专家论海洋生物基因资源的研究与利用

21世纪是海洋的世纪,海洋生物基因资源的研究与利用,是海洋生物资源可持续利用的核心。在225次香山科学会议“海洋生物基因资源的研究与利用”上,专家围绕海水养殖核心种质基因组学、海洋极端环境基因资源、水生生物基因资源的应用等关键问题,进行了深入探讨。     

走向未来--建设北京国家植物园

野生植物资源中储备着大量涉及抗寒、抗旱、耐盐、速生、早熟等特性的有用基因或物种,这些基因或物种影响到国家的兴衰,甚至可以左右一个国家的经济命脉。因此,保护野生植物资源具有长远的战略意义。     

保护作物多样性 发掘有用新基因——试论我国作物种质资源研究当前的任务

我国作物种质资源研究在收集、保存方面取得了举世瞩目的成就。目前存在的问题是研究利用不够,且更严重的是有些种质潜在着得而复失的危险,当前的任务应是确保库(圃)种质安全,加强对种质资源的深入研究,充分有效地利用种质资源。为此要完善工作体系,加强供种服务。现提出如下建议：首先要发挥各作物负责单位(中期库)的枢纽作用;调整中期库并建立种质资源生态实验站;清查各类种质库、圃保存种质的现状,及时进行繁种更新;瞄准育种目标,积极广泛收集新种质;研究种质资源的遗传多样性,如遗传多样性的地理分布、物种的遗传结构、物种或品种(系)间的遗传距离、指纹图谱、核心种质以及基因型的鉴定和基因定位等,积极向育种和其他利用者提供附有遗传信息的有用种质。     

高粱抗病虫资源创新与利用研究

利用"八五"、"九五"期间,发掘和鉴定出的一些具有单一抗病虫特性和优良农艺性状的资源,通过有性杂交和人工接种鉴定,有目的进行抗性基因转移和优良基因聚合,从而获得了具有多抗、农艺性状优良的LR625、LR622、2381等3个恢复系和L405A、L407A 2个不育系等新种质资源,并用新创资源组配了一批高产、多抗、综合农艺性状好的杂交组合.     

水稻白叶枯病新抗源Y238的鉴定及其近等基因系培育

从269份普通野生稻中鉴定出一个高抗白叶枯病的新抗源,编号为Y238.通过多茵系鉴定、抗谱分析及与目前国际上已知基因比较,证明该新抗源含有一个新基因,暂命名为WBB2.对JG30/Y238杂交后代成株期接种鉴定、遗传分析表明,WBB2为完全显性基因.通过杂交和回交,已将WBB2导入栽培稻中构建近等基因系.     

苏麦3号感赤霉病近等基因系的选育及分子标记

小麦品种苏麦3号高抗由禾谷镰刀菌（Fusarium graminearum Schw.)引起的小麦赤霉病,已成为全世界广泛应用的抗源。为更精确地研究苏麦3号的赤霉病抗性,实验用感病品种川980为供体亲本,苏麦3号为轮回亲本,通过不断回交和自交,把川980的赤霉病感病基因导入苏麦3号,创造了感赤霉病的苏麦3号近等基因系（S016）,并得到以下结果：（1）育成的苏麦3号感赤霉病近等基因系,经两年多点抗赤霉病性状鉴定,表明该近等基因系感赤霉病感病性稳定,而其他形态特征,特性与苏麦3号一致。（2）用RAPD,RFLP分析抗,感苏麦3号近等基因系之间的差异,RFLP分析发现该近等基因系在2D染色体上存在差异。RPAD的随机扩增产物OPH191400可能与近等基因系中的赤霉病感病基因非连锁。（3）用近等基因系验证已报道的与小麦抗霉病基因有关的分子标记,均未发现这些分子标记与导致该近等基因系抗性差异的基因有关。     

基因聚合提高了水稻对白叶枯病的抗性

研究了含有单个抗性基因的水稻近等基因系和抗性基因聚合品系对浙江省白叶枯病菌４个主要小种的抗性,单个基因对这些小种的抗性均不高,对新近流行的小种大多感病;基因聚合品系对这些小种的抗性普遍提高,说明基因聚合是培育具有持久抗性品种的有效策略。     

基因组学方法在玉米种质资源研究中的应用

近年来,分子生物学和植物基因组学得到了飞速发展,包括分子标记技术在内的基因组学方法在玉米种质资源研究中得到了广泛应用。本将对玉米种质资源研究的主要领域如玉米的起源和进化、遗传多样性的形成机制及评估、基于多样性的新基因发掘等方面的最新进展进行评述,并提出我国在应用基因组学方法进行玉米种质资源研究的策略。     

深海微生物资源研究开发技术进展

深海微生物由于生存环境的特殊性而具有各种与陆地和浅海微生物不同的功能,这些特殊功能具有重要的应用价值,是争夺激烈的深海热点资源之一。近年来,不断有新的研究技术和方法得到应用,推动了深海微生物资源的获取、研究和开发。对深海微生物菌株和基因资源研究开发方面的技术发展以及工作策略进行了综述与讨论。     

抗病转基因育种中基因资源的应用与研究进展

植物病害的防治是农业生产的主要环节,抗病育种是一个关键而有效的解决方法.随着转基因育种的兴起,抗病转基因育种也得到了很大的发展.本文就近年来抗病转基因育种过程中所利用的基因资源进行综述,试图从抗菌物质、植物的抗性基因、代谢途径中的关键酶、各类激活蛋白和调控基因等方面阐述所利用基因资源的挖掘思路,总结各类抗病基因资源挖掘策略,探索性地提出一些今后可能应用的基因资源,拓宽可供挖掘的基因资源种类,提出合理有效的抗病基因资源克隆策略.     

C-banded wheat chromosomes in wheat and triticale

Summary The C-banding patterns of wheat chromosomes in 7 hexaploid triticale and 7 wheat genotypes are described and compared. All 14 wheat chromosome pairs were individually identified in the triticales and a tetraploid wheat, and all the B and two A genome chromosome pairs in the hexaploid wheat genotypes. Little variation was found between genotypes in the distribution of C-bands but considerable variation was found in their size, total number and total length.     

Immunocytochemical localization of wheat germ agglutinin in wheat

Immunocytological techniques were developed to localize the plant lectin, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), in the tissues and cells of wheat plants. In a previous study we demonstrated with a radioimmunoassay that the lectin is present in wheat embryos and adult plants both in the roots and at the base of the stem. We have now found, using rhodamine, peroxidase, and ferritin-labeled secondary antibodies, that WGA is located in cells and tissues that establish direct contact with the soil during germination and growth of the plant In the embryo, WGA is found in the surface layer of the radicle, the first adventitious roots, the coleoptile, and the scutellum. Although found throughout the coleorhiza and epiblast, it is at its highest levels within the cells at the surface of these organs. In adult plants, WGA is located only in the caps and tips of adventitious roots. Reaction product for WGA was not visualized in embryonic or adult leaves or in other tissues of adult plants. At the subcellular level, WGA is located at the periphery of protein bodies, within electron-translucent regions of the cytoplasm, and at the cell wall-protoplast interface. Since WGA is found at potential infection sites and is known to have fungicidal properties, it may function in the defense against fungal pathogens.     

Sweet wheat

The major components of storage starch are amylose and amylopectin, and in wheat, both an amylose-free mutant lacking granule-bound starch synthase I and a high-amylose mutant lacking starch synthase IIa have been produced recently. Here, we report the production of an amylose-free/ high-amylose double mutant. This double mutant has kernel and carbohydrate characteristics that are remarkably different than those of either single mutant, including a dramatically shrunken seed shape. Surprisingly, the double mutant has maltose and sucrose levels that are high enough to make it worthy of being called "sweet wheat".     

Behavioural responses of wheat stem sawflies to wheat volatiles

1 Adult wheat stem sawflies Cephus cinctus, pests of cultivated cereals that also infests wild grasses, migrate into wheat fields where they oviposit in elongating, succulent stems.
2 Volatiles released by wheat plants at susceptible stages were analyzed to determine potential semiochemical compounds. Seven major compounds were identified and quantified.
3 A Y-tube bioassay was developed to evaluate upwind orientation of adult sawflies in response to an airstream that passed over elongated wheat plants. The bioassay was also conducted with synthetic volatile compounds. The compounds were tested using a range of concentrations spanning those identified in the airstream passing over wheat plants.
4 A significant number of adult females were attracted to wheat plants when given a choice of either purified air or the air passing over plants.
5 A significant number of female C. cinctus were attracted to ( Z )-3-hexenyl acetate, β-ocimene, and ( Z )-3-hexen-1-ol, but were repelled by 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one. Females did not respond to ( E )-2-hexenal, or ( E )-2-hexenyl acetate. The behavioural responses were concentration dependent; the highest tested concentration of ( Z )-3-hexenyl acetate was repellent to females of this species.
6 Adult males did not discriminate between air passing over wheat plants and air from a purified airstream. Males did not respond to any tested synthetic compound at any concentration.
7 The present study demonstrates for the first time that adult females of wheat stem sawfly display innate behaviours in response to synthetic volatiles. These results provide a basis for the potential development of resistant wheat varieties and for the development of semiochemically-based pest management.     

Distribution of wheat germ agglutinin in young wheat plants

A liquid phase, competition-binding radioimmunoassay for wheat germ agglutinin, with a detection limit of 10 nanograms, was developed in order to determine the distribution of this lectin in young wheat plants. Affinity columns for wheat germ agglutinin removed all antigenically detectable activity from crude extracts of wheat tissue; thus, the antigenic cross-reactivity detected by the assay possesses sugar-binding specificity similar to the wheat germ-derived lectin. The amount of lectin per dry grain is approximately 1 microgram, all associated with the embryo. At 34 days of growth, the level of lectin per plant was reduced by about 50%, with approximately one-third in the roots and two-thirds in the shoot. The data also indicate that actively growing regions of the plant (the bases of the leaves and rapidly growing adventitious roots) contain the highest levels of lectin. Half of the lectin associated with the roots could be solubilized by washing intact roots in buffer containing oligomers of N-acetylglucosamine, whereas the remainder is liberated only upon homogenization of the tissue.     

A diploid wheat TILLING resource for wheat functional genomics

Background

Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important crop worldwide, valued for its edible oil and digestible protein. It has a very narrow genetic base that may well derive from a relatively recent single polyploidization event. Accordingly molecular markers have low levels of polymorphism and the number of polymorphic molecular markers available for cultivated peanut is still limiting.

Results

Here, we report a large set of BAC-end sequences (BES), use them for developing SSR (BES-SSR) markers, and apply them in genetic linkage mapping. The majority of BESs had no detectable homology to known genes (49.5%) followed by sequences with similarity to known genes (44.3%), and miscellaneous sequences (6.2%) such as transposable element, retroelement, and organelle sequences. A total of 1,424 SSRs were identified from 36,435 BESs. Among these identified SSRs, dinucleotide (47.4%) and trinucleotide (37.1%) SSRs were predominant. The new set of 1,152 SSRs as well as about 4,000 published or unpublished SSRs were screened against two parents of a mapping population, generating 385 polymorphic loci. A genetic linkage map was constructed, consisting of 318 loci onto 21 linkage groups and covering a total of 1,674.4 cM, with an average distance of 5.3 cM between adjacent loci. Two markers related to resistance gene homologs (RGH) were mapped to two different groups, thus anchoring 1 RGH-BAC contig and 1 singleton.

Conclusions

The SSRs mined from BESs will be of use in further molecular analysis of the peanut genome, providing a novel set of markers, genetically anchoring BAC clones, and incorporating gene sequences into a linkage map. This will aid in the identification of markers linked to genes of interest and map-based cloning.     

Glycoproteins from Russian wheat aphid infested wheat induce defence responses

Elicitors are molecules which can induce the activation of plant defence responses. Elicitor activity of intercellular wash fluid from Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko) infested resistant (cv Tugela DN), and susceptible (cv Tugela), wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), was investigated. Known Russian wheat aphid resistance related responses such as peroxidase and beta-1,3-glucanase activities were used as parameters of elicitor activity. The intercellular wash fluid from infested resistant plants contains high elicitor activity while that from infested susceptible plants contains no or very little elicitor activity. After applying C-18 reverse phase and concanavalin A Sepharose chromatography, elicitor active glycoproteins were isolated from the intercellular wash fluid of Russian wheat aphid infested resistant wheat. The elicitor-active glycoproteins separated into three polypeptides during sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The isolated glycoproteins elicited peroxidase activity to higher levels in resistant than in susceptible cultivars. It was evident that the glycoproteins were probably a general elicitor of plant origin. Information gained from these studies is valuable for the development of plant activators to enhance the defence responses of plants.     

Influence of aFusarium culmorum inoculation of wheat onin sacco dry matter degradation of wheat straw and wheat chaff

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of aFusarium culmorum inoculation of wheat on thein sacco dry matter degradation (DG) of wheat straw and wheat chaff in dairy cows. The ruminal disappearance of dry matter was measured with thein situ nylon bag technique. Samples of wheat straw and wheat chaff from non-inoculated andFusarium-inoculated wheat were used to examine the ruminal dry matter degradability. Samples were subjected to ruminal incubation in two dairy cous fitted with a permanent rumen fistula and incubated for 4, 8, 16, 24, 48, 72, 96 and 120 h. To describe the degradation kinetics, the equation by Ørskov and McDonald (1979) was used. DG rates obtained for contaminates straw and chaff were higher compared to the corresponding rates of the non-contaminated samples, which is assumed to be due to the activity of fungal enzymes. It can be concluded that an infection of wheat withF. culmorum may have an influence on the dry matter degradation of straw and chaff.     

Searching for wheat resistance to aphids and wheat bulb fly in the historical Watkins and Gediflux wheat collections

Insect pests can reduce wheat yield by direct feeding and transmission of plant viruses. Here we report results from laboratory and field phenotyping studies on a wide range of wheat, including landraces from the Watkins collection deriving from before the green revolution, more modern cultivars from the Gediflux collection (north‐western Europe) and modern UK Elite varieties, for resistance to the bird cherry‐oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi (Homoptera: Aphididae) and the English grain aphid, Sitobion avenae (Homoptera: Aphididae). A total of 338 lines were screened for R. padi and 340 lines for S. avenae. Field trials were also conducted on 122 Watkins lines to identify wheat bulb fly, Delia coarctata, preference on these landraces. Considerable variation was shown in insect performance among and within different wheat collections, with reduced susceptibility in a number of varieties, but phenotyping did not identify strong resistance to aphids or wheat bulb fly. Field trials showed within collection differences in aphid performance, with fewer aphids populating lines from the Watkins collection. This differs from development data in laboratory bioassays and suggests that there is a pre‐alighting cue deterring aphid settlement and demonstrates differences in aphid preference and performance on older plants in the field compared with seedlings in the laboratory, highlighting the need for phenotyping for aphid resistance at different plant growth stages. No association was identified between performance of the different insect species on individual varieties, potentially suggesting different nutritional requirements or resistance mechanisms.