The influence of photoperiodic growth condition on isolation of RNA from strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa duch.) tissue

Purification of high-quality RNA from different strawberry tissues is often affected by the presence of high levels of contamination by polysaccharides and phenolic compounds. With the protocol detailed here we describe for the first time total RNA purification from petiole tissue. Treating the plants used as source of material with short-day light regime prior the extraction we are able to obtain RNA suitable for further applications such as in vitro translation, RT-PCR, and RNA blot analysis. The yield of total RNA extraction is significantly enhanced when tissue from plants grown under short-day photoperiodic condition is used compared with that taken from plants grown under long day photoperiod.     

草莓DNA分子标记及其应用

综述了限制性长度多态性(RFLP)、随机扩增多态性DNA(RAPD)、扩增片段长度多态性(AFLP)、简单重复序列(SSR)等不同类型分子标记在草莓指纹图谱构建、品种鉴别、遗传多样性、进化、遗传作图以及相关性状的标记等方面的应用,分析了草莓分子标记研究中的关键问题,提出了今后研究方向。     

草莓开花期发生霜害的温度

用人工霜箱对草莓(Fragaria ananassa)叶片和花托进行模拟春霜实验.结果表明草莓叶片有忍耐胞间结冰的能力,最低叶温-6.4℃以上,结冰持续90分钟以内的叶片解冻后还能存活.花托不能忍耐胞间结冰,是通过保持过冷却状态以回避结冰伤害.花托温度越低,发生霜害的累积百分率越大,半开花的花托温度降到-5.4℃时累计有50%发生结冰而造成霜害.盛开的花及鲜重大的花发生霜害的温度较高.     

拟南芥开花时间调控的分子基础

在合适的时间开花对大多数植物的生存和成功繁衍极为重要。开花时间受错综复杂的环境因素和植物自身的遗传因子影响,由开花调控因子所构成的光周期、春化、温度、赤霉素、自主以及年龄等至少6条既相互独立又相互联系的遗传途径调控。该文综述了有关拟南芥(Arabidopsis thaliana)开花时间调控的分子机制的最新研究进展,并对今后的研究进行了展望。     

光周期途径核心因子CO的开花调控机制

CONSTANS（CO）基因是生物钟和开花时间基因之间监测日照长度的重要元件,在光周期途径中发挥核心功能。CO可以整合光信号和生物钟信号,诱导开花途径整合子FLOWERINGLOCUST（F即和SUPPRESSOROF OVEREXPRESSION OF CONSTANS 1（SOC1）的表达,进而促进植株开花。本文综述CO基因的开花调控机制,并结合CO基因的研究现状展望了其未来的研究方向。     

高等植物开花时程的基因调控（Ⅰ）

高等植物从营养生长向生殖生长及发育转变的时程具有重要意义,但是了解得很少。近6年来利用分子遗传学方法详细地分析了拟南芥中的这一转变的时程变化,为高等植物开花时程的基因调控提供了一个很好的模式。有关早期或晚期开花表现型的大量突变体及遗传变异得到了阐述。这里谈到的表现型对影响开花转变的环境及内部因子的控制有重大作用。通过分子生物学、遗传学和生理学分析已经鉴定了参与此过程的不同组分,如光识别和昼夜节律（circadian rhythm）因子。另外,通过克隆某些花诱导基因及其相应的靶基因已经对参与开花信号转导途径（signal transduction pathway）的相关因子进行了系统的鉴定,这些开创性工作大大促进了高等植物开花时程的基因表达调控研究及其机理的阐明。本实验室在以黄瓜、新红宝西瓜、西葫芦为材料所获得的部分结果基础上,主要以近六年来在拟南芥方面获得的进展为依据,对高等植物开花时程的基因调控作一系统的总结,并对其开花时程基因调控的机理提出可能的作用理论模型。     

Purification and some properties of strawberry mottle virus

Strawberry mottle virus (SMoV) (three isolates: HJ, 3E and N) were transmitted to Chenopodium quinoa plants by sap inoculation. All three isolates induced very similar symptoms consisting of chlorotic spots and ringspots in inoculated leaves, and vein chlorosis, mottling, and dwarfing of the upper leaves. SMoV isolate HJ was purified from infected C. quinoa by homogenisation with 10 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.2 containing 5% Triton X-100, followed by differential, sucrose density-gradient and CsCl equilibrium density-gradient centrifugations. A fraction with a buoyant density of 1.42g^- cm^-3 after CsCl density-gradient centrifugation was highly infectious to C. quinoa and contained many isometric virus-like particles c. 37 nm in diameter. These virus-like particles were never found in fractions from uninfected preparations. Electrophoretic analysis of a fraction containing virus-like particles revealed that these particles might have a single coat protein subunit with the apparent molecular mass of 26 K daltons and one nucleic acid of 6.6 kilobases. Double-stranded RNA analysis of isolate HJ-infected or uninfected C. quinoa and Fragaria vesca var. semperflorens seedling line ‘Alpine’ plants showed that both infected plants had two infection-specific dsRNA bands of mol. wts 4.5 and 3.9 × 10⁶.     

Flowering and morphogenic responses of new Aster hybrids to photoperiod

Photoperiod treatments of 13, 14.5, 16 and 17.5 h were used to determine the photoperiodic response of the interspecific Aster hybrids 'Painted Lady', 'Snowflake' and 'Blue Butterfly' belonging to 'Butterfly' series, under glasshouse conditions. Rate of flowering was higher under 13-h photoperiods decreasing up to 16-h photoperiods. The rate of flowering for 13- and 17.5-h photoperiods was nearly similar but under the longest photoperiod flowering was erratic and sometimes abortion of the apical bud was observed. Pholoperiod affected the morphology of the plant. Increasing photo-periods up to 16 h induced an increase of internode length of the main axis, of total length of lateral shoots, the number of ray florets. In a 13-h photoperiod the plants produced a paniculate-racemose shaped inflorescence while in longer photoperiods the inflorescence was paniculate-corymbose shaped.     

Florigen （Ⅱ）： It is a Mobile Protein

The true identity of florigen - the molecule（s） that migrates from leaves to apical meristem to initiate flowering - was notoriously elusive, having made it almost the ＂Bigfoot＂ of plant biology. There was never a lack of drama in the field of florigen study, and florigen researchers have once again experienced such a swing in the last two years. We wrote a minireview last year in this journal （Yu et al. 2006） to excitedly salute, among other discoveries, the notion that the flowering locus T （FT） mRNA might be the molecular form of a florigen. However, this hypothesis was challenged in a little less than two years after its initial proposition, and the original paper proposed that the FT mRNA hypothesis was retracted （Huang et al. 2005; Bohlenius et al. 2007）. Interestingly enough, the FT gene previously proposed to encode a florigen was never challenged. Rather, the FT protein, instead of the FT mRNA, is now believed to migrate from leaves to the apical meristem to promote floral initiation. In this update, we will share with our readers some entertaining stories concerning the recent studies of florigen in five different plant species. In addition to the published reports referenced inthis update, readers may also refer to our previous minireview and references therein for additional background information （Yu et al. 2006）.     

不同光周期对西红花开花和花丝品质的效应比较

为筛选促进西红花开花和提高花丝品质的最佳光周期,以3种不同规格(20～25 g、25～30 g、30～35 g)西红花种球为材料,设置4种光周期处理(8 h/16 h、10 h/14 h、12 h/12 h、14 h/10 h),考察光周期对西红花种球鲜重变化、主芽生长、展叶数量、开花后营养物质含量以及花朵性状和花丝品...     

光周期对春石斛开花及多胺含量的影响

以春石斛为试材,研究光周期对其开花及多胺（腐胺、亚精胺和精胺）含量的影响,以期了解春石斛开花的光周期特性以及期间能源物质多胺的变化规律。结果显示,春石斛短日照处理植株开花较长日照处理的提前约18d,为称量性短日照植物;同时,短日照处理植株的花芽多,开花量犬,花径较长日照大。不同光周期诱导开花过程中,春石斛叶片内腐胺含量最高,波动较大,短日照处理下基本维持比长日照高的水平。亚精胺含量其次,且随生长发育逐渐升高,短日照处理下一直保持比长日照高的水平。精胺含量最低,变化不大,短日照下保持与长日照相同或略高的水平。由此推测,春石斛为称量性短日照植物,高水平的腐胺和亚精胺可能与春石斛花芽的形成有关。     

高等植物开花时程的调控与光受体Ⅰ.开花时程的基因与光受体调控

系统评述了高等植物开花时程的调控与植物光受体的联系.重点说明了控制开花时程的遗传途径以及光周期途径的有关基因的研究进展.影响高等植物开花的最重要的因子之一便是光周期,光周期对高等植物开花的调控是通过相关基因间的相互作用来实现的,这些基因包括参与花启动发育控制基因,昼夜节律时间钟调控基因及光受体信号转导基因.近5年左右的时间通过对拟南芥及其一系列突变体的研究为我们展示了这一热门领域的广阔的前景.     

'早红'草莓高效遗传转化受体系统的建立

本文以草莓主栽品种'早红'组培苗离体叶片和叶柄为外植体,进行叶龄、暗培养、植物生长调节剂配比及抗生素敏感性研究,建立草莓高效遗传转化的受体系统.在含3.0 mg/L 6-BA与0.1 mg/L 2,4-D的MS培养基上,30 d叶龄的叶片再生频率高达98.31%,平均每叶片再生芽数5.09个,叶柄切段的再生频率为89.25%,平均每叶柄切段再生芽数4.92个,叶片的再生频率略高于叶柄;不定芽在含0.2 mg/L 6-BA与0.2 mg/L GA_3的MS继代培养基上培养成苗.将生长状态良好的不定芽转至含0.2 mg/L IBA的1/2 MS培养基上生根,生根率达100%,平均生根数量16.27条,平均根长1.85 cm.抗生素敏感性试验表明,草莓外植体适宜的卡那霉素选择压力为25 mg/L,头孢霉素的筛选浓度为300mg/L.本研究建立的再生体系可作为草莓遗传转化的受体系统.