水杉栽培居群的遗传多样性研究

利用RAPD技术,对9个水杉(Metasequoiaglyptostroboides)栽培居群的遗传多样性进行了初步研究。用10bp的随机引物16条,共扩增出103个位点,其中37个为多态位点,占35.92%。各居群的多态位点百分率在16.50%~33.01%之间。POPGENEversion1.31软件处理结果如下:居群的Shannon’s信息指数为0.1930。遗传距离在0.0130~0.0650之间,遗传一致度在0.9370~0.9871之间。AMOVA分析结果显示遗传变异主要存在于居群内,占89.05%,居群之间有一定的分化。上述结果表明水杉栽培居群的遗传多样性略低于自然居群,涵盖了自然居群近80%的遗传多样性。由此可以确认栽培水杉的种源是经过混合的,它们在相当程度上代表了自然居群的遗传多样性水平。采自潜江的9株丛枝水杉(Metasequoiaglyptostroboidesvar.caespitosa)没有扩增出特有位点,将其视为一个居群根据遗传一致度作UPGMA聚类分析时,该居群和湖北的3个居群及南京(NJ)、成都(CD)居群聚在一起;单株聚类时丛枝水杉也没有聚成独立的一支,而是比较分散,因此不支持将丛枝水杉作为水杉的一个变种的分类处理。从亲缘关系上看,丛枝水杉应当归属于湖北潜江蚌湖种子园(BH)和湖北潜江广华(GH)居群,这与其分布现状也是吻合的。     

湖北利川水杉原生种群及其生境1948～2003年间变化分析

为保护和恢复水杉原生种群提供科学依据,对中国湖北利川水杉原生母树及其生境1948～2003年间的变化进行对比分析,指出了保护工作存在的问题及保护对策。主要结果有：①1948年初步调查为1000多株,1983年普查有5746株,涉及4个镇(场)、45个行政村,分布面积为6万hm^2;2003年普查为5388株,分布范围没有大的变化,有2种分布类型：散生分布的有896株,群落分布的有4492株,最大的种群为105和123株。②中国政府对水杉的保护取得了巨大成绩,但过去只重视对个体的保护,忽视了对群落及其栖息环境的保护,导致由混交林变为纯林、结构趋于简单、生物多样性减少、天然更新困难,1983～2003年的20年间已有386株水杉原生母树死亡,亟需对水杉原生种群及其栖息地进行保护。③应运用现代恢复生态学手段,开展水杉植被恢复重建理论研究,首先加强对集中分布种群及其栖息地进行就地保护,其次小河河谷实施种群及其栖息地恢复与重建。④人为活动对水杉的危害加重,应减少及停止一切有害的人为活动,改善水杉原生母树生境,提高居民、社区自主参与水杉保护的意识;进行生态移民和实施退耕还林等是一个可以考虑的方法。     

城市森林建设四种乔木树种蒸腾耗水特征

城市树木与森林作为城市生态系统的重要组成部分,充分发挥其生态环境服务、景观美化和休闲娱乐等功能得到了社会各界越来越广泛的重视.配置合理的城市树木与森林,建设节水型城市森林是水资源短缺地区城市生态建设必须重视的问题之一.以大连市劳动公园4种主要乔木树种雪松(Cedrus deodara)、榉树(Zelkova serrata)、丝棉木(Euonymus bungeanus)及水杉(Metasequoia glyptostroboides)为研究对象,应用TDP(Thermal Dissipation Probe)技术分别对每个树种3个径阶的单株树木蒸腾耗水进行了研究,并测定同期气候环境因子及0～25cm,25～50cm,50～75cm,75～100cm土壤含水量的动态变化.研究结果表明:不同树种生长季内蒸腾耗水具有明显的昼夜变化规律,3个径阶雪松夜间蒸腾量占全天的6.3%～33.9%;榉树占 12.4%～30.8%;丝棉木占6.5%～27.6%;水杉占6.0%～21.1%.受气候环境因子、土壤含水量以及树木生长节律的影响,各树种日蒸腾耗水量从9月以后表现为递减的变化.晴天、雨天与阴天3种典型天气条件下树木液流速率表现出不同的变化特征:晴天液流速率曲线较平缓且峰值范围较宽,液流开始升高时间最早,开始降低时间最晚,液流通量最大;雨天,峰值陡且窄,液流开始升高时间最晚,开始降低时间最早,液流通量最小;阴天表现居中.对各树种在整个生长季内蒸腾量从大到小的排序,径阶为10cm的树种为:丝棉木>榉树;径阶为14cm的树种为:丝棉木>榉树>雪松>水杉;径阶为18cm的树种为:雪松>丝棉木>榉树>水杉;径阶为24cm的树种为:雪松>水杉.     

Cuticle micromorphology of leaves of Pinus (Pinaceae) from North America

Cuticle micromorphology of 31 taxa of Pinus from North America was studied with scanning electron microscopy. Twenty-eight characters, 21 from the inner cuticle and seven from the outer cuticle, were described in detail. These characters have value either for infrageneric classification or for identifying individual taxa. Ten characters were diagnostic for subgenera. Numbers 1−5 relate to the epidermal cells: (1) periclinal wall texture; (2) degree of development; (3) shape of anticlinal walls; (4) shape of apex of anticlinal walls; (5) cuticular continuity. Numbers 6 and 7 relate to the subsidiary cells: (6) lateral texture; (7) groove on the inner surface. Numbers 8−10 relate to the Florin ring: (8) degree of development of the ridge; (9) furrow; (10) groove. Pinus resinosa , belonging to Pinus section Pinus , was clearly distinguished from both the other species and subsection by the tapering and oblique end wall and markedly developed anticlinal walls of the epidermal cells. The cuticular features of P. albicaulis belonging to Parrya subsection Cembrae have a cuticular pattern typical of the species of subgenus Strobus . The subsectional delimitation based on cuticular features did not show a clear resolution even though the taxa might be individually distinct based on the combination of characters examined.  © 2004 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2004, 144 , 303−320.     

Range change in Metasequoia: relationship to palaeoclimate

Metasequoia was widely distributed across the mid and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere during the Cretaceous, and experienced range contraction associated with Tertiary climatic cooling and drying. We compile occurrences of Metasequoia from the literature, museum collections and new localities, and plot them in a plate tectonic framework to document these range changes through time. We note two pulses of range contraction: Eocene–Oligocene associated with cooling at high latitudes, and Late Miocene–Pliocene associated with cooling and drying in mid latitudes. Only the northern limit of the taxon's range changed during these intervals. Because of its apparent climate sensitivity, Metasequoia might be used to reconstruct palaeoclimate. To test this hypothesis, we assemble the climatic tolerances of living Metasequoia glyptostroboides under natural and cultivated conditions and compare them with palaeoclimate reconstructions across the genus' former range. The fossil record of Metasequoia shows that ancient members of the genus regenerated under similar conditions to those preferred by living M. glyptostroboides (mean annual temperature of 9–17 °C and mean annual precipitation of 953–2039 mm). However, some data suggest that early Tertiary representatives may have tolerated mean annual temperatures as high as 20–22 °C. Thus, the climate tolerance of Metasequoia appears to have evolved little since the Cretaceous, suggesting that it has potential as a palaeoclimate indicator when used in coordination with other climate proxies. However, Metasequoia alone cannot provide great precision.  © 2007 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society , 2007, 154 , 115–127.     

水杉属和红杉属化石叶表皮鉴定参照系的特殊性

杉科植物的许多属种在小枝的形态和叶片排列上相似,而杉科植物的化石标本多保存为枝叶形式。表皮的特征作为压型化石枝叶标本细胞信息的重要来源,甚至是惟一来源。一直作为杉科植物化石分类鉴定的主要依据。水杉和北美红杉分别是水杉属和红杉属植物化石的惟一现存最近亲缘种,以往关于北美红杉的气孔分布和排列等方面的报道存在分歧,根据作者的研究,北美红杉的表皮特征变异幅度非常广。水杉的气孔分布也与以往报道有差异。利用表皮的特征鉴定杉科植物化石时;不同的处理方法和处理时间,角质层的完整程度和观察数量等均可以影响植物表皮特征的正确获取。     

Cuticular water loss unlikely to explain tree-line in Scotland

Summary According to the hypotheses advanced by Wardle (1971) and Tranquillini (1979), failure of trees at their altitudinal limit is caused by poor development of the cuticle and a corresponding inability to conserve water in winter when the soil is frozen. This hypothesis was tested at a natural tree line of Scots pine in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There was no sign of poor cuticular development, but needles from oldkrummholz at high altitudes and young isolated trees at higher altitude did lose water more rapidly than those at low altitude, over a range of water content during desiccation in the laboratory. The results are best attributed to stomatal dysfunction caused by mechanical damage to the leaf and also by direct damage to the cuticle, rather than to a thinner or less developed cuticle. Calculations show that a small increase in cuticular transpiration is quite unlikely to cause frost-drought.     

水杉的未尽事宜

主要阐述与水杉有关的三个问题：首先是水杉研究的教训,特别是从编辑、作者和学者的角度;其次讨论水杉研究的不明之处,包括王战的标本是如何到达吴仲伦之手而转送给郑万钧的,薛纪如和华敬灿谁先打听到小河的原产地,三木茂的论文是如何到达中国而胡先辅又是如何得到的;并讨论了水杉的栽培及栽培品种的注册以及水杉原产地的资源保护、旅游开发及宣传;最后建议成立水杉博物馆,编写中国植物采集史,编写东亚植物分类学文献目录新续编。     

水杉的未尽事宜

主要阐述与水杉有关的三个问题: 首先是水杉研究的教训, 特别是从编辑、作者和学者的角度; 其次讨论水杉研究的不明之处, 包括王战的标本是如何到达吴仲伦之手而转送给郑万钧的, 薛纪如和华敬灿谁先打听到小河的原产地, 三木茂的论文是如何到达中国而胡先骕又是如何得到的; 并讨论了水杉的栽培及栽培品种的注册以及水杉原产地的资源保护、旅游开发及宣传; 最后建议成立水杉博物馆, 编写中国植物采集史, 编写东亚植物分类学文献目录新续编。     

Atrial natriuretic-like peptide and its prohormone within metasequoia.

Metasequoia glyptostroboides was one of the dominant conifers in North America, Asia, and Europe for more than 100 million years since the late Cretaceous Albian Age, but Quaternary glaciations drove the Metasequoia population to apparent extinction. A small pocket of Metasequoia, however, was found in central China in the 1940s representing the only surviving population of this "living fossil" species. Atrial natriuretic peptide, a 28-amino-acid peptide hormone that causes sodium and water excretion in animals, has been found to be part of the first peptide hormonal system in lower plants. The existence of this hormonal system has never been examined within trees of any genus. High-performance gel permeation chromatography of the leaves and stems (i.e., branches) of Metasequoia followed by atrial natriuretic peptide radioimmunoassay revealed an ANP-like peptide and its prohormone (i.e., approximately 13,000 mol wt) were present in both leaves and stems of this conifer. The elution profile of ANP-like peptide in stems of Metasequoia had a shoulder to the left of where pure synthetic ANP elutes suggesting the possibility of a slightly larger peptide eluting within this shoulder secondary to alternate processing of the ANP-like prohormone and similar to what occurs with the kidney of animals. The elution profile of ANP-like peptide in the leaves of Metasequoia revealed two peaks; one where ANP elutes and a second peak suggesting a smaller peptide that has been metabolically processed. The presence of the ANP-like prohormone strongly suggests that ANP-like gene expression is occurring in both leaves and stems of Metasequoia since this prohormone is the gene product of this hormonal system. The presence of the ANP-like hormonal system in trees implies that this hormonal system may have been present early in land plant evolution to allow trees to reach heights of greater than 30 feet where a water flow-enhancing substance is absolutely necessary for water flow to occur to these heights.     

沿海基干林带结构调控对林分冠层结构参数及林地土壤的影响

以上海浦东沿海水杉基干林带为研究对象,分析水杉林分间伐以及间伐后林下套种其他树种构建复层林2种结构调控措施下林分冠层及林地土壤的变化。结果表明:间伐和复层林构建可显著促进上层乔木树高和胸径的生长,也有助于林下乔灌木和草本植物的发育;未间伐水杉林带LAI最高,其次为复层林带,间伐林分最低。各林分林隙分数的分布特征与LAI相反;3种林分土壤全N、全P和速效K含量差异不显著,而间伐林和复层林土壤速效P、水解N和有机质含量比未间伐林有进一步改善,但间伐林分和复层林带之间土壤养分状况没有显著差异;林分结构调控增加了0～50cm土壤有机碳储量,其中以0～15cm土层有机碳密度最高。复层林带和间伐林土壤呼吸速率比未间伐林分别提高了42%和33%。     

Cuticle micromorphology of leaves of Pinus (Pinaceae) in east and south-east Asia

Cuticle micromorphology of 21 species of Pinus in east and south-east Asia was studied with scanning electron microscopy and leaf morphology was described. Cuticle characters that can be distinguished by their size, shape, and surface texture, as well as by the number of subsidiary cells, the rows of epidermal cells within a stomatal band, the number of cells between stomata in stomatal rows, and the patterns of cuticular flanges are described in detail. Most of these characters have not been considered in sufficient detail previously. Some of the inner cuticular features, such as the texture of periclinal walls, the shape of the top of the anticlinal walls, the comparative size of the lateral and polar subsidiary cells, and the development of the groove near bristles, are diagnostic characters for subgenera. The agreement between cuticle characters and taxa is discussed. Cuticular characters were used to try to resolve the position of taxa that currently appear in different places in different classifications.     

Studies on fossil Metasequoia from north-east China and their taxonomic implications

Specimens of Metasequoia from the Late Cretaceous or Early Tertiary collected from the Wuyun Formation, Jiayin County, Heilongjiang Province, north-east China, include shoots, female and male cones. Vegetative and reproductive features as well as details of leaf cuticle are described. Comparative studies on fossil and living specimens of the genus suggest a new approach to the classification of species of Metasequoia. Our investigations indicate that extant M. glyptostroboides is distinct from all of the recognized fossil species. The specimens described here, in addition to those previously regarded as M. disticha, M. japonica, M. chinensis, M. cuneata, M. papillapollenites, M. miocenica, M. kimurae, M. onukii, M. europaea, M. asiatica and M. nathorstii , are now considered to belong to a single species, namely M. occidentalis. A further valid species is M. milleri , which can be distinguished from M. occidentalis by the morphology of the male cones and the vegetative organs.     

水杉人工林建植50年后的分化特征

通过种群统计学、格局分析和树干解析等对50 a生水杉人工林林分的分化特征进行了研究.结果表明:小个体林木占有相对多数(>50.4%);林木分化现象显著,特别是树高与材积的分化十分突出,林分已出现一定强度的自然稀疏;基于TSTRAT程式的林木分级结果表明,亚优势木占绝对优势(45.7%),其树冠构成该林分的主林冠;竞争指数依次为优势木级<亚优势木级<中庸木级<被压木级,各级的基尼系数基本上低于全林总计;优势木绝对生长率和相对生长率在林分成熟期以前均大于标准木,且胸径速生期持续时问较标准木长;林分高度生长受压抑程度低于胸径生长;林木分布格局总体呈均匀型,与造林初始基本一致;优势木和被压木为聚集分布,中庸木和枯死木为随机散布,亚优势木的分布型则介于随机和聚集之间.林木种群分化既表现在个体大小的不均等性上,也表现在空间分布的非匀质性上.目前林分结构特征的主要成因可以归结为密度压力下的种内竞争.     

Transitions in cuticular composition across a hybrid zone: historical accident or environmental adaptation?

Two subspecies of the grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus form a hybrid zone in the Pyrenees. Transitions across the zone, including changes in mating signals and reproductive isolation have been intensively studied. Cuticular pheromones have been identified as likely mate recognition signals. Since the major role of the cuticle is in waterproofing, environmental adaptation of cuticular composition has the interesting potential to generate assortative mating as an incidental by-product. We describe the pattern of variation in cuticular hydrocarbon blend in four transects through the hybrid zone. We find no evidence for a previously observed displaced cline in one blend component. There were differences between subspecies but these varied among transects and were small compared with variation between transects. We examined environmental variation within one transect and found a correlation between vegetation and cuticular composition, suggesting that environment influences the constitution of the cuticle, and hence natural selection may interact with mating signals in this species.  © 2003 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 2003, 78 , 193−201.     

The Prevalence of Pores and Canals in Leaf Cuticular Membranes

Ubiquitous, visibly discrete, natural cuticular pores and transcuticularcanals were found in the dewaxed leaf (and one herbaceous stem)cuticular membranes of 27 out of 32 taxa among 14 families.Clear evidence for their existence is provided by light photomicrographs.Both adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces were investigated usingthin transections and chemically isolated cuticular membranes,in conjunction with ordinary staining techniques and light microscopymethods. No correlations were found between cuticle thicknessesand either the frequency of pore or the pore and canal diameters. Leaf cuticles, cuticle morphology, cuticular pores, transcuticular canals, cuticular flanges     

牛血清白蛋白在植物RAPD分析中的作用

以水杉、七子花DNA为模板,添加牛血清白蛋白（BSA）,观察其对植物RAPD扩增效果的改善情况。研究显示,在水杉及七子花RAPD扩增体系中,改善RAPD扩增反应的最佳的BSA浓度是不同的,分别为06μg/μl与1μg/μl。另外,BSA还可以封闭乙酰BSA对RAPD扩增反应的抑制作用,降低RAPD反应系统中Taq酶的用量。 Abstract:Using Metasequoia glyptostroboides and Heptacodium miconioides DNA as templates,the effect of bovine serum albumin(BSA) on RAPD in plants was studied.The results showed that suitable concentrations of BSA used in Metasequoia glyptostroboides and Heptacodium miconioides RAPD were different,which were 06μg/μl and 1μg/μl,respectively.The inhibition of acetylated BSA on the amplification of plant RAPD could be relieved by BSA.BSA could reduce the dosage of Taq DNA polymerase.     

Cuticle lipids on heteromorphic leaves of Populus euphratica Oliv. growing in riparian habitats differing in available soil moisture

Populus euphratica is an important native tree found in arid regions from North Africa and South Europe to China, and is known to tolerate many forms of environmental stress, including drought. We describe cuticle waxes, cutin and cuticle permeability for the heteromorphic leaves of P. euphratica growing in two riparian habitats that differ in available soil moisture. Scanning electron microscopy revealed variation in epicuticular wax crystallization associated with leaf type and site. P. euphratica leaves are dominated by cuticular wax alkanes, primary‐alcohols and fatty acids. The major cutin monomers were 10,16‐diOH C_16:0 acids. Broad‐ovate leaves (associated with adult phase growth) produced 1.3‐ and 1.6‐fold more waxes, and 2.1‐ and 0.9‐fold more cutin monomers, than lanceolate leaves (associated with juvenile phase growth) at the wetter site and drier site, respectively. The alkane‐synthesis‐associated ECERIFERUM1 (CER1), as well as ABC transporter‐ and elongase‐associated genes, were expressed at much higher levels at the drier than wetter sites, indicating their potential function in elevating leaf cuticle lipids in the dry site conditions. Higher cuticle lipid amounts were closely associated with lower cuticle permeability (both chlorophyll efflux and water loss). Our results implicate cuticle lipids as among the xeromorphic traits associated with P. euphratica adult‐phase broad‐ovate leaves. Results here provide useful information for protecting natural populations of P. euphratica and their associated ecosystems, and shed new light on the functional interaction of cuticle and leaf heterophylly in adaptation to more arid, limited‐moisture environments.     

麻黄属种子表面纹饰的多样性及其系统学意义

麻黄属(Ephedra)的分子系统学研究结果明显不同于基于雌球果成熟苞片质地的传统分类,指出麻黄属的形态特征和分子特征存在冲突。对麻黄属53种植物的种子表面微形态特征进行了研究,结果表明麻黄属的种子表面纹饰包括3种主要类型,即横向片层型(T型)、乳突型(P型)和扁平型(S型)。麻黄属的种子表面纹饰特征既与宏观形态特征不相关,也与分子系统学的研究结果不相关,表明该属微形态特征、宏观形态特征和分子特征之间的更多冲突。在欧洲和东亚发现的与买麻藤类有关的几个大化石带有T型种子表面纹饰,暗示具有T型纹饰的麻黄类植物在早白垩纪就十分多样。     

Ontogenetic variation in chemical and physical characteristics of adaxial apple leaf surfaces

The reaction of plants to environmental factors often varies with developmental stage. It was hypothesized, that also the cuticle, the outer surface layer of plants is modified during ontogenesis. Apple plantlets, cv. Golden Delicious, were grown under controlled conditions avoiding biotic and abiotic stress factors. The cuticular wax surface of adaxial apple leaves was analyzed for its chemical composition as well as for its micromorphology and hydrophobicity just after unfolding of leaves ending in the seventh leaf insertion. The outer surface of apple leaves was formed by a thin amorphous layer of epicuticular waxes. Epidermal cells of young leaves exhibited a distinctive curvature of the periclinal cell walls resulting in an undulated surface of the cuticle including pronounced lamellae, with the highest density at the centre of cells. As epidermal cells expanded during ontogenesis, the upper surface showed only minor surface sculpturing and a decrease in lamellae. With increasing leaf age the hydrophobicity of adaxial leaf side decreased significantly indicated by a decrease in contact angle. Extracted from plants, the amount of apolar cuticular wax per area unit ranged from only 0.9 microgcm(-2) for the oldest studied leaf to 1.5 microgcm(-2) for the youngest studied leaf. Differences in the total amount of cuticular waxes per leaf were not significant for older leaves. For young leaves, triterpenes (ursolic acid and oleanolic acid), esters and alcohols were the main wax components. During ontogenesis, the proportion of triterpenes in total mass of apolar waxes decreased from 32% (leaf 1) to 13% (leaf 7); absolute amounts decreased by more than 50%. The proportion of wax alcohols and esters, and alkanes to a lesser degree, increased with leaf age, whereas the proportion of acids decreased. The epicuticular wax layer also contained alpha-tocopherol described for the first time to be present also in the epicuticular wax. The modifications in the chemical composition of cuticular waxes are discussed in relation to the varying physical characteristics of the cuticle during ontogenesis of apple leaves.