蓝藻对UV-B增强的响应与适应

平流层臭氧破坏导致地球表面紫外辐射(主要是UV-B)增强逐渐受到人们重视。由于蓝藻在生态系统中的重要性和在生物进化过程中的特殊性,用于研究UV-B对生物体的影响具有诸多优势。目前国内关于UV-B与蓝藻的研究报道较少,所以本文介绍了近年来国外该领域的相关研究,主要包括UV-B对蓝藻生物量、光合机构以及固氮等方面的影响,同时着重介绍了蓝藻对UV-B的适应策略。     

UV-B辐射增强对陆地生态系统碳循环的影响

作为全球变化的重要现象之一,紫外射线B(UV-B,波长280～320 nm)辐射增强对陆地生态系统碳循环具有重要影响.UV-B辐射增强主要通过改变植物的光合作用、凋落物分解以及土壤呼吸来影响陆地生态系统碳的输入和转化输出.其他气候因子(大气CO2浓度、温度和水分)可能会促进或减缓UV-B辐射对陆地生态系统碳循环的作用.本文介绍了UV-B辐射增强的背景,综述了国内外近年来UV-B辐射增强及与其他气候因子交互作用对陆地生态系统碳循环的影响,总结了目前研究存在的不足,讨论了未来的研究重点和方向.     

铬酸钾溶液紫外吸收特征及在研究UV-B生物学效应中的应用

为了更好地利用铬酸钾溶液去除UV-B光源中的UV-A和UV-C,对不同浓度和pH值的铬酸钾溶液的紫外吸收特征及其稳定性进行了相关研究.并在相同剂量UV-B作用下,对地木耳(Nostoc commune UETX-584)光合生理活性和生化组分在UV-B光源直接照射和经过铬酸钾过滤后照射的变化进行了对比研究.结果表明,铬酸钾溶液在pH值为8、0.4 mmol/L时可以有效滤除UV-B光源中的UV-C和大于340 nm的UV-A.相对于经过铬酸钾溶液过滤的UV-B光源,未过滤的UV-B光源显著抑制了地木耳的生长、叶绿素合成、Fv/Fm、最大光合作用速率和集光效率,显著促进了MAAs(三苯基咪唑类氨基酸)等吸收紫外辐射色素的合成.相对于无紫外辐射的地木耳来说,经过铬酸钾溶液过滤的UV-B对地木耳的生长影响不明显,但是其促进了紫外吸收色素的合成,抑制了Fv/Fm、最大光合作用速率和集光效率.     

植物对UV-B辐射的响应与调控机制

UV-B(ultraviolet-B)辐射会在多个方面对植物产生影响,随着研究的不断深入,人们发现UV-B除了作为一个胁迫因子外,还会作为信号调节因子来调节植物的生长发育.本文把UV-B辐射对植物形态建成和生理代谢的影响、植物响应UV-B辐射的信号通路以及UV-B与其他因子复合作用对植物的影响等进行了论述,并对植物响应UV-B辐射的研究做了展望.     

增强UV-B辐射和干旱对春小麦光合作用及其生长的影响

在室外盆栽条件下研究了UV-B辐射和土壤干旱对春小麦 '和尚头'生长和光合作用的影响.结果显示:(1)干旱、UV-B辐射、干旱+UV-B(复合)处理均可使叶片类黄酮含量增加,且干旱+UV-B处理增加显著高于其他处理(P<0.05).UV-B辐射和干旱单独处理均能显著降低叶片光合色素含量,但UV-B辐射的副作用大于干旱,复合处理对光合色素的影响介于UV-B和干旱之间.(2)各处理间的光合速率日均值大小次序为:对照>UV-B+干旱>UV-B>干旱;增强UV-B对净光合速率的抑制作用大于干旱,而UV-B+干旱处理的抑制作用较二者单独处理有所减轻.(3)UV-B辐射和干旱单独处理后总生物量比对照减少15%,且抑制作用为:干旱>UV-B>复合处理; UV-B辐射和干旱胁迫不但影响春小麦的生物量,而且影响小穗特征和产量.研究表明,UV-B辐射和干旱之间存在交互作用,说明一种胁迫可以减缓(轻)另外一种胁迫对春小麦的抑制作用.     

紫外辐射增强对植物糖代谢的影响

综述了UV-B辐射增强对植物叶片、茎、根、果实以及籽粒中糖含量影响的研究现状与动态,从生理学角度分析了UV-B辐射对植物糖含量和糖代谢相关的一些重要反应及其影响植物糖含量和糖代谢的关键酶的响应,并从植物的光合碳固定、糖的合成与分解等方面阐述了UV-B影响糖含量及糖代谢的可能机理。展望了今后紫外辐射增强对植物糖代谢影响的研究重点和研究方向。     

UV-B辐射对仙客来的生理效应

通过室内模拟试验,研究了不同强度UV-B辐射(10μW/cm2和20μW/cm2)对仙客来(Cyclamen persicum Mill)生理的影响。结果表明:(1)UV-B辐射的增加对仙客来叶片光合色素的含量具有影响;(2)叶片质膜透性随UV-B辐射强度的增加而增加,随UV-B辐射时间的延长而增加;(3)叶片类黄酮含量随UV-B辐射强度的增加而增加,且在40d时达到最大值;(4)增强UV-B辐射下,仙客来花瓣中的花青素含量增加。     

紫外光源及太阳UV-B辐射的模拟实验

介绍了用于UV-B生物学效应研究的几种常见光源,对如何利用选择性薄膜获得理想的UV-B波段的光谱,进而能较真实模拟平流层O3耗损所导致的近地表面太阳UV-B辐射的增强,以及在野外进行UV-B模拟研究时,紫外荧光灯管的排列方式等进行了分析讨论。介绍并讨论了当前UV-B辐射实验的各种方法,并就各实验设计的注意事项和安全操作等提出了建议。     

增强UV-B辐射与其它因子复合作用对植物生长的影响研究

增强UV-B辐射与其它因子复合作用对植物的影响研究是扩展UV-B辐射效应研究的重要途径,有着广阔的研究空间,并已成为目前UV-B辐射研究新的发展趋势.本文较为全面地综述了目前国内外有关增强UV-B辐射与其它因子（包括CO2、O3、水分、温度、有效辐射、重金属、盐分、矿质营养、酸雨、铈、镧、硒以及某些物理因子）复合作用对植物影响的研究进展,提出了目前该领域研究的一些不足并对未来发展提出了展望.     

紫外线-B辐射对植物DNA及蛋白质的影响

大气平流层中的臭氧衰减,导致太阳辐射中的紫外辐射量有明显的增加,其中UV-B辐射对植物会产生不同程度的影响。分子生态学理论认为,UV-B辐射对植物造成的损伤,首先伤害植物的生物大分子,即进行光化学修饰。本文就臭氧衰减对生态环境和植物的影响途径进行了讨论,重点论述了UV-B辐射对植物蛋白质合成的抑制和DNA的损伤修复途径。并应用分子生物学技术研究植物对UV-B辐射的抗性机理和DNA修复技术的前景进行了展望。     

Arabidopsis Flavonoid Mutants Are Hypersensitive to UV-B Irradiation

Increases in the terrestrial levels of ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation (280 to 320 nm) due to diminished stratospheric ozone have prompted an investigation of the protective mechanisms that contribute to UV-B tolerance in plants. In response to UV-B stress, flowering plants produce a variety of UV-absorptive secondary products derived from phenylalanine. Arabidopsis mutants with defects in the synthesis of these compounds were tested for UV-B sensitivity. The transparent testa-4 (tt4) mutant, which has reduced flavonoids and normal levels of sinapate esters, is more sensitive to UV-B than the wild type when grown under high UV-B irradiance. The tt5 and tt6 mutants, which have reduced levels of UV-absorptive leaf flavonoids and the monocyclic sinapic acid ester phenolic compounds, are highly sensitive to the damaging effects of UV-B radiation. These results demonstrate that both flavonoids and other phenolic compounds play important roles in vivo in plant UV-B protection.     

The effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on loblolly pine. I. Growth, photosynthesis and pigment production in greenhouse-grown seedlings

One-year old loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda L.) seedlings were grown in an unshaded greenhouse for 7 months under 4 levels of ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation simulating stratospheric ozone reductions of 16, 25 and 40% and included a control with no UV-B radiation. Periodic measurements were made of growth and gas exchange characteristics and needle chlorophyll and UV-B-absorbing-compound concentrations. The effectiveness of UV-B radiation on seedling growth and physiology varied with the UV-B irradiance level. Seedlings receiving the lowest supplemental UV-B irradiance showed reductions in growth and photosynthetic capacity after only 1 month of irradiation. These reductions persisted and resulted in lower biomass production, while no increases in UV-B-absorbing compounds in needles were observed. Seedlings receiving UV-B radiation which simulated a 25% stratospheric ozone reduction showed an increase in UV-B-absorbing-compound concentrations after 6 months, which paralleled a recovery in photosynthesis and growth after an initial decrease in these characteristics. The seedlings grown at the highest UV-B irradiance (40% stratospheric ozone reduction) showed a more rapid increase in the concentration of UV-B-absorbing compounds and no effects of UV-B radiation on growth or photosynthetic capacity until after 4 months at this irradiance. Changes in photosynthetic capacity were probably the result of direct effects on light-dependent processes, since no effects were observed on either needle chlorophyll concentrations or stomatal conductance. Further studies are necessary to determine whether these responses persist and accumulate over subsequent years.     

Interactions between drought, ABA application and supplemental UV-B in Populus yunnanensis

To test whether drought and ABA application alter the effects of enhanced UV-B on the growth and biomass allocation of Populus yunnanensis Dode, cuttings were grown in pots at two ABA levels, two watering regimes and two UV-B levels for one growth season. Exposure to enhanced UV-B radiation significantly decreased plant growth and photosynthesis under well-watered conditions, but these effects were obscured by drought, which alone caused growth reduction. Drought may contribute to masking the effects of UV-B radiation. The accumulation of UV-B absorbing compounds and the increase of the ABA content induced by drought could reduce the effectiveness of UV-B radiation. ABA application did not have large direct effects on biomass accumulation and allocation. Evidence for interactions between UV-B and ABA was detected for only a few measured traits. Therefore, there was little evidence to support a pivotal role for ABA in regulating a centralized whole plant response to enhanced UV-B. Yet, we recorded an ABA-induced decrease in stomatal conductance (g(s)) and increase in UV-B absorbing compounds and carbon isotope composition (delta(13)C) in response to enhanced UV-B. The allometric analysis revealed that regression models between root and shoot biomass in response to enhanced UV-B are different for plants under well-watered and drought conditions. Enhanced UV-B led to a significant displacement of the allometric regression line under well-watered condition, while allometric trajectories for both UV-B regimes did not differ significantly under drought condition.     

The response of Vicia faba to enhanced UV-B radiation under low and near ambient PAR levels

The effects of enhanced UV-B are often overestimated in greenhouse studies due to low levels of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR). For this reason, we studied effects of enhanced UV-B (12 kJ m^–2 d^–1) at low and near ambient PAR levels on young vegetative plants of Vicia faba, in the greenhouse. It was hypothesized that near ambient PAR levels could reduce the negative UV-B effects on growth, due to higher amounts of UV-B absorbing compounds in the leaves and to morphological changes attenuating UV-B damage.We found that effects of enhanced UV-B on the growth were not negative. We found an increase in biomass in response to enhanced UV-B at low and near ambient PAR levels. The increase in biomass was related to increased branching, which leads to a higher interception of PAR. Enhanced irradiance of both PAR and UV-B had similar photomorphogenic effects: thicker and smaller leaves and reduced plant height and internode length. Moreover, the concentration of UV-B absorbing compounds was increased. We conclude that in this study effects of enhanced UV-B were mainly photomorphogenic effects, which were also induced by radiation in the PAR region.     

The impacts of increased nitrate supply on Catharanthus roseus growth and alkaloid accumulations under ultraviolet-B stress

It has been reported that nitrate availability was able to modify the detrimental effects induced by excess ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation on plants. In this study, the medical plant Catharanthus roseus was subjected to UV-B stress and altered levels of nitrate nutrition to investigate their influence in a sole or combined way on growth and alkaloid productions. Our results showed that the UV-B stress obviously inhibited growth and led to damages of oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation. The simultaneous supply of higher nitrate nutrition could largely alleviate the inhibitory effects and damage symptom under the UV-B stress in C. roseus. Meanwhile, the UV-B-absorbing compounds as well as three alkaloids, vinblastine, vindoline, and catharanthine, were observed to have a remarkable elevation. These compounds were considered to serve as protectants of UV-B radiation. It was concluded that an increased nitrogen (N) supply could not only alleviate the inhibitory effect of UV-B stress on plant growth, but also enhance the accumulation of pharmaceutically used alkaloid in these plants. We proposed that the enrichment of N nutrition might provide more N source for alkaloid synthesis induced by UV-B radiation, eventually resulting in an increase of alkaloids accumulation.     

Enhanced UV-B radiation has little effect on growth, δ13C values and pigments of pot-grown rice (Oryza sativa) in the field

Predicted increase in ultraviolet-B (UV-B: 280–320 mn) radiation may have adverse impacts on growth and yield of rice ( Oryza sativa L.), as has been found in studies hitherto. However, most of the studies were conducted in growth chambers or greenhouses where the plants are generally more sensitive to UV-B than in the field, presumably because of the distorted balance between UV-B and ultraviolet-A as well as PAR. This study was conducted to address the effects of enhanced UV-B on growth and yield of rice under a realistic spectral balance in the field. Three cultivars, "Koshihikari",'IR 45'and'IR 74'were pot-grown and irradiated with enhanced UV-B for most of the growing season in the field at Tsukuba, Japan (36°01'N, 140°07'E). The UV-B enhancement simulated ca 38% depletion of stratospheric ozone at Tsukuba. The results showed no UV-B effects on plant height, numbers of tillers and panicles, dry weight of the plant parts or the grain yield for any of the 3 cultivars. Natural abundance of ¹³C in the flag leaves was not altered by the UV-B enhancement either. While UV-absorbing compounds showed no response to the UV-B enhancement, chlorophyll contents decreased with enhanced UV-B. However, the decrease of chlorophyll was limited to an early growth stage with no effect later. We thus found no extraordinary impact of the nearly doubled UV-B radiation on rice in the field, and it would appear that a reliable prediction of the effects of UV-B will require experiments carried out over a number of years under various climatic and solar UV-B regimes.     

Changes in growth and pigment concentrations with leaf age in pea under modulated UV-B radiation field treatments

We assessed whether growth of garden pea (Pisum sativum mutant Argenteum) was reduced under ecologically relevant enhancements of ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B, 280–320 nm) by employing modulated field lampbanks which simulated 0, 16 or 24% ozone depiction. In addition, we determined whether enhanced UV-B altered the concentration and distribution of chlorophyll and UV-B-absorbing compounds in leaves, and whether this was dependent on leaf age. There were no significant UV-B effects on the four whole-plant parameters we examined (height, above-ground biomass, total leaflet area or average leaflet area). Of the 12 leaf-level parameters we examined, UV-B had a significant effect (P < 0.05) on only one parameter: the ratio of UV-B-absorbing compounds to chlorophyll, which was greatest at the highest UV-B level. Total chlorophyll concentrations tended to be lower under enhanced UV-B (P= 0.11), while the proportion of UV-B-absorbing compounds in the adaxial epidermis tended to be higher (P= 0.11). Total leaf concentrations of UV-B-absorbing compounds were unaffected by UV-B level. Cooler, suboptimal growing conditions during this late summer/early autumn experiment may have masked some potential UV-B effects. In contrast to the UV-B effects, we found strong leaf-age effects on nearly all parameters that we assessed. On an area basis, concentrations of total chlorophyll and UV-B-absorbing compounds increased with leaf age, while Chlorophyll a/b) ratios decreased. One of the few parameters unaffected by leaf age was the ratio of UV-B-absorbing compounds to total chlorophyll, which remained constant within a given UV-B treatment. Pea was much less sensitive to enhanced UV-B than in previous growth-chamber and greenhouse studies, and in nearly all cases UV-B treatment effects were overshadowed by leaf-age effects. In view of the large effect leaf age had on concentrations of UV-B-absorbing compounds, as well as their distribution within leaves, researchers may need to consider leaf age in UV-B experimental designs.     

Outdoor Studies on the Effects of Solar UV-B on bryophytes: Overview and Methodology

In this review all recent field studies on the effects of UV-B radiation on bryophytes are discussed. In most of the studies fluorescent UV-B tubes are used to expose the vegetation to enhanced levels of UV-B radiation to simulate stratospheric ozone depletion. Other studies use screens to filter the UV-B part of the solar spectrum, thereby comparing ambient levels of UV-B with reduced UV-B levels, or analyse effects of natural variations in UV-B arising from stratospheric ozone depletion. Nearly all studies show that mosses are well adapted to ambient levels of UV-B radiation since UV-B hardly affects growth parameters. In contrast with outdoor studies on higher plants, soluble UV-B absorbing compounds in bryophytes are typically not induced by enhanced levels of UV-B radiation. A few studies have demonstrated that UV-B radiation can influence plant morphology, photosynthetic capacity, photosynthetic pigments or levels of DNA damage. However, there is only a limited number of outdoor studies presented in the literature. More additional, especially long-term, experiments are needed to provide better data for statistical meta-analyses. A mini UV-B supplementation system is described, especially designed to study effects of UV-B radiation at remote field locations under harsh conditions, and which is therefore suited to perform long-term studies in the Arctic or Antarctic. The first results are presented from a long-term UV-B supplementation experiment at Signy Island in the Maritime Antarctic.     

Responses in growth,physiology and nitrogen nutrition of dragon spruce (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Picea asperata</Emphasis>) seedlings of different ages to enhanced ultraviolet-B

In the southeast of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau of China, dragon spruce (Picea asperata) is a key species and widely used in reforestation processes in the area. The paper mainly studied the effects of ultraviolet-B (UV-B) on growth, physiology and nitrogen nutrition of 3- and 6-year-old dragon spruce seedlings. The experimental design included ambient UV-B (control) and enhanced UV-B (+UV-B, a 30% increase). Enhanced UV-B significantly decreased growth, needle and root nitrogen concentration, needle nitrate reductase activity and increased UV-B absorbing compounds and malondialdehyde (MDA) content of two old dragon spruce seedlings. Glutamine synthetase activity was not affected by enhanced UV-B in two old dragon spruce seedlings. On the other hand, different old seedlings also exhibited different physiological responses to enhanced UV-B radiation. Chlorophyll content, carotenoids content and soluble protein content in 3-year-old seedlings significantly reduced by enhanced UV-B, but those in 6-year-old seedlings were not affected by enhanced UV-B. Proline content of 6-year-old seedlings were increased by enhanced UV-B. Compared with the 3-year-old seedlings, the 6-year-old seedlings showed lower reduction of growth and MDA content, and accumulated more proline and UV-B absorbing compounds for protecting seedlings under enhanced UV-B. The results implicated that 3-year-old seedlings were more sensitivity to enhanced UV-B than 6-year-old seedlings.