烟草早花机理研究进展

早花严重影响着烟草的质量与产量,随着对植物开花机理研究的不断深入,对烟草早花的研究也已从对温度、光照、水分和养分等生理方面的研究发展到了分子水平研究,然而烟草早花的成因及其影响因素至今仍未有明确的定论。从影响烟草成花的生理与分子机理及外界环境条件等方面进行分析和综述,以期为传统的研究方法与分子技术相结合提供参考依据,为烟草早花机理的研究提供参考。     

早花基因在植物教学及遗传育种中的应用

不同植物在开花时间上总是存在一定的差异,这种差异有其本身的遗传基础,也与温度和(或)光周期有密切关系,这些性状可能以数学遗传或质量遗传方式遗传下去。深入研究表明植物均不同程度地存在早花基因,Gottschal和Wellensic报道了豆类中的早花基因,报道认为早花基因是隐性等位基因;Murfet报道了在豆类中的早花基因为一个显性一个隐性组成;Bernard报道了大豆的早花基因为两个隐性等位基因;Coyne和Mattson鉴别出了菜豆的三种开花时间基因;Pinihus报道了春小麦中的一个显性早花基因;Ttai讨论了水稻上的复杂开花基因,其早花基因是由在不同位点上的4     

蝴蝶兰花发育的分子生物学研究进展

蝴蝶兰花非常独特且高度进化,如萼片瓣化、瓣片特化为唇瓣、雌雄蕊合生成合蕊柱及子房发育须由授粉启动等,是单子叶植物花发育研究的理想材料。近年来蝴蝶兰花发育分子生物学取得了重要进展。该文就近年来国内外有关蝴蝶兰开花转换及花器官发育相关基因研究以及B类基因与兰花花被的进化发育关系方面的研究进展进行综述。研究表明:MADS基因在蝴蝶兰开花转换及花器官发育过程中起重要作用,推测其中的DEF(DE-FICIENS)-like基因早期经过2轮复制,形成了4类不同的DEF-like基因,进而决定兰花花被属性。蝴蝶兰花发育分子生物学的深入研究,将极大地利于通过基因工程手段提高蝴蝶兰花品质如花色改良及花期调控等,推动分子育种进程。     

关于四棱草的二型花的研究

陈介(1964)在四棱草属(Schnabelia)中发现具有二型花,即开花授粉型的花(chasmogamous)和闭花授粉型的花(cleistogamous)。他根据当时所掌握的材料,认为二型花"似乎是异株"。笔者在采自安徽祁门的四棱草(S.oligophylla)上发现,二型花无疑是生在同一个体上,但这两种花的花期和花的着生位置是不同的。开花授粉型花的花期早,持续时间短,为一次性开花;闭花授粉型的花是不断地从叶腋发出的,花期持续时间长。     

毛茛状金莲花不同花期的花特征和访花昆虫的变化及表型选择

为了研究植物生长季内开花时间对花特征表型选择的影响,我们以青藏高原东缘高寒草地的毛茛状金莲花Trollius ranunculoides)为实验材料,在生长季内不同开花时间(花前期、花末期)测定花特征,观察访花昆虫的类群和访花频率,生长季结束后收集种子.根据昆虫访花的喜好和季节内类群与访花频率的变化,分析了不同开花时间毛茛状金莲花的花特征与昆虫的选择;并用种子产量表示雌性适合度,估计了毛茛状金莲花的花特征在不同开花时间所受的表型选择.结果表明:不同花期植物的花特征有显著差异,相应的访花昆虫的类群和频率也存在差异,不同类群昆虫访花喜好也不一样.蜂喜好花瓣和花萼较宽、花茎短和花茎数少的个体,这正符合花前期的特征,因而蜂的访花频率在花前期较高;蝇对花特征没有明显的偏好.而通过雌性适合度估计毛茛状金莲花花特征所受的表型选择则是:花前期,花茎较长和花茎数多的植株适合度大;花末期,花茎数多的植株适合度大.我们的研究表明:在植物生长季,花期的分化伴随着传粉昆虫活动的变化.不同花期,访花昆虫的变化可能对植物花特征的分化起了至关重要的作用.但是访花昆虫对花特征的选择与通过雌性适合度估计植物受到的选择不尽相同,这可能是由于其他因素造成的.     

拟南芥野生型与隐花素突变体光调节的蛋白质鉴定与聚类分析

光是控制植物生长发育十分重要的环境因子之一.隐花素是植物的蓝光受体,在植 物中调节多种光形态建成,包括抑制下胚轴的伸长、子叶的伸展和调节植物的开花时间 等,但隐花素依赖蓝光调节光形态建成的分子机制尚不清楚.本文采用比较蛋白质组学 方法研究了在持续蓝光和红光下生长的拟南芥隐花素双突变体cry1cry2和野生型幼苗的全蛋白图谱.采用基质辅助激光解吸飞行时间串联质谱(MALDI-TOF-TOF)进行肽质谱指纹图谱分析.在cry1cry2和野生型中鉴定了71个差异蛋白点.这些差异蛋白质反应光的变化可以形成6类,结果表明,光调节隐花素是通过控制许多相关基因的表达而实现的,为进一步研究拟南芥隐花素的光反应机制提供一些有用的信息.研究表明,蛋白质表达图谱可用于研究各种突变体在不同光照条件下光应答之间的关系.     

拟南芥开花诱导途径分子机制研究进展

拟南芥是分子和遗传学研究的模式植物,对植物花发育及控制花形态建成的分子遗传机制的研究进展主要是建立在对拟南芥研究的基础之上,拟南芥开花主要受到4个途径(自主途径、赤霉素途径、春化作用和光周期途径)的内源和外界信号的同时诱导.该文对近年来国内外有关拟南芥开花诱导的4个途径的分子机制研究进展进行综述,并初步绘制出各开花诱导途径基因间的调控网络图,以进一步明确基因间的相互作用模式及其在整个开花过程中的作用地位.     

花特异转录调节因子的克隆

美国洛克菲勒大学植物分子生物学研究所教授Nara-Hai Chua和九州农业试验场作物部育种工程研究室研究员森昌树,克隆了对花特异表达的莽草酸合成酶基因表达起诱导作用的转录调节因子EPF 1.Chua说,这种控制花形的形态形成因子DEF1是诱导与开花基因表达的转录调节因子. 利用调节基因表达的转录调节因子的启动子,不仅能设计花色和花形(如进行开花调节机理的研究),将来也能改变早熟和晚熟作物的收获期.牵牛花的EPSPS酶有4个启动子,这次克隆的花特异转录调节因子是结合于一个EP1的蛋白.从牵牛花花瓣的核抽提液中克隆     

花生花器分化的解剖学观察研究

本文对四种花生的七个品种分别进行了成熟种子中侧芽发育状况,从种子萌动到出苗和从出苗到开花整个花器官分化过程的解剖学观察,通过观察研究,得出如下结果: 1.不同类型品种,其侧芽发育的状况有显著不同。珍珠豆型、多粒型两个连续开花类型的品种,已分化出第三次侧芽时;普通型、龙生型两个交替开花类型的品种,只见有很小的第二次侧芽。2.不同类型的品种,花器宫分化发育过程的时间早晚不同。连续开花类型的品种,在出苗之前花芽已经形成,出现了花萼原基;交替开花类型的品种是在出苗当天至第二天,幼苗主茎已展开二片真叶时,在第一对侧枝的第三节,花芽才开始形成,出现花芽原基。3.所有类型品种.所经历的各个时期是一致的,均经过九个连续的形态变化时期。对不同类型品种花器官分化的各个时期,结合植株的生育状况进行了观察研究,为制定科学的栽培管理技术措施,提供了理论依据。     

大豆品种北农103早花性状的遗传解析

为明确大豆品种北农103的早花性状的遗传特性,以北农103为父本和晚花品种海系13为母本,构建了F_2分离群体和F_5重组自交系群体。通过F_2分离群体研究其早花性状的遗传方式,利用极端性状混池重测序结合分子标记加密方法定位早花性状基因,并对候选基因进行序列分析。结果显示,北农103的早花性状主要由1对隐性基因控制。该基因位于6号染色体(C2)上,在Satt557和XH2_11标记之间,遗传距离均为1.0 c M。基因序列分析表明,该基因为已知的E1的等位隐性基因el,DNA序列中第218位碱基由E1中的G变为C,导致核苷酸由精氨酸(AGG)变为苏氨酸(ACG),由于北农103的e1基因中单个碱基变异导致光周期的敏感性发生了改变,产生早开花现象。经系谱分析推测,北农103中的e1基因来源于美国品种Century,可在改良大豆品种的成熟期和株高方面发挥作用。     

Flowering time variation in oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) is associated with allelic variation in the FRIGIDA homologue BnaA.FRI.a

Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) is a major oil crop which is grown worldwide. Adaptation to different environments and regional climatic conditions involves variation in the regulation of flowering time. Winter types have a strong vernalization requirement whereas semi-winter and spring types have a low vernalization requirement or flower without exposure to cold, respectively. In Arabidopsis thaliana, FRIGIDA (FRI) is a key regulator which inhibits floral transition through activation of FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), a central repressor of flowering which controls vernalization requirement and response. Here, four FRI homologues in B. napus were identified by BAC library screening and PCR-based cloning. While all homologues are expressed, two genes were found to be differentially expressed in aerial plant organs. One of these, BnaA.FRI.a, was mapped to a region on chromosome A03 which co-localizes with a major flowering time quantitative trait locus in multiple environments in a doubled-haploid mapping population. Association analysis of BnaA.FRI.a revealed that six SNPs, including at least one at a putative functional site, and one haplotype block, respectively, are associated with flowering time variation in 248 accessions, with flowering times differing by 13-19 d between extreme haplotypes. The results from both linkage analysis and association mapping indicate that BnaA.FRI.a is a major determinant of flowering time in oilseed rape, and suggest further that this gene also contributes to the differentiation between growth types. The putative functional polymorphisms identified here may facilitate adaptation of this crop to specific environments through marker-assisted breeding.     

植物非编码RNA调控春化作用的表观遗传

在自然界中许多高等植物需要通过冬季的低温阶段实现从营养生长到生殖生长的时期转化,这一生物学过程称作春化作用。小麦(Triticum aestivum L.)和油菜(Brassica napus L.)等作物以种子为产品器官,生产上往往通过茬口安排和栽培措施使植株尽早通过春化作用,以促进花芽形成和花器官发育,而大白菜(B rapa ssp.pekinenesis)和甘蓝(B.oleracea)等作物以叶球等营养器官作为产品器官,生产上则设法避免低温引起的春化作用,以保证产品器官的充分生长。FLOWERING LOCUS C(FLC)作为一种重要的开花抑制蛋白负调控春化作用,参与植株从营养生长向生殖生长的转化过程。文章综述了春化中FLC表达受抑制主要通过低温诱导表达FLC基因区域的非编码RNA以及VRN1、VRN2、VIN3等蛋白参与介导组蛋白甲基化,从而在表观遗传上控制春化作用的进程和产品器官的正常发育。     

A cluster of Arabidopsis genes with a coordinate response to an environmental stimulus

Vernalization, the promotion of flowering after prolonged exposure to low temperatures, is an adaptive response of plants ensuring that flowering occurs at a propitious time in the annual seasonal cycle. In Arabidopsis, FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), which encodes a repressor of flowering, is a key gene in the vernalization response; plants with high-FLC expression respond to vernalization by downregulating FLC and thereby flowering at an earlier time. Vernalization has the hallmarks of an epigenetically regulated process. The downregulation of FLC by low temperatures is maintained throughout vegetative development but is reset at each generation. During our study of vernalization, we have found that a small gene cluster, including FLC and its two flanking genes, is coordinately regulated in response to genetic modifiers, to the environmental stimulus of vernalization, and in plants with low levels of DNA methylation. Genes encoded on foreign DNA inserted into the cluster also acquire the low-temperature response. At other chromosomal locations, FLC maintains its response to vernalization and imposes a parallel response on a flanking gene. This suggests that FLC contains sequences that confer changes in gene expression extending beyond FLC itself, perhaps through chromatin modification.     

Role of FRIGIDA and FLOWERING LOCUS C in determining variation in flowering time of Arabidopsis

Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) accessions provide an excellent resource to dissect the molecular basis of adaptation. We have selected 192 Arabidopsis accessions collected to represent worldwide and local variation and analyzed two adaptively important traits, flowering time and vernalization response. There was huge variation in the flowering habit of the different accessions, with no simple relationship to latitude of collection site and considerable diversity occurring within local regions. We explored the contribution to this variation from the two genes FRIGIDA (FRI) and FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), previously shown to be important determinants in natural variation of flowering time. A correlation of FLC expression with flowering time and vernalization was observed, but it was not as strong as anticipated due to many late-flowering/vernalization-requiring accessions being associated with low FLC expression and early-flowering accessions with high FLC expression. Sequence analysis of FRI revealed which accessions were likely to carry functional alleles, and, from comparison of flowering time with allelic type, we estimate that approximately 70% of flowering time variation can be accounted for by allelic variation of FRI. The maintenance and propagation of 20 independent nonfunctional FRI haplotypes suggest that the loss-of-function mutations can confer a strong selective advantage. Accessions with a common FRI haplotype were, in some cases, associated with very different FLC levels and wide variation in flowering time, suggesting additional variation at FLC itself or other genes regulating FLC. These data reveal how useful these Arabidopsis accessions will be in dissecting the complex molecular variation that has led to the adaptive phenotypic variation in flowering time.     

拟南芥春化作用相关基因FLC的表达调控及天然早花突变体的研究进展

植物开花是从营养生长到生殖状态的重要发育转变,是多种内在因子和环境因素共同作用的结果。在拟南芥开花调控网络中,开花抑制基因FLC处于枢纽地位。FLC的表达受许多来自环境和生长发育的信号调控,主要包括：PAF1复合体、SWR1复合体成员,FRI依赖途径、自主途径和春化作用途径基因。本文主要综述了影响FLC表达的春化相关基因及天然早花突变体的研究进展,并根据最新的研究成果提出该研究领域的研究方向和重点。     

Control of Arabidopsis flowering: the chill before the bloom

The timing of the floral transition has significant consequences for reproductive success in plants. Plants gauge both environmental and endogenous signals before switching to reproductive development. Many temperate species only flower after they have experienced a prolonged period of cold, a process known as vernalization, which aligns flowering with the favourable conditions of spring. Considerable progress has been made in understanding the molecular basis of vernalization in Arabidopsis. A central player in this process is FLC, which blocks flowering by inhibiting genes required to switch the meristem from vegetative to floral development. Recent data shows that many regulators of FLC alter chromatin structure or are involved in RNA processing.     

Genetic and physiological analysis of biennialism in Hyoscyamus niger

A genetic and physiological study of biennialism in the diploid selfer Hyoscyamus niger (black henbane), an obligate long-day plant, is described. Three annual and two biennial accessions that were homozygous for their respective growth habits were selected. The early-flowering trait of two annual accessions was dominant over the late-flowering trait of the third annual accession. The late-flowering annual accession, but not the early-flowering ones, responded to vernalization. Two biennial accessions remained vegetative after more than 1 year in soil and thus had an obligate vernalization requirement. Crosses between annual and biennial accessions showed that biennialism was conferred through a single dominant gene. However, plants containing only one copy of this dominant gene were transformed from biennials into very late-flowering winter-annual plants that responded more rapidly to vernalization than biennials. Taken together, these results indicated that there were allelic differences in photoperiod-specific flowering time genes and that biennialism was a dose-dependent trait with incomplete dominance. Models for flowering time regulation in henbane involving photoperiod-, vernalization-, and most likely gibberellin-specific pathways are discussed.     

FLC基因表达在植物春化过程中的作用

在对以往有关不同开花途径研究简要总结的基础上综述了FLC基因在春化过程中的作用。近期以拟南芥不同生态型和突变体为模式的研究结果表明基因FLC可能是春化反应的关键基因。研究发现 ,FLC的表达水平与植株低温处理的时间呈数量关系 ,低温处理时间越长 ,FLC的表达越弱 ,去甲基化也可能对FLC起负调控的作用。同时FLC也存在于自主开花途径中 ,与其他基因共同作用以调节植株开花时间。而FLC的表达对开花起抑制作用。一系列研究表明 ,春化的低温作用可能在于相关基因的去甲基化 ,消除了FLC对开花的抑制作用 ,从而解除赤霉素合成途径的封锁最终导致植株在一定时期开花。