酸化和光合磷酸化均与物质运输的能量有关。     

IAA和GA3在调控豌豆黄化苗茎切段伸长生长中的相互作用

IAA和GA3均能促进豌豆黄化苗茎切段的伸长。IAA效应可以为GA的合成抑制剂S-3307抑制,GA3效应同样也为IAA的运输抑制剂TIBA所抑制,并且分别再施用GA3和IAA后,抑制效应又能有所解除。观察顶端切半茎切段的结果表明,IAA主要促进茎切段表皮细胞的伸长,而GA3可能主要促进内部组织细胞的伸长。观察切段横纵切片的结果则显示,IAA促进皮层细胞的伸长和增大,而GA3只促进皮层细胞的伸长。这些结果说明两者是通过不同的作用部位和方式共同调节豌豆茎切段伸长生长的。     

油莱素甾醇促进黄化水稻第二叶切段偏上性生长与乙烯的关系

油菜素甾醇强烈刺激黄化水稻第二叶切段倾斜的实质是偏上性生长。油菜素甾醇处理的切段的叶枕细胞带发生了不均一的可塑性生长,叶枕薄壁细胞明显增大。油菜素甾醇促进切段偏上性生长的同时伴随着乙烯释放。两促进效应能被乙烯生物合成抑制剂CoCL2平行抑制,表明两效应存在正相关。     

Winter bud content according to position in 3-year-old branching systems of 'Granny Smith' apple

An investigation was made of the number of preformed organs in winter buds of 3-year-old reiterated complexes of the 'Granny Smith' cultivar. Winter bud content was studied with respect to bud position: terminal buds were compared on both long shoots and spurs according to branching order and shoot age, while axillary buds were compared between three zones (distal, median and proximal) along 1-year-old annual shoots in order 1. The percentage of winter buds that differentiated into inflorescences was determined and the flowers in each bud were counted for each bud category. The other organ categories considered were scales and leaf primordia. The results confirmed that a certain number of organs must be initiated before floral differentiation occurred. The minimum limit was estimated at about 15 organs on average, including scales. Total number of lateral organs formed was shown to vary with both bud position and meristem age, increasing from newly formed meristems to 1- and 2-year-old meristems on different shoot types. These differences in bud organogenesis depending on bud position, were consistent with the morphogenetic gradients observed in apple tree architecture. Axillary buds did not contain more than 15 organs on average and this low organogenetic activity of the meristems was related to a low number of flowers per bud. In contrast, the other bud categories contained more than 15 differentiated organs on average and a trade-off was observed between leaf and flower primordia. The ratio between the number of leaf and flower primordia per bud varied with shoot type. When the terminal buds on long shoots and spurs were compared, those on long shoots showed more flowers and a higher ratio of leaf to flower primordia.     

枇杷成花过程叶片蛋白质变化动态

研究了温室内水分胁迫下盆栽枇杷和大田枇杷的成花和未成花枝梢叶片可溶性蛋白质含量在花芽分化过程中的变化动态,同时对成花和未成花枝梢顶芽进行特异蛋白双向凝胶电泳研究。结果表明,枇杷成花诱导需经历可溶性蛋白质含量一定程度的升高,然后急剧下降的过程,即可溶性蛋白质的升高对应成花诱导,而蛋白质的下降与形态分化紧密相关。成花植株枝梢顶芽与未成花植株枝梢顶芽的2-DE图谱总模式相同,但前者比后者多了两种蛋白质,其分子量和等电点一为MW 14110.5±110.8、pI 5.350±0.008,另一为MW 66446.3±260.9、pI 4.730±0.032,两种蛋白质均呈酸性,可能与枇杷成花密切相关。     

Ioral organogenesis of Echinodorus nazonicus Rataj and floral construction f the Alismatales

The primary trimerous pattern of the flower of Echinodorus amazonicus Rataj is clearly exhibited in the earliest developmental stages. After the inception of three sepals, theree alternisepalous petal-stamen complexes arise, each of which, at successively higher levels of the primordia, consists of a petal, a pair of stamens, and a single stamen. In alternation with these three petal-stamen complexes three groups of three pistil (carpel) primordia are formed. Subsequent pistil primordia are formed rapidly in alternation with the preceding ones. Teratological buds were observed in which one pistil primordium appeared to be replaced by a normal stamen primordium. General features of the flowers of the Alismatales are summarized in developmental fashion which includes the mature flower as a final stage. With the exception of Limnocharis and probably Wisneria , all alismatalean flowers appear to be characterized by antipetalous stamen (or staminodial) paris. In members studied thus far, the basic trimery differs radically from that found in certain taxa of the Magnoliidae.     

The Exogenous Hormornal Control of the Development of Regenerated Flower Buds in Hyacinthus orientalis

The critical role of exogenous hormone on inducing the initiation of different floral organs in the regenerated flower bud and controlling their numbers was further evidenced. The initiation of the flower buds was first induced from the perianth explants of Hyacinthus orientalis L. cv. White pearl by a combination of 2 mg/L 6-BA and 0.1 mg/L 2,4-D, and then a continuous initiation of over 100 tepals (a flower bud of H. orientalis in situ has only 6 tepals) was successfully controlled by maintenance of such a hormone concentration. However, a change of hormonal concentration (2 mg/L 6-BA and 0-0.000 1 mg/L 2,4-D) caused cessation of continuous initiation of the tepals but gave rise to induction of stamen initiation. Keeping the changed hormone concentrations could successfully control the continuous initiation of over 20 stamens (a flower bud of H. orientalis in situ has only 6 stamens). The experiment showed that the number of identical floral organs in the regenerated flower buds can be controlled by certain defined concentrations of the exogenous hormones, and the amount of the induced identical floral organs has no effect on the differentiation sequence of the different floral organs in the regenerated flower bud. Based on a systematic research on controlling the differentiation of the floral organs from both the perianth explants and the regenerated flower buds by the exogenous hormones in H. orientalis over the past decade, the authors put forward here a new idea on the role of phytohormone in controlling the automatic and sequential differentiation of the different floral organs in flower development. The main points are as follows: 1. the development of flower bud in plant is a process in which all of the floral organs are automatically and sequentially differentiated from the flower meristem. 2. Experiments in vitro showed that the effect of exogenous hormones in controlling the initiation of different floral organs is strictly concentration dependent, i.e., one kind of the floral organ can continuously and repeatedly initiate from the flower meristem as long as it is maintained in that specific concentration of the exogenous hormone which is suitable for the initiation of that particular kind of floral organ. 3. It shows that the flower buds in situ must be automatically able to adjust the endogenous hormonal concentrations just after the completion of the differentiation of one whorl of floral organ to suit the differentiation of the next whorl. Thus, the phytohormone in different concentrations takes after many change-over switches of the organ differentiation and plays a connective and regulatory role between the differentiation of every two whorls of the floral organ. In other words, these change-over switches play the roles of inhibiting the expression of the genes which control the initiation of the floral organs in the first whorl, meanwhile, activating the expression of the genes which control the initiation of the floral organs in the second whorl during the successive initiation of the different floral organs from the flower bud. It results in the automatic and sequential initiation of the various floral organs from the floral meristem.      

The Maryland mammoth allele reduces floral stimulus activity in stem piece explants of Nicotiana tabacum (Solanaceae)

The response of axillary buds to floral stimulus activity in stem pieces was examined in two near-isogenic cultivars of tobacco that differ in the recessive maryland mammoth (mm) allele, which confers short-day behavior. All axillary buds from day-neutral plants assayed on six-internode stem pieces made few nodes (less than 20) before flowering, while axillary buds from plants homozygous for mm assayed on six-internode stem pieces either did not flower in noninductive conditions or made many nodes before flowering in inductive conditions. About 80% of day-neutral axillary buds grafted onto day-neutral stem pieces did not respond to floral stimulus in stem pieces, indicating that the floral stimulus in stem pieces is ephemeral. In other graft combinations, the proportion of axillary buds that did respond to floral stimulus in stem pieces was substantially reduced from the 20% of day-neutral buds on day-neutral stem pieces that responded. These results indicate that the mm allele probably reduces both the amount of floral stimulus activity in stem pieces and the competence of axillary buds to respond.     

Further experiments on spermidine-mediated floral-bud formation in thin-layer explants of Wisconsin 38 tobacco

We studied the effects of various polyamines on bud regeneration in thin-layer tissue explants of vegetative and floweringNicotiana tabacum L. cv. Wisconsin 38, in which application of exogenous spermidine (Spd) to vegetative cultures causes the initiation and development of some flower buds (Kaur-Sawhney et al. 1988 Planta173, 282). We now show that this effect is dependent on the time and duration of application, Spd being required from the start of the cultures for about three weeks. Neither putrescine nor spermine is effective in the concentration range tested. Spermidine cannot replace kinetin (N⁶-furfurylaminopurine) in cultures at the time of floral bud formation, but once the buds are initiated in the presence of kinetin, addition of Spd to the medium greatly increases the number of floral buds that develop into normal flowers. Addition of Spd to similar cultures derived from young, non-flowering plants did not cause the appearance of floral buds but rather induced a profusion of vegetative buds. These results indicate a morphogenetic role of Spd in bud differentiation. Dedicated to Professor Hans Mohr on the occasion of his 60th birthday     

Zeatin modulates flower bud development and tocopherol levels in Cistus albidus (L.) plants as they age

In a previous study we showed that Cistus albidus (L.) experiences an age‐dependent decay in flower vigour correlated with a decline in trans‐zeatin (tZ) levels. In the present study we aimed to establish a causal relationship between these two phenomena. Exogenous tZ applied to plants grown under semi‐controlled conditions did not rescue flower vigour; however, it accelerated flower development, but only in younger individuals. Older plants showed lower tocopherol levels in flower buds, which were restored by exogenous tZ, suggesting that a loss of antioxidant defences may underlie the age‐dependent decay in flower vigour. We conclude that declining tZ levels may not be directly responsible for the age‐associated loss of floral vigour; that tZ modulates the speed of flower development as plants age; and that flower buds alter their sensitivity to tZ as plants age.     

Cytokinins from terminal buds of Euphoria longana during different growth stages

The presence of endogenous cytokinins were detected in the terminal buds of longan ( Euphoria longana Lam.) after purification by ion exchange and Sephadex LH-20 chromatography, and bioassay, enzymic degradation, high-performance liquid chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Permethylated derivatives of two highly active cytokinin glucoside compounds from dormant buds were: 6-(4-O-β-D-glucosyl-3-methyl-but-2-enylamino) purine (zeatin-O-glucoside) and 9-β-D-ribofuranosyl-6-(4-hydroxy-3-methyl-but-2-enylamino) purine (zeatin riboside-O-glucoside). Simultaneously, four active cytokinins from buds at the stages of leaf flush and flower bud initiation were identified as 6-(4-hydroxy-3-methyl-but- trans -2-enylamino) purine (zeatin), zeatin-9-β-D-ribofuranosylpurine (zeatin riboside), 6-(3-methyl-2-butenyl) aminopurine (isopentenyladenosine, 2iPA) and N-(3-methyl-2-butenyl) adenine (isopentenyladenine, 2iP). The total cytokinin levels were low at leaf flush, with the zeatin and zeatin riboside in the buds about 70% of the total. In the transition of the terminal bud from leaf flush to dormancy, the principal cytokinins were zeatin-O-glucoside and zeatin riboside-O-glucoside. However, significant decreases in the levels of zeatin-O-glucoside and zeatin riboside-O-glucoside and increases in those of zeatin, zeatin riboside, 2iPA and 2iP were observed at flower bud initiation. It is suggested that in longan, the cytokinins that are translocated to the shoots are accumulated in the buds at the dormant stage, and that later there is a considerable increase in free cytokinins during flower bud initiation, leading to the promotion of flower bud development.     

The benefits of bathing buds: water calyces protect flowers from a microlepidopteran herbivore

Protective floral structures may evolve in response to the negative effects of floral herbivores. For example, water calyces--liquid-filled, cup-like structures resulting from the fusion of sepals--may reduce floral herbivory by submerging buds during their development. Our observations of a water-calyx plant, Chrysothemis friedrichsthaliana (Gesneriaceae), revealed that buds were frequently attacked by ovipositing moths (Alucitidae), whose larvae consumed anthers and stigmas before corollas opened. Almost 25% of per-plant flower production was destroyed by alucitid larvae over two seasons, far exceeding the losses to all other floral herbivores combined. Experimental manipulation of water levels in calyces showed that a liquid barrier over buds halved per-flower alucitid egg deposition and subsequent herbivory, relative to buds in calyces without water. Thus, C. friedrichsthaliana's water calyx helps protect buds from a highly detrimental floral herbivore. Our findings support claims that sepal morphology is largely influenced by selection to reduce floral herbivory, and that these pressures can result in novel morphological adaptations.