Active Water Transport in Plants

There is no unanimous agreement about a definition of active water transport. The following definition was accepted: During an active transport or process, the water potential must increase and this gain must depend on the decrease in free energy in some metabolic process (5, 10). The passage of water from soil through plants to atmosphere can involve several active steps. A removal of solutes from the water represents a gain of osmotic water potential and this gain can exceed concurrent losses of other water potential components, resulting in a net gain of water potential. An increase of water potential was demonstrated in barley seedlings. Bleeding and guttation liquids were usually found to be more dilute than the external solution. Osmotic and gravitational potential components in exudates, thus, increased while other components remained virtually constant relative to the external solutions. The gain in osmotic potential depends most likely on a metabolic removal of salts: hence, the requirements for an active transport are satisfied. Active water transports, however, are not dependent or connected with the development of root pressure. The existence of active water transports disproves the rule that water flows only along water potential gradients (only against diffusion pressure deficit gradients). A gain in leaf water potential has a physiological significance since the range of soil water potentials a plant can withstand without wilting is extended.     

乡土水生植物对富营养化水体的净化效果研究

为了解乡土水生植物净化富营养化水体的效果,研究了广东地区5种乡土水生植物对2种富营养化水体总氮(TN)、总磷(TP)的净化效果和植物的生长状况。结果表明,与无植物空白相比,5种乡土植物使低、高浓度水体的TN去除率分别提高了3.8%～13.3%和13.2%～17.1%,TP去除率分别提高了15.2%～22.1%和11.3%～57.6%,其中野荸荠(Eleocharis plantagineiformis)适用于净化低氮水体;酸模叶蓼(Polygonumlapathifolium)适用于高氮水体;三白草(Saururuschinensis)适用于低磷水体;菱角(Trapa komarovii)适用于低氮或高磷水体;水龙(Ludwigia adscendens)对2种水体均有较好的净化效果,对高磷水体效果极佳。5种乡土植物在低、高浓度水体中均旺盛生长,水龙的生物量净增长率分别达375.5%和539.8%,表现最优,其次为菱角;水葫芦(Eichhorniacrassipes)则在高浓度水体中腐烂死亡,加重了水体污染。水龙、菱角对污染物的吸收作用较强,对P的吸收能力显著优于其他植物(P0.05)。因此,5种乡土植物均可作为广东地区富营养化水体修复的备选植物,其中水龙和菱角的开发潜力最大。     

水生植物在污水处理和水质改善中的应用

介绍了水生植物在污水治理中的应用。通过与其他方法的比较,说明了水生植物净化法有其独特的优点。分别阐述了低等植物藻类及高等水生植物净化污水的应用类型、方式,应用范围及净化机理．还对高等水生植物的选取标准作了描述。指出了该方法使用的可行性,并对其应用前景作出了展望。     

水生植物在污水处理和水质改善中的应用

介绍了水生植物在污水治理中的应用。通过与其他方法的比较,说明了水生植物净化法有其独特的优点。分别阐述了低等植物藻类及高等水生植物净化污水的应用类型、方式,应用范围及净化机理,还对高等水生植物的选取标准作了描述。指出了该方法使用的可行性,并对其应用前景作出了展望。     

Relation between Anion Transport and Water Flow in Tomato Plants

Lowering the water potential of culture solutions from ?0.4 to ?5.4 atm reduced both phosphorus and bromide transport to the shoot, hut the content in the roots was not affected. Reductions in phosphorus transport to the shoot were measured during the first four hours of treatment and were related to concurrent decreases in water flow and not to an impairment of active phosphorus transport. The effect of low water potential on phosphorus transport to shoots was similar at external phosphorus concentrations between 0.6 and 15 mg/l. Phosphorus transport was greater in the dark at ?0.4 atm than in the light at ?5.4 atm even when these treatments gave the same overall rates of water flow; this is attributed to a different pattern of water flow through the various root zones. The results suggest that the main effect of water flow on anion transport to shoots occurred after the ions had been actively adsorbed by the roots and was not due to mass flow increasing ion delivery to sites of active uptake.     

Long-Distance Transport of Alkali Metals in Maturing Wheat

The alkali metals cesium, rubidium, lithium and sodium were introduced together with strontium via flaps into leaf laminas or into the stem of maturing, intact winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Arina) grown in a field. Long-distance transport of these elements and the influence of the application date and of different application positions were investigated. The phloem-immobile Sr served as a marker for the distribution of the xylem sap in the plants. Dry matter accumulation in the grains and the transpiration per shoot were not markedly affected by the treatments as compared to control plants. The phloem mobility was rather high for Cs and Rb. Li was almost immobile in the phloem (similarly to Sr). An application into the cut stem xylem below the second leaf node contributed more to the contents in the grains than an application into the flag leaf. An earlier feeding date led to a higher accumulation in the grains. The marked losses of the elements applied during maturation (most pronounced for Li) can be explained by leakage in the rain.     

Behavior of Lambs in Rest Pens During Long-Distance Transport

The aim of this study was to determine how one group of lambs utilized 2 consecutive rest periods in novel environments with access to food and water that occurred during 22 hr of motor transport. The 18.5 ± 0.6 kg lambs (n = 15) were transported for 8 hr and then unloaded for a 6-hr rest period. After 6 hr, the lambs were reloaded for another 8 hr of transport followed by a 24-hr rest period. Reloading for a second 8 hr of transport followed the initial rest period. The percentage of lambs engaged in drinking, eating, lying, playing, or “other” was determined at 15-min intervals. During the 6-hr rest period, peak lying behavior occurred during the 2nd and 6th hr of the period. During the first 6 hr of the 24-hr rest period, the percentage of lambs lying increased while the percentage of lambs eating decreased. In addition, the percentage of lambs lying during the first 6 hr of the 24-hr rest period was greater than during the 6-hr rest period. Lying down had a greater priority than eating during the second (24-hr) rest period.     

High Molecular Weight Organic Compounds in the Xylem Sap of Mangroves: Implications for Long-Distance Water Transport

The rise of sap in mangroves has puzzled plant physiologists for many decades. The current consensus is that negative pressures in the xylem exist which are sufficiently high to exceed the osmotic pressure of seawater (2.5 MPa). This implies that the radial reflection coefficients of the mangrove roots are equal to unity. However, direct pressure probe measurements in xylem vessels of the roots and stems of mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) grown in the laboratory or in the field yielded below-atmospheric, positive (absolute) pressure values. Slightly negative pressure values were recorded only occasionally. Xylem pressure did not change significantly when the plants were transferred from tap water to solutions containing up to 1700 mOsmol kg^?1 NaCl. This indicates that the radial reflection coefficient of the roots for salt, and therefore the effective osmotic pressure of the external solution, was essentially zero as already reported for other halophytes. The low values of xylem tension measured with the xylem pressure probe were consistent with previously published data obtained using the vacuum/leafy twig technique. Values of xylem tension determined with these two methods were nearly two orders of magnitude smaller than those estimated for mangrove using the pressure chamber technique (?3 to ?6MPa). Xylem pressure probe measurements and staining experiments with alcian blue and other dyes gave strong evidence that the xylem vessels contained viscous, mucilage- and/or protein-related compounds. Production of these compounds resulting from wound or other artifactual reactions was excluded. The very low sap flow rates of about 20–50 cm h^?1 measured in these mangrove plants were consistent with the presence of high molecular weight polymeric substances in the xylem sap. The presence of viscous substances in the xylem sap of mangroves has the following implications for traditional xylem pressure measurement techniques, development of xylem tension, and longdistance water transport: (1) high external balancing pressures in the pressure chamber are needed to force xylem sap to the cut surface of the twig; (2) stable tensions much larger than 0.1 MPa can be developed only occasionally because viscous solutions provide nucleation sites for gas bubble formation; (3) the frequent presence of small gas bubbles in viscous solutions allows water transport by interfacial, gravity-independent streaming at gas/water interfaces and (4) the increased density of viscous solutions creates (gravity-dependent) convectional flows. Density-driven convectional flows and interfacial streaming, but also the very low radial reflection coefficient of the roots to NaCl are apparently the means by which R. mangle maintains water transport to its leaves despite the high salinity of the environment.     

水生植物的生态敏感度研究

水生生态系统是否稳定 ,总是以构成系统的各生物种群的结构及其相互关系的动态变化为判定标准。研究水生植物种类对环境因子的生态效应 ,确定不同种类的生态敏感度 ,为水生生态系统的敏感区域划定与保护和评价受破坏的生态系统的功能状况提供理论依据和方法。据美国和瑞典的资料报道 [4 ] ,生态敏感度概念已被引入生态规划 ,作为重要的规划工具之一 ,这是一种新的规划思路和方法。1　确定生态敏感度的原则1生态敏感度是指生物体对来自生存环境中的各种因子的影响所作出的反应。环境因子可以是单个的 ,也可以是复合的 ,因此生态敏感度表现为…     

The Study of NaCl Transport in Aquatic Animals

The first part of the paper is devoted to the methods used forstudying transfer of ions between intact aquatic animals andtheir environments. The use of flux-force relationships is described,and some alternative criteria for delimiting active transportare examined. The second part discusses recent research on hyper- and hypotonicregulators.     

Floristic Analysis of Aquatic Plants in Baiyandian Lake

The Baiyandian Lake lies at 115°56′ E. and 38°55′ N. It is about 8 m above sea level, with an area about 312 square km. There are abundant aquatic plants here, including flowering plants of 30 families, 46 genera, 66 species and 3 varieties besides one introduced species. 32 species are erect ones covering about 48.5% of the total number of species in this lake, 20 are submerged ones, about 30.3%, 9 are leaf-floating ones, about 13.6% and 5 are floating ones, 7.6%. The soil at the bed of the lake is very fertile and the depth is appropriate, favouring various plants. The coverage is large, sometimes it may reach 100%, for example, in communities of Phragmites communis, Hydrilla verticillata, Hydrocharis dubis, Trapa bicornis, etc. Although the Baiyandian Lake is located in the temperate zone, the floristic elements are complex. There are tropic-subtropic elements and elements of high-frigid zone as well. When compared respectively with the floras of the Lakes Jingbo Lake, Honghu Lake and Lugu Lake, the flora of this lake is found more similar to that of subtropic Honghu Lake than to those of the other lakes, which shows that it hase a character transitional between the south and the north in China. Further studies of the floristic relationships are needed in order to exploit and use the resources of the aquatic plants in this lake.