广东省5种蕨类植物新记录

报道了5个广东省蕨类植物新记录物种，隶属于4科5属，包括孟连铁线蕨Adiantum menglianense Y. Y. Qian、新店线蕨Leptochilus×shintenensis (Hayata) X. C. Zhang&Noot.、无毛滨禾蕨Oreogrammitis adspersa (Blume) Parris、尖峰岭膜叶铁角蕨Hymenasplenium pseudobscurum Viane、海南里白Diplopterygium simulans (Ching) Ching ex X. C. Zhang。凭证标本均保存于深圳市兰科植物保护研究中心标本馆(NOCC)。     

海南蕨类植物新记录

报道了海南省一些蕨类植物新记录,包括1属——龙津蕨属(Mesopteris Ching),1变种——白斑凤尾蕨(Pteris grevilleana var.ornata Alderw.)和7种——假斜方复叶耳蕨(Arachniodes hekiana Sa.Kurata)、疏网凤了蕨(Coniogramme wilsonii Hieron.)、黑叶角蕨[Cornopteris opaca(D.Don)Tagawa]、大羽双盖蕨(Diplazium megaphyllum(Baker)Chris)、龙津蕨[M.tonkinensis(C.Chr.)Ching]、羽叶新月蕨[Pronephrium parishii(Bedd.)Holttum]和光羽毛蕨(Cyclosorus calvescens Ching)。凭证标本均保存于中国科学院上海辰山植物科学研究中心标本馆(CSH)。     

中国网藤蕨属一新异名

报道了广西蕨类植物一新记录属——藤蕨科网藤蕨属LomagrammaJ.Sm.;经野外观察及标本研究,将云南网藤蕨L.yunnanensis Ching处理为网藤蕨L.matthewii(Ching)Holttum的异名,并绘制了墨线图以便于分类识别。     

双扇蕨科植物化石在吉林东部上三叠统的发现

双扇蕨科(Dipteridaceae)植物是A. C. Seward & E. Dale(1901),根据现代双扇蕨属(Dipteris)的孢子囊环带偏斜等特征,自水龙骨科(Polypodiaceae)分出,而单独建科的。S. Oishi & K. Yamasita(1936)又进一步将该科植物分为双扇蕨、葛伯特蕨、扭枝蕨等3个亚科,及双扇蕨属(Dipteris)、豪士曼蕨属(包括豪士曼蕨亚属[Hausmannia(H. s. s.)]、原始扇状蕨亚属[Hausmannia(Prorhipis)])、格子蕨属(Clathropteris)、网叶蕨属(Dictyophyllum)、异     

二叠纪枝脉蕨型真蕨植物一新属——Lixotheca gen. nov.

根据生殖器官类型,继将二叠枝脉蕨(cladophlebis permica Lee et Wang)的华南标本改归天石蕨属(Szea)之后,为该种的华北标本另建了-新的属名——李氏蕨属(Lixotheca),并再次表述了该种华南标本改归Szea的理由.根据对孢子囊群、孢子囊及孢子结构的研究,认为Lixotheca归入膜蕨科的理由是较为充分的.而Szea则应被归入里白科.     

陕西省种子植物区系新记录

报道了陕西省种子植物区系2新记录属[茜草科(Rubiaceae)的虎刺属(Damnacanthus Gaertn.f.),桔梗科(Campanulaceae)的刺萼参属(Echinocodon Hong)],3新记录种[四川虎刺(Damnacanthus officinarum Huang),刺萼参(Echinocodon lobophyllus Hong)及报春花科(Primulaceae)的异花珍珠菜Lysimachia crispidens(Hance)Hemsl.]。     

利用整合分类学方法进行蕨类植物复合体的物种划分: 以线裂铁角蕨复合体为例

广泛的杂交和多倍化使得铁角蕨属(Asplenium)下存在着许多分类困难的物种复合体, 针对这些类群进行整合分类学的研究, 有助于我们更加全面和深入地理解物种的界限以及形成机制。线裂铁角蕨复合体(Asplenium coenobiale complex)是铁角蕨属下一个形态多样性较高的类群, 由于缺乏全面取样和系统研究, 该复合体的物种划分长期存在争议。本研究选取线裂铁角蕨复合体中形态变异和地理分布具有代表性的个体, 通过孢粉学研究确定该类群的生殖特性, 运用流式细胞分析获取倍性信息, 同时结合叶绿体和核基因组片段系统发生分析的证据, 对该类群的系统演化关系和起源方式进行了探讨。结果表明: (1)虽然部分孢子囊败育的情况在线裂铁角蕨复合体中十分普遍, 但正常孢子囊内形成的64个孢子说明该类群植物仍能进行正常的有性生殖; (2)该复合体中存在着倍性变异, 其中多角铁角蕨(A. cornutissimum)是二倍体, 而其他成员均为四倍体; (3)依据母系遗传的叶绿体序列所构建的系统发生关系将该类群划为4个分支, 与基于核基因序列构建的系统树存在冲突, 这暗示杂交可能在该复合体的形成过程中起到了重要的推动作用。综上所述, 我们建议将线裂铁角蕨复合体划分为4个物种, 即同源四倍体新种马关铁角蕨(A. maguanense sp. nov.), 二倍体多角铁角蕨, 以及两个由同一对亲本正反交产生的异源四倍体线裂铁角蕨(A. coenobiale)和叶基宽铁角蕨(A. pulcherrimum)。     

西藏蕨类植物新记录

报道了中国西藏自治区蕨类植物新记录2属,即粉叶蕨属(Pityrogramma)和肋毛蕨属(Ctenitis),以及新记录15种1变种——疏叶卷柏(Selaginella remotifolia)、粉叶蕨(Pityrogramma calomelanos)、云南网藤蕨(Lomagramma yunnanensis)、灰绿耳蕨(Polystichum scariosum)、高大复叶耳蕨(Arachniodes gigantea)、兆洪鳞毛蕨(Dryopteris wuzhaohongii)、亮鳞肋毛蕨(Ctenitis subglandulosa)、高山蹄盖蕨(Athyrium silvicola)、卵果双盖蕨(Diplazium ovatum)、肉刺双盖蕨(D.simile)、瘤羽假毛蕨(Pseudocyclosorus tuberculifer)、耳羽钩毛蕨(Cyclogramma auriculata)、尖嘴蕨(Lepisorus mucronatus)、黑鳞瓦韦(L.sordidus)、喙叶假瘤蕨(Selliguea rhynchophylla)和灰茎节肢蕨(Arthromeris himalayensis var.niphoboloides)。该文还对墨脱鳞盖蕨(Microlepia medogensis)的分类学处理提出了新的建议。凭证标本保存在上海辰山植物标本馆(CSH)。     

中国蹄盖蕨科安蕨属一新记录杂交种——华日安蕨

报道了采自安徽省祁门县安凌镇的中国蹄盖蕨科安蕨属一新记录植物——华日安蕨(Anisocampium×saitoanum (Sugim.) M. Kato)。推测该植物是华东安蕨(A. sheareri (Baker) Ching)与日本安蕨(A. niponicum(Mett.) Yea C. Liu,W. L. Chiou et M. Kato)的自然杂交种,形态介于两亲本之间。对华日安蕨的形态特征进行了描述,并提供了墨线图和安蕨属植物分类检索表。     

铁角蕨属4种植物配子体发育的比较研究

以腐叶土为基质培养铁角蕨(Asplenium trichomanes L.)、阿尔泰铁角蕨[A.altajense(Kom.)Grubov]、假大羽铁角蕨(A.pseudolaserpitii folium Ching)和细裂铁角蕨(A.tenui folium D.Don)的孢子,用光学显微镜观察并比较它们的配子体发育过程,以期为铁角蕨属的系统学研究提供基础资料.结果显示,4种铁角蕨属植物配子体均具有:孢子两面型、单裂缝、周壁具褶皱、书带蕨型萌发,成熟原叶体心形,原叶体具有毛状体等共同特征,表明铁角蕨属的演化处于较进化的系统位置,但它们的毛状体形态和细胞数目明显不同,可为属内分系提供依据.研究发现,4种铁角蕨属植物配子体的边缘细胞形状以及假根的形态和数量均有差异,其叶绿体能象单细胞一样进行无丝分裂,强光照射下叶绿体向相邻细胞的侧壁集中等现象.     

Evolution and trends in the Psychotrieae alliance (Rubiaceae)--a rarely reported evolutionary change of many-seeded carpels from one-seeded carpels

Bayesian and parsimony analyses of five plastid gene and nrITS regions from 58 Rubioideae (Rubiaceae) taxa further support the sister-group relationship between the African monotypic genus Schizocolea and the Psychotrieae alliance sensu Bremer & Manen. Our analyses show that the Psychotrieae alliance can be subdivided into in four well-supported clades: Schizocolea, (Schradereae(Gaertnereae(Mitchelleae-Morindeae s.s.))), Palicoureeae-Psychotrieae s.s., and Craterispermeae-Prismatomerideae. The relationships between the latter three clades remain unsettled. Our study further reveals much higher numbers of molecular autapomorphies of the tribes compared with those of molecular synapomorphies of two sister tribes or groups of tribes. Within the newly delimited Psychotrieae alliance a one-seeded carpel was inferred as ancestral and many- and two-seeded carpels evolved once each. We describe Mitchelleae to accommodate Damnacanthus and Mitchella and restrict Morindeae to include only Appunia, Coelospermum, Gynochthodes, Morinda, Pogonolobus, and Syphonandrium. Mitchelleae is characterized e.g., by placentae inserted near the top of the septum and a single campylotropous ovule per carpel, while Morindeae s.s. has massive and T-shaped placentae inserted in the middle of the septum and two anatropous ovules per carpel.     

New combinations in Oreogrammitis, Prosaptia, Radiogrammitis, Themelium and Tomophyllum (Grammitidaceae: Polypodiopsida: Monilophyta) from Malesia and the Pacific Islands

New combinations are proposed for Oreogrammitis bongoensis, O. meijer-dreesii, O. nana, O. reinwardtioides, Prosaptia fusca, P. micropora, P. pendens, P. rhodocarpa, P. subulatipinna, P. vomaensis, P. whartoniana, Radiogrammitis neocaledonica, Themelium decrescens, T. pullei and Tomophyllum hornei.     

Biochemical analysis of the human mismatch repair proteins hMutSα MSH2(G674A)-MSH6 and MSH2-MSH6(T1219D)

The heterodimeric human MSH2-MSH6 protein initiates DNA mismatch repair (MMR) by recognizing mismatched bases that result from replication errors. Msh2(G674A) or Msh6(T1217D) mice that have mutations in or near the ATP binding site of MSH2 or ATP hydrolysis catalytic site of MSH6 develop cancer and have a reduced lifespan due to loss of the MMR pathway (Lin, D. P., Wang, Y., Scherer, S. J., Clark, A. B., Yang, K., Avdievich, E., Jin, B., Werling, U., Parris, T., Kurihara, N., Umar, A., Kucherlapati, R., Lipkin, M., Kunkel, T. A., and Edelmann, W. (2004) Cancer Res. 64, 517-522; Yang, G., Scherer, S. J., Shell, S. S., Yang, K., Kim, M., Lipkin, M., Kucherlapati, R., Kolodner, R. D., and Edelmann, W. (2004) Cancer Cell 6, 139-150). Mouse embryonic fibroblasts from these mice retain an apoptotic response to DNA damage. Mutant human MutSα proteins MSH2(G674A)-MSH6(wt) and MSH2(wt)-MSH6(T1219D) are profiled in a variety of functional assays and as expected fail to support MMR in vitro, although they retain mismatch recognition activity. Kinetic analyses of DNA binding and ATPase activities and examination of the excision step of MMR reveal that the two mutants differ in their underlying molecular defects. MSH2(wt)-MSH6(T1219D) fails to couple nucleotide binding and mismatch recognition, whereas MSH2(G674A)-MSH6(wt) has a partial defect in nucleotide binding. Nevertheless, both mutant proteins remain bound to the mismatch and fail to promote efficient excision thereby inhibiting MMR in vitro in a dominant manner. Implications of these findings for MMR and DNA damage signaling by MMR proteins are discussed.     

Studies on the high-sulphur proteins of reduced Merino wool. Amino acid sequence of protein SCMKB-IIIB4

The complete amino acid sequence of protein SCMKB-IIIB4 is presented. It is closely related to the sequence of protein SCMKB-IIIB3 (Haylett, Swart & Parris, 1971) differing in only four positions. The peptic and thermolysin peptides of protein SCMKB-IIIB4 were analysed by the dansyl-Edman method (Gray, 1967) and by tritium-labelling of C-terminal residues (Matsuo, Fujimoto & Tatsuno, 1966). This protein is the third member of a group of high-sulphur wool proteins with molecular weight of about 11400. It consists of 98 residues and has acetylalanine and carboxymethylcysteine as N- and C-terminal residues respectively.     

A temperature-sensitive mutation in a herpes simplex virus type 1 gene required for viral DNA synthesis maps to coordinates 0.609 through 0.614 in UL

ts701 is a temperature-sensitive mutant of herpes simplex virus type 1 strain KOS induced by hydroxylamine mutagenesis (C.T. Chu, D. S. Parris, R. A. F. Dixon, F. E. Farber, and P. A. Schaffer, Virology 98:168-181, 1979). In the present study, the mutation rendering ts701 temperature sensitive was mapped to coordinates 0.609 through 0.614 in the UL region of the genome. At the nonpermissive temperature, ts701 (i) failed to induce the synthesis of viral DNA, (ii) exhibited a dramatically reduced ability to drive replication of a plasmid containing the herpes simplex virus origin of viral DNA synthesis, oriS, (iii) generated no viral polypeptides of the late (gamma 2) kinetic class, and (iv) produced virions with electron-translucent cores. Northern (RNA) blot hybridization demonstrated that two mRNAs--one of the beta kinetic class and one of the gamma kinetic class--hybridized to a 1.3-kilobase viral DNA fragment that rescued the mutation in ts701. Based on the phenotype and mapping of ts701, it is likely that its mutation lies in the gene specifying the 65,000-Mr DNA-binding protein (65KDBP) recently described by Marsden et al. (H.S. Marsden, M.E.M. Campbell, L. Haarr, M. C. Frame, D. S. Parris, M. Murphy, R. G. Hope, M. T. Muller, and C. M. Preston, J. Virol. 61:2428-2437, 1987).     

Seasonal and diel patterns of biting midges (Ceratopogonidae) and mosquitoes (Culicidae) on the Parris Island Marine Corps Recruit Depot

The Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island, SC, is surrounded by tidal salt marshes, which are breeding habitats for many pestiferous biting flies. Knowledge of biting fly behavior patterns is needed to develop effective pest management strategies in urban areas adjacent to salt marshes. We measured biting midge (Ceratopogonidae) and mosquito (Culicidae) seasonal abundance and diel activity patterns on Parris Island using CO₂‐baited suction traps from November 2001 – November 2004. Of the three biting midge species collected, Culicoides furens was most abundant (86.2% of total) and was present in high numbers from late March to November. Culicoides hollensis (12.0% of total) was present during spring and fall but absent in summer and winter; and Culicoides melleus (1.7% of total) was present in spring through fall but absent in winter. Abundance of C. furens had a positive linear correlation with air temperature and rainfall. There were nonlinear correlations between air temperature and C. hollensis and C. melleus numbers, which were most abundant at moderate temperatures. Of 18 mosquito species collected, the most abundant were Aedes taeniorhynchus (42.7% of total), Aedes sollicitans (26.3% of total), Culex salinarius (15.6% of total), Culex quinquefasciatus (7.3% of total), and Aedes vexans (5.7% of total); other species comprised <5% of collections. Aedes taeniorhynchus numbers were positively correlated with temperature and rainfall, and Cx. salinarius was correlated with soil moisture. Activity of most biting midges and mosquitoes were highest the first two hours following sunset. Species of biting flies were present in all months, suggesting that year‐round control measures are necessary to reduce exposure to potential disease vectors and nuisance biting.     

The Floristic Relationship Between Eastern China and Japan

(1) Many plants in eastern China are conspecific with those in Japan,for example, Cercidiphyllum japonicum, Magnolia sieboldii, Lindera praecox, Kirengeshoma palmata, Platycrater arguta, Oxalis obtriangulata, Orixa japonica, Ilex porpurea, Acer nikoense, Meliosma myriantha, Eurya japonica, Styrax obassia, Comanthosphace japonica, Rabdosia longituba, Mitchella undulata, Croomia japonica, Cypripedium japonicum, Galeola septentrionalis etc. Especially, Peltoboykinia tellimoides and Petrosavia sakuraii were formerly considered as being confined to Japan and Yoania japonica as distributed only in N. India and Japan, but the specimens of these species have recently been collected from Jiulong-shan in Zhejiang Province. (2) Though the genera Cunninghamia, Glyptostrobus, Metasequoia, Liriodendron, Sassafras, Liquidambar etc. existing now in eastern or central parts of China are extinct from Japan, the fossils of leaves, fruits or seeds of Cunninghamia protokonishii, Glyptostrobus europaeus, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Liriodendron honshuense etc. have been discovered from Japanese Tertiary Strata, which seems to indicate that the floristic relationship between Japan and eastern China was closer in ancient time than it is now. (3) The fact that some species in Japan have close relatives in Nepal, Sikkim or Bhutan may suggest that the western edge of the Sino-Japanese Floristic Region extends probablyto the Himalayan corridor.     

Timing the eastern Asian-eastern North American floristic disjunction: molecular clock corroborates paleontological estimates

Sequence data of the chloroplast gene rbcL were used to estimate the time of the well-known eastern Asian-eastern North American floristic disjunction. Sequence divergence of rbcL was examined for 22 species of 11 genera (Campsis, Caulophyllum, Cornus, Decumaria, Liriodendron, Menispermum, Mitchella, Pachysandra, Penthorum, Podophyllum, and Phryma) representing a diverse array of flowering plants occurring disjunctly in eastern Asia and eastern North America. Divergence times of putative disjunct species pairs were estimated from synonymous substitutions, using rbcL molecular clocks calibrated for Cornus. Relative rate tests were performed to assess rate constancy of rbcL evolution among lineages. Corrections of estimates of divergence times for each species pair were made based on rate differences of rbcL between Cornus and other species pairs. Results of these analyses indicate that the time of divergence of species pairs examined ranges from 12.56 +/- 4.30 million years to recent (<0.31 million years), with most within the last 10 million years (in the late Miocene and Pliocene). These results suggest that the isolation of most morphologically similar disjunct species in eastern Asia and eastern North America occurred during the global climatic cooling period that took place throughout the late Tertiary and Quaternary. This estimate is closely correlated with paleontological evidence and in agreement with the hypothesis that considers the eastern Asian-eastern North American floristic disjunction to be the result of the range restriction of a once more or less continuously distributed mixed mesophytic forest of the Northern Hemisphere that occurred during the late Tertiary and Quaternary. This implies that in most taxa the disjunction may have resulted from vicariance events. However, long-distance dispersal may explain the disjunct distribution of taxa with low divergence, such as Menispermum.     

Morphological and molecular variation in Mitchella undulata,with special reference to the systematic treatment of the dwarf form from Yakushima

Morphological and molecular variation in Mitchella undulata Siebold et Zucc. was examined to evaluate the genetic basis for recognizing the dwarf variety, M. undulata var. minor Masamune. Considerable variation in leaf size in M. undulata, but no obvious morphological discontinuities, were found between the normal and dwarf varieties. Instead, a weak cline running from the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Japan was found. Anatomical observations of leaf blades revealed that the large variation in leaf size can be attributed to variation in the number of leaf cells and not to differences in cell size. A molecular analysis based on sequences of rDNA internal transcribed spacer regions indicated that there were two major genotypes in M. undulata with minor variation in haplotypes resulting from additional substitutions or putative recombination. The dwarf form from Yakushima was neither genetically uniform nor apparently differentiated from other populations. From these results, we conclude that the dwarf form of M. undulata should be treated at the rank of forma.     

REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF DISTYLOUS PARTRIDGEBERRY,MITCHELLA REPENS

Long-styled (pin) and short-styled (thrum) plants in populations of Mitchella repens from North Carolina and New York displayed strongly clumped spatial dispersion. This distribution pattern results from the tendency of these prostrate perennials to spread by production of trailing stems with adventitious roots. Both morphs, in both populations, exhibited natural fruit set exceeding 86%. This percentage was not increased by hand-pollination. Although the number of ovules per pair of ovaries was fixed at eight in each morph, numbers of seeds per fruit in naturally pollinated flowers differed significantly between pins (4.3) and thrums (6.4) in the North Carolina population. In the New York population, no significant differences were found (pins had 5.0 seeds per fruit; thrums, 4.4). Artificial pollinations in both populations showed low seed set in intramorph cross-pollinations as compared with intermorph crosses. The flowers of M. repens were visited by native species of Bombus, which visited many flowers in each patch of plants. These insects moved frequently from patch to patch, effecting intermorph cross-pollination and maintaining high levels of seed set. Movement among patches may be promoted by the dispersion of nectar rewards, with flowers about to open or just opened providing maximum amounts of nectar. Calculations of functional gender suggested that in the North Carolina population, thrums contributed more than 75% of the genes transmitted by ovule production. This contrasts strongly with previous studies of unequal sexual contributions in distylous taxa, which have demonstrated greater female contributions by pins. In the New York population, however, nearly equal contributions by pins and thrums through pollen and ovule production occurred, a situation similar to that found in most distylous species. This appears to be the first demonstration of variation in functional gender between populations of a single species.