转ZjAPX基因拟南芥对NaCl、干旱胁迫的耐性研究

旨在探讨枣树抗坏血酸过氧化物酶基因ZjAPX在植物渗透胁迫中的作用。将ZjAPX基因转入到模式植物拟南芥,以野生型(WT)、转ZjAPX拟南芥株系T2为试材,进行不同浓度NaCl胁迫和干旱胁迫。结果表明,转基因株系的种子萌发、植株生长均优于野生型株系;荧光定量PCR检测转基因拟南芥植株在干旱和盐胁迫处理10 d后目的基因ZjAPX的表达量显著高于野生拟南芥,表明ZjAPX的高表达明显提高了植株的抗旱和耐盐性。     

转AhNCED1基因拟南芥的形态特征和抗旱性研究

目的：探讨外源基因花生NCED1（AhNCED1）对拟南芥的形态特征和抗旱能力的影响。方法：观察转AhNCED1拟南芥的表型特征以及在干旱条件下的变化,利用扫描电镜观察植株叶上表面细胞和气孔大小。结果：与野生型相比,AhNCED1转基因植株矮壮,株型紧凑,分蘖和分枝数减少,幼苗根发育好。在干旱条件下转基因型植株叶大色绿,气孔开度减小,表皮细胞排列紧密。结论：转基因型植株在干旱条件下的表型特征与抗旱能力表明转基因拟南芥抗旱能力高于野生型。     

干旱胁迫对不同抗旱性棉花品种抗氧化酶活性及基因表达的影响

为明确不同抗旱性棉花品种对干旱胁迫的适应性差异,该研究选用‘新陆早50号’(耐旱型)和‘新陆早27号’(干旱敏感型)为材料,分析干旱及复水处理下两材料的活性氧产生、电解质渗漏、抗氧化酶活性变化,并分析部分抗氧化酶基因、渗透调节基因和转录因子在干旱胁迫下的表达谱。结果显示:(1)棉花叶片的电导率和MDA含量随着干旱胁迫的加强逐渐增加,复水后恢复;在干旱胁迫处理6和8d,耐旱型品种‘新陆早50号’的抗氧化酶活性显著高于干旱敏感型品种‘新陆早27号’。(2)基因表达谱分析显示,棉花超氧化物歧化酶基因(GhSOD)仅在干旱胁迫下表达,且2个品种间差异不显著,GhBADH、GhNCED和GhP5Cs及转录因子GhPHD1、GhPHD5、GhPHD6和GhPHD10在‘新陆早50号’叶片中的表达量均高于‘新陆早27号’。研究表明,耐旱型棉花品种较干旱敏感型在干旱胁迫下其体内的活性氧含量、电导率和MDA含量较低,抗氧化酶活性较高,并且其抗旱相关基因表达量也更高。     

3种荒漠植物光合及叶绿素荧光对干旱胁迫的响应及抗旱性评价

利用盆栽试验结合人工浇水后自然耗水的方法测定干旱胁迫对梭梭、白刺、沙蒿3种荒漠植物叶片水分、光合及叶绿素荧光参数的影响,探讨各指标在干旱胁迫过程中的变化特征、响应机制及其与土壤水分的定量关系,并用隶属函数法对其进行抗旱性排序。结果表明：(1)3种植物叶片相对含水量(RWC)随干旱胁迫天数增加持续降低,最大水分亏缺(RWD)呈波动式上升趋势。(2)3种植物总叶绿素含量(Chl)和叶绿素a(Chla)、叶绿素b(Chlb)含量,以及梭梭、白刺类胡萝卜素含量均随胁迫天数增加而降低;沙蒿类胡萝卜素随土壤含水率降低逐渐升高。(3)梭梭、白刺、沙蒿叶片净光合速率(P_n)、蒸腾速率(T_r)、水分利用效率(WUE)等主要光合气体交换参数对土壤水分表现出明显的阈值响应,适宜的土壤含水率分别为8.04%～19.33%、4.17%～19.10%、6.48%～17.51%。(4)3种植物 PSⅡ最大光化学效率(Fv/F_m)、实际光化学效率(F_v′/F_m′)及光化学淬灭系数(qP)均随干旱胁迫天数增加和光照强度增大而降低,非光化学淬灭系数(NPQ)则呈逐渐上升趋势;干旱胁迫中后期,梭梭、沙蒿的F_v/F_m及F_v′/F_m′均下降,光合机构光合活性遭到破坏,电子传递受阻,PSⅡ反应中心受损,表现出光抑制,而白刺调节自身PSⅡ反应中心免受伤害的能力较强。(5)隶属函数法综合分析表明,3种植物耐旱能力大小依次为白刺>梭梭>沙蒿。研究发现,3种荒漠植物均可通过调节 PSⅡ反应中心开放程度与活性,对干旱胁迫表现出较强的耐性,胁迫后期植物PSⅡ反应中心关闭或不可逆失活,表现出光抑制。     

Modification of Drought Resistance by Water Stress Conditioning in Acacia and Eucalyptus

Plants of Acacia and Eucalyptus species were grown under differentlevels of shading, nutrition, and irrigation to assess the effectof these factors on plant water use. Water use per unit of leaf(phyllode) area was affected only by the irrigation treatment,control plants that had received water daily using appreciablymore water than plants that had been repeatedly subjected towater stress. Water stress conditioning had little or no effecton plant height, leaf (phyllode) area, or minimum stomatal resistancein any of the species. Detailed study of the water stress conditioningof Eucalyptus robusta showed that controls used 46% more waterthan conditioned plants. Leaf area and plant height were unaffectedby conditioning. Control of transpiration was not due to stomatalfunctioning, both sets of plants operating with the same leafdiffusive resistance under conditions of ready water availability.Hydraulic conductivity of the intact root system was loweredby conditioning and it is suggested that this was due, at leastin part, to the effect that conditioning had on root xylem conductivity.Specific conductivity of stem sections was lowered by waterstress conditioning. Water stress avoidance was also associatedwith a more pronounced tendency for stomata to close prior towilting and with a higher level of leaf resistance which couldbe maintained at a low leaf water potential. Conditioned plantsexhibited drought tolerance in their ability to control lossof water from the leaf at lower leaf water potentials than thecontrols.     

Effects of Engineered Sinorhizobium meliloti on Cytokinin Synthesis and Tolerance of Alfalfa to Extreme Drought Stress

Cytokinin is required for the initiation of leguminous nitrogen fixation nodules elicited by rhizobia and the delay of the leaf senescence induced by drought stress. A few free-living rhizobia have been found to produce cytokinin. However, the effects of engineered rhizobia capable of synthesizing cytokinin on host tolerance to abiotic stresses have not yet been described. In this study, two engineered Sinorhizobium strains overproducing cytokinin were constructed. The tolerance of inoculated alfalfa plants to severe drought stress was assessed. The engineered strains, which expressed the Agrobacterium ipt gene under the control of different promoters, synthesized more zeatins than the control strain under free-living conditions, but their own growth was not affected. After a 4-week inoculation period, the effects of engineered strains on alfalfa growth and nitrogen fixation were similar to those of the control strain under nondrought conditions. After being subjected to severe drought stress, most of the alfalfa plants inoculated with engineered strains survived, and the nitrogenase activity in their root nodules showed no apparent change. A small elevation in zeatin concentration was observed in the leaves of these plants. The expression of antioxidant enzymes increased, and the level of reactive oxygen species decreased correspondingly. Although the ipt gene was transcribed in the bacteroids of engineered strains, the level of cytokinin in alfalfa nodules was identical to that of the control. These findings suggest that engineered Sinorhizobium strains synthesizing more cytokinin could improve the tolerance of alfalfa to severe drought stress without affecting alfalfa nodulation or nitrogen fixation.     

抗旱性不同的冬小麦幼苗对渗透胁迫的生理效应

抗旱性不同的冬小麦幼苗在渗进胁迫下叶片相对透性、Pro含量和在总游离氨基酸中的Pro比例均增加,但品种间变化幅度有明显差别。在严重胁迫下,抗旱性弱的品种济南13,烟农15和鲁麦5号的叶片相对透性增加大于抗旱性强的品种昌乐5号,秦麦3号和山农587;而Pro含量和在总游离氨基酸中Pro比例的增加小于抗旱性强的品种、叶片Pro累积与RWC呈显著负相关。     

用渗透胁迫鉴定小麦种子萌发期抗旱性的方法分析

本以聚乙二醇(PEG)-6000、甘露醇和蔗糖作为渗透剂模拟水分胁迫,胁迫溶液渗透势范围在-0．25MPa到-1．50MPa,分析适于进行小麦种子水分胁迫萌发试验的条件,以鉴定小麦萌发期的抗旱性。结果表明,蔗糖溶液易诱发霉茵,胚芽不能正常生长。渗透势为-0．25MPa的PEG-6000及-0．50MPa的甘露醇胁迫已经显抑制了胚芽伸长;-0．50MPa的PEG-6000及-1．00MPa的甘露醇显抑制种子萌发,随着胁迫强度增加,种子相对发芽率及胚芽长度减小,主要是因为渗透胁迫降低了种子吸水速度,胚芽的相对含水量和渗透势均低。在渗透势相同的胁迫条件下,PEG-6000对小麦种子萌发各项检测值的抑制作用均大于甘露醇。如果目的是通过鉴定小麦种子在高渗溶液中的萌发情况,评价萌发期的抗旱性。选用-0．50MPa的PEG-6000或-1．00MPa的甘露醇较为理想,若同时考虑降低试验成本,则应首选-0．50MPa的PEG-6000。     

Transgenerational Variations in DNA Methylation Induced by Drought Stress in Two Rice Varieties with Distinguished Difference to Drought Resistance

Adverse environmental conditions have large impacts on plant growth and crop production. One of the crucial mechanisms that plants use in variable and stressful natural environments is gene expression modulation through epigenetic modification. In this study, two rice varieties with different drought resistance levels were cultivated under drought stress from tilling stage to seed filling stage for six successive generations. The variations in DNA methylation of the original generation (G0) and the sixth generation (G6) of these two varieties in normal condition (CK) and under drought stress (DT) at seedling stage were assessed by using Methylation Sensitive Amplification Polymorphism (MSAP) method. The results revealed that drought stress had a cumulative effect on the DNA methylation pattern of both varieties, but these two varieties had different responses to drought stress in DNA methylation. The DNA methylation levels of II-32B (sensitive) and Huhan-3 (resistant) were around 39% and 32%, respectively. Genome-wide DNA methylation variations among generations or treatments accounted for around 13.1% of total MSAP loci in II-32B, but was only approximately 1.3% in Huhan-3. In II-32B, 27.6% of total differentially methylated loci (DML) were directly induced by drought stress and 3.2% of total DML stably transmitted their changed DNA methylation status to the next generation. In Huhan-3, the numbers were 48.8% and 29.8%, respectively. Therefore, entrainment had greater effect on Huhan-3 than on II-32B. Sequence analysis revealed that the DML were widely distributed on all 12 rice chromosomes and that it mainly occurred on the gene’s promoter and exon region. Some genes with DML respond to environmental stresses. The inheritance of epigenetic variations induced by drought stress may provide a new way to develop drought resistant rice varieties.     

Predictability of Extreme Events in Social Media

It is part of our daily social-media experience that seemingly ordinary items (videos, news, publications, etc.) unexpectedly gain an enormous amount of attention. Here we investigate how unexpected these extreme events are. We propose a method that, given some information on the items, quantifies the predictability of events, i.e., the potential of identifying in advance the most successful items. Applying this method to different data, ranging from views in YouTube videos to posts in Usenet discussion groups, we invariantly find that the predictability increases for the most extreme events. This indicates that, despite the inherently stochastic collective dynamics of users, efficient prediction is possible for the most successful items.     

外源超氧化物歧化酶基因MnSOD在玉米中的过量表达及抗逆性的提高

为研究过量表达的超氧化物歧化酶基因MnSOD对玉米抗逆性的作用,构建了小麦来源MnSOD基因的单子叶植物高效表达载体,用基因枪法转化优良玉米自交系胚性愈伤组织。经潮霉素梯度浓度培养基筛选,从阳性愈伤组织再生获得9个正常结实的植株。其中5株经PCR和Southern印迹检测表现为阳性,表明外源基因己整合到玉米基因组中。提取SOD酶液,非变性聚肉烯酰胺浓度梯度凝胶电泳分离,用H2O2 5mmol／L抑制FeSOD和CU／ZnSOD活性,氯化硝基四氮唑蓝染色检测MnSOD酶活性。Southern印迹呈阳性的5个植株,MnSOD酶活性均高于未转基因的对照。甲基紫精氧化损伤处理后,用电解质渗漏率法测定阳性株系的叶片渗透液的电导率。结果表明,转基因株系的抗氧化损伤能力显著高于对照。     

干旱胁迫下外源氯化钙、水杨酸和一氧化氮对石蒜抗旱性的影响

通过盆栽试验,研究了外源氯化钙（CaCl2）、水杨酸（SA）和NO供体硝普钠（SNP）处理对干旱胁迫下石蒜抗旱性的影响。结果表明,较低浓度的CaCl2对石蒜抗旱性的影响不显著,而随着CaCl2预处理浓度的提高,石蒜的抗旱效果显著增强。较低浓度SA和sNP可显著提高石蒜的抗旱性,而高浓度则会发生毒害作用。利用模糊隶属函数法综合评价渗透调节物质、膜系统和抗氧化酶活性多项指标可以得出,喷施10mmol·L—CaCl2、2mmol-L。SA和0．5mmol·L-1 SNP对石蒜抗旱性的提高具有显著效果。     

不同植物在水分胁迫条件下脯氨酸的累积与抗旱性的关系

Ca植物春小麦幼苗叶片累积脯氨酸的数量随水分胁迫时间和强度递增,累积的数量与品种的抗旱性没有相关性。C_4植物玉米和高粱累积脯氨酸的数量低于小麦,但高粱多于玉米。CAM植物落地生根脯氨酸含量略有变化。旱生植物细枝岩黄芪的同化枝累积脯氨酸的数量高于中生植物钻天杨和槐的叶片,而梭梭的同化校则低于槐而高于钻天杨。表明这些植物累积脯氨酸的数量与它们的抗旱性无夫。因此似不宜用脯氨酸数量的多少作为植物抗旱性的生理指标。     

松土对干旱胁迫下油橄榄抗性生理及土壤环境因子的影响

以田间树龄6~7年的油橄榄树为对象,设置充分灌溉(W_(CK))、2/3灌溉量(W_1)、1/3灌溉量(W_2)3个土壤水分环境条件,考察松土对干旱胁迫下油橄榄根际土壤理化指标、土壤酶活性、油橄榄叶片抗性生理及根系活力的影响,探究松土提高油橄榄抗旱性的生理机制,为油橄榄的抗旱生产提供理论和技术支持。结果表明:(1)随着灌溉量的减少,油橄榄叶片O~-·_2产生速率、MDA含量和H_2O_2含量都有所增加,油橄榄叶片受到了干旱造成的氧化胁迫,但松土处理均抑制了O~-·_2产生速率、MDA含量和H_2O_2含量的增长,同时也缓解了细胞膜稳定指数的下降;(2)经松土处理后,除SOD活性和还原型谷胱甘肽含量增加不明显外,油橄榄叶片POD活性、CAT活性均比不松土处理显著增加,增强了其抵御氧化胁迫的能力;(3)松土处理使油橄榄根际土壤相关酶活性、根际土壤含水量有所增加,但土壤pH值有所降低,这些根际土壤环境因子的变化对于油橄榄的矿质营养和水分状况的改善都具有积极的作用,尤其在因灌溉不足引起干旱胁迫的情形下更为重要。(4)松土处理提高了油橄榄叶片叶绿素含量和根系活力。研究认为,松土处理通过改善干旱胁迫下油橄榄的根际微环境条件,强化油橄榄叶片的酶促和非酶促抗氧化系统活性,提高自身渗透调节能力,增强根系活力,从而有效提高油橄榄对干旱的整体抗性。