交替隔沟灌溉与施氮量对日光温室黄瓜光合作用、生长及产量的影响

以黄瓜“津育5号”为试材,研究了交替隔沟灌溉和施氮量(零氮肥、优化氮肥和常规氮肥)对日光温室黄瓜(冬春茬、秋冬茬)光合作用、生长特性、产量形成和果实品质的影响.结果表明:交替隔沟灌溉下,植株上、中、下叶位叶片的净光合速率(Pn)略低于常规灌溉下的相应叶位,而蒸腾速率(Tr)显著降低,上、中叶位叶片的瞬时水分利用效率(WUE)有所提高;交替隔沟灌溉下植株光合作用的限制因素是气孔因素.交替隔沟灌溉下施氮量的增加有助于促进黄瓜功能叶片Pn和WUE的提高.与常规灌溉相比,交替隔沟灌溉下叶片叶绿素含量和植株总生物产量有所降低,但根生物产量、根冠比以及根和果实器官的干物质分配比例增加,经济产量持平,经济产量水平的水分利用效率( WUEy)显著提高.交替隔沟灌溉有利于植株根系发育和果实形成.交替隔沟灌溉下随施氮量的增加,叶片叶绿素含量、叶绿素a/b、比叶重、植株总生物产量和经济产量呈增加趋势,果实Vc含量和可溶性糖含量升高,但优化氮肥与常规氮肥处理间差异不显著,氮肥施用对WUEy无显著影响.冬春茬黄瓜的经济产量和生物产量显著高于秋冬茬.     

丛枝菌根真菌对盐胁迫下黄瓜植株生长、果实产量和品质的影响

采用有机基质栽培,选用盐敏感黄瓜品种‘津春2号’为试验材料,研究了丛枝菌根真菌(AMF)对盐胁迫下黄瓜植株生长、矿质营养吸收、果实品质和产量的影响.结果表明：接种AMF可以有效促进黄瓜植株生长和对矿质营养的吸收,提高果实产量和改善蔬菜营养品质;盐胁迫下,黄瓜生长受到抑制,植株体内N、P、K、Cu、Zn含量减少和K⁺/Na⁺降低,果实产量和可溶性蛋白、总糖、Vc、硝酸盐含量下降;接种AMF可缓解盐胁迫对黄瓜生长的抑制作用,使植株体内N、P、K、Cu和Zn含量分别比对照提高7.3%、11.7%、28.2%、13.5%和9.9%,K⁺/Na⁺、果实产量、可溶性蛋白、总糖、Vc含量明显提高,果实硝酸盐含量显著降低.表明AMF可通过促进盐胁迫下黄瓜植株对矿质营养的吸收,促进植株生长,增强植株对盐胁迫的耐性,进而提高其产量和改善营养品质.     

再生水灌溉对苜蓿生长发育和品质的影响

通过盆栽试验,研究了再生水不同灌溉方式对苜蓿生长发育和品质的影响.结果表明：与清水灌溉相比,再生水能显著增加苜蓿的株高、侧枝数及产草量,但对苜蓿叶面积有一定的抑制作用;再生水灌溉、再生水与清水混灌和轮灌使苜蓿体内可溶性蛋白含量分别增加78.43%、83.68%、72.53%,但再生水灌溉不利于苜蓿可溶性糖的累积.再生水灌溉下,苜蓿植株体内的Ca、Mg含量较清水灌溉分别增加了27.78%、26.61%;再生水灌溉及混灌下,苜蓿体内的Fe含量较清水灌溉分别降低28.71%、10.09%;再生水灌溉、轮灌和混灌下苜蓿地上部Cd含量较清水灌溉分别增加98.6%、89.5%和59.0%,但苜蓿体内重金属Pb、Cd含量仍低于国家卫生标准（GB 13078—2001）规定限量值.说明再生水是苜蓿可利用的灌溉
资源,但其长期效应仍需进一步研究.        

叶片涂施多环芳烃在黄瓜体内的积累效应及对其生理特性的影响

以黄瓜品种 ‘秀川701’ 为材料,采用叶片涂施试验,考察了不同浓度的多环芳香烃(PAHs)萘、菲、荧蒽、苯并(a)蒽、苯并(a)芘混合液胁迫处理对黄瓜生长、生理和品质的影响及PAHs在黄瓜植株体内的积累特征,探究PAHs对蔬菜作物的生长影响及毒害机理。结果表明：(1)黄瓜7个部位(根、茎、叶片、叶柄、果皮、果肉、果瓤)中总PAHs含量随着叶片涂施浓度的升高呈先增加后降低的趋势,营养器官中以叶片含量最高、叶柄含量最低,果实中果皮含量最高、果瓤含量最低。(2)外源PAHs胁迫对黄瓜株高、茎粗、根长、叶长、叶宽、果实纵径、果实横径、单果重的影响均为低浓度促进中高浓度抑制。(3)外源PAHs处理使叶片SOD、CAT活性下降,MDA含量先提高后降低,尤其是中浓度胁迫下POD活性、叶绿素含量均显著提高。(4)外源PAHs对黄瓜果实维生素C、可溶性蛋白、可滴定酸含量的影响表现为低浓度促进中高浓度抑制,而对可溶性糖、可溶性固形物含量均具有抑制作用。研究认为,5种PAHs在黄瓜体内呈现出了特定的分布规律,直接暴露于大气环境的部位更容易吸收、积累PAHs;PAHs作为典型有机污染物,给黄瓜生长发育带来伤害的同时也起到了正向促进作用,且叶片对PAHs的吸收以及PAHs对黄瓜生理特性的促进或抑制作用都有一定阈值。     

控制性分根交替灌溉下氮形态对番茄生长、果实产量及品质的影响

以高产大果型西红柿品种中研988为材料,采用分根培养的方法,研究了控制性分根交替灌溉(APRI)条件下,不同氮素形态(硝态氮、铵态氮)对番茄生长、产量及果实品质的影响.结果表明: 同一灌溉方式或下限处理下,铵态氮对番茄植株前期生长有利,而硝态氮促进番茄植株后期生长,并促进果实产量增加.在APRI同一灌水下限下,硝态氮处理可提高果实维生素C含量及糖酸比,提高营养品质.同一氮素形态供应下,APRI番茄的株高和叶面积均小于正常灌溉(CK),但灌水下限为60%田间持水量(θ_f)的APRI处理番茄茎粗在生长后期有所增加.在同一氮素形态下,与CK相比,APRI各处理的产量均下降,其中灌水下限在40%θ_f的APRI处理产量下降了22.4%～26.3%;而灌水下限在60% θ_f的APRI处理仅下降了5.3%～5.4%,下降幅度相对较小,而品质显著提高,并具有明显的节水效果.因此,控制灌水下限在60%θ_f、供应硝态氮的APRI处理为番茄高产、优质、节水的最佳处理.
     

硅对铵态氮胁迫下黄瓜幼苗生理特性的影响

在水培条件下,研究了外源硅对铵态氮胁迫下黄瓜幼苗生长及叶片生理特性的影响.结果表明:与硝态氮处理相比,铵态氮处理显著抑制了黄瓜幼苗地上部及根系的生长,尤其是地上部生长,在处理10 d时,铵态氮处理黄瓜单株地上部鲜质量降低6.17 g.铵态氮处理还促进了活性氧在黄瓜植株体内的积累,叶片O-·2和H2O2含量显著增加.外源硅处理可显著提高黄瓜叶片超氧化物歧化酶、过氧化物酶、过氧化氢酶、抗坏血酸过氧化物酶等抗氧化酶活性,增强清除活性氧的能力,显著降低黄瓜叶片O2-·和H2O2含量,从而减轻了活性氧对细胞膜的破坏,使黄瓜叶片电解质渗漏率及丙二醛含量降低;外源硅处理显著提高了黄瓜质膜及液泡膜H+-ATP的活性,提高细胞内外质子的运输能力;显著降低了黄瓜体内铵态氮含量,从而减轻了铵态氮的毒害.总之,外加一定浓度硅,可通过提高黄瓜抗氧化酶活性、质膜及液泡膜H+-ATP的活性以及降低植株铵态氮含量等来缓解铵态氮胁迫.     

菌根化育苗对大棚黄瓜生长发育和果实品质的影响

以Glomus versiforme （GV）、Glomus mosseae（GM）和Glomus intraradices（GI）3种丛枝菌根菌及其混合菌种GM+GV、GM+GI、GV+GI和GM+GV+GI接种黄瓜幼苗,进行菌根化育苗,研究菌根化育苗对黄瓜的生长发育、产量和品质的影响.结果表明,接种的丛枝菌根菌均能与黄瓜幼苗根系形成菌根,侵染率高达41.74%～55.69%.其中,GV、GM、GM+GV、GM+GV+GI 和GV+GI是黄瓜的优势菌种,与对照相比,壮苗指数提高了58.14%～123.6%,前期产量增加了21.71%～37.87%,总产量增加了19.72%～34.41%.接种GM+GV和GV+GI处理可显著地提高黄瓜果实中Vc的含量,分别比对照提高了22.84%和21.95%;接种GV、GV+GI和GI处理可显著提高黄瓜果实中可溶性糖含量,分别比对照提高了13.79%、10.20%和8.25%;接种GV和GM+GI处理黄瓜果实中的氨基酸含量,分别比对照提高了47.66%和23.19%,蛋白质含量提高了17.67%～34.79%.     

苏北滩涂海水灌溉与施氮对籽粒苋生长的影响

为创建海涂海水种、养复合清洁生产模式,首先要探索海水灌溉经济植物的种植条件,为此,在苏北滩涂布置田间小区试验,研究海水灌溉下氮肥与海水对籽粒苋生长的耦合效应。结果表明:1)20%海水灌溉下,施纯氮量120kg.hm-2,植株鲜草和籽粒产量均显著高于施纯氮量60kg.hm-2下的产量,且与施纯氮量180kg.hm-2处理下的产量差异不显著;40%海水灌溉下,施氮120kg.hm-2时籽粒产量最高,但其产量显著低于20%海水灌溉、施纯氮量120kg.hm-2下的产量。2)鲜草产量在淡水灌溉、施纯氮60kg.hm-2下达到最高值,籽粒产量在淡水灌溉,施纯氮180kg.hm-2下达到最高值。但20%海水灌溉、施纯氮120kg.hm-2组合下,籽粒产量和鲜草产量均未与最高产量达显著差异。3)随施氮量的增加,茎、叶中K+含量增加,而根、茎、叶中Na+含量和Cl-含量均先减少后增加。在施氮量为120kg.hm-2范围内,茎K+/Na+随施氮量的增加而升高,施氮量进一步增加,K+/Na+又随之下降。4)20%海水灌溉下,叶片氮素含量在120kg.hm-2处理下达到最高值,在40%海水处理下,氮肥施用对叶片氮素含量影响不显著。...     

沼渣与化肥配合施用对温室番茄生长发育、产量及品质的影响

采用随机区组试验设计,研究了沼渣与化肥配合施用对番茄生长发育、产量和品质的影响.结果表明:沼渣与化肥配合施用有利于番茄生长发育,其中60%沼渣+40%化肥处理的植株生长发育状况良好,产量高于其他处理;60%沼渣+40%化肥处理果实Vc含量为91.09 mg.kg-1,比对照高21.32 mg.kg-1,总糖含量比对照高2.13%,果实品质有明显改善.在试验组合中,60%沼渣与40%化肥配合施用为设施番茄的最佳配比.     

NaCl胁迫下苯丙烯酸在黄瓜幼苗-土壤系统内的积累

采用盆栽试验,以耐盐黄瓜品种‘津绿5号’和盐敏感品种‘津优1号’为试材,研究了NaCl（585 mg·kg^-1土）胁迫下不同浓度苯丙烯酸对黄瓜幼苗-土壤系统内苯丙烯酸积累的影响.结果表明： 苯丙烯酸施用浓度是影响土壤和黄瓜植株中苯丙烯酸含量的主要因子;除最高浓度(200 mg·kg^-1土)外,其他处理的黄瓜植株苯丙烯酸含量均随处理浓度的增加而增加.盐分胁迫使苯丙烯酸的毒性作用增强,在中低浓度处理下,黄瓜植株中苯丙烯酸含量升高;在高浓度处理下,黄瓜幼苗生长量下降并导致植株中苯丙烯酸含量降低;‘津绿5号’在最高浓度(200 mg·kg^-1土)处理时苯丙烯酸含量下降,而‘津优1号’从100 mg·kg^-1土浓度就开始下降,反映出两个黄瓜品种的耐盐性差异.在黄瓜植株各部位中,苯丙烯酸主要在叶片中积累;而在黄瓜植株-土壤系统内,苯丙烯酸主要在土壤中积累.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">Pseudomonas chlororaphis</Emphasis>: a salt-tolerant bacterial inoculant for plant growth stimulation under saline soil conditions

Saline soils constitute a serious production problem for vegetable crops as they are known to suppress plant growth. One of the possible measures to improve crop health in such conditions is to use salt-tolerant bacterial inoculants which can control diseases and promote plant growth. In the present work the ability of Pseudomonas chlororaphis isolate TSAU13 to promote cucumber and tomato plant growth and to improve fruit yield by protecting these plants against soil-borne pathogens in salinated soil were investigated. The bacterial strain stimulated shoot growth (up to 32%), dry matter (up to 43%), and the fruit yield of tomato and cucumber (up to 16%) compared to the uninoculated control plants under saline conditions. The strain was able to survive on the root of 2-month-old plants. 29% of the cucumber and 27% of the tomato plants which had grown in soil to which no Fusarium solani spores had been added were diseased, whereas in the presence of the pathogenic fungus 58% of the cucumber and 52% tomato plants had disease symptoms. P. chlororaphis TSAU13 showed statistically significant disease reduction in comparison to the Fusarium-uninfected and infected control plants. Those results showed that P. chlororaphis TSAU13 has a great biotechnological potential in improvement of vegetable production in commercial greenhouses under saline conditions.     

Interactive effects of boron and salinity stress on the growth,membrane permeability and mineral composition of tomato and cucumber plants

A greenhouse study was conducted in order to determine interactive effects of NaCl salinity and B on the growth, sodium (Na), chloride (Cl), boron (B), potassium (K) concentrations and membrane permeability of salt resistant Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L. cv. Lale F₁) and salt sensitive cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. cv. Santana F₁) plants. Plants were grown in a factorial combination of NaCl (0 and 30 mM for cucumber and 0 and 40 mM for tomato) and B (0, 5, 10 and 20 mg kg^–1 soil). Boron toxicity symptoms appeared at 5 mg kg^–1 B treatments in both plants. Salinity caused an increase in leaf injury due to B toxicity, but it was more severe in cucumber. Dry weights of the plants decreased with the increasing levels of applied B in nonsaline conditions, but the decrease in dry weights due to B toxicity was more pronounced in saline conditions especially in cucumber. Salinity × B interaction on the concentration of B in both plants was found significant. However, increase in B concentrations of tomato decreased under saline conditions when compared to nonsaline conditions. Contrary to this, B concentration of cucumber increased as a result of increasing levels of applied B and salinity. Salinity increased Na and Cl concentrations of both plants.Potassium concentration of tomato was not affected by salinity and B treatments, but K concentration of cucumber was decreased by salinity. Membrane permeability of the plants was increased by salinity while toxic levels of B had no effect on membrane permeability in nonsaline conditions. Membrane permeability was significantly increased in the presence of salinity by the increasing levels of applied B.     

石蒜对萝卜、黄瓜、番茄和油菜幼苗的化感效应

在室内用离体生测方法研究了石蒜水浸提物对萝卜、黄瓜、番茄和油菜的化感效应.结果表明, 石蒜水浸提物对4种植物种子的萌发和幼苗生长均具有较强的抑制作用.4种受体作物中,以番茄最为敏感,最低浓度0.0125 g·ml^-1处理下,番茄种子完全受到抑制不能萌发,油菜、萝卜与黄瓜种子的萌发抑制率分别为17.73％、14.97％和2.65％.相同浓度处理时,石蒜水浸提物对萝卜、黄瓜及油菜芽的生长抑制作用高于对根的抑制作用.采用去胚乳小麦生长法和高梁河沙法测定了石蒜甲醇浸提物对光合作用和非光合作用抑制活性.结果表明,石蒜甲醇浸提物对去胚乳小麦和高梁的生长有较强的抑制作用,对高梁芽和根生长的抑制作用高于对去胚乳小麦根和芽生长的抑制,说明石蒜对植物的化感效应主要体现在抑制非光合作用活性上,但也一定程度地抑制植物的光合作用.     

Transformed tomato plants express a satellite RNA of cucumber mosaic virus and produce lethal necrosis upon infection with viral RNA.

Tomato plants transformed with a single copy of a tomato necrosis causing satellite RNA of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) express the satellite sequence, but the plants show no disease symptoms and have a normal appearance. Upon challenge infection of the F1 progeny with a CMV strain free of any detectable encapsidated satellite the plants accumulated single and double-stranded forms of satellite RNA and developed lethal necrosis.     

Effects of host plant on life‐history traits in the polyphagous spider mite Tetranychus urticae

Studying antagonistic coevolution between host plants and herbivores is particularly relevant for polyphagous species that can experience a great diversity of host plants with a large range of defenses. Here, we performed experimental evolution with the polyphagous spider mite Tetranychus urticae to detect how mites can exploit host plants. We thus compared on a same host the performance of replicated populations from an ancestral one reared for hundreds of generations on cucumber plants that were shifted to either tomato or cucumber plants. We controlled for maternal effects by rearing females from all replicated populations on either tomato or cucumber leaves, crossing this factor with the host plant in a factorial design. About 24 generations after the host shift and for all individual mites, we measured the following fitness components on tomato leaf fragments: survival at all stages, acceptance of the host plant by juvenile and adult mites, longevity, and female fecundity. The host plant on which mite populations had evolved did not affect the performance of the mites, but only affected their sex ratio. Females that lived on tomato plants for circa 24 generations produced a higher proportion of daughters than did females that lived on cucumber plants. In contrast, maternal effects influenced juvenile survival, acceptance of the host plant by adult mites and female fecundity. Independently of the host plant species on which their population had evolved, females reared on the tomato maternal environment produced offspring that survived better on tomato as juveniles, but accepted less this host plant as adults and had a lower fecundity than did females reared on the cucumber maternal environment. We also found that temporal blocks affected mite dispersal and both female longevity and fecundity. Taken together, our results show that the host plant species can affect critical parameters of population dynamics, and most importantly that maternal and environmental conditions can facilitate colonization and exploitation of a novel host in the polyphagous T. urticae, by affecting dispersal behavior (host acceptance) and female fecundity.     

HEAT-THERAPY OF VIRUS-INFECTED PLANTS

Virus-free plants were produced from parents systemically infected with the following five viruses: tomato bushy stunt, carnation ring spot, cucumber mosaic, tomato aspermy and Abutilon variegation. The leaves formed while the infected plants were kept at 36°C. were free from symptoms, and test plants inoculated from these remained uninfected. When cuttings were taken from the infected plants at the end of the treatment most grew into healthy plants. The treated plants themselves usually developed symptoms after varying lengths of time at 20°C, but some that before treatment were infected with tomato aspermy, cucumber mosaic or Abutilon variegation viruses, remained permanently healthy.
The same method failed to cure plants infected with tomato spotted wilt, potato virus X and tobacco mosaic virus, although it decreased their virus content. Heat-therapy seems not to be correlated with the thermal inactivation end point of the virus in vitro.     

Probing and feeding characteristics of the greenhouse whitefly in association with host-plant acceptance and whitefly strains

Host-plant and whitefly strain effects and their interactions on the probing and sap feeding of the greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood), have been investigated in this study using the DC-EPG (Electrical Penetration Graph) technique. Whiteflies generally displayed fewer but longer probes on highly acceptable cucumber than on less acceptable tomato. Both whitefly strains, the T(omato)-strain and the C(ucumber)-strain, showed a significantly lower number of phloem phases on cucumber than on tomato. However, the duration of total phloem phases achieved by either of the whitefly strains on these two host plants was not significantly different. These data indicate that a more continuous phloem feeding has occurred on cucumber plants. Indeed, the percentage of phloem feeding time after the first sustained phloem phase (longer than 15 min) was higher on cucumber for the C-strain whiteflies. When comparing these two whitefly strains, the T-strain whiteflies probed less frequently but longer than the C-strain whiteflies did on both host plants. Also, the T-strain whiteflies displayed a longer duration of total phloem phases on tomato. An interaction between the whitefly strain and plant effects was detected on a parameter, which showed that whiteflies probed significantly longer before reaching the first phloem phase on the host plants that had been previously experienced. In conclusion, both plant species and whitefly strains affect whitefly's probing and feeding behaviour, though plant effects are much stronger.     

Induction of resistance in tomato against cucumber mosaic cucumovirus by plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria

Studies were done to evaluate specific strains of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) for induced resistance against cucumber mosaic cucumovirus(CMV) in tomato. In greenhouse experiments where plants were challenged by mechanical inoculation of CMV, the percentage of symptomatic plants in the most effective PGPR treatments ranged from 32 to 58%,compared with 88 to 98% in the nonbacterized, challenged disease control treatment. Field experiments were conducted in 1996 and 1997 to evaluate 4 PGPR strain treatments based on superior performance in the greenhouse studies. In the 1996field experiment, tomato plants treated with 3 PGPR strains exhibited a significantly lower incidence of CMV infection and significantly higher yields, compared with nonbacterized, CMV-challenged controls. In 1997, the overall percentages of plants infected with CMV in the control and PGPR treatments was higher than in 1996. CMV symptom development was significantly reduced on PGPR-treated plants in 1997compared with the control, but the percentage of infected plants and tomato yields were not significantly different among treatments. These results suggest that PGPR-mediated induced resistance against CMV infection following mechanical inoculation onto tomato can be maintained under field conditions. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Zinc and copper uptake by silver beet grown in secondary treated effluent

The study was conducted in a hydroponics set-up to determine the suitability of zinc (Zn) and copper (Cu) contaminated wastewater as a growth medium for edible crops; to identify accumulation of Zn and Cu in different parts of the plants and to understand their effects on plant growth. Silver beet was found to produce adequate yields in the Zn (1.7 mg/L and 2.0mg/L) and Cu (0.35 mg/L and 1.1mg/L) spiked medium but not in the secondary treated domestic effluent. The plants grown in secondary treated effluent showed stunted growth and accumulated Zn and Cu to a high level in their shoots. In all other mediums Zn and Cu accumulated more in the roots. The stunted growth of silver beet in secondary treated wastewater and uptake of Zn in particular was considered to be due to the deficiency of nitrogen and other plant nutrients rather than the effect of heavy metals. The study also revealed that if there was adequate amount of macronutrients available for growth, silver beet could be grown in domestic effluent without the risk of Zn or Cu contamination to the undesired level through hydroponics.