真黏菌乃真核——从细胞学角度看黏菌

正一般认为,真核细胞和原核细胞最大的区别在于真核细胞具有完整的细胞核,而由真核细胞构成的生物叫真核生物,由原核细胞构成的生物叫原核生物。原核生物一般都是单细胞生物,真核生物则既有单细胞的,也有多细胞的。真黏菌具有4个典型的阶段:孢子、游动胞、黏变形体和原质团。这类生物通常会有一段黏黏的时期,因此得名黏菌。这个黏黏的阶段就是黏菌的营养生长期,即黏菌的原质团时期。这些黏黏     

灰绒泡菌生活史及其子实体发育过程的显微观察

为明确灰绒泡菌Physarum cinereum的个体发育特征,本研究在实验室条件下完成了该菌的生活史,并对其子实体发育过程进行显微观察。灰绒泡菌P. cinereum孢子萌发方式为裂式,显型原质团水白色;子实体形态建成可分为孢囊形成期和孢囊成熟期,孢囊成熟期幼孢囊颜色随着孢子的形成呈现白色-红棕色-黑褐色逐渐加深的变化;子实体在发育过程中孢丝形成后原生质割裂形成孢子。     

黏菌生活周期不同阶段细胞核的观察

在显微和亚显微2个水平对黏菌孢子、原质团和菌核中细胞核进行了观察。试验结果表明,幼孢子中细胞核着色明显,原质团中细胞核在荧光染料染色的条件下易于被观察到,而菌核中的细胞核即使在电镜下也难以确定。     

细弱绒泡菌的生活史

利用燕麦-琼脂培养、基物培养及扫描电镜技术研究了细弱绒泡菌的个体发育过程,在燕麦琼脂培养基上完成了从孢子到孢子的生活史。结果表明,细弱绒泡菌生活史包括单核的黏变形体或游动胞、多核的营养体原质团以及孢子形成阶段。孢子球形,表面具细小疣点。孢子萌发为裂式,释放1黏变形体。黏变形体行变形运动,在有水的条件下,可转变为游动胞。成熟原质团橘黄色。原质团类型为显型,具有扇形网络状菌脉。成熟原质团可形成多个孢囊。琼脂培养基上获得的细弱绒泡菌孢子与野生型相似,并具有可育性。     

扁绒泡菌的生活史

黏菌的生活史对于研究其营养方式的多样性以及系统发育等具有重要价值,目前国内外有关黏菌生活史的报导很少。利用燕麦-琼脂培养、基物培养及扫描电镜技术研究了扁绒泡菌的个体发育过程,在燕麦琼脂培养基上完成了从孢子到孢子的生活史。结果表明,扁绒泡菌生活史包括单核的黏变形体或游动胞、多核的营养体原质团以及孢子形成阶段。孢子球形,表面具细小疣点。孢子萌发为裂式,释放1黏变形体。原质团类型为显型。成熟原质团乳白色,可形成多个孢囊。琼脂培养基上获得的扁绒泡菌孢子与野生型相似,并具有可育性。     

针箍菌的生活史

利用基物和燕麦-琼脂技术研究了针箍菌的个体发育过程,在燕麦琼脂培养基上完成了从孢子到孢子的生活史。结果表明,生活史包括单核的黏变形体或游动胞、多核的营养体原质团以及孢子形成阶段。琼脂培养基获得的针箍菌孢子与野生型相似,并具有可育性。     

圈绒泡菌的生活史

利用基物培养、燕麦-琼脂培养技术及扫描电镜技术研究了圈绒泡菌的个体发育过程, 在燕麦琼脂培养基上完成了从孢子到孢子的生活史。结果表明,生活史包括单核的黏变形体或游动胞、多核的营养体原质团以及孢子形成阶段。琼脂培养基上获得的圈绒泡菌孢子与野生型相似,并具有可育性。     

草生发网菌Stemonitis herbatica生活史的研究

本文研究了草生发网菌Stemonitis herbatica从孢子萌发-原质团形成-幼子实体-成熟子实体的个体发育完整过程。结果表明,草生发网菌孢子萌发类型为孔出式;原质团类型为隐型,子实体形态建成前形成淡黄色的珊瑚状原质团,需足够的光照后才能形成子实体;子实体的形成过程通常在6–7h内完成。     

黄柄钙皮菌的生活史

利用基物培养、燕麦-琼脂培养技术及扫描电镜技术研究了黄柄钙皮菌的个体发育过程,在燕麦琼脂培养基上完成了从孢子到孢子的生活史。结果表明,生活史包括单核的黏变形体或游动胞、多核的营养体原质团以及孢子形成阶段。孢子球形,表面具疣突。孢子萌发为裂式,释放1黏变形体。黏变形体行变形运动,在有水的条件下,可转变为游动胞并游动。可观察到1长具极性的鞭毛。合子形成原质团。成熟原质团棕色。原质团类型为显型,具有扇形网络状菌脉。琼脂培养基上获得的黄柄钙皮菌孢子与野生型相似,并具有可育性。     

全白绒泡菌部分生活史图解

为深入了解全白绒泡菌生活史过程,对其孢子萌发、黏变形体和游动胞的相互转变、游动胞在5 s内的运动轨迹及原质团形成孢囊的过程进行了显微镜下观察和拍照,并对部分生活史阶段进行了时间测定,提出黏菌孢子萌发的第三种方式,提供了清晰的全白绒泡菌部分生活史的图片。     

Life Cycles of Myxogastria Stemonitopsis typhina and Stemonitis fusca on Agar Culture

Myxogastria is a group of protozoa characterized by cellular uninucleate amoeboflagellates (myxamoebae and flagellated swarm cell), acellular multinucleate plasmodia, and stationary spore‐bearing sporocarps. The Stemonitales is a large order in the Myxogastria and contains approximately 230 species, but only 13 species have their completed life cycles observed so far. Here, we described the life cycles of two species in Stemonitales, Stemonitopsis typhina and Stemonitis fusca by culturing in water agar medium and observing the morphogenesis of their spore germination, plasmodium, and sporocarp development. The spore‐to‐spore life cycles of Ste. typhina and S. fusca were completed in approximately 67 and 12 d, respectively. Both species possessed an aphanoplasmodium. However, the spores of Ste. typhina and S. fusca germinated by the V‐shape split and pore methods, respectively. Unlike S. fusca with an evanescent peridium, Ste. typhina produced a shiny persistent peridium which was continuous with the membrane surrounding its stalk. The information will contribute to a better understanding of their taxonomy and phylogeny.     

From Life Cycle Assessment to Life Cycle Management

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a widely accepted methodology to support decision‐making processes in which one compares alternatives, and that helps prevent shifting of environmental burdens along the value chain or among impact categories. According to regulation in the European Union (EU), the movement of waste needs to be reduced and, if unavoidable, the environmental gain from a specific waste treatment option requiring transport must be larger than the losses arising from transport. The EU explicitly recommends the use of LCA or life cycle thinking for the formulation of new waste management plans. In the last two revisions of the Industrial Waste Management Programme of Catalonia (PROGRIC), the use of a life cycle thinking approach to waste policy was mandated. In this article we explain the process developed to arrive at practical life cycle management (LCM) from what started as an LCA project. LCM principles we have labeled the “3/3” principle or the “good enough is best” principle were found to be essential to obtain simplified models that are easy to understand for legislators and industries, useful in waste management regulation, and, ultimately, feasible. In this article, we present the four models of options for the management of waste solvent to be addressed under Catalan industrial waste management regulation. All involved actors concluded that the models are sufficiently robust, are easy to apply, and accomplish the aim of limiting the transport of waste outside Catalonia, according to the principles of proximity and sufficiency.     

The Thread of Life: Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle

The Thread of Life: Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle. Douglas W. Hollan and Jane C. Wellenkamp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. 239 pp.     

The Quebec Life Cycle Inventory Database Project

Purpose

Life cycle assessment (LCA) in Quebec (Canada) is increasingly important. Yet, studies often still need to rely on foreign life cycle inventory (LCI) data. The Quebec government invested in the creation of a Quebec LCI database. The approach is to work as an ecoinvent “National Database Initiative” (NDI), whereby the Quebec database initiative uses and contributes to the ecoinvent database. The paper clarifies the relationship between ecoinvent and the Quebec NDI and provides details on prioritization and data collection.

Methods

The first steps were to select a partner database provider and to work out the modalities of the partnership. The main criterion for partner selection was database transparency, i.e., availability of unit process data (gate-to-gate), necessary for database adaptation. This and other criteria, such as free access to external reviewers, conservation of dataset copyright, seamless embedding of datasets, and overall database sophistication, pointed to ecoinvent. Once started, the NDI project proceeded as follows: (1) data collection was prioritized based on several criteria; (2) some datasets were “recontextualized,” i.e., existing datasets were duplicated and relocated in Quebec and linked to datasets representing regional suppliers, where relevant; (3) new datasets were created; and (4) Canadian environmentally extended supply-use tables were created for the ecoinvent IO repository.

Results and discussion

Prioritization identified 500 candidate datasets for recontextualization, based on the relative importance of relative contribution of direct electricity consumption to cradle-to-gate impacts, and 12 key sectors from which about 450 data adaptation or collection projects were singled out. Data collection and private sector solicitation are underway. Private sector participation is highly variable. A number of communication tools have been elaborated and a solicitation team formed to palliate this obstacle. The new ecoinvent database protocol (Weidema et al. 2011) increases the amount of information that is required to create a dataset, which can lengthen or, in extreme cases, impede dataset creation. However, this new information is required for the new database functionalities (e.g., providing multiple system models based on the same unit process data and regionalized LCA).

Conclusions

Being an NDI is advantageous for the Quebec LCI database project on multiple levels. By conserving dataset copyright, the NDI remains free to spawn or support other LCI databases. Embedding datasets in ecoinvent enables the generation of LCI results from “day 1.” The costs of IT infrastructure and data review are null. For these reasons, and because every NDI improves the global representativity of ecoinvent, we recommend other regional or national database projects work as NDIs.

     

The Life Cycle of Chlorine, Part III

In the two previous articles in this series we reviewed the major processes of chlorine production (Part I) and its intermediate uses and waste products in the production of other chemicals (Part 11). In this article I consider some of the final applications of chlorine (e.g., for water treatment and pulp bleaching) and the uses of the most important chlorinated compounds such as solvents, chlorofluorocarbons, and the plastic polyvinyl chloride in the industrial economy. I summarize known evidence regarding their environmental fates. The special case of persistent long-lived toxic compounds (e.g., pesticides) will be discussed in a subsequent article.