西洋梨枝化学成分的研究

从西洋梨的枝中分离鉴定了8个化合物,它们分别是正二十九烷(Ⅰ)、羽扇豆醇(Ⅲ)、β-谷甾醇(Ⅳ)、白桦脂醇(Ⅴ)、白桦脂酸(Ⅵ)、胡萝卜甙(Ⅶ)、氢醌(Ⅷ)、和熊果甙(Ⅸ)。初步药理实验表明,化合物Ⅲ、Ⅳ、Ⅴ、Ⅵ、Ⅷ和Ⅸ有一定的抑菌作用,Ⅷ对S-180有一定抑瘤活性。     

茌梨的胚胎发育和开花结实的相关性研究

茌梨的花药以造孢组织越冬。第二年春,花芽萌动时形成小孢子母细胞。小孢子的发生为同时型。成熟花粉粒为2细胞型。4月初,珠心顶端第三层细胞中的造孢细胞发育为大孢子母细胞,属厚珠心型。胚囊发育属蓼型。胚发育始于4月下旬,受精卵进行横分裂,后经棒状原胚、球形原胚、心形胚和鱼雷形胚,至7月中旬幼胚逐渐成熟。胚的发育属藜型。胚乳发生为核型。茌梨大小孢子的发生和雌雄配子体的形成与花芽、花外形标志之间,有较稳定的相关性。胚和胚乳的发育与果实的生长有一定的相关性。     

激光和高压静电场对草莓种间杂交不亲和性的影响

以明晶等４个栽培品种及森林草莓、黄毛草莓和弗州草莓等３个野生种和类型为试材进行了该项研究。结果表明,用适宜剂量的激光和高压静电场处理父本野生草莓花粉可以克服草莓种间杂交不亲和性,显著提高座果率、杂种率和交配率,从而获得较多新的草莓种质资源。     

CORRELATION BETWEEN CELL SIZE AND POSITION WITHIN THE DIVISION CYCLE IN SUSPENSION CULTURES OF CHANG LIVER CELLS

Chang liver cells from exponentially growing suspension cultures have been separated by sedimentation at unit gravity. Determinations of the protein content per cell showed that the fractionation procedure resulted in good separation of cells of different size. On the other hand, the DNA content of individual cells from the fractions, as determined cytofluorimetrically, indicated considerable heterogeneity in the size of cells from the same stage of the division cycle. On the basis of earlier results on intermitotic growth and the variation in the length of the cell cycle in homogeneous cell populations, a mathematical model has been constructed and tested using a computer program. The present results on the size distribution of cells from the different stages of the mitotic cycle are consistent with a regeneration of size heterogeneity in each cell generation, as a result of the dispersion of intermitotic times. The variation in cell cycle times may be related to a probabilistic event in the G₁ period. In the mathematical model it was necessary to include a mechanism by which the regeneration of abnormally large cells is prevented. The experimental data are compatible with a gradually increasing inhibition of growth in cells larger than a certain size (circa 400 pg protein per cell).     

芦苇细胞培养中的染色体稳定性及诱变效应

培养一年后的芦苇愈伤组织中,仍以80%的八倍体细胞占绝对优势。染色体数目变异范围在105—26之间。而 EMS 处理的愈伤组织与末经处理的愈伤组织相比较,明显地具有比较高的染色体数目变异和倍性变异。     

阔他阿木特在植物分类学中的地位及其营养价值

根据历史资料记载进一步证实新疆是历史悠久的“梨乡” ,而阔他阿木特则为土户梨之一个品种。通过对阔他阿木特形态及结构的分析研究并经过深入的植物检索确定了阔他阿木特在西洋梨属 (Pyruscommunis.L)的一个地方品种地位。通过化学定性定量分析阔他阿木特中不确定之营养成分得以揭示 ,其具有较高的营养成分     

植物离体培养产生草珊瑚有效成分

报道了以草珊瑚外植体诱导愈伤组织的适宜培养基和各种植物激素在诱导及其生长培养中的调节作用。应用薄层层析（ＴＬＣ）和紫外光鉴定，证明所获得的愈伤组织具有合成与原植物材料相同的黄酮类、异嗪上以啶类、延胡索酸等有机酸的能力。亦通过愈伤组织无性系筛选过程，得到一个增长率和代谢物产量比愈伤组织母系高４倍左右的优良愈伤组织系。     

窝梨果实结构及发育的研究

窝梨果实是由托杯和子房共同发育形成的假果,其横切面上,由外向内可看到表皮层,果肉,果心等几部分。表皮层,果肉由托杯发育而来,其中发布着维管束及石细胞等,果心是由子房发育而成,子房下位,５心皮组成５室,每室具２个倒生胚珠。     

INFLUENCE OF ANAESTHETICS ON THE BALANCE BETWEEN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION OF ENERGY IN THE BRAIN

Abstract— The influence of general anaesthesia upon the metabolic state of the brain was evaluated from the tissue concentrations of ATP, ADP and AMP, and from the concentrations of glycolytic and citric acid cycle intermediates, in immobilized and artificially ventilated rats anaesthetized either with 70% N₂O, 1% halothane or 60 mg/kg of pentobarbitone. The results were compared to the results obtained on awake animals in fentanyl-analgesia. The adenylate energy charge was identical in all groups studied and there were no H⁺-independent changes in the phosphocreatine/creatine ratios. In pentobarbitone anaesthesia there was an accumulation of glucose 6-phosphate and a fall in fructose 1,6-diphosphate, indicating inhibition of phosphofructokinase. No significant changes in these metabolites were observed with halothane or nitrous oxide anaesthesia and the substrate patterns differed from that obtained with pentobarbitone.
The blood glucose concentrations were higher in the unanaesthetized, immobilized rats given fentanyl than in those anaesthetized. There was a direct relationship between the glucose concentrations in blood and in tissue. The glucose concentration ratios intracellular water to blood were higher in the anaesthetized than in the unanaesthetized animals, increasing with increasing depth of anaesthesia. The intracellular lactate concentrations were lowest in the groups given pentobarbitone and fentanyl citrate, and there was thus no direct relationship between lactate concentration and depth of anaesthesia.     

ON THE NATURE OF INTRA- AND INTERSPECIFIC INCOMPATIBILITY IN ULMUS

Efforts to introduce Dutch Elm Disease resistance into the American elm (Ulmus americana L.) through breeding with Asian elms has been hampered by sexual incompatibility. Controlled pollinations of Ulmus americana and the Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila L.) were studied in detail to gain insight into the nature of this incompatibility. Microscopic observations revealed that germination and early pollen tube growth were inhibited on the stigmatic surface following both intra- and interspecific incompatible pollinations. Both qualitative and quantitative differences in pollen inhibition on the stigmatic surface indicated that the inhibition may involve the action of an inhibitory substance. Detailed observations on callose deposition indicated that this β-1,3 glucose polymer may implement the inhibition.     

GAMETIC INCOMPATIBILITY BETWEEN SPECIES OF THE SEA URCHIN ECHINOMETRA ON THE TWO SIDES OF THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA

The Pliocene rise of the Central American Isthmus has resulted in numerous “geminate pairs,” i.e., closely related species, one on each coast. Such species pairs can provide information on the evolution of isolating mechanisms in allopatry and on the relationship between genetic divergence and reproductive isolation in populations separated at a known time. The sea urchin genus Echinometra has one species, E. vanbrunti, in the eastern Pacific, and two, E. lucunter and E. viridis, in the Caribbean. E. viridis is morphologically distinct from the other two species, leading to the conclusion that E. lucunter and E. vanbrunti constitute a geminate pair. Allozyme data, on the other hand, place the speciation event of the two currently sympatric species after the rise of the Isthmus. We report fertilization experiments between the gametes of the three species performed to determine degree of reproductive isolation. Crosses between E. viridis and E. vanbrunti produce rates of fertilization almost equal to those manifested in homogamic crosses. Sperm of E. lucunter can fertilize eggs of the other two species, but few of its eggs permit fertilization by heterospecific sperm. Contrary to the predictions of the “speciation by reinforcement” hypothesis, degree of incompatibility between the allopatric E. lucunter and E. vanbrunti is higher than between the sympatric E. lucunter and E. viridis. Despite the incomplete and unidirectional nature of their gametic isolation, E. lucunter and E. viridis maintain their genetic integrities. Consideration of the likely phylogenetic relationships between the three species suggests that incompatibility of E. lucunter eggs with heterospecific sperm has evolved in the last 3.5 million years, after the rise of the Isthmus. There is no correlation between genetic divergence and strength of reproductive isolation, either within Echinometra, or among the geminate species pairs of echinoids that have been studied to date. Because recognition between echinoid gametes depends on the chemical compositions of a sperm protein and an egg glycoprotein, the appearance of gametic isolation would require only the fixation of a few mutations in each population on either side of a geographic barrier and could be independent of any other kind of genetic divergence. Thus, in animals with external fertilization, speciation need not be accompanied by major genomic reorganization.     

THE INFLUENCE OF pH AND LICHEN METABOLITES (VULPINIC ACID AND (+) USNIC ACID) ON THE GROWTH OF THE LICHEN PHOTOBIONTTREBOUXIA IRREGULARIS

The quantitative response to two lichen metabolites, vulpinic acid and (+) usnic acid, on biomass production by the photobiontTrebouxia irregularis, isolated from the lichenCladina mitis, was determined experimentally. The presence of usnic acid resulted in inhibition of photobiont growth, and the effect depended on the pH of the culture medium. The concentration effect of usnic acid was observed. The application of vulpinic acid almost completely inhibited the growth ofT. irregularisand no significant differences were found among samples at different medium pH values.     

PLOIDAL CHANGES IN CLONAL CULTURES OF SPIROGYRA COMMUNIS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIES DEFINITION

A clonal culture of Spirogyra filaments of initially uniform width produced filaments of three additional significantly different widths. Group I filaments of the original clone were 30.9 ± 0.7 μm wide (mean ± SD, N = 50). Group I filaments produced Group II filaments (22.0 ± 1.1 μm) through vegetative growth and sexual reproduction. Zygospores from homothallic Group I filaments produced germlings representative of Groups I and II; zygospores from homothallic Group II filaments produced germlings representative of Group II only. Germlings of Groups III (27.7 ± 1.0 μm) and IV (44.9 ± 0.8 μm) were produced in the cross of I × II. Viable zygospores from homothallic Group III filaments were obtained. Cells of Group IV filaments were initially binucleate and did not conjugate. Of the six intergroup crosses possible, four resulted in conjugation-tube formation only; two crosses yielded zygospores (I × II and III × IV). Germlings from the successful cross of Groups III and IV produced filaments of all four groups. Chromosome counts were: Group I (24), Group II (12), Group III (18), and Group IV (24, one nucleus). Relative nuclear fluorescence values of mithramycin-stained DNA were (mean ± SD, N ≥ 30): Group I (11.1 ± 1.4), Group II (5.7 ± 0.7), Group III (8.8 ± 1.3), and Group IV (10.0 ± 0.9, one nucleus). Cytologically, Group II appears to be a diploid (2x), Group I a tetraploid (4x), and Group III a triploid (3x). Systematically, Groups I, II, and III key out to Spirogyra singularis, S. communis, and S. fragilis, respectively, using Transeau's mongraph of the family Zygnemataceae. These species are interpreted to represent a species complex of S. communis (whose name has priority) with the ancestral haploid (x = 6) missing.