植物叶片花青素的光破坏防御机制研究进展

植物花青素广泛分布在植物的根、茎、叶、花和果实等器官中,是植物形态建成过程中或响应逆境而产生的一种次生代谢物质.植物叶片中的花青素具有特殊的化学结构和光谱特性,在光破坏防御机制方面发挥了重要的作用,已经成为植物光合生理生态的研究热点.本文综述了近年来植物叶片花青素与光合作用的研究进展,从叶片花青素的分布、光谱特性及其与光合色素的关系等方面说明花青素对植物光合作用的影响,重点介绍了叶片花青素通过光吸收、抗氧化剂和渗透调节等在植物光破坏防御机制方面的作用,展望了今后的主要研究方向     

蛋白质组学在植物水分胁迫应答中的应用研究进展

水分胁迫是影响植物生长发育的主要生长因子。通过蛋白质组学技术可对水分胁迫下植物差异变化的蛋白和基因进行挖掘,在研究植物抗旱生理机制方面意义重大。总结了植物蛋白质组学的基本方法与关键技术,同时从光合与碳代谢相关蛋白、抗氧化系统、渗透调节蛋白、热激蛋白、胚胎发育晚期丰富蛋白、转录因子等方面综述了近几年国际上在植物水分胁迫蛋白质组研究方面的进展,并展望了今后蛋白质组学技术发展的方向。     

苦苣苔科(Gesneriaceae)植物研究进展

苦苣苔科植物具有极高的分类学、进化系统学、植物地理学等方面的研究价值。对我国的苦苣苔科植物的分布等进行了简要阐述,并对其绝灭和濒危机制、植物形态系统学、花粉形态学、核型分析、DNA序列分析、基因克隆和种群遗传结构以及观赏价值等方面进行了综述分析。     

我国铁线莲属植物资源研究进展

系统介绍了国内铁线莲属植物在系统分类、种质资源、发育生物学、细胞染色体学、植物生理学、育种学、引种驯化及繁殖、栽培学方面的研究情况,提出在铁线莲属植物资源收集与保存、新品种培育方面进一步研究的重点。     

水杨酸在植物抗环境胁迫中的作用

水杨酸在植物的抗病方面发挥着重要作用。近年来的研究还表明 ,水杨酸在植物的抗冷、热、盐、干旱、臭氧、重金属等环境胁迫方面也有明显的作用。该文介绍近年来有关水杨酸在植物抗环境胁迫方面的研究进展 ,并探讨了其作用机理。     

植物微生物组生态功能与群落构建过程研究进展

植物各个器官表面及内部定殖着高度多样化的微生物群落,这些微生物与植物长期共进化,作为宿主植物的“共生功能体”(holobiont)在植物生长发育、养分吸收、病害抵御和环境胁迫适应性等方面发挥了重要作用。得益于近10年来多组学技术的发展和应用,有关植物微生物群落的多样性、组成和功能特征、群落构建的驱动因素和植物–微生物互作机制等方面研究取得了一系列重要进展。然而,与土壤微生物组相比,目前对植物微生物组的认识及其应用尚且不足。本文系统总结了植物微生物组的组成特征,植物微生物在调节植物生长发育、促进养分吸收、提高病害抵御能力及环境胁迫适应性等方面的功能及作用机制,从宿主选择、环境因子以及生物互作3个方面总结了驱动植物微生物群落构建的因素,并着重阐述了植物–微生物互作如何塑造植物微生物群落以及如何调节对植物的有益功能。此外,我们对未来植物微生物组研究和应用面临的挑战进行了展望,如核心微生物组挖掘和合成群落构建,植物–微生物互作的分子调控机制,植物微生物群落水平上的互作机制等。深入理解植物微生物群落特征、生态功能以及构建过程对于精准调控植物微生物组以提高植物适应性和生产力以及维持生态系统健康具有...     

抗病原菌植物基因工程进展

植物病原菌给农林生产带来巨大的损失,植物基因工程在培育抗病原菌植物方面是传统育种技术的补充和发展,短短几年,在抗细菌和抗真菌植物基因工程方面出现了一些全新的成功策略,这些范例都是针对病原菌的生理结构、致病机理及与植物的相互关系。本文概括论述了这些策略的基本思路并对其局限性加以探讨。随着植物病理学、植物分子生物学和病原菌分子生物学的研究进展,新的抗性策略将会出现。     

食根动物与植物的相互关系

食根动物是植物的主要危害者,植物与食根动物之间的相互作用一直备受关注.本文从食根动物与异质性土壤、根系的关系,以及食根动物对植物的影响等方面,探讨了食根动物与根系生物量的变化、再生能力、存活,植物化学物质与其他有机体之间的作用机理和食根动物对植物生理、种群动态、植物结构的影响.建议加强对植物控制食根动物取食时采取的对策、食根动物改变生态系统C、N循环的机制以及植物寄生性线虫存在的生态系统养分的动态变化等方面的研究.     

Ri质粒在植物科学中应用的新进展

本文综述了发根农杆菌Ｒｉ质粒在植物学理论研究、有用植物次生代谢物生产、植物品种改良及植物栽培四个方面应用的最新进展。     

活性硅缓解植物重金属胁迫及其生物学机制研究进展

土壤重金属污染可抑制植物的正常生长并增加其在食物链传播的风险。硅是重要的植物营养元素,可通过多种途径调节植物生理、生化和代谢功能,在缓解植物的重金属胁迫及促进植物生长方面发挥重要作用。论文从活性硅促进组织结构发育、调节基因表达、增强抗氧化防御系统及建立重金属内部隔离等方面进行分析,阐述活性硅缓解植物重金属胁迫的生物学机制。建议针对硅材料的施加方式、自然条件下硅缓解复合重金属污染胁迫机制、硅材料在土壤中的老化机理等方面,系统开展长期田间实验,以阐明活性硅缓解植物重金属胁迫作用机制并应用于农田土壤重金属修复。     

Electroreception and magnetoreception in simple and complex organisms

A considerable body of evidence now indicates that electromagnetic and geomagnetic detection systems exist in both simple, unicellular organisms and in more complex species such as avians, bees, and marine animals. A major challenge that faces researchers in this field is the identification of physiological mechanisms through which the detection of weak fields provides significant somatosensory cues for direction finding, foraging, and predation. Many of the anatomical, physiological, and biophysical approaches that are being taken in studies of this nature are described in the series of review articles that appear in this issue of Bioelectromagnetics.     

Person and number syncretisms in Dutch

The aim of this paper is to make sense of the typologically quite exceptional pattern of person neutralization in the plural as we find it in Dutch verbal paradigms. We argue that Dutch, and most of its dialects, have a structural pattern of syncretism in their verbal paradigm: there are no person-distinctions in the plural. The main question of this paper is: where does this structural pattern of neutralization in Dutch come from, if we cannot explain it as a typologically wellattested pattern? As a first step, note that although the pattern is typologically quite odd, it conforms to another well-known generalization about paradigms: neutralization occurs in the marked half of the paradigm (see e.g. Nevins 2009). Further, we need to explain why this pattern occurs precisely in the Netherlands at this particular point in time. To this, we argue that this pattern arises as the result of a particular language acquisition strategy together with reduced evidence from the input for the fully inflected forms, probably as a result of dialect contact. This reduced evidence causes the third person, being the most frequent form, to dominate the other plural forms. In combination with limited paradigm splitting (Pinker, 1996), this explains the uniform plural that we find in most Dutch dialects.     

Morphological and constitutional features and self-esteem in children and adolescents

Studies of human constitution and mental features are traditionally among the main concepts of anthropological research. In this research, we attempted to discover connections between morphological and constitutional features and self-esteem in children and adolescents. Such a connection was discovered in some studied age groups. The obtained results could serve as a basis for further studies in this field.     

植物与病原真菌互作的形态变化及其生理、生化机制和基因调控

本文从生理、生化、酶学及基因调控等方面对植物与病原真菌互作过程中的形态变化进行了综述,以期为植物抗病方面的研究提供参考     

Applications and trends in systems biology in biochemistry

Systems biology has received an ever increasing interest during the last decade. A large amount of third-party funding is spent on this topic, which involves quantitative experimentation integrated with computational modeling. Industrial companies are also starting to use this approach more and more often, especially in pharmaceutical research and biotechnology. This leads to the question of whether such interest is wisely invested and whether there are success stories to be told for basic science and/or technology/biomedicine. In this review, we focus on the application of systems biology approaches that have been employed to shed light on both biochemical functions and previously unknown mechanisms. We point out which computational and experimental methods are employed most frequently and which trends in systems biology research can be observed. Finally, we discuss some problems that we have encountered in publications in the field.     

Autophagy in viral replication and pathogenesis

Autophagy is a catabolic process that is important for the removal of damaged organelles and long-lived proteins for the maintenance of cellular homeostasis. It can also serve as innate immunity to remove intracellular microbial pathogens. A growing list of viruses has been shown to affect this cellular pathway. Some viruses suppress this pathway for their survival, while others enhance or exploit this pathway to benefit their replication. The effect of viruses on autophagy may also sensitize cells to death or enhance cell survival and play a critical role in viral pathogenesis. In this article, we review the relationships between different viruses and autophagy and discuss how these relationships may affect viruses and their host cells.     

Endocannabinoids in cognition and dependence

Cannabis use is associated with a wide range of pharmacological effects, some of which have potential therapeutic benefit while others result in negative outcomes. Acute cannabinoid intoxication has been well documented to produce deficits in cognitive functioning with concomitant changes in glutamatergic, GABAergic, and cholinergic neurochemical systems in the hippocampus, each of which has been implicated in memory. Additionally, cannabis-dependent individuals abstaining from this drug can undergo a constellation of mild withdrawal effects. The use of the CB(1) cannabinoid receptor antagonist SR141716A and transgenic mice lacking the CB(1) receptor are critical tools for investigating the role of the endocannabinoid system in cognition, drug dependence, and other physiological processes. Converging evidence in which performance in a variety of memory tasks is enhanced following either SR141716A treatment or in CB(1) receptor knockout mice indicates that this system may play an important role in modulating cognition. There are also indications that this system may function to modulate opioid dependence. The purpose of this review is to describe recent advances that have furthered our understanding of the roles that the endocannabinoid system play on both cognition and drug dependence.     

Balancing life and death in the ischemic brain: SIK and TORC weigh in

Activation of NMDA receptors during cerebral ischemia triggers signaling pathways that promote both neuronal death and survival. In this issue of Neuron, Sasaki et al. present evidence for a new endogenous survival pathway involving the kinase SIK2 and the CREB coactivator TORC1. The powerful neuroprotection conferred by this pathway has considerable translational potential for stroke therapy.