不同诱导处理对番茄叶片营养物质含量及防御酶活性的影响

本文研究了番茄在不同时间下受西花蓟马Frankliniella occidentalis危害(DTF)、机械损伤(MW)、茉莉酸(JA)和水杨酸甲酯(MeSA)外源诱导后,叶片营养物质含量和防御酶活性的变化。结果表明:各种诱导处理24 h和36 h时,番茄叶片可溶性蛋白和可溶性糖含量不同程度的下降,其中虫害处理36 h时,叶片可溶性蛋白和可溶性糖含量下降最明显;在48 h时除水杨酸甲酯处理外,番茄营养物质含量均显著升高。β-1,3葡聚糖酶(PR-2)活性在虫害、机械损伤和茉莉酸处理24 h和36 h后均升高,其中虫害处理的PR-2活性最高。各种处理均能诱导番茄叶片苯丙氨酸解氨酶(PAL)活性明显升高,且均随时间的延长持续升高。所有处理24 h时的番茄叶片多酚氧化酶(PPO)均被激发。各种处理均能导致植株的脂氧合酶(LOX)活性升高,但不同处理诱导的LOX活性升高的时间不同。结果表明,番茄能通过改变营养物质含量和防御酶活性对不同诱导处理作出生理应激反应,但反应程度与诱导方式和时间有关。     

Effects of fertilization levels in two farming systems on senescence and nutrient contents in potato leaves

The influence of fertilization on senescence and nutrient remobilization in potato leaves was investigated in two farming systems on a soil with a poor potassium availability. The Conventional farming system followed good local practices including industrial products, while in the Bio-Dynamic farming system industrial fertilizers and synthetic pesticides were avoided. Potassium concentrations in the dry matter of mature leaves varied over a wide range. Nitrogen compounds (protein, chlorophyll) were less affected, and phosphorus concentrations in the dry matter were similar. Magnesium and potassium concentrations in the leaves were negatively correlated. In both farming systems senescence was advanced in plants with a low nutrient supply. Alkaline pyrophosphatase and aminopeptidase activities (in general highest in expanding and mature leaves) were lower and endopeptidase activities peaked earlier on plots with low fertilizer levels. A high percentage of potassium was remobilized from senescing leaves on unfertilized plots, but the phosphorus concentration remained high at the end of the season. The results suggest that the differential net remobilization of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium depended on actual source/sink relations in the plants.     

Effects of spatial distribution on plant associational defense against herbivory

Several studies have shown that consumption of a focal plant by herbivores depends not only on its own defense traits but also on the characteristics of the neighboring plants. A number of studies have reported on plant associational defense in relation to neighboring plant palatability but the effect of the spatial distribution of the focal plant within patches of different neighboring plants has received less attention. We conducted a manipulative experiment to determine whether and how spatial distribution of focal plants affects the associational defense between plant species. In our experimental setup sheep encountered two patches varying in spatial distribution of the focal plant within patches (dispersed or clumped) and patch quality, good patch and bad patch, where the focal plant, Lathyrus quinquenervius, was neighbored to high- (Chloris virgata) or low-palatable (Kalimeris integrifolia) species, respectively. Results showed that, when focal plants were dispersed within both patches, the risk of attack was significantly lower for focal plants in the patches with low- than high-palatable neighbors, indicating associational defense. Alternatively, when focal plants were clumped within both patches, they were consumed in bad-patch as much as in good-patch plots, which indicates the absence of associational defense. However, if the focal plants have different spatial distributions in the two patches (dispersed in good-patch and clumped in bad-patch or vice versa), sheep foraging success for focal plants was greatly reduced in dispersed spatial pattern irrespective of the palatability of neighboring plants. Therefore, we concluded that spatial distribution is as important as traits of neighboring plants in predicting vulnerability of the focal plant to grazing by generalist herbivores. The outcome of plant associational defense for different types of neighborhood strongly depends on the magnitude of herbivore foraging selectivity between and within patches, which further depended on the contrasts between plant species or between patches.     

大穗型小麦叶片性状、养分含量及氮素分配特征

采用田间试验研究了8个大穗型小麦新品系和西农979不同生育期比叶面积(SLA)、叶干物质含量(LDMC)与养分含量的差异性,并对其不同器官氮素积累和分配情况进行了探讨。结果表明,大穗型小麦的SLA和LDMC平均值小于西农979;小麦叶片养分含量由大到小依次为全氮(N)、全钾(K)和全磷(P);成熟期大穗型小麦品系各器官平均氮素积累能力都高于对照,氮素积累量及分配比例的大小顺序为籽粒>茎+鞘>穗草(穗轴+颖壳)>旗叶>倒二叶>余叶;大穗型小麦平均转移率和贡献率较西农979低;抽穗期旗叶SLA和LDMC呈负相关关系,SLA和N含量呈不显著的正相关,和P、K呈极显著的负相关。小麦叶片结构性状与养分含量影响体内有机物质的积累与转运,通过水肥调控措施来提高大穗型小麦养分利用效率的研究需进一步加强。     

模拟昆虫取食对牛膝菊防御特征的影响

为了解入侵植物牛膝菊的入侵机理,研究其应对昆虫取食的响应,在开花前喷洒不同浓度(5、10、20 mmol·L-1)的茉莉酸甲酯(MeJA)来模拟不同程度的昆虫取食,试验结束时测定其株高、叶片数、花序数、生物量、比叶面积、叶上表皮毛密度,以及叶和花序中的缩合单宁、总酚、黄酮含量.结果表明:5 mmol·L-1 MeJA处...     

林地覆盖经营雷竹林叶片养分特征及其与土壤养分的关系

探讨了短期覆盖经营(覆盖1 a)、休养式覆盖经营(覆盖3 a 后休养3 a)、长期覆盖经营(覆盖6 a)和不覆盖雷竹林(CK)2年生立竹叶片养分含量、化学计量比和再吸收率及其与土壤养分的关系。结果表明：(1)短期和休养式覆盖经营促使雷竹叶片养分含量和再吸收率总体上提高,而长期覆盖经营对雷竹叶片 P 含量和N、K 再吸收率会产生较为明显的影响,叶片 P 含量、N 再吸收率显著升高,K 再吸收率降低;(2)短期和休养式覆盖经营对雷竹林土壤、叶片养分化学计量比影响不明显,但长期覆盖经营使雷竹林土壤、叶片 N∶P、K∶P 显著降低;(3)短期覆盖经营能增强雷竹林土壤养分与叶片的养分含量、化学计量比和养分再吸收率的相关性,但随覆盖经营年限的延长,相关性总体上呈减弱趋势;(4)土壤养分含量及其平衡关系对林地覆盖经营雷竹林叶片养分特征影响明显;(5)长期覆盖经营雷竹林土壤、叶片养分间相关性明显减弱,竹子吸收利用养分的能力下降,生产中应实行雷竹林休养式覆盖经营方式。研究结果为林地覆盖经营雷竹林的可持续发展提供了理论参考。     

Effects of nutrient and CO2 availability on tolerance to herbivory in Brassica rapa

The ability of plants to recover from herbivore damage and maintain their fitness depends on physiological mechanisms that are affected by the availability of resources such as carbon and soil nutrients. In this study, we explored the effects of increased carbon and nutrient availability on the response of rapid cycling Brassica rapa to damage by the generalist herbivore, Trichoplusia ni (Noctuidae), in a greenhouse experiment. Using fruit mass as an estimate of plant fitness, we tested three physiological models, which predict either an increase or a decrease of tolerance to herbivory with increasing resource availability. We used leaf demography to examine some plausible mechanisms through which resource availability may affect tolerance. Our results contradict all models, and, rather, they support a more complicated view of the plasticity of resource uptake and allocation than the ones considered by the models tested. Fruit mass was negatively affected by herbivore damage only under elevated CO₂, and only for certain harvest dates. Increased CO₂ had no effect on the number of leaf births, but it decreased leaf longevity and the total number of leaves on a plant. Nutrient addition increased the number of leaf births, leaf longevity and the total number of leaves on a plant. We conclude that a shortening of the life span of the plants, brought about by elevated CO_2, was responsible for a higher susceptibility of plants to herbivore damage under high CO₂ concentration.     

Plant allocation of carbon to defense as a function of herbivory,light and nutrient availability

We use modeling to determine the optimal relative plant carbon allocations between foliage, fine roots, anti-herbivore defense, and reproduction to maximize reproductive output. The model treats these plant components and the herbivore compartment as variables. Herbivory is assumed to be purely folivory. Key external factors include nutrient availability, degree of shading, and intensity of herbivory. Three alternative functional responses are used for herbivory, two of which are variations on donor-dependent herbivore (models 1a and 1b) and one of which is a Lotka–Volterra type of interaction (model 2). All three were modified to include the negative effect of chemical defenses on the herbivore. Analysis showed that, for all three models, two stable equilibria could occur, which differs from most common functional responses when no plant defense component is included. Optimal strategies of carbon allocation were defined as the maximum biomass of reproductive propagules produced per unit time, and found to vary with changes in external factors. Increased intensity of herbivory always led to an increase in the fractional allocation of carbon to defense. Decreases in available limiting nutrient generally led to increasing importance of defense. Decreases in available light had little effect on defense but led to increased allocation to foliage. Decreases in limiting nutrient and available light led to decreases in allocation to reproduction in models 1a and 1b but not model 2. Increases in allocation to plant defense were usually accompanied by shifts in carbon allocation away from fine roots, possibly because higher plant defense reduced the loss of nutrients to herbivory.     

Effects of simulated shoot and leaf herbivory on vegetative growth and plant defense in Acacia drepanolobium

Plants have considerable ability to respond to herbivory, both with (above-ground) regrowth and with increased defense. We simulated both leaf and shoot herbivory in controlled, replicated experiments on individuals of Acacia drepanolobium in Laikipia, Kenya. These experiments were carried out on individuals that had experienced different, experimentally controlled histories of large mammalian herbivory. Both forms of simulated herbivory were associated with compensatory regrowth. Branches whose shoots had been removed grew significantly more over the next year than paired control branches, fully compensating for the lost shoot length. Branches whose leaves were removed both grew faster and had more leaves one year later than did control branches. Shoot removal, but not leaf removal, increased the production of side shoots. However, because past herbivore pressure was negatively associated with net shoot growth, there may be a long-term cost of herbivory even when plants appear to fully compensate for herbivory in the short term. In contrast to the effects on growth, simulated herbivory did not significantly increase physical (spines) or chemical (tannins) defenses, and there were no significant negative correlations between compensatory growth and plant defense.     

生境变化对栓皮栎幼苗营养元素含量的影响

以栓皮栎在我国天然分布的南界、中部和北界为研究样点,将不同纬度的栓皮栎实生幼苗移栽到同一地点,于生长旺季同时在种源地和移栽地进行取样和测定,探讨生境变化对栓皮栎幼苗生长旺季营养元素含量特征的影响.结果表明:生境变化对栓皮栎幼苗各器官N含量和茎P含量的影响显著,而对各器官K含量和叶片、根P含量影响较小;在种源地,栓皮栎各器官的N含量与纬度间呈极显著的正相关,茎、根的全P含量随纬度升高而降低,叶片N/P的变化不明显;移栽后,北界栓皮栎幼苗各器官的N、P含量显著降低,不同纬度来源对栓皮栎幼苗N、P含量的影响更为明显;各纬度栓皮栎叶片的N/P均有不同程度的升高.不同纬度栓皮栎幼苗不同器官的营养元素含量存在差异,其对生境变化的响应也不相同.     

Insect herbivory on mangrove leaves in North Queensland*

Estimates of leaf damage by insect herbivores are presented for 25 species of mangrove plants, comprising canopy and understorey species. Leaf area loss was highly variable among the species sampled, with means ranging from 0.3 to 35.0% of expanded leaf area. There was also great variability amongst leaves within species, and the mean coefficient of variation for leaf loss from the 25 species was 266%. Of the 12 species sampled at more than one site in North Queensland, eight exhibited small, but significant, between-site differences in herbivory. In general, it did not appear that height in the canopy influenced herbivory. For the dominant mangrove forest community type at Missionary Bay, an estimated mean of 2.1% of leaf production, or 11 g m^-2 per year, entered the direct grazing pathway. This very low figure is compared with estimates from other studies on mangrove forests and estimates from a variety of Australian terrestrial forests.     

Effects of aphid herbivory on volatile organic compounds of Artemisia annua and Chrysanthemum morifolium

We showed the effect of aphid infesting on the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by the infested Artemisia annua and Chrysanthemum morifolium cultivar ‘Nan nong hong feng’ plants by using headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) method combined with gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC–MS). In olfactometer bioassay experiment, aphids showed a preference for the odour of both healthy and infested chrysanthemum, while we found an opposite result in A. annua. Aphids tend to healthy plants compared with the infested, and the phenomenon became obvious with time. Different extracts were tested with the healthy plants and aphid infested plants. Eucalyptol, β-caryophyllene, (E)-β-farnesene, and germacrene D were released as the major constituents in both species. After aphid infesting, we observed a great increase in artemisia ketone and (E)-β-farnesene and a decrease in germacrene D in A. annua; comparatively, eucalyptol, isoborneol and β-caryophyllene increased in chrysanthemum. Combined with the GC–MS data and olfactometer bioassay results we concluded that (E)-β-farnesene and artemisia ketone emitted from A. annua might act as a potential volatile compound to resist aphids, and the two compounds would be useful for future ecological control of aphid in chrysanthemum cultivation.     

Effects of physiological integration on defense strategies against herbivory by the clonal plant Alternanthera philoxeroides

Aims The plant–herbivore interaction is one of the most fundamental interactions in nature. Plants are sessile organisms, and consequently rely on particular strategies to avoid or reduce the negative impact of herbivory. Here, we aimed to determine the defense strategies against insect herbivores in the creeping invasive plantAlternanthera philoxeroides.     

黄顶菊入侵对土壤养分和酶活性的影响

比较了外来植物黄顶菊不同入侵程度土壤养分和土壤酶活性变化规律,探讨了外来植物入侵对土壤生态的影响机制。结果表明,与裸土和本地植物土壤相比,黄顶菊入侵显著提高了有机质、全氮、硝态氮和铵态氮的含量,而全磷和速效磷的含量有所下降,且随着入侵程度增强趋势更为明显。重度入侵土壤有机质较本地植物土壤提高5.7%,全氮提高23.4%;而重度入侵土壤全磷含量只有本地植物的85%,土壤速效磷含量则下降了50%。黄顶菊重度入侵土壤和轻度入侵土壤脲酶含量分别为0.04和0.03mg.g-1.24h-1,均显著高于裸土和本地植物土壤,土壤磷酸酶活性变化规律与之类似,而多酚氧化酶无明显的变化。黄顶菊入侵可以改变土壤养分和土壤酶活性,创造对自身生长有利的土壤环境,并借此增强其竞争能力,实现种群的进一步扩张。     

Lagged effects of sawfly leaf herbivory on reproductive organs in cherry trees: Overcompensation in flower production reduces quality of fruits and seeds

Herbivores reduce plant productivity by removing part of the assimilation surface. Also, they can alter plant traits that affect plant–pollinator interactions and reproductive success. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of defoliation by sawfly (Caliroa cerasi) larvae on fruit production and quality in three cultivars of sweet cherry (Prunus avium). We hypothesized that the fruit production and quality is reduced as a consequence of changes in the allocation of resources within the plant in response to partial leaf removal during the previous year. Number of flowers per branch meter was higher in infested trees than in non-infested trees, while the number of fruits per branch meter was similar due to fruit abortion in all cultivars. Fruit quality was significantly affected by herbivory in different traits depending on cultivar. Infested Lapins and Van trees had significantly lower soluble solid content than non-infested trees. Titratable acidity was higher and ripening index was lower in infested Bing and Lapins trees than non-infested trees. Infested Van trees also exhibited a significant decrease in equatorial diameter and fresh fruit weight as well as pulp fresh weight and dry weight of seed compared to non-infested trees. Overall our study highlights that the direct impact of herbivores at leaf level has lagged effects on productivity in terms of fruit and seed quality in the year following the leaf damage.