铅胁迫下三叶鬼针草内源一氧化氮的生成及其对氧化损伤的缓解效应

对不同浓度铅(Pb)胁迫下三叶鬼针草(Bidens pilosa L.)叶、茎和根中内源一氧化氮(NO)和活性氧(ROS)的生成机制及根系活力的变化,内源NO对Pb胁迫下三叶鬼针草幼苗氧化损伤的缓解效应进行了研究。结果显示,在0~1000 mg/L范围内,随着Pb浓度的增加,叶片中NO含量呈升高趋势,根中NO含量呈先升高后降低的趋势,但仍高于对照,Pb浓度在0~400 mg/L范围内,茎中NO含量与对照持平,Pb浓度大于600 mg/L时,茎中NO含量低于对照;600 mg/L Pb处理能显著增强叶、茎和根中一氧化氮合成酶(NOS)和硝酸还原酶(NR)活性,显著增加叶和茎中亚硝酸根离子(NO_2~-)和类胡萝卜素(Car)含量,NOS、NR、NO_2~-和Car均能促进叶片中内源NO的生成,NOS是根中内源NO生成的主要途径。Pb胁迫使超氧阴离子(O_2~(·-))产生速率、过氧化氢(H_2O_2)含量、丙二醛(MDA)含量和相对电导率(REC)显著升高,从而造成幼苗严重的膜脂过氧化损伤,而胁迫诱发产生的NO能降低根中ROS的产生,促进幼苗根系活力,进而缓解胁迫造成的膜脂过氧化损伤。     

EDDS对Cd胁迫下三叶鬼针草幼苗NO产生的影响

【摘要】通过室内盆栽试验, 研究了40 mg·kg-1 Cd(CdCl2·2.5 H2O)胁迫下, 不同浓度乙二胺二琥珀酸(EDDS)(0、0.5、1.5、2.5、5.0 mmol·L-1)单施及EDDS与一氧化氮(NO)供体硝普钠(SNP)(0、0.25、0.5、1.0 mmol·L-1)联合施加对三叶鬼针草(Bidens pilosa L.)幼苗应激信号分子NO产生量和一氧化氮合酶(NOS)活性的影响。结果表明: 单施EDDS, 植株不同部位NO生成量随EDDS浓度的升高呈增加趋势, 5.0 mmol·L-1时达到最大; 0.5 mmol·L-1的EDDS可增强根、叶中NOS活性。在探究NO产生较多和NOS活性增强显著的EDDS处理浓度与SNP联合施加的研究中发现, 随SNP浓度的升高, 根中NO生成量先升高后降低, 茎和叶中持续升高; 适宜浓度的SNP可进一步增强植株体内NOS活性。EDDS诱导NO的生成会被硝酸还原酶(NR)抑制剂(NaN3)和NOS抑制剂(L-NAME)抑制, 对EDDS处理下NOS活性影响较小。NO清除剂(c-PTIO)能有效清除部分NO, 增强根和叶中NOS活性。因此, 在Cd胁迫下, 适宜浓度的EDDS单施及与SNP联合施加都会增加三叶鬼针草幼苗体内NO产生量。     

镉诱导的菊芋幼苗膜脂过氧化和抗氧化酶活性及过氧化物酶同工酶的改变

用含有不同浓度(0~400μmol/L)Cd(NO3)2的Hoagland营养液处理砂培的菊芋。处理50d后,测定植物体内镉积累量以及过氧化物酶(POD)、超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)、过氧化氢酶(CAT)活性,并对POD同工酶进行电泳分析。发现在Cd50~100μmol/L浓度内,随着镉浓度的升高,菊芋根和叶中镉的积累量显著增加,而随后积累量的增加有所减少。根和叶中MDA含量显著上升,说明镉引起了膜脂过氧化。0~100μmol/LCd处理,根和叶中POD活性随Cd浓度增加而增强,而在200~400μmol/LCd处理下有所减弱。根和叶SOD活性在50~200μmol/LCd处理下随Cd浓度增加而增强,而在400μmol/LCd处理下SOD活性明显受到抑制。根和叶CAT活性随Cd浓度升高而增强。电泳结果显示,POD同工酶变化明显,镉诱导出一条新酶带LP10。菊芋POD同工酶可以作为镉污染的土壤的生物指示剂。     

外源NO对镉胁迫下水稻幼苗抗氧化系统和微量元素积累的影响

重金属污染已成为世界范围的主要问题之一,其中镉(Cd)毒害的范围最广.Cd污染影响植物的生长和发育.一氧化氮(NO)作为植物体内的一种活性信号因子,参与了植物对各种胁迫的应答.为了探讨外源NO对Cd胁迫下水稻苗期生理生化响应的调节作用,以粳稻和籼稻为材料,采用营养液水培的方法,研究外源NO供体硝普钠(SNP)对100μmol/L Cd胁迫下2个水稻基因型(ZF802和ZH11)幼苗生长、抗氧化酶系统和微量元素吸收的影响.结果表明,1.5 mmol/L SNP能明显缓解Cd胁迫对两种水稻幼苗生长的抑制作用,提高幼苗对Cd的耐性.尽管存在一定的基因型差异,但外源NO能使两个基因型叶片中的超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)和过氧化物酶(POD)活性下降,降低了叶片中丙二醛(MDA)含量,从而缓解Cd对水稻幼苗的毒害.另外,外源NO影响Cd胁迫下水稻幼苗地上部和根部Cd和微量元素的积累,这种影响的程度与水稻的品种有关,具有显著的基因型差异,且机制较复杂.     

外源SNP对盐胁迫下甜瓜幼苗生长及抗氧化酶活性的影响北大核心CSCD

为明确外源一氧化氮(NO)对甜瓜幼苗耐盐性的影响,该研究以甜瓜品种‘农大甜10号’为试验材料,在300 mmol·L^(-1)NaCl胁迫条件下,叶面喷施不同浓度(50、100、150、200、250μmol·L^(-1))外源NO供体硝普钠(SNP),分析甜瓜幼苗生长、光合色素含量、细胞膜透性、抗氧化酶活性、渗透调节物质含量的变化。结果表明:(1)盐胁迫显著抑制甜瓜幼苗的生长,同时显著降低叶片光合色素含量、细胞膜透性、抗氧化酶活性、渗透调节物质含量。(2)叶面喷施150μmol·L^(-1)SNP能够显著提高盐胁迫下甜瓜幼苗的株高、茎粗、干鲜重、壮苗指数,并显著提高盐胁迫下甜瓜幼苗的光合色素含量,从而提高甜瓜的光合作用。(3)喷施150μmol·L^(-1)SNP可显著提高盐胁迫下甜瓜幼苗超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)、过氧化物酶(POD)、过氧化氢酶(CAT)、抗坏血酸过氧化物酶(APX)、谷胱甘肽还原酶(GR)、单脱氢抗坏血酸还原酶(MDHAR)及脱氢抗坏血酸还原酶(DHAR)的活性,显著降低盐胁迫下甜瓜幼苗的丙二醛(MDA)、过氧化氢(H_(2)O_(2))含量及超氧阴离子(O^(-)·_(2))产生速率。(4)喷施150μmol·L^(-1)SNP可显著提高盐胁迫下甜瓜幼苗叶片脯氨酸(Pro)和可溶性蛋白的含量。研究认为,在盐胁迫环境下,适宜浓度的外源SNP(150μmol·L^(-1))可通过提高甜瓜幼苗的抗氧化酶活性以及光合色素和小分子可溶性有机化合物含量来增强活性氧的清除能力,降低膜脂过氧化作用,有效减轻盐胁迫对幼苗的伤害,从而增强其耐盐性,促进幼苗生长。     

一氧化氮对杨树耐旱性的影响

探讨了外源NO对水分胁迫下杨树叶片质膜相对透性、叶片光合作用和氧化伤害保护酶的影响.结果表明,NO供体硝普钠(sodiumnitroprusside,SNP)能提高杨树叶片的含水率,在水分胁迫(PEG6000渗透液处理)下,能缓解叶片的水分丢失.NO对杨树叶片光合作用具有双重性,低浓度SNP(200、500μmol·L^-1)能促进叶片的光合,高浓度SNP(1000、2000μmol·L^-1)则明显抑制叶片的光合.较短时间水分处理胁迫(1h))的杨树叶片SOD和POD活性显著高于较长时间(3h)水分胁迫下叶片的酶活性.经SNP处理后,各处理组POD、SOD活性明显上升.同时,随SNP浓度的增加,POD和SOD活性表现出先上升后下降的趋势.外源NO可通过诱导POD和SOD活性的上升,延缓活性氧的积累,从而减轻水分胁迫对杨树的伤害,增强树木的耐旱能力.     

一氧化氮对水分胁迫下玉米种子萌发及幼苗生理特性的影响

以0.4mol/L的甘露醇(M)模拟水分胁迫状况,研究了外源一氧化氮(NO)供体硝普钠(SNP)对水分胁迫下玉米种子萌发、幼苗生长和生理特性的影响。结果表明:(1)水分胁迫下,玉米种子萌发和幼苗生长受到抑制,叶片丙二醛(MDA)含量、质膜相对透性、脯氨酸含量均显著增加;(2)SNP能显著提高水分胁迫下玉米种子的发芽率、发芽势、发芽指数和活力指数,增加玉米幼苗的根长、茎长、根重和整株干重,抑制水分胁迫下玉米幼苗叶片MDA含量的上升,降低叶片质膜相对透性,降低脯氨酸含量。其中以100μmol/L和200μmol/LSNP对水分胁迫的缓解效果最佳。     

一氧化氮缓解盐胁迫对玉米生长的抑制作用

研究了一氧化氮(nitric oxide,NO)对NaCl 100mmol/L胁迫下玉米幼苗生长的影响.结果表明:0.1～200μmol/L的NO供体硝普钠(sodium nitroprusside,SNP),特别是100μmol/L SNP处理可以显著提高盐胁迫下玉米幼苗的干物质积累速率.100μmol/L的SNP处理还显著提高了叶绿素含量、植株体内K /Na 比和(Spd Spm)/Put的比值,降低膜透性.推测NO对盐胁迫下玉米生长抑制的缓解作用是由于NO促进根系对K 的选择性吸收及其向地上部的运输,而降低对Na 的吸收及其向地上部的运输,并促进Put向Spd和Spm的转化.     

外源NO对2+胁迫下小桐子幼苗抗氧化能力的影响

为探讨外源一氧化氮(NO)供体硝普钠(SNP)对铜(Cu2+)胁迫的缓解效应,该试验以小桐子幼苗为材料,先通过小桐子幼苗根茎生长指标的变化筛选出后续实验适宜的SNP(0.2mmol/L)和Cu2+浓度(90mmol/L),再进一步考察SNP预处理对Cu2+胁迫下幼苗脯氨酸(Pro)和丙二醛(MDA)的含量及抗氧化酶活性的影响。结果显示:(1)Cu2+处理能诱导小桐子幼苗叶片中Pro和MDA含量显著升高,且过氧化氢酶(CAT)、超氧物歧化酶(SOD)、愈创木酚过氧化物酶(POD)及抗坏血酸专一性过氧化物酶(APX)的活性增强。(2)用SNP预处理能显著提高Cu2+胁迫下幼苗叶片Pro的含量,进一步增强叶片中CAT、SOD、POD和APX活性,降低MDA的含量。研究表明,0.2mmol/L的SNP能够通过提高小桐子幼苗的抗氧化酶活性和游离脯氨酸含量来增强其抗氧化胁迫能力,从而显著缓解Cu2+胁迫对幼苗造成的氧化伤害,维持其正常生长发育。     

一氧化氮对小麦叶片镍毒害的缓解作用

采用溶液培养法研究了重金属镍(Ni)对扬麦158(Triticum aestivumL)幼苗生长的影响及外源一氧化氮(NO)对Ni毒害的缓解作用。结果表明,100μmol/LNi处理显著抑制小麦幼苗生长,导致叶绿素含量下降,丙二醛(MDA)含量显著升高,且叶片过氧化物酶(POD)、超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)和谷胱甘肽转硫酶(GST)等抗氧化酶活性升高。400μmol/L硝谱钠(SNP,NO供体)预处理2d,能够明显减轻Ni毒害,使叶绿素和MDA含量基本恢复至对照水平。NO可能是通过提高APX和GR等抗氧化酶的活性及谷胱甘肽含量而增强植株抗氧化能力,显著减轻由Ni导致的叶片Ca和Fe含量下降而增强小麦幼苗抵御Ni毒害的能力。     

Systematic significance of mature embryo of bamboos

The mature embryo of seven species belonging to five genera of Indian bamboos is described. In all these the basic pattern of embryo organisation is same: the scutellar and coleoptilar bundles are not separated by an internode, the epiblast is absent, the lower portion of the scutellum and the coleorhiza are separated by a cleft and the margins of embryonic leaves overlap. The features unique to fleshy fruited bamboos are: presence of a massive scutellum, the juxtaposition of plumule and radicle and the occurrence of a bud in the axil of the coleoptile. The fleshy fruit bearing bamboos should be classified into one group, the tribeMelocanneae. Evidence is provided to recognise additional groups in the subfamilyBambusoideae.     

Taxonomic status of the species of the green algal genusNeochloris

Komárek has recently reviewed the various species assigned to the green algal genusNeochloris Starr (Chlorococcales, Chlorococcaceae) and removed those with uninucleate vegetative cells to a new genus,Ettlia. Watanabe & Floyd, unaware ofKomárek's work, also reviewed the species ofNeochloris and distributed them among three genera—Neochloris, Chlorococcopsis gen. nov., andParietochloris gen. nov.—on the basis of details of the covering of the zoospore and the arrangement of the basal bodies of the flagellar apparatus. This paper reconciles these two treatments and makes additional recommendations at the ranks of genus, family, order, and class.     

Phylogeny of cardinalfishes (Teleostei: Gobiiformes: Apogonidae) and the evolution of visceral bioluminescence

The cardinalfishes (Apogonidae) are a diverse clade of small, mostly reef-dwelling fishes, for which a variety of morphological data have not yielded a consistent phylogeny. We use DNA sequence to hypothesize phylogenetic relationships within Apogonidae and among apogonids and other acanthomorph families, to examine patterns of evolution including the distribution of a visceral bioluminescence system. In conformance with previous studies, Apogonidae is placed in a clade with Pempheridae, Kurtidae, Leiognathidae, and Gobioidei. The apogonid genus Pseudamia is recovered outside the remainder of the family, not as sister to the superficially similar genus Gymnapogon. Species sampled from the Caribbean and Western Atlantic (Phaeoptyx, Astrapogon, and some Apogon species) form a clade, as do the larger-bodied Glossamia and Cheilodipterus. Incidence of visceral bioluminescence is found scattered throughout the phylogeny, independently for each group in which it is present. Examination of the fine structure of the visceral bioluminescence system through histology shows that light organs exhibit a range of morphologies, with some composed of complex masses of tubules (Siphamia, Pempheris, Parapriacanthus) and others lacking tubules but containing chambers formed by folds of the visceral epithelium (Acropoma, Archamia, Jaydia, and Rhabdamia). Light organs in Siphamia, Acropoma, Pempheris and Parapriacanthus are distinct from but connected to the gut; those in Archamia, Jaydia, and Rhabdamia are simply portions of the intestinal tract, and are little differentiated from the surrounding tissues. The presence or absence of symbiotic luminescent bacteria does not correlate with light organ structure; the tubular light organs of Siphamia and chambered tubes of Acropoma house bacteria, those in Pempheridae and the other Apogonidae do not.     

Host plants of someRhinanthoideae (Scrophulariaceae) of eastern North America

Twenty three species in 11 genera were examined in the field to determine hosts. OnlyStriga asiatica andSeymeria cassioides have a narrow host range being restricted to grasses and pines, respectively. These are the only species which cause pronounced and sometimes serious host damage. The other species attach to a great diversity of hosts.     

Apoptotic Regulation of Caspase Activity

Intracellular cysteine aspartate-specific proteases (caspases) play both signaling and effector roles in realizing the program of cell death. Caspases function as proteolytic cascades unique for each cell type and signal triggering apoptosis. All parts of the proteolytic cascades are duplicated and controlled by feedback signals. Amplification cycles between pairs of caspases (the third and the sixth, the ninth and the third, the twelfth and the sixth, and others) help multiply the initial apoptotic signal. The presence of physiological inhibitors of apoptosis that directly interact with caspases creates a multilevel regulatory network of apoptosis in cell. The caspase proteolytic cascades are also regulated by sphingolipid secondary messengers, among them ceramide, sphingosine, and their phosphates. Moreover, an association of the caspase signaling with ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis is shown in cells. In particular, the use of extracellular activators and inhibitors of caspases allows irreversible activation of apoptosis in tumor cells or the prevention of apoptosis in cortical neurons under neurodegenerative diseases.     

A molecular phylogeny of Hebeloma species from Europe

In order to widen the scope of existing phylogenies of the ectomycorrhizal agaric genus Hebeloma a total of 53 new rDNA ITS sequences from that genus was generated, augmented by sequences retrieved from GenBank, and analysed using Bayesian, strict consensus and neighbour joining methods. The lignicolous Hebelomina neerlandica, Gymnopilus penetrans, and two species of Galerina served as outgroup taxa. Anamika indica, as well as representatives of the genera Hymenogaster and Naucoria, were included to test the monophyly of Hebeloma, which is confirmed by the results. Hebeloma, Naucoria, Hymenogaster and Anamika indica cluster in a strongly supported monophyletic hebelomatoid clade. All trees largely reflect the current infrageneric classification within Hebeloma, and divide the genus into mostly well-supported monophyletic groups surrounding H. crustuliniforme, H. velutipes, H. sacchariolens, H. sinapizans, and H. radicosum, with H. sarcophyllum being shown at an independent position; however this is not well supported. The section Indusiata divides with strong support into three groups, the position of the pleurocystidiate Hebeloma cistophilum suggests the possible existence of a third subsection within sect. Indusiata. Subsection Sacchariolentia is raised to the rank of section.     

Analysis of twin of eyeless regulation during early embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster

The Drosophila Pax6 homolog twin of eyeless (toy) is so far the first zygotically expressed gene involved in eye morphogenesis in Drosophila. The study of its expression during embryogenesis is therefore informative of the initial events of eye development in Drosophila. We have analyzed how the initial expression domain of toy at cellular blastoderm is regulated. We show that the three maternal patterning systems active in the cephalic region (the anterior, terminal and dorsal-ventral systems) cooperate with zygotically activated gap genes to shape the initial expression domain of toy. Whereas Bicoid, Dorsal and Torso signaling synergistically act as activators, Hunchback, Knirps and Decapentaplegic act as repressors.     

New species of Peruvian Orchidaceae III

Sixteen new species are proposed in the generaAckermania, Dressleria, Epidendrum, Maxillaria, Oncidium, Rodriguezia, Sigmatostalix, andTrigonidium. All new species are illustrated.Maxillaria vittariifolia L. O. Williams is newly recorded for Peru. A key is provided forTrigonidium of Peru.Trigonidium loretoense Schltr. andT. peruvianum Schltr. are lectotypified.     

Interaction of Synthetic Analogues of Natural Chalcones and Flavones with Guanidine

The reaction of chalcones and flavones with guanidine in ethanol results in 2-(2-aminopyrimidinyl-4)-phenols.