大豆高光效育种研究进展

多年的研究证明 ,提高光合效率是提高大豆产量的重要途径。在高产条件下 ,高光效大豆 (GlycinemaxL .Merr.)品种与一般品种相比可提高产量 30 %～ 40 %,表明高光效育种有着广阔的发展前景。高光效育种虽然未能缩短育种时间 ,但为达到预定的高光效目标提供了“实时”监测 ,可免除目标的偏离 ,从而达到高光效与高产的同步提高。大豆叶片与豆荚均存在着高活性的有限的C4 途径循环 ,因此 ,通过常规育种或基因工程技术提高C4 途径酶的表达能力 ,可能是提高C3 植物光合效率的新突破点。     

大豆高光效育种研究进展

多年的研究证明,提高光合效率是提高大豆产量的重要途径.在高产条件下,高光效大豆(Glycine max L. Merr.)品种与一般品种相比可提高产量30%～40%,表明高光效育种有着广阔的发展前景.高光效育种虽然未能缩短育种时间,但为达到预定的高光效目标提供了"实时"监测,可免除目标的偏离,从而达到高光效与高产的同步提高.大豆叶片与豆荚均存在着高活性的有限的C4途径循环,因此,通过常规育种或基因工程技术提高C4途径酶的表达能力,可能是提高C3植物光合效率的新突破点.     

水稻黄绿叶基因的克隆及应用

进一步提高水稻产量，最大限度满足国家对食物安全的需求是水稻遗传育种的重大任务。水稻干物质产量的90％-95％来自光合作用。目前高产水稻光能利用率也仅1．5％-2．0％。理论上，植物光能利用率可达13．0％-14．0％，水稻理想的光能利用率应达3．0％-5．0％。因此，培育高光效的超高产品种是提高产量的主要途径之一。长期以来，水稻光合作用的相关研究大多停留在生理水平上，同时，传统的杂交育种手段在改良水稻光能利用方面至今尚未取得令人满意的结果，而叶色突变体是开展光合作用研究的理想材料。     

植物高光效基因工程育种

C₄植物所具有的C₄光合途径赋予其较高的光合作用效率,而一些主要的农作物如水稻、小麦、大豆等均为C₃作物,光合效率低下。随着生物技术的发展,通过基因工程手段利用C₄光合特性来改善C₃植物的光合效率进而提高其生物产量逐渐成为植物高光效育种的一个研究热点。综述了目前这一领域的研究进展及存在问题,预测了这一领域的发展前景。     

水稻生物技术研究现状

水稻是重要粮食作物之一,提高它的产量和质量是科学工作者的重要任务。遗传操作技术或与常规育种技术的结合是改良和提高水稻产量和质量的重要手段。     

水稻产量相关QTL研究现状

产量是最为复杂的数量性状,对它的遗传机理了解甚微。近15年来,许多学者利用随机分离群体定位了许多影响水稻产量及其组分的QTL,即以QTL定位的方法对产量潜力进行遗传剖析。试验证明上位性效应对产量及其组分性状遗传变异起着重要作用,但目前大多数QTL研究仍侧重于发掘和克隆单个主效QTL,然而对单一基因／QTL的深入了解还不足以诠释复杂性状遗传基础的全貌,还没有为育种家提供足够的可应用于分子标记辅助育种的遗传信息并用于提高水稻产量。笔者认为今后的数量性状研究尚需加强复杂性状QTL遗传网络的发掘,在改良水稻品种性状的同时发展并完善QTL研究。     

小麦光合性状遗传的初步研究

为了有效的进行高光效育种,两年来,我们 对小麦光合性状的遗传规律进行了初步探索, 现报道如下。     

水稻叶色基因克隆与分子机制研究进展

叶色突变体是研究水稻光合作用、叶绿素合成与降解及其生长发育调控机制的重要材料,而且在水稻杂交制种、提高生物量等方面具有较高的实际应用价值。目前,超过120个水稻叶色相关基因被克隆,分布在水稻12条染色体上,其中第3号染色体克隆的基因最多。水稻叶色调控机制涉及多个调控途径,包括色素生物合成与降解、质体转录复合物、转录后修饰、核质信号转导、叶绿体蛋白酶以及转录因子与表观遗传。本文从水稻叶色遗传机理与基因克隆、分子调控机制及其在水稻育种上的应用进行了总结与展望,以期为水稻高光合育种及挖掘适用于杂交制种的水稻叶色种质资源提供依据。     

水稻抗性基因定位及相关分子标记研究进展

水稻是一种重要的粮食作物。而选育高抗性良种是有效防治病虫的危害,增加水稻单位面积产量的一项关键措施。了解水稻本身抗性的遗传信息是进行抗性育种的基础。现代生物技术的发展为抗性育种提供了新途径。本文较系统地概述了水稻对稻瘟病、白叶枯病、稻飞虱、稻叶蝉抗性基因定位及相关分子标记研究的最新发展,为利用分子标记进行水稻抗性育种及抗性基因克隆提供参考文献。     

水稻籽粒灌浆速率的分子机制与遗传调控研究进展

水稻(Oryza sativa)的高产优质是我国粮食安全的重要保障,也是育种家一直追求的目标。水稻籽粒灌浆速率(GFR)是一个重要而复杂的农艺性状,直接影响籽粒充实度、粒重和米质。目前,快速灌浆的优良水稻品种缺乏,可供育种利用的相关优异基因资源有限,已成为制约水稻产量和品质进一步提高的瓶颈。相对于水稻的其它农艺性状,G...     

Reprobing into Rice Breeding for High Photosynthetic Efficiency

The leaf area index (LAI) development, which is related to the capacity of light interception, and the maximum leaf photosynthetic rate (Pmax), which related to the efficiency of light energy conversion, are two key photosynthetic traits to increase the utilization efficiency of solar energy. Using the Guangdong rice "Qiguizao', which belongs to low light adapt-able ecotype and characterized by quick developing LAI, and the US rice "Lemont', which belongs to high light adaptable ecotype and characterized by higher light saturation point of photosynthesis, as parents to make a hybrid (Le/Qi) by means of chemical hybridizing agent, the authors successfully solved the contradiction between LAI and Prix. The hybrid Le/Qi not only showed quick developing LAI, but also higher Pmax, less or no midday depression of photosynthesis and less or no photooxidation under high light induced conditions. The photosynthetic productivity and adaptability of Le/Qi were increased over 20 % and improved a lot according to the growth analysis under different light and temperature conditions in growth chambers and field trials in flatlands, hilly land or mountain area. This study indicated that utilization of high light adaptable US elite rice as parent to make a hybrid with Guangdong low light adaptable local elite rice by means of chemical hybridizing agent is an effective and quick breeding approach to improve the adaptability of Guangdong rice to high light and to increase the photosynthetic productivity in turn the economic income.     

Independent variation in photosynthetic capacity and stomatal conductance leads to differences in intrinsic water use efficiency in 11 soybean genotypes before and during mild drought

Intrinsic water use efficiency (WUE(intr)), the ratio of photosynthesis to stomatal conductance to water, is often used as an index for crop water use in breeding projects. However, WUE(intr) conflates variation in these two processes, and thus may be less useful as a selection trait than knowledge of both components. The goal of the present study was to determine whether the contribution of photosynthetic capacity and stomatal conductance to WUE(intr) varied independently between soybean genotypes and whether this pattern was interactive with mild drought. Photosynthetic capacity was defined as the variation in WUE(intr) that would occur if genotypes of interest had the same stomatal conductance as a reference genotype and only differed in photosynthesis; similarly, the contribution of stomatal conductance to WUE(intr) was calculated assuming a constant photosynthetic capacity across genotypes. Genotypic differences in stomatal conductance had the greatest effect on WUE(intr) (26% variation when well watered), and was uncorrelated with the effect of photosynthetic capacity on WUE(intr). Thus, photosynthetic advantages of 8.3% were maintained under drought. The maximal rate of Rubisco carboxylation, generally the limiting photosynthetic process for soybeans, was correlated with photosynthetic capacity. As this trait was not interactive with leaf temperature, and photosynthetic capacity differences were maintained under mild drought, the observed patterns of photosynthetic advantage for particular genotypes are likely to be consistent across a range of environmental conditions. This suggests that it is possible to employ a selection strategy of breeding water-saving soybeans with high photosynthetic capacities to compensate for otherwise reduced photosynthesis in genotypes with lower stomatal conductance.     

Exploiting leaf starch synthesis as a transient sink to elevate photosynthesis, plant productivity and yields

Improvements in plant productivity (biomass) and yield have centered on increasing the efficiency of leaf CO₂ fixation and utilization of products by non-photosynthetic sink organs. We had previously demonstrated a correlation between photosynthetic capacity, plant growth, and the extent of leaf starch synthesis utilizing starch-deficient mutants. This finding suggested that leaf starch is used as a transient photosynthetic sink to recycle inorganic phosphate and, in turn, maximize photosynthesis. To test this hypothesis, Arabidopsis thaliana and rice (Oryza sativa L.) lines were generated with enhanced capacity to make leaf starch with minimal impact on carbon partitioning to sucrose. The Arabidopsis engineered plants exhibited enhanced photosynthetic capacity; this translated into increased growth and biomass. These enhanced phenotypes were displayed by similarly engineered rice lines. Manipulation of leaf starch is a viable alternative strategy to increase photosynthesis and, in turn, the growth and yields of crop and bioenergy plants.     

Physiological nitrogen efficiency in rice: Nitrogen utilization,photosynthesis, and yield potential

Characteristics of rice (Oryza sativa) as a crop plant are briefly introduced, and the relationship between formation of yield potential and nitrogen (N) nutrition is described on the basis of studies using 15N as a tracer. In addition, the relationship between the leaf photosynthetic capacity and leaf N, and the factors limiting leaf photosynthesis under different growth conditions are reviewed. Finally, targets for improving rice yield potential are discussed with a focus on the role of increased photosynthesis efficiency in relation to leaf N status and the photosynthetic components in the leaves.     

光合性能选种法研究

生物良种的选择,历来是人类最关心的事,本文讨论的是植物的选种方法,我们在品质基本相同的几个品种中选择最优品种.这里最优品种指的就是产量最高者.植物的产量是由光合作用所产生的生物量,所以,光合性能强的物种常为最优品种.本文所介绍的选种方法,就是根据不同品种的光合性能的强弱来研究品种的优劣,而植物光合性能强弱可以通过植物的光合总量来确定.本文计算了三个猕猴桃品种的光合总量,其中光合总量最高者为最优品种（产量最高）,这与生产实践完全一致,所以光合性能选种法得到了生产实践的验证.     

Photosynthetic characteristics and tolerance to photo-oxidation of transgenic rice expressing C4 photosynthesis enzymes

The photosynthetic characteristics of four transgenic rice lines over-expressing rice NADP-malic enzyme (ME), and maize phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PC), pyruvate,orthophosphate dikinase (PK), and PC+PK (CK) were investigated using outdoor-grown plants. Relative to untransformed wild-type (WT) rice, PC transgenic rice exhibited high PC activity (25-fold increase) and enhanced activity of carbonic anhydrase (more than two-fold increase), while the activity of ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) and its kinetic property were not significantly altered. The PC transgenic plants also showed a higher light intensity for saturation of photosynthesis, higher photosynthetic CO₂ uptake rate and carboxylation efficiency, and slightly reduced CO₂ compensation point. In addition, chlorophyll a fluorescence analysis indicates that PC transgenic plants are more tolerant to photo-oxidative stress, due to a higher capacity to quench excess light energy via photochemical and non-photochemical means. Furthermore, PC and CK transgenic rice produced 22–24% more grains than WT plants. Taken together, these results suggest that expression of maize C₄ photosynthesis enzymes in rice, a C₃ plant, can improve its photosynthetic capacity with enhanced tolerance to photo-oxidation. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

水稻品种超氧物歧化酶(SOD)活性与氧抑光合的关系

O_2抑光合程度不同的水稻品种,SOD活性存在差异。在40％O_2下,SOD活性被诱导增加水平高、延续时间长的品种,表现O_2抑光合程度小,反之则O_2抑光合程度大。在自然条件下,强光、高温都是诱导SOD活性变化的因素。选择SOD活性高、O_2抑光合程度小的种质资源可能有利于适应对光合不利的逆境条件。     

Physiological characteristics of the primitive CO2 concentrating mechanism in PEPC transgenic rice

C4 plants such as maize have CO2 concentrating mechanism and higher photosynthetic efficiency than C3 plants, especially under high light intensity, high temperature and drought conditions. In recent years, due to the rapid development of transgenic technique, different transgenic rice plants with high-level expression of C4 genes have been created by the successful introduction of genes encoding the key C4 photosynthetic path enzymes PEPC, PPDK and NADP-ME through agrobacteria-mediated…