Study of genotoxicity and antigenotoxicity of the <Emphasis Type="Italic">Cotinus coggygria</Emphasis> Scop. methanol extract by <Emphasis Type="Italic">Drosophila melanogaster</Emphasis> sex-linked recessive lethal test

The genotoxic and antigenotoxic effects of Cotinus coggygria Scop. methanol extract was investigated using the Drosophila sex-linked recessive lethal (or SLRL) test. The results presented here show that the methanol extract of Cotinus coggygria in a concentration of 5% and artificial chemical agent ethyl methanesulfonate EMS (0.75 ppm) induce recessive lethal mutations on X-chromosome on Drosophila melanogaster in all broods (I, II and III). Post-treatment with lower concentration of the methanol extract of Cotinus coggygria (2%) was effective in reducing genotoxicity of mutagen.     

Genotoxic potential of Cotinus coggygria Scop. (Anacardiaceae) stem extract in vivo

The intention was to evaluate the possible in vivo genotoxic potential in different cell-types, of a methanol extract obtained from the plant stem of Cotinus coggygria Scop., using the sex-linked recessive lethal (or SLRL) test and alkaline comet assay. The SLRL test, revealed the genotoxic effect of this extract in postmeiotic and premeiotic germ-cell lines. The comet assay was carried out on rat liver and bone marrow at 24 and 72 h after intraperitoneal administration. For genotoxic evaluation, three concentrations of the extract were tested, viz., 500, 1000 and 2000 mg/kg body weight (bw), based on the solubility limit of the extract in saline. Comet tail moment and total scores in the group treated with 500 mg/kg bw, 24 and 72 h after treatment, were not significantly different from the control group, whereas in the groups of animals, under the same conditions, but with 1000 and 2000 mg/kg bw of the extract, scores were statistically so. A slight decrease in the comet score and tail moment observed in all the doses in the 72 h treatment, gave to understand that DNA damage induced by Cotinus coggygria extract decreased with time. The results of both tests revealed the genotoxic effect of Cotinus coggygria under our experimental conditions.     

土壤干旱胁迫对黄栌叶片光合作用的影响

采用CIRAS-2型便携式光合作用系统,设置充足供水、轻度、中度和重度胁迫4种土壤水分处理,研究土壤干旱和强光胁迫对3年生黄栌苗木叶片光合作用的影响.结果表明:土壤干旱胁迫对黄栌叶片的光合性能参数影响显著,随着土壤水分胁迫的加剧,黄栌叶片的光合速率、蒸腾速率和光量子效率明显降低,光补偿点增高,水分利用效率在轻度水分胁迫(土壤相对含水量60%～65%)下最高;在强光(有效辐射强度1000～1800μmol.m-2.s-1)范围内,叶片光合速率和水分利用效率均较高,而对弱光的光能吸收和光量子效率较低,并随土壤水分胁迫加剧明显下降.     

几种树木枯叶分解速率的试验研究

 本文对几种树木的枯叶分解速率进行了研究,结果表明枯叶的分解速率因树种不同而异。一年的失重率刺槐、山杏、侧柏、元宝槭、黄栌分别为54%、64%、78%、73%、65%。应用指数衰减模型计算枯叶的年腐解率,刺槐、山杏、侧柏、元宝械、黄栌分别为0.490g／(g·a)、0.597g／(g·a),0.990g／(g·a)、0.800g／(g·a)、0.662g／(g·a)。根据枯叶的化学成分分析表明,枯叶的失重,首先是由粗脂肪,可溶性糖、丹宁,有机碳等的丧失所引起。枯叶在一年的分解过程中,碳、氮含量比值随时间的推移而下降。     

长江三峡地区典型灌丛的生物量及其再生能力

 灌丛是三峡地区典型的退化生态系统类型。本文采用收获法和模拟砍伐实验研究了三峡地区铁仔灌丛、椎木灌丛、荆条灌丛和黄栌灌丛的生物量及黄栌灌丛、椎木灌丛地上部分砍伐后的再生能力。研究结果表明,这4种类型的灌丛总生物量分别为22.5±5.1、21.0±3.7、16.9±7.5和13.6±2.4t·hm-2,相当于同纬度地带性生态系统常绿阔叶林(30年林龄)的10％一25％ 4种灌丛灌木层占总生物量、地上部分生物量和地下部分生物量的90％以上。在生物量—物种序列中,前5种植物占总生物量的84％ 以上。不同地点灌丛生物量的比较表明,同一种类型灌丛,亚热带和暖温带地区总生物量没有明显差异。通过模拟砍伐实验,黄栌灌丛、被木灌丛地上部分全部砍伐后1年地上部分生物量就可以恢复到对照的42.7％和62.0％,说明这些灌丛类型具较高的生长速度和很大的恢复潜力。     

山东青州山区黄栌灌丛空间格局和种群与环境的关系

黄栌灌丛属于山地中生落叶阔叶灌丛,是一种次生植被,在山东省广布于低山丘陵区。由于该灌丛常以“风水林”的形式存在于山区村落中,因而在许多地方得以完好保存。     

黄栌根内生真菌分离鉴定及拮抗真菌筛选

采用常规分离法从不同地区健康黄栌根系中共分离得到33株内生真菌,其优势类群主要包括无孢菌群、腐质霉属、青霉属等,而且不同地区黄栌的根系内生真菌种类和数量有一定差异。内生真菌对黄栌枯萎病病原——大丽轮枝孢的拮抗试验结果表明:团炭角菌、黑乌霉属、假丝酵母属的菌株抑制作用较强,其它内生真菌菌株对大丽轮枝孢均有不同程度的抑制作用。     

Genotoxicity testing of extracts of a Swedish moist oral snuff

The present study was designed to investigate the potential genotoxicity of aqueous and methylene chloride extracts of Swedish moist oral snuff. The test systems were selected to provide optimal data for the prediction of carcinogenicity in rodents and included assays for the induction of mutation in bacteria, sister-chromatid exchanges (SCE) in human lymphocytes, of chromosome aberrations and gene mutations in V79 Chinese hamster cells and of micronuclei in mouse bone marrow cells. In addition, the methylene chloride extract was tested for the induction of sex-linked recessive lethal mutations in Drosophila melanogaster. The aqueous extract of 'Snus' induced SCE in human lymphocytes and chromosome aberrations in V79 cells, the latter effect being observed both with and without metabolic activation. No induction of point mutations was detected with the Ames test or in V79 cells and the micronucleus test in mice was negative. It was demonstrated that the induction of chromosome aberrations without metabolic activation may be due to a high salt concentration, indicating that the clastogenic agent(s) in this extract required metabolic activation. The methylene chloride extract showed genotoxicity in the Ames test, the SCE test and the chromosome aberration test, whereas no induction of gene mutations in V79 cells was observed. Once again, the results suggested that metabolism is required for genotoxicity. The methylene chloride extract did not cause induction of micronuclei in mice or of sex-linked recessive lethal mutations in Drosophila melanogaster. These combined data on genotoxicity were analyzed using various models for the prediction of carcinogenicity. In a sequential testing model, the probabilities that the aqueous and methylene chloride extracts of 'Snus' are carcinogenic due to a genotoxic mechanism were both predicted to be low. Using carcinogenicity prediction by battery selection (CPBS), the probabilities of the methylene chloride and aqueous extracts being correctly identified as non-carcinogens are 71 and 77%, respectively. Up to date, the CPBS approach has been validated primarily for individual compounds, so some caution should at present be exercised in interpreting the results using this method. Based on these results, the carcinogenic potential of Swedish 'Snus' should be considered to be low, a conclusion in agreement with the low incidence of oral cancer in Sweden compared to other countries.     

Genetic analysis of recessive lethal mutations induced by the influenza virus in the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster

Mutagenic potential of the influenza virus was evaluated. Based on its capacity of inducing recessive lethal mutations in the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, the influenza virus can be classified as a moderate-activity mutagen. Its mutagenicity does not depend on ability to reproduce in the cell system. This virus was shown to disrupt formation of the wing, particularly wing vein M1 + 2. Cytogenetic examination of polytene X chromosomes bearing recessive lethal mutations in Drosophila salivary glands did not reveal chromosome rearrangements. These lethals are assumed to be small deletions or point mutations. The determination of the lethal activity stage of these mutations showed that they disrupt the expression of genes functioning at various developmental stage of Drosophila. Two of them were conditionally lethal (temperature-sensitive). Two of 15 mutations analyzed were mapped to region 2B9-10-3C10-11.     

Spontaneous and Ethyl Methanesulfonate-Induced Mutations Controlling Viability in DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. I. Recessive Lethal Mutations

The efficiency of the adult feeding method for EMS treatment in Drosophila melanogaster was studied by measuring the frequency of induced recessive lethals on the second chromosome. The treatment was most effective when mature spermatozoa or spermatids were treated and was much less effective on earlier stages. The number of mutations induced was proportional to the concentration except at the highest doses. The recessive lethal rate was estimated to be about 0.012 per second chromosome per 10(-4) M. In addition, about 0.004-0.005 recessive lethals per 10(-4) M were found in a later generation in chromosomes that had not shown the lethal effect in the previous generation. When the experiments are done in a consistent manner and gametes treated as mature sperm or spermatids are sampled, the results are highly reproducible. However, modifications of the procedure, such as starvation before EMS treatment, can considerably alter the effectiveness of the mutagen.     

旅游干扰对香山黄栌林的影响研究

 旅游生态学是生态学应用的一个新领域。香山公园是北京近郊重要的风景游览区,游客在时间上和空间上具有集中性。本文从种群、群落和土壤特性几个方面出发,根据道路状况确定旅游干扰程度,探讨了旅游干扰对香山最重要的旅游资源——黄栌林的影响,其结果可以为香山公园的旅游生态规划提供科学依据。     

The spontaneous mutation rate in Drosophila simulans

The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether there exists a correlation in Drosophila between the spontaneous mutation rate and the amount of dispersed middle repetitive (mobile) DNA sequences. The amount of these sequences is 7 times less in Drosophila simulans as compared to Drosophila melanogaster. Therefore, if a correlation exists, the spontaneous mutation rate in Drosophila simulans should be 7 times lower than that in Drosophila melanogaster. We isolated an X-chromosome inversion after X-irradiation of wild-type Drosophila simulans males, that reduced crossing-over between white and forked, two X-linked visible markers, to less than 1%. This inversion was subsequently used to determine the sex-linked recessive lethal mutation rate in Drosophila simulans males of a laboratory strain marked with white. The frequency of these lethal mutations found is not different from that observed in Drosophila melanogaster males of laboratory strains.     

The mutational spectrum of procarbazine in Drosophila melanogaster.

The antineoplastic agent Procarbazine was tested for the induction of genetic damage in Drosophila melanogaster. The compound was administered to adult males by oral application. The following types of genetic damage were measured: (1) sex-linked recessive lethals; (2) dominant lethals; (3) total and partial sex-chromosome loss; and (4) translocations. Procarbazine is highly mutagenic in causing recessive lethal mutations in all stages of spermatogenesis. In sperm a clear-cut concentration-effect relationship is not apparent, but in spermatids such a relationship is obtained for mutation induction at low levels of procarbazine exposure, while at high concentrations the induction of recessive lethals is not a function of concentration. A low induction of total sex-chromosome loss (X,Y) and dominant lethals was observed in metabolically active germ cells (spermatids), but procarbazine failed to produce well-defined breakage events, such as partial sex-chromosome loss (YL,YS) and II-III translocations. The results obtained in Drosophila melanogaster are discussed and compared with the mutational pattern reported in the mouse after procarbazine treatment.     

针阔混交林抑制松毛虫种群增长的营养效应

研究表明,松毛虫的代谢能主要来源于脂肪。油松与黄栌或槲栎混交后,油松叶中粗脂肪、全糖含量减少,C、N比值下降。取食混交林针叶的松毛虫,其幼虫对食物的消化利用率较取食纯林的减少,幼虫体重增长率、化蛹率及繁殖力也都相应下降。     

A Study on the Cotinus coggygria var. Cinerea Scrub in Qingzhou Mountain Area of Shundong Province

The study on the smoke-tree (Cotinus coggygria var. cinerea) scrub was carried out by the methods of pointquarter and quadrat in Qingzhou Mountain area of Shandong Province. In the present paper, the spatial pattern and main species dispersion of scrub was reported. It was found in this study that the Shannon-Wiener diversity index increases with the increase of the resources content. The patchness indexes and niche breadth are different, not only on the same resource axis among species, but also on the different resource axis within one species. The value of niche overlap between every two species is high on soil resource axes, so the species are possibly competitive for utilizating these resources.     

Mutagenicity study of fried sausages in Salmonella, Drosophila and mammalian cells in vitro and in vivo

The basic extract of pan-fried sausages was studied for mutagenic potential in seven test systems. Mutagenic activity was high in the standard Ames assay in the Salmonella typhimurium strains TA1538 and TA98 in presence of S9 mix. In vivo, in the intrasanguine host-mediated assay with strain TA98 on Aroclor-pretreated mice, the mutagenic activity of the extract was low. A borderline activity was seen in the SCE assay in vitro with V79 Chinese hamster cells in presence of S9 mix. No significant mutagenic action was found in the gene-mutation assay for thioguanine resistance with V79 cells, the Drosophila sex-linked recessive lethal test, the micronucleus test and the mammalian spot test.     

Farm-grade chlorpyrifos (Durmet) is genotoxic in somatic and germ-line cells of Drosophila.

The mutagenic potential of Durmet, a farm-grade formulation of chlorpyrifos, was studied in the Drosophila wing mosaic and sex-linked recessive lethal tests. Larvae of the 2nd or 3rd instar carrying suitable recessive genetic markers on chromosome 3 were exposed to different concentrations of the insecticide and the frequency of induction of mutant mosaic spots on the wings was noted. The Basc technique was followed to study the induction of sex-linked recessive lethals. On the basis of the frequency of induction of mosaic wing spots and sex-linked recessive lethals, it is concluded that Durmet is genotoxic in somatic cells as well as germ cells of Drosophila.     

Mutagenic activity of selected aromatic amines and polycyclic hydrocarbons in Drosophila melanogaster

With the use of a series of wild-type and repair-deficient strains and appropriate application procedures, it is possible to demonstrate that carcinogenic aromatic amines and polycyclic hydrocarbons are mutagens in Drosophila. We have shown evidence that AAF, N-OH-AAF, AcO-AAF, BP, DAS and DMBA produce recessive lethals when fed to or injected into adult males. Mutagenic activity was also observed when male larvae were exposed to AAF, BP, DMBA, 3-MC or NA. DA was not mutagenic in the recessive lethal assay under the conditions of the test. DMBA can now be considered as a potent mutagen for Drosophila, although demonstration of its activity depends upon the choice of the treatment procedure and the strain selected. One of the questions concerning the action of aromatic amines and polycyclic hydrocarbons is how their genetic effectiveness in Drosophila can be enhanced. The observation that none of several enzyme inducers (PB, BF, AC, 3-MC) increased their mutagenicity may be interpreted in terms of a more efficient metabolic activation or deactivation. This assumes that active metabolite(s) did not reach the testis in doses sufficient for mutation induction. It also appears that, since the problems pertaining to mutagenicity in Drosophila of aromatic hydrocarbons are obviously a matter of metabolism, the use of repair-deficient strains is no longer an attractive proposal for their elucidation. The present investigation shows that, with weak mutagens, usage of strains mei-9Li or y mei-9a mei-4lD5 does not improve the sensitivity of the recessive lethal method or the test for chromosomal loss. As an alternative, in our opinion more attention should be devoted to possible differences in metabolism between somatic and gonadal tissue. We feel strongly that somatic assay systems might be particularly valuable as a complement to recessive lethal tests on the germ line.