植物对盐碱胁迫的响应机制研究进展

盐碱胁迫是制约植物生长发育的主要非生物胁迫之一,也是制约农作物生产和生态环境建设的严峻问题。研究作物的耐盐碱机理,对开发和有效利用盐碱地有重要的现实意义。许多研究将盐碱胁迫笼统称为盐胁迫,实际上这是两种不同的非生物胁迫,且碱胁迫对植物的伤害要大于盐胁迫。总结性阐述了盐碱胁迫对植物的危害。从生物量、光合作用、离子平衡和膜透性等方面分析了植物对盐碱胁迫的响应机制,并结合最新研究从多角度综述了植物的抗盐碱机理,包括合成渗透调节物质、提高抗氧化酶活性、对离子的选择性吸收及p H平衡和诱导抗盐碱相关基因表达。提出了抗盐碱性的途径,即外源物质的加入、与真菌的协同效应、利用生物技术手段、培育耐盐碱品种和抗性锻炼。最后针对植物适应盐碱逆境方面的研究进行了展望,提出了当前研究需要解决的问题和突破口,旨在为提高植物耐盐碱能力、增加作物产量提供一定的理论依据。     

Transgenic plants with improved dehydration-stress tolerance: Progress and future prospects

This review summarizes the recent progress made towards the development of transgenic plants with improved tolerance to water stress and salinity. Of the various strategies employed, emphasis has been given to the genes engineered for the biosynthesis of osmoprotectants and osmolytes. This review also briefly discusses the importance of the use of specific stress inducible promoters and the future prospects of transgenic plants with improved agronomic traits.     

Biochemical and physiological mechanisms related to cold acclimation and enhanced freezing tolerance in poplar plantlets

Temperature is one of the abiotic factors limiting growth and productivity of plants. In the present work, the effect of low non-freezing temperature, as inducer of 'cold acclimation', was studied in poplar. Actively growing plantlets of Populus tremula  ×  Populus tremuloides cv. Muhs 1 were used, and cold treatment consisted in whole plants exposure to 4°C in controlled conditions. Leaves of cold-treated poplars were shown to be acclimated, as an increase of their freezing tolerance was measured using electrolyte leakage. Chlorophyll fluorescence measurements revealed a decrease in photosystem II efficiency while the pigment contents of leaves did not vary. In contrast, after 1 week of cold exposure, an accumulation of pigments was noted in the stems near the apex of the stressed plants as confirmed by chromatographic analyses. Simultaneously, a rapid accumulation of osmoprotectants, i.e. carbohydrates (measured by spectrometry), and of stress indicators (e.g. putrescine) occurred; changes in protein patterns also arose. Indeed, Western blot studies revealed that the expression of three families of stress-related proteins, i.e. dehydrins, stress protein 1 and heat-shock protein 70, was activated or induced by low temperatures. This study complements a previous work on proteomic and individual carbohydrates and provides insight in the ability of poplar plantlets to cold acclimate and to cope with low temperatures by diverse mechanisms (growth cessation, carbohydrate, pigment, polyamine and protein accumulations) related to stress response or involved in acclimation process.     

植物四倍体抗性及其机理研究进展

植物四倍体是重要的育种资源,其创制和抗性研究受到越来越多的关注。针对植物四倍体的抗性研究,国内外学者开展了大量的工作。本文对近年来四倍体与二倍体植物的抗性（抗寒、抗旱、抗热、抗盐、抗病等）差异进行了总结,并从植物组织细胞结构、生理、分子应答和表观遗传组修饰等方面对其抗性机理进行了探讨。     

Transgenic plants: An insight into oxidative stress tolerance mechanisms

Environmental stresses considerably limit plant productivity. At the molecular level the negative effect of stress is often mediated by reactive oxygen species-initiated oxidative damage. Hence, it was hypothesised that increased tolerance to several environmental constraints could be achieved through enhanced tolerance to oxidative stress. In recent years much effort has been undertaken to improve oxidative stress tolerance by transforming plants with native or bacterial genes coding either for reactive oxygen species-scavenging enzymes or for enzymes modulating the cellular antioxidant capacity. This review deals with data on transgenic plants with altered antioxidant capacity and focuses on the new insight into the antioxidant defence mechanism given by this type of experimental model.     

Deciphering the regulatory mechanisms of abiotic stress tolerance in plants by genomic approaches

Environmental constraints that include abiotic stress factors such as salt, drought, cold and extreme temperatures severely limit crop productivity. Improvement of crop plants with traits that confer tolerance to these stresses was practiced using traditional and modern breeding methods. Molecular breeding and genetic engineering contributed substantially to our understanding of the complexity of stress response. Mechanisms that operate signal perception, transduction and downstream regulatory factors are now being examined and an understanding of cellular pathways involved in abiotic stress responses provide valuable information on such responses. This review presents genomic-assisted methods which have helped to reveal complex regulatory networks controlling abiotic stress tolerance mechanisms by high-throughput expression profiling and gene inactivation techniques. Further, an account of stress-inducible regulatory genes which have been transferred into crop plants to enhance stress tolerance is discussed as possible modes of integrating information gained from functional genomics into knowledge-based breeding programs. In addition, we envision an integrative genomic and breeding approach to reveal developmental programs that enhance yield stability and improve grain quality under unfavorable environmental conditions of abiotic stresses.     

Photosynthesis and antioxidative defense mechanisms in deciphering drought stress tolerance of crop plants

Crop plants are regularly exposed to an array of abiotic and biotic stresses, among them drought stress is a major environmental factor that shows adverse effects on plant growth and productivity. Because of this these factors are considered as hazardous for crop production. Drought stress elicits a plethora of responses in plants resulting in strict amendments in physiological, biochemical, and molecular processes. Photosynthesis is the most fundamental physiological process affected by drought due to a reduction in the CO₂ assimilation rate and disruption of primary photosynthetic reactions and pigments. Drought also expedites the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), triggering a cascade of antioxidative defense mechanisms, and affects many other metabolic processes as well as affecting gene expression. Details of the drought stress-induced changes, particularly in crop plants, are discussed in this review, with the major points: 1) leaf water potentials and water use efficiency in plants under drought stress; 2) increased production of ROS under drought leading to oxidative stress in plants and the role of ROS as signaling molecules; 3) molecular responses that lead to the enhanced expression of stress-inducible genes; 4) the decrease in photosynthesis leading to the decreased amount of assimilates, growth, and yield; 5) the antioxidant defense mechanisms comprising of enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants and the other protective mechanisms; 6) progress made in identifying the drought stress tolerance mechanisms; 7) the production of transgenic crop plants with enhanced tolerance to drought stress.     

冷驯化对茶尺蠖抗寒性生理指标的影响

【目的】冷驯化作为一种有效提高耐寒能力的途径,在昆虫对环境温度变化的适应中发挥重要作用,是当前昆虫耐寒性研究的热点。为了解茶尺蠖Ectropis oblique(Prout)对冷驯化的生理响应机制,本文研究了不同冷驯化对茶尺蠖抗寒性生理指标的影响。【方法】分别对茶尺蠖快速冷驯化0℃2 h、5℃2 h,长时间冷驯化5℃24 h、5℃48 h,利用热电偶方法测定了茶尺蠖的过冷却点,采用生理生化测定法研究了其体内的抗寒性生理指标的变化。【结果】长时间冷驯化处理使茶尺蠖过冷却点显著降低;虫体内含水量显著降低;脂质和糖原含量显著增加;蛋白质含量略有增加但无显著差异;过氧化物酶(POD)、过氧化氢酶(CAT)、超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)3种保护酶活性显著升高及ATP能量代谢酶活显著降低。短时间冷驯化使茶尺蠖过冷却点显著降低;虫体内含水量降低但差异不显著;脂质、糖原和蛋白质含量显著升高;POD、CAT、SOD 3种保护酶活性及ATP能量代谢酶活分别显著升高和降低。【结论】长时间冷驯化和快速冷驯化均能提高茶尺蠖耐寒性,这是虫体内的水分、脂肪、糖原、蛋白质等含量以及抗逆酶活性变化的综合反映。本研究结果对深入研究茶尺蠖越冬策略以及结合气候条件确定茶尺蠖的分布,为评价田间死亡率及预测翌年发生程度提供重要依据,对制定防治措施具有重要现实意义。     

药用植物内生真菌研究现状和发展趋势

药用植物内生真菌普遍存在于健康植物组织和器官中,种类繁多,分布广泛。到目前为止,人们已从大量药用植物中分离出不同类型的内生真菌,这些植物广泛分布于除南极洲以外的各种陆地生态系统中。随着现代科学技术的迅速发展,药用植物内生真菌的研究也取得了长足的进步。由于内生真菌对于药用植物的重要性,其相关研究也受到了世界各国学者的高度关注。本文总结现阶段药用植物内生真菌相关研究,并对未来研究的发展趋势做出展望。     

谷胱甘肽在植物抗逆中的作用

在简要总结谷胱甘肽(GSH)的结构、分布、代谢和调控的基础上,概述了GSH在植物抗逆性方面的 作用,认为GSH通过植物体内螯合肽合成酶催化下聚合形成植物螯合肽来抵抗重金属的胁迫,作为抗氧化剂 参与低温伤害的保护,以亲核进攻一结合反应方式进行生物解毒等。讨论了GSH在植物抗逆性功能中的机 制,并就GSH今后在该方面的研究前景进行了展望。     

Glycinebetaine and abiotic stress tolerance in plants

The accumulation of osmolytes like glycinebetaine (GB) in cell is known to protect organisms against abiotic stresses via osmoregulation or osmoprotection. Transgenic plants engineered to produce GB accumulate very low concentration of GB, which might not be sufficient for osmoregulation. Therefore, other roles of GB like cellular macromolecule protection and ROS detoxification have been suggested as mechanisms responsible for abiotic stress tolerance in transgenic plants. In addition, GB influences expression of several endogenous genes in transgenic plants. The new insights gained about the mechanism of stress tolerance in GB accumulating transgenic plants are discussed.     

RNA- and miRNA-interference to enhance abiotic stress tolerance in plants

Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology - In response to rapidly changing environment, plants have employed a plethora of mechanisms that provide phenotypic plasticity and allow fine-tuning...