温度对叶用莴苣春化的影响

为了探讨温度对叶用莴苣春化的影响,进而明确其春化类型,本试验选用两个易抽薹叶用莴苣品种GB-30和GB-31为试材,分别进行20 d的4、20和25 ℃处理,然后均进行高温胁迫促进抽薹,采用石蜡切片观察茎尖花芽分化进程,并结合后期抽薹开花情况来判断是否进行春化,并确定其春化类型.结果表明:两个品种在前期经过3种温度处理后,在高温胁迫第8天时均有不同程度的抽薹.两个品种不同温度处理下花芽均进行了分化,前期4 ℃处理并没有使其花芽分化明显提前,后期的高温胁迫可以明显促进花芽分化进程.两品种间在不同温度处理下完成各发育阶段所需天数存在差异,两品种各处理从催芽到开花以及从高温到开花的有效积温也存在差异.前期未经低温处理的叶用莴苣也进入花芽分化、抽薹、现蕾及开花阶段,表明叶用莴苣为非低温春化型植物,后期高温处理能明显促进其抽薹开花,而且从催芽开始只有有效积温达到约2500 ℃·d才能开花.     

Substances of plant flowering

The investigation of the hormonal nature of plant flowering in connection with their photoperiodic reaction has shown that flowering depends on a bicomponental system of hormones, gibberellins regulating stem formation and growth and substances of the anthesin type regulating flower formation. In agreement with the division of the photoperiodic reaction into a leaf and a stem phase the study of the internal factors acting on plant flowering was carried out by means of leaf and stem (apex, bud and callus) models. The results obtained from work with leaf models proved the presence of two groups of hormones of flowering in plants. The data obtained from the application of stem models pointed to the localization of the action of gibberellin and anthesin in different zones of the shoot apices and characterized the potential capacity for flower formation of isolated callus tissue of neutral and photoperiodically sensitive species.     

发育阶段和海拔对岷江源区陇蜀杜鹃小枝功能性状及生物量分配的影响

本研究分析了岷江源区卡卡山典型高山灌丛植物陇蜀杜鹃不同发育阶段(花芽期和开花期)及不同海拔(3600 m低海拔和3800 m高海拔)下功能小枝和叶片性状的差异,以及空间异质性对花芽期和开花期小枝功能性状相关性及其权衡作用的影响。结果表明: 低海拔同一生长期陇蜀杜鹃小枝长度显著大于高海拔,高海拔开花期小枝的花数量和花质量显著高于低海拔。同一海拔花芽期的小枝质量、叶片数量、总叶质量、总叶面积和总叶柄质量均显著大于开花期,单叶质量和单叶柄质量均显著小于开花期。与花芽期相比,开花期叶生物量占比减少了13%,而小枝质量占比显著增加。小枝的生物量权衡表明,花芽期性状倾向于小枝质量,开花期倾向于总叶质量;花芽期的叶偏好分配于单叶质量,低海拔和高海拔开花期叶片分别偏好分配到单叶柄质量和单叶质量。低海拔开花期小枝质量与总叶面积、总叶质量均为异速生长,单叶柄质量和单叶面积为异速生长。海拔和发育阶段共同影响了陇蜀杜鹃功能小枝和叶片的性状。     

Factors affecting field-scale production of seed of F1 hybrid Brussels sprouts

The two main factors involved in field-scale production of seed of F₁ hybrid Brussels sprouts are pollen availability and honeybee behaviour. Pollen availability depends upon the extent of winter survival of the parent inbreds, their flowering times, plant size and on the number of flowers per plant. Plant losses varied between inbreds and between sites and seasons. Differences in the commencement of flowering time in pairs of inbreds varied from 7 to 21 days, and plant size affected flower number. In hybrid seed-production there was a direct relationship between the number of mature flowers on each inbred and the percentage of non-hybrid seed produced from that inbred. Bees were highly selective in their visits to inbreds, and a mean selfing-to crossing-movement ratio of 30:1 was observed. This behaviour, together with pollen availability, greatly influenced the production of ‘sibs’. Radioactive experiments showed that the amount of cross-pollen carried by a bee decreased by about 30% at each flower visited but radioactive pollen grains were detected on the tenth flower visited. Of a number of factors investigated as possibly influencing bee behaviour, differences in flower colour and plant height were associated with discrimination between inbred lines.     

雌全同株植物三脉紫菀花期偏雄的个体大小依赖的性别分配

经典的虫媒传粉植物个体大小依赖的性别分配模型通常预期:分配给雌性功能的资源比例将随着个体大小的增大而增加;但一些研究表明,花期个体大小依赖的性别分配模式表现出随个体大小增大而偏雄的趋势.我们以植株高度衡量个体大小,从花和花序两个水平上研究了雌花、两性花同株植物三脉紫菀(Aster ageratoides)花期个体大小依赖的性别分配策略.随着植株高度的增大,植株产生的头状花序数量增加,表明三脉紫菀投入到繁殖的资源不是固定不变的,而是随个体大小增大而增加的.在花和花序水平上,繁殖资源在雌雄性别功能之间的分配均表现为随个体大小的增大而更偏雄的模式,即花粉/胚珠比增加,产生花粉的两性花占两性花和雌花总花数的比例升高.这些结果与花期个体越大、性别分配越偏雄的预期一致.花期更偏雄的性别分配可能有助于植物在花期通过输出花粉提高雄性适合度,从而实现个体适合度的最大化.     

Factors Affecting the Flowering of Andropogon gayanus Kunth. Responses to Photoperiod, Temperature and Growth Regulators

Andropogon gayanus is a short-day plant with a critical daylengthfor flowering between 12 and 14 h. Flowering is more intenseas the daylength is shortened from 12 h to 8 h, initiation isalso accelerated by increasing durations of short-day treatment.Plants flower more readily with increasing age. The maximumflowering response can be induced by short-day exposure of onlyone expanding leaf. A fixed number of short days distributedamong different groups of leaves on the plant gave less floweringthan the same number given to only one group. Approximately25°C was optimal for flowering. Root removal treatmentsin short day reduced both growth and flowering responses. Application of the growth regulators indol 3yl-acetic acid,abscisic acid, gibberellic acid or dimethylaminosuccinamic acid(B9) was inhibitory to flowering in all cases but gibberellicacid and B9 applied simultaneously had no inhibitory effect.Growth hormone treatments failed to stimulate flower developmentin long day. These results are discussed in relation to the internal mechanismscontrolling growth and flowering.     

Polyamine translocation following photoperiodic flowering induction in soybean

Radioactivity translocation after [¹⁴C]-spermidine application over the third trifoliate leaf of soybean plants ( Glycine max . [L.] Merr, cv. Williams) was checked during the first 72 h of short day (SD) treatment to study the involvement of polyamines (PAs) in photoperiodic flowering induction. PAs and/or their metabolites were translocated from the supplied leaf to all parts of the plant. Radioactivity reached its highest concentration in the upper portion of the stem, i.e. the apical bud and the youngest leaf. After the beginning of the first inductive night, the detected radioactivity showed two peaks of maximal concentration. The first arose after the first inductive night, coinciding with the proper flowering induction process; the second one arose after the third inductive night, coinciding with the first morphological symptoms of the transition of vegetative meristems to the reproductive condition. Soluble free PAs showed a different balance in the apical bud of SD-induced plants compared with LD-non induced control plants. Soluble conjugated PAs were detected as traces. It is suggested that under flowering inductive conditions, PAs play a different role according to the stage of the flowering process. Thus, their translocation from the leaves to the axillary and apical buds might be related, in a first step, to the fact that they were part of the complex mechanism of the flowering signal, and in a second step, to the flower transition of vegetative buds.     

盐胁迫下藜的形态结构与生理响应

本文采用石蜡切片、扫描电镜和体视显微镜对藜进行了形态结构观察和多种生理指标检测,研究在盐胁迫下藜的结构和生理变化。结果表明：在花期,藜的株高和茎粗显著降低,叶未产生明显肉质化。高盐（300mmol·L^-1）胁迫下,叶维管束的导管数量及形成层层数增加,茎的维管束密度增加,根木质化程度增强,大导管密度显著降低。叶下表面的盐囊泡较上表面多,叶和茎细胞中均含有簇状结晶。随着盐浓度的升高,叶片中含水量降低,相对电导率升高,丙二醛（MDA）含量无显著变化,叶绿素含量在苗后期先升高后降低,在花期,其含量随盐浓度升高而降低。300mmol·L^-1盐胁迫下,苗后期的可溶性糖、脯氨酸7L-N-菜碱含量显著增J／w;至花期,脯氨酸及甜菜碱含量显著高于对照。以上结果初步显示,高浓度盐胁迫对花期的藜形态结构及部分生理指标均比苗期产生显著影响,但300mmol·L^-1盐胁迫下藜仍能完成其生活史。     

Transition from absolute to quantitative short-day control in Nicotiana tabacum cv. Maryland Mammoth

The response in vitro of thin cell layers, excised from different stem regions of Nicotiana tabacum cv. Maryland Mammoth plants at various developmental stages, was studied under different photoperiodic treatments. The aim was to determine at which stage of plant development, and in which region of the stem, the absolute short-day requirement, indispensable for the induction of the flowering process in this genotype, becomes quantitative and whether it remains short-day. The explants were cultured on a medium suitable for flower neoformation, and were exposed for 30 days to the following treatments: continuous darkness, 8 h light/16 h dark per day, 16 h light/8 h dark per day, and continuous light. The first flowers on explants were observed from plants that were still in the vegetative state, but whose apex showed an accelerated production of axillary vegetative buds, as observed histologically. These explants were excised from the first 10 internodes below the first node with a leaf ≥ 5 cm in length (apical site), and produced flowers only under short-day treatment. When the apical dome initiated the organization of the terminal flower, the apical site explants developed flowers under both short-day and long-day treatments. At the same stage, explants from the 15th to the 20th internode below the first leaf ≥ 5 cm in length also formed flowers, but only under short-day. When the plant showed a complete inflorescence, flowers were also present on explants from the most basal stem internodes and from the inflorescence branches. At this stage, flower neoformation occurred under all treatments; however, under short-day the number of explants showing flowers not associated with vegetative buds on the same sample greatly exceeded that observed under other treatments, as did the mean number of flowers per explant (except the basal regions). In conclusion, in the post-inductive phases of the flowering process, the photoperiodic requirement of this genotype is always short-day. The superficial tissues of the stem require either absolute or quantitative short-day treatment, depending on their position on the stem and the stage of evolution of the flowering process in the terminal apex.     

Does natural deposition of pine pollen affect the ovipositional behavior of Frankliniella occidentalis and Frankliniella fusca?

Tree pollen, especially Pinus spp. (Pinaceae), is shed in large quantities every spring in North America. Pine pollen deposition onto leaves was found to significantly influence the ovipositional behaviors of certain thrips species (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in peanut and tomato leaf choice and no‐choice tests. Pine pollen (Pinus elliottii Engelm.) increased the oviposition rate 2.9‐fold for Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) (western flower thrips) and 1.6‐fold for Frankliniella fusca (Hinds) (tobacco thrips) in choice tests averaged over both plant species. These results support the idea that pollen has a greater impact on F. occidentalis behavior than on F. fusca behavior. The most dramatic increase was in peanut, where F. occidentalis only oviposited on leaves dusted with pollen, suggesting that the addition of pollen stimulated this flower thrips to lay eggs on a poor host‐plant part. The impact of pollen on the rate of oviposition by thrips is important because it is the early‐instar nymphs that acquire tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), which these two thrips species vector. In a laboratory bioassay, the addition of pine pollen to TSWV‐infected peanut foliage increased the percentage of infected F. fusca after one generation.     

Microautoradiographic investigations on bidirectional translocation in the phloem of Vicia faba

Summary Using radioactive phenylalanine as a tracer, bidirectional translocation in the phloem of a single stem bundle of Vicia faba L. was detected by analyses of microautoradiographs. Bidirectional translocation occurred in lateral leaf traces subtending a leaf of a certain developmental stage. Before and after this stage, translocation was unidirectional, either acropetal or basipetal, respectively.     

Effects of flowering plant density on pollinator visitation, pollen receipt, and seed production in Delphinium barbeyi (Ranunculaceae)

Variation in flowering plant density can have conflicting effects on pollination and seed production. Dense flower patches may attract more pollinators, but flowers in those patches may also compete for pollinator visits and abiotic resources. We examined how natural and experimental conspecific flowering plant density affected pollen receipt and seed production in a protandrous, bumble bee-pollinated wildflower, Delphinium barbeyi (Ranunculaceae). We also compared floral sex ratios, pollinator visitation rates, and pollen limitation of seed set from early to late in the season to determine whether these factors mirrored seasonal changes in pollen receipt and seed production. Pollen receipt increased with natural flowering plant density, while seed production increased across lower densities and decreased across higher flower densities. Experimental manipulation of flowering plant density did not affect pollinator visitation rate, pollen receipt, or seed production. Although pollinator visitation rate increased 10-fold from early to late in the season, pollen receipt and seed set decreased over the season. Seed set was never pollen-limited. Thus, despite widespread effects of flowering plant density on plant reproduction in other species, the effects of conspecific flowering plant density on D. barbeyi pollination and seed production are minor.     

Pollinator preference and pollen viability mediated by flower color synergistically determine seed set in an Alpine annual herb

Gentiana leucomelaena manifests dramatic flower color polymorphism, with both blue‐ and white‐flowered individuals (pollinated by flies and bees) both within a population and on an individual plant. Previous studies of this species have shown that pollinator preference and flower temperature change as a function of flower color throughout the flowering season. However, few if any studies have explored the effects of flower color on both pollen viability (mediated by anther temperature) and pollinator preference on reproductive success (seed set) in a population or on individual plants over the course of the entire flowering season. Based on prior observations, we hypothesized that flower color affects both pollen viability (as a function of anther temperature) and pollen deposition (as a function of pollinator preference) to synergistically determine reproductive success during the peak of the flowering season. This hypothesis was tested by field observations and hand pollination experiments in a Tibetan alpine meadow. Generalized linear model and path analyses showed that pollen viability was determined by flower color, flowering season, and anther temperature. Anther temperature correlated positively with pollen viability during the peak of the early flowering season, but negatively affected pollen viability during the peak of the mid‐ to late flowering season. Pollen deposition was determined by flower color, flowering season (early, or mid‐ to late season), and pollen viability. Pollen viability and pollen deposition were affected by flower color that in turn affected seed set across the peak of the flowering season (i.e., when the greatest number of flowers were being pollinated). Hand pollination experiments showed that pollen viability and pollen deposition directly influenced seed set. These data collectively indicate that the preference of pollinators for flower color and pollen viability changed during the flowering season in a manner that optimizes successful reproduction in G. leucomelaena. This study is one of a few that have simultaneously considered the effects of both pollen viability and pollen deposition on reproductive success in the same population and on individual plants.     

Factors affecting pollinator movement and plant fitness in a specialized pollination system

The rate of pollen exchange within and among flowers may depend on pollinator attraction traits such as floral display size and flowering plant density. Variations in these traits may influence pollinator movements, pollen receipt, and seed number. To assess how floral display size and flowering plant density affect parameters of pollinator visitation rate, pollen receipt per flower, seed number per fruit and the between-plant pollinator movements, we studied the self-incompatible plant, Nierembergia linariifolia. Per-flower pollinator visitation rate and bout length increased linearly with increasing floral display size. Pollen receipt per flower increased linearly with increasing flowering plant density. For seed number per fruit, a polynomial model describing an increased seed number per fruit at low density and a decreased seed number per fruit at high density provided a significant fit. Per-flower pollinator visitation rate was not associated with pollen receipt per flower and seed number per fruit. Bees visited plants located near to the center of the population more frequently than plants located at the periphery. Increases in both floral display size and flowering plant density led to an increased chance of a plant being chosen as the center of the pollinator foraging area. These results suggest that even though large floral displays and high flowering plant density are traits that attract more pollinators, they may also reduce potential mate diversity by restricting pollen movement to conspecific mates that are closely located.     

落花生不同器官对硒元素吸收和累积动态的研究

通过盆栽试验研究了落花生(Arachis hypogaea L.)对硒元素的生物富集作用。结果表明:随着生长发育期的推进,落花生对硒的生物累积作用呈动态变化,表现在植株体内硒的含量、硒元素累积进程及其贮量上。硒在植株内的累积以下针期为转折点,呈前轻后重之势,全株中55％的硒是结荚后累积的,下针期前硒以叶片为累积贮存中心,其后以荚果为中心,硒在植株内趋向于分布在植株生长旺盛的器官。成熟收获后,植株不同器官的贮量以果仁>叶>果壳>茎>根,含量分布为果仁>根>果壳>茎>叶。     

氮素对日光温室独本菊品种‘神马’干物质分配影响的模拟

 为定量研究氮素对日光温室独本菊(Dendranthema morifolium)干物质分配的影响, 该研究以独本菊品种‘神马’为试验材料, 于2005年10月～2006年7月在北京日光温室内进行了不同定植期和不同氮素水平的栽培试验, 以生理辐热积为发育尺度, 定量分析了氮素对独本菊品种‘神马’干物质分配指数动态的影响, 建立了氮素对日光温室独本菊品种‘神马’干物质分配影响的模拟模型, 并用与建立模型相独立的数据对模型进行了检验。结果表明, 独本菊品种‘神马’叶片累积氮含量最大值出现在现蕾期, 现蕾期叶片累积氮含量适宜值为1.62 g•m^–2。模型对日光温室独本菊品种‘神马’各器官干重预测结果较好, 茎、叶和花干重的预测值与实测值之间基于1:1线的决定系数分别为0.94、0.97和0.94, 相对预测误差分别为10.3%、5.76%和4.02%。该研究建立的模型可以根据温室内的气温、太阳辐射、日长和现蕾期叶片累积氮含量预测日光温室独本菊品种‘神马’各个器官干重随生育时期的动态变化, 从而为日光温室独本菊品种‘神马’生产中氮素的优化管理提供决策支持。     

Red light stimulates flowering and anthocyanin biosynthesis in American cranberry

Morphological responses of American cranberry (Vacciniummacrocarpon Ait, Ericaceae) to different light conditions (red,far-red, white light and sunlight) were examined. Root growth and development,stem elongation, leaf enlargement, de-etiolation of stem and leaf, flower budformation, and flowering of American cranberry were measured under each lightcondition and in the dark. It was found that red light promotes development ofroots and leaves, flowering, and de-etiolation of stem and leaf of Americancranberry. Stem elongation and etiolation of stem and leaf were shown infar-redlight and dark. Anthocyanin biosynthesis as phytochemical response in cranberryplants was most sensitive to red light. Estimation of anthocyanin levels indifferent parts of cranberry plant suggested that anthocyanins were presentonlyin red fruit skins, and not in peeled fruits, green fruits, green leaves, greenstems, roots and seeds.     

三种植物生长物质对大豆叶茎解剖结构的影响

在大田栽培条件下,大豆‘垦农4号’于开花始期叶面喷施植物生长物质2-N,N-二乙氨基乙基己酸酯（DTA）、氯化胆碱（CC）和SOD模拟物（SODM）,并比较不同植物生长物质影响大豆叶片、叶柄和茎的解剖结构。结果表明,喷施植物生长物质后30d,叶中栅栏组织厚度及栅海比均增加;喷施SODM、DTA的叶中主脉维管束横截面积和木质部导管数目增加,CC对主脉维管柬横截面积和木质部导管数目的影响不明显;喷施3种植物生长物质的叶柄表皮细胞厚度、叶柄维管束横截面积和导管数量增加,茎部薄壁组织、韧皮部和木质部厚度增加,茎的直径也增加。     

棉铃虫蛾对寄主植物挥发油的嗅觉电生理及行为反应

本项研究以Tenax TA、Tenax GR为吸附剂,正己烷为洗脱剂,得到了玉米雄穗、玉米花丝、棉花花、棉花顶尖、棉蕾、芹菜、花生叶及花的挥发油。触角电位(EAG)测试结果表明,参试寄主植物及器官的挥发油均有一定的EAG活性,EAG的反应幅度为0.1～1.2mV,雌性棉铃虫Helicoverpa armigera对其产卵寄主或器官的EAG反应在1～10日龄内有随着日龄增加而增大的趋势,交配蛾对棉花花、棉花嫩尖、芹菜、棉蕾的挥发油的EAG反应显著高于处女蛾,雌蛾在经过花生、玉米花丝及棉花顶尖挥发油处理的滤纸上落卵量显著高于对照,表明这几种挥发油中含有可刺激棉铃虫选择其产卵的它感信息化合物。剂量反应曲线表明,交配可显著降低雌蛾对棉花嫩尖和棉花花挥发油的敏感阈值。四臂嗅觉仪测试棉铃虫对不同寄主植物挥发油的行为反应表明,棉蕾、棉花叶、玉米花丝、花生的挥发油均具有-定的诱蛾活性,选择系数分别为0.78、0.61、0.49、0.31。     

钻形紫菀开花期种群构件的生物量分配

在野外用样方法,选取60株钻形紫菀(Aster subulatus Michx.)开花植株,进行根、茎、叶及花等构件的生物量及其物质分配关系的研究.结果表明:钻形紫菀开花期构件生物量为茎>花>根>叶,其变异系数分别为57.15%、64.66%、57.65%和55.2%,具有较大表型可塑性;在各构件物质分配变异系数中,花生物量分配的变异系数相对较大,说明其调节生殖分配的能力较强;植株高度与各构件生物量呈显著的正相关性,随着各构件生物量的增加均呈幂函数形式增加;花生物量分配与总生物量呈显著的正相关性,其余构件生物量分配均与总生物量及花生物量分配呈负相关性,物质分配由营养构件、支持构件、光合构件向生殖构件转移.反映出钻形紫菀具有自我调节生长力的分配策略,对异质环境具有较强适应能力.