CHANGES IN PROTOPLASMIC CONSISTENCY AND THEIR RELATION TO CELL DIVISION

1. The development of the amphiaster is associated with the formation of two semisolid masses within the more fluid egg substance. 2. The elongation of the egg during cleavage is possibly produced as a consequence of the mutual pressure of these two growing semisolid masses. 3. The division of the egg into two blastomeres consists essentially in a growth, within the egg, of two masses of material at the expense of the surrounding cytoplasm. When all the cytoplasm of the egg is incorporated in these two masses cleavage occurs. 4. After a certain period of time the semisolid masses revert to a more fluid state. In the eggs studied this normally occurs after the cleavage furrow has completed the separation of the two blastomeres. The formation of the furrow, however, may be prevented in various ways, upon which the egg reverts to a single spherical semifluid mass containing two nuclei. 5. An egg mutilated during its semisolid state (amphiaster stage) may or may not revert to a more fluid state. If the more solid state is maintained, the cleavage furrow persists and proceeds till cleavage is completed. If the mutilation causes the egg to revert to the more fluid state the furrow becomes obliterated and a new cleavage plane is subsequently adopted. 6. The nuclei of eggs in the semifluid state are able to alter their positions. In semifluid mutilated eggs the nuclei tend to move to positions which may assure symmetry in aster formation and cleavage.     

NUCLEAR GLYCOCONJUGATES AND THEIR RELATION TO MALIGNANCY

1. The nucleus has a distinctive carbohydrate chemistry, the main features of which are the lack of glycosphingolipid, the high density of carbohydrate per unit area of nuclear membrane, the presence of glycosaminoglycan in the nuclear matrix and possibly the nuclear membranes, and the existence of glycosylated non-histone proteins. 2. The nucleus has considerable autonomy in its metabolism of glycosaminoglycan and has a capacity for glycosyl transfers involving glycosyl dolichyl phosphates and pyrophosphates. This latter activity probably resides in the nuclear membranes. 3. The soluble fraction of the nucleoplasm contains the total cellular CMP-sialic-acid synthetase and, hence, all sialic acid metabolism passes through the nucleus, which may have a regulatory role. Uncertainty remains as to the sialic acid content of the glycoproteins of the nucleus and it is likely to vary between cell types. 4. Malignancy is associated with several alterations in the glycosylation of nuclear membranes, including increased levels of sialic acids in the glycoproteins of the inner nuclear membrane: changes in glycosylation of the matrix and chromatin are not yet well defined. In malignancy, some nuclear glycoproteins may possibly appear in other cellular membranes.     

VIRUS DISEASES OF ADANSONIA DIGITATA L. (BOMBACACEAE) AND THEIR RELATION TO CACAO IN GHANA

Virus-infected Adansonia digitata L. were found in the Guinea-savannah woodland forming the Northern Territories and on the Accra plains of Ghana, but those tested in the rain forest were not infected. Three viruses isolated from infected trees resembled the Kpeve cacao virus, but no definite relationship could be established. It is unlikely that the original outbreaks of swollen shoot in cacao came from A. digitata.     

B-CHROMOSOMES,THEIR ORIGIN AND RELATION TO MEIOSIS IN INTERSPECIFIC LOLIUM HYBRIDS

The following Lolium species were shown to have 14 chromosomes: L. canariensis Steud. (= L. gracile Parl.), L. loliaceum (Bory and Chaub.) Hand.-Mazz., L. multiflorum Lam., L. perenne L., and L. temulentum L. B-chromosomes in addition to the normal complement were observed during metaphase I and anaphase I for L. persicum Boiss. and Hohen., L. remotum Schrank, L. rigidum Gaud., L. strictum Presl. (= L. rigidum?), and for several synthesized interspecific hybrids. General absence of B-chromosomes in diakinesis suggested that they originated by misdivision of A-chromosomes during prometaphase I. The B-chromosomes reached a maximum of eight but the number varied for microsporocytes of the same plant. B-chromosomes appeared spontaneously in progenies from sibbing of hybrid plants without supernumeraries but were also eliminated in the F₂ from other sibbings. Degree of chromosome pairing during meiosis was unrelated to the subsequent presence of B-chromosomes. Normal pairing of seven bivalents was typical for L. perenne × L. multiflorum, L. perenne × L. rigidum, L. multiflorum × L. loliaceum, and L. rigidum × L. loliaceum. Between five and seven bivalents were recorded for L. multiflorum × L. persicum, L. multflorum × L. remotum, L. multiflorum × L. strictum, L. rigidum × L. persicum, L. rigidum × L. remotum, L. rigidum × L. strictum, and L. rigidum × L. temulentum. The results indicated that these Lolium species have a common and generally undifferentiated genome suggesting relatively recent speciation.     

中国脊髓灰质炎病毒疫苗株基因特征及其神经毒力的初步观察

中国脊髓灰质炎病毒疫苗株普遍存在基因变异的现象,如重组,点突变等。我们选出１０株有代表性的变异株,在具有人脊灰病毒受体基因的转基因小鼠ＰＶＲ－Ｔｇ２１中做毒力分析,发现Ｓａｂｉｎ １基因型与野毒基因型的重组株显示很强的神经毒力,其ＰＤ５０ｉｎＴＣＩＤ５０值为４．５,而Ｓｂｉｎ１标准株的ＰＤ５０值大于８０。另外两株Ｉ型疫苗株只有关键性核苷酸位点发生突变,只在位点５２５－发生突变的一株,其ＰＤ５０值为     

豺皮樟和圆叶豺皮樟中的阿朴啡生物碱成分

从豺皮樟（Ｌｉｔｓｅａ ｒｏｔｕｎｄｉｆｏｌｉａ ｖａｒ．ｏｂｌｏｎｇｉｆｏｌｉａ）和圆叶豺皮樟（Ｌｉｔｓｅａ ｒｏｔｕｎｄｉｆｏｌｉａ）的茎中分离得到三个阿朴啡型生物碱成分,通过光谱解析及化学方法,三个化合物分别鉴定为降波尔定（１）、波尔定（２）和氮乙酰降波尔定（３）。其中氮乙酰降波尔定系首次直接从植物中得到。