湖北药姑山自然保护区药用维管植物资源多样性研究

为深入调查、评价和保护湖北药姑山自然保护区药用维管植物资源,于2012至2014年对该地区开展了系统的调查研究。结果显示,湖北药姑山自然保护区有药用维管植物143科498属968种,其中蕨类植物10科13属13种,裸子植物5科7属7种,被子植物128科478属948种。从生长型来看,草本植物最多,其次是灌木;从药用部位来看,全草类植物最多,其次是根类;按药用功效划分,以清热类、祛风湿类和活血化瘀类居多。湖北药姑山自然保护区内珍稀濒危野生药用维管植物共有57种,占药用维管植物总种数的5.89%。此外,在湖北药姑山自然保护区还发现了瑶族民间常用药用植物58种。在调查与研究的基础上,提出了加强湖北药姑山自然保护区野生药用植物资源保护与利用的措施和建议。     

湖北山毛榉科修订

在前人工作的基础上,对湖北山毛榉科植物进行了修订,报道了２个新组合,４个湖北新纪录种,确认湖北山毛榉科植物共５属,４８种,１亚种,３变种,此为湖北植物志补编工作的首次报道。     

湖北西陵峡地区珍稀特有植物分析

湖北西陵峡地区位于湖北西南山地的北部,为了区城上的完整性,作者将临界的巫峡东段也考虑在内,其范围包括宜昌、兴山、秭归、巴东等县的分水岭区域。本文提出峡区存在中国真特有属36属,国家保护植物36种,其它珍贵稀有植物50种,并分析了区系特点,为西陵峡地区植物资源的合理利用和建立峡区自然保护区提供依据。     

湖北及其邻近地区珍稀濒危植物保护的研究

在调查和进行保护研究的基础上,提出了湖北及其邻近地区珍稀濒危植物的种类、分布、保护现状和进一步开展研究的意见。     

湖北星斗山自然保护区国家重点保护野生植物调查研究

据调查统计,湖北星斗山自然保护区共有国家级保护植物33种,其中I级保护植物8种,Ⅱ级保护植物25种。本文分析这些植物的分布现状及特点,提出相应的保护对策。     

鄂北高贵山珍稀濒危木本植物调查研究

本文报道了高贵山珍稀濒危重点保护木本植物21种（亚种）,其中国务院新近公布的I级重点保护植物1种,Ⅱ级重点保护植物6种,省级重点保护植物8种,其他珍稀植物6种,分析了高贵山珍稀濒危重点保护木本植物的区系特点,指出了高贵山珍稀濒危树木在湖北珍稀濒危植物保护中的重要地位,提出了保护高贵山珍稀濒危木本植物的建议和措施。     

湖北细辛属植物的引种栽培研究

湖北是我国细辛属折分布中心之一。历年来由于大量采挖作为药用,野生资源日渐枯竭。细辛属植物亦具有较高的观赏价值。在日本已广为应用,但在我国却栽培很少,中国科学院武汉植物研究所药园自１９５９年以来,先后引种栽培成功１１种细辛属植物,对它们的物候期和生物发育作了观察,并根据各植物的生长习性,提出了相庆的栽培技术措施,为该属植物的引种栽培提供了科学依据。     

湖北省金腰属植物分布新记录

于2011~2013年湖北神农架国家级自然保护区本底资源调查和第四次全国中药资源普查工作中,发现若干湖北新记录。现主要报道了湖北虎耳草科(Saxifragaceae)金腰属(Chrysosplenium)植物4种分布新记录,分别为秦岭金腰(C.biondianum Engler)、纤细金腰(C.giraldianum Engler)、舌叶金腰(C.glossophyllum H.Hara)、天胡荽金腰(C.hydrocotylifolium H.LéveilléVaniot)。文中对这几个物种的报道增加了它们的分布范围,也丰富和加深了人们对湖北植物多样性的认识与了解。凭证标本存放于吉首大学植物标本馆(JIU)。     

哈佛大学植物标本馆湖北木本植物标本志要

本文是作者于1981—1982年在美国哈佛大学阿诺德树木园进修学习和研究工作所得的资料之一。全文收集作者在哈佛大学植物标本馆研阅的湖北木本植物标本约二万份,计包括93科,320属,1,455种(含种下等级)。按科属排列,分种记述该种标本的产地、采集人、采集号、采集时间和作者的附注说明。文末附有本文中的标本采集人简介、地名注释和科属拉丁名索引。本文可供研究湖北植物,调查、利用、保护湖北森林资源和考证国内外植物学者、植物采集者在湖北的采集史参考。     

湖北兰科植物多样性及其区系地理特征

湖北植被尤其是鄂西地区,在近代以来备受植物学家的关注。该研究基于植物标本、文献资料与野外调查成果,整理出湖北兰科植物名录,结合湖北的地形与气候特征分析了湖北兰科植物的分布格局、区系及多样性特征。结果表明:湖北兰科植物主要分布在西南、西北、东北及东南部山区,以鄂西山地最为丰富,中南部江汉平原最少,900~1 200 m中海拔地段丰富度最高;物种多样性由南至北、由西至东呈递减趋势,鄂西南与鄂西北之间具有最大相似性;除拟兰亚科(subfam.Apostasioideae)外的5个亚科湖北均有分布,计有15族54属141种,单种属和寡种属分别占总属数的50.00%和33.33%;湖北兰科植物东亚分布成分占40.43%,中国特有种占总种数的41.84%,东亚区系主体突出,中国特有成分所占比例较大,其中中国—日本成分占优势;温带属性较强,亚热带向温带过渡特征明显,有25个热带分布属及27个温带分布属,热温比为0.93,种级水平的热带分布类型占8.51%,温带分布类型占91.49%;一些稀缺种在台湾与湖北的间断分布,表明两者植物区系有较强的关联性;湖北兰科植物区系与西南及横断山区联系密切,是与东部地区植物区系交流的中转站。     

THE ACTION OF MERCURY AS A SOIL FUNGICIDE

Metallic mercury and mercury compounds in the soil retard the growth of plants. The development of mosses and lichens is inhibited, and experimental evidence shows that the growth of toadstools on turf and the activity of ascomycetes is retarded by mercury. In vitro , mercury has no fungicidal action but the rate of growth of hyphae is reduced by mercury vapour.
The lack of fungicidal properties of mercury and its good performance in controlling certain soil-borne diseases are reconciled by assuming that a differential retardation disturbs the relationships necessary for infection. This assumption is supported by diagrams which treat the rates of growth of the parasite and the host as population characteristics normally distributed.     

THE ANNUAL CARBOHYDRATE CYCLE OF ALPINE PLANTS AS RELATED TO GROWTH

Mooney, H. A., and W. D. Billings. (Duke U., Durham, N. C.) The annual carbohydrate cycle of alpine plants as related to growth. Amer. Jour. Bot. 47(7): 594–598. Illus. 1960.—Analyses were made of the carbohydrate content of roots, rhizomes, and shoots of certain plants in the alpine tundra region of the Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming, from the beginning of one growing season until the start of the following one. Principal species investigated were Saxifraga rhomboidea, Polygonum bistortoides, and Geum turbinatum. Results were correlated with phenological events as observed in the field. Growth of these plants was found to be very rapid, commencing in some instances under a cover of old snow. The underground organs contained relatively large amounts of carbohydrate reserves. A great part of this stored carbohydrate was utilized in growth prior to snowmelt and during the grand period of shoot growth immediately following snowmelt. In Polygonum, 50% of the rhizome reserves was used in a 1-wk. period in early growth. Except for this short period of rapid depletion in rhizomes and roots during early growth, high carbohydrate levels were maintained both in the shoot and in the underground organs during most of the growing season. Generally, the lowest carbohydrate reserve level in both root and shoot occurred before flowering, a relatively high level was maintained in the shoot from flowering until after fruiting, while peak storage in underground parts was reached at the start of fall dormancy. The carbohydrate cycle in these alpine plants is quite similar to that in certain arctic plants.     

ROOT INJURY AS A FACTOR IN THE ASSESSMENT OF CHEMOTHERA-PEUTANTS BY THE TOMATO FUSARIUM WILT TEST

Studies of the tomato Fusarium wilt test for screening chemotherapeutants were made by the writer at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, U.S.A., during 1951. The test compounds were applied on ten successive days to the roots of tomato plants growing in sand. The plants were then uprooted, their roots washed and dipped in a bud-cell suspension of F. oxysporum lycopersici and the plants re-potted. A standardized assessment of wilt and vascular discoloration was made some 21 days later, by which time the control plants were usually severely diseased. Several compounds greatly reduced disease severity.     

辽西义县组孢粉植物群指示的古气候条件

迄今为止,在辽西北票义县地区的下白垩统义县组二段沉积层中,已发现孢粉化石62属,82种,藻类化石3种。本文对产于不同地点沉积层中的孢粉化石进行了系统研究和总结。根据孢粉母体植物形态和生态特征、生长的气候环境和干湿度环境,对义县组二段的孢粉植物群进行了植被类型、气候带类型和干湿度类型的统计和划分,认为义县组二段沉积时期,其孢粉植被类型为针叶林,所处的气候环境为湿润的亚热带一暖温带。由于植被成分中存在落叶阔叶植物和旱生植物,推测气候环境存在季节性变化,间有干旱一半干旱气候条件。     

STUDIES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF WILD BEET AS A SOURCE OF PATHOGENS FOR THE SUGAR-BEET CROP

Beet yellows virus, beet mosaic virus, rust ( Uromyces betae (Pers) Lév.), and downy mildew ( Peronospora schachtii Fuckel.) were found to be common in wild beet ( Beta vulgaris s.-sp. maritima L.) growing on the foreshores of south Wales and southern England. The virus diseases were more prevalent in southeast England than in the west, rust more in the west than in the east, and downy mildew is equally prevalent in all regions.
Beet yellows is the most commercially important disease and is more common in sugar-beet crops in East Anglia than elsewhere in Great Britain. There was no evidence that beet yellows spread in East Anglia from wild beet to nearby sugar-beet crops during the springs of 1958 or 1959, and Myzus persicae Sulz., the principal vector of yellows, was rarely found on wild beet growing on the foreshore.
In glasshouse experiments aphids colonized sugar-beet plants watered with tap water in preference to those watered with sea water. Daily watering with sea water made plants unpalatable to aphids within 14 days. Aphids also preferred leaves sprayed with distilled water to those that had been sprayed with sea water. Salt solutions gave results similar to those obtained with sea water.     

THE CULTURE OF APICAL BUDS OF XANTHIUM AND THEIR USE AS A BIOASSAY FOR FLOWERING ACTIVITY OF ECDYSTERONE

Conditions were developed for the sterile culture of shoot tips of Xanthium pensylvanicum Wallr. for use as a bioassay for flower-controlling chemicals. By using a modified Murashige-Skoog medium (minus the auxin but including kinetin) and light intensity much higher than usual for plant tissue cultures, fast growth and development of the shoot tips was achieved. Under short-day conditions (8 hr day: 16 hr night), the cultures from vegetative shoots flowered and fruited; under noninductive conditions (using a 2 hr light-break in the middle of the dark period), the shoot tips continued vegetative development. Both intact plants and cultured tips could be photoinduced in the first days after germination. Ecdysterone, a potent insect moulting hormone, was tested in the bioassay system. It was without either qualitative or quantitative effect on flowering or vegetative development on either cultured shoot tips or intact plants irrespective of whether they were under inductive or noninductive photoperiodic conditions.     

THE REACTION OF WHEAT VARIETIES TO LOOSE SMUT AS DETERMINED BY EMBRYO, SEEDLING, AND ADULT PLANT TESTS

The possibility of using an embryo test as a means of determining the reaction of wheat varieties to loose smut ( Ustilago tritici (Pers.) Rostr.) has been investigated. Fifty-seven varieties were inoculated with two physiologic races by the partial vacuum method and the embryos, seedlings, and adult plants were examined for infection. Most of the varieties were fully susceptible to one or both races, and only ten showed real resistance to any one race. Braun R and Molinel proved almost immune to infection. The resistance in other varieties which showed no infection in the field was expressed as embryo susceptibility, i.e. the embryo became infected in much the same way as in field-susceptible varieties.
In the latter varieties infection passes from the embryo into the growing point of the young seedling. In the embryo-susceptible field-resistant varieties, infection does not pass from the scutellum and the growing point is therefore uninfected.
The reaction of most of the varieties tested was straightforward resistance or susceptibility, but in a few varieties a small proportion of the grains reacted differently from the majority. These reactions are discussed.     

RAINFALL PERIODICITY AS A MAJOR FACTOR IN THE FORMATION OF FLOWERING RACES OF CAMPHORWEED (HETEROTHECA SUBAXILLARIS)

Plants of camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris sensu latiore) were raised in a uniform garden at Northampton, Mass., from seed taken from 19 sites in different parts of the range of the species. Flowering races were observed. Flowering time at Northampton correlated with periodicities of rainfall at the seed source in most instances. The earliest-flowering plants were obtained from areas where above-average amounts of rainfall occur in spring, while the later-flowering plants came from sites where above-average rainfall occurs in mid- to late summer. Other workers have observed a correlation between the frost-free season and the formation of flowering races in prairie grasses, Eupatorium rugosum, and other plants. There is little correlation between the frost-free season and the formation of flowering races in Heterotheca and it is postulated that, within the range of camphorweed, periodicity of rainfall is a more critically limiting factor.     

CITRATE AS THE PRECURSOR OF THE ACETYL MOIETY OF ACETYLCHOLINE

Abstract— Rat brain cortex slices were incubated with glucose labeled with either ³H or ¹⁴C in the 6-position. The ³H/¹⁴C ratios and the incorporation of radioactivity into lactate, citrate, malate and acetylcholine were determined. While the ³H/¹⁴C ratio of lactate was close to that of glucose, the ratios in the acetyl moiety of acetylcholine and the acetyl (C-4,5) portion of citrate decreased in a similar proportion. This was interpreted as indirect evidence for the participation of citrate as a precursor to the acetyl moiety of acetylcholine. Two inhibitors of the citrate cleavage pathway: n -butylmalonate, an inhibitor of citrate transport and (-)-hydroxycitrate, an inhibitor of ATP-citrate lyase were studied for their effect on acetylcholine synthesis. N -butylmalonate (10 mM) and (-)-hydroxycitrate (7.5 mM) led to a decrease in the per cent of ¹⁴C recovered as acetylcholine. In each instance the ³H/¹⁴C ratio in acetylcholine was higher in the presence of inhibitor while the corresponding ratios in lactate and citrate (C-4.5) remained unchanged. From the results, it is suggested that citrate is involved in the transport mechanism of acetyl units from its site of synthesis in mitochondria to the site of acetylcholine synthesis in the cytosol.     

Phase Change in Hedera helix L: II. THE POSSIBLE BOLE OF ROOTS AS A SOURCE OF SHOOT GIBBERELLIN-LIKE SUBSTANCES

When synthesis was estimated by the agar diffusion techniqueboth basal and lateral adventitious roots of Hedera helix L.in the juvenile growth phase were shown to synthesize gibberellin-likesubstances. Seedlings and cuttings from juvenile ivy could begrown in water culture for several weeks. When roots were excisedfrom these plants shoot growth was reduced in comparison withthat of intact plants. The stems, apices, and leaves of derootedseedlings and cuttings contained lower levels of extractablegibberellin-like substances than comparable organs of intactplants. The major zone of gibberellin-like activity in intactplants co-chromatographed with gibberellins A₁ and A₃. Whenthese gibberellins were applied to plants grown in culture theywere found to promote growth of intact but not derooted plants.These findings are discussed in relation to the role of rootfactors and particularly gibberellins in phase change.