马铃薯Y病毒外壳蛋白基因在转基因马铃薯中的表达

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DRY-ROT DISEASE OF THE POTATO

A laboratory method is described in which a modified hypodermic syringe is used to inoculate potato tubers with Fusarium caeruleum. This injection method gives consistent results and permits reliable assessments of factors such as varietal susceptibility.
The occurrence of arrested lesions is noted.
Suspensions of very high spore concentration or of spores already germinated did not greatly increase the amount of dry rot above that given by the standard too spores per inoculation, provided that spore germination was adequate.
The size of tuber and site of inoculation were found to have a considerable effect upon the results of inoculation experiments, large tubers being more susceptible than small ones and the heel end being more susceptible than the rose end. The necessity for uniformity of material used in inoculation experiments is emphasized.     

马铃薯卷叶病毒的提纯

本文提出了一个应用液氮冷冻,一步提取,蔗糖垫层差速离心,Sephadex G-200柱层析以及蔗糖密度梯度离心法纯化马铃薯卷叶病毒的程序,改进后的马铃薯卷叶病毒提纯方法,使病毒产量达到1.18mg/kg酸浆组织,病毒提取物纯度比差速离心者更高,20％蔗糖垫层差速离心能够更加有效地去除宿主细胞成份,纯化病毒的OD260/280,260/240比值分别达到1.77和1.43。     

DRY-ROT DISEASE OF THE POTATO

Inoculation of wounded tubers at intervals throughout the storage season showed that, after harvesting, resistance to infection by F. avenaceum was maintained for a longer period than resistance to F. caeruleum , although eventually the tubers became equally susceptible to both fungi. Tubers were less readily infected through clean-cut than through scarified wounds. Resistance to infection was greater when an interval elapsed between wounding and inoculation than when the wound was inoculated immediately; this was related to an increase in the intrinsic ability of the cells near the wound to resist infection rather than to suberization of the wounded surface or wound periderm formation.
Histological studies showed that F. caeruleum grew through the intercellular spaces and that the adjacent host cells remained alive, often for considerable periods, whereas F. avenaceum killed and penetrated the cells with which it came into contact. Restriction of incipient or established lesions caused by F. caeruleum and of incipent lesions caused by F. avenaceum was associated with suberin deposition on the host cell walls and in the intercellular spaces; in established lesions caused by F. avenaceum , restriction was attributed to an increase in the intrinsic resistance of the adjacent host cells, similar to that found near a wounded surface.     

FINE STRUCTURE OF POTATO STARCH

Sterling, Clarence, and Jack Pangborn. (U. California, Davis.) Fine structure of potato starch. Amer. Jour. Bot. 47(7) : 577–582. Illus. 1960.—Electron micrographs were made from replicas of fracture surfaces of Lintnerized potato starch. These showed that much of the starch substance is organized into radially arranged microfibrils of 220–320 A diameter and considerably greater length (at least over 4000 A). The microfibrils have parallel longitudinal ridges on their surfaces. These ridges are conceived to be outer projections of micellar strands' which are 80–90 A in diameter and occasionally at least up to 4000 A long. The diametral dimension was confirmed by X-ray diffraction study of moist and dry, normal and Lintnerized potato starch. The X-ray evidence also supported the electron micrographic interpretation that amorphous regions lie between the crystalline micelles. On the basis of X-ray data, it was speculated that the molecules in a microfibril are all oriented alike.     

DRY-ROT DISEASE OF THE POTATO

A study has been made of the incidence of dry rot in seed potatoes in relation to commercial handling methods, and it has been shown that infection following grading by mechanical reciprocating riddles fitted with bare wire screens is more serious than that following normal handling at harvest or during transport. Hand picking, hand riddling and the use of rubber-spool graders or rubber-coated screens reduced infection by varying amounts. The higher incidence of the disease in 'transported' as against 'home-saved' seed is regarded as being due to machine grading of such stocks some months prior to planting.
Contamination of stores or boxes has not been found to play any material part in the spread of infection under commercial conditions unless tubers are roughly handled during storage. As contact infection has been found to be rare, it is considered that the practice of 'picking over' stocks during the winter to remove diseased tubers is unnecessary and may lead to further infection.
In addition to wounds, lesions of both blight and powdery scab, but not common scab, have been found to be a means of infection.     

ROGUING POTATO CROPS FOR VIRUS DISEASES

Removing virus-infected plants from plots of Majestic potatoes at Rothamsted on 2 July 1947 did not reduce the spread of leaf roll but reduced rugose mosaic (potato virus Y) to about one-fifth of that in plots rogued on 21 July or left unrogued. Roguing Arran Pilot potatoes on 16 June or 2 July reduced leaf roll to five-sixths of that in unrogued plots; roguing on 16 June reduced rugose mosaic to about half that in plots rogued on 2 July, and about a quarter of that in unrogued plots. Lifting Arran Pilot potatoes in mid-August reduced virus diseases to about two-thirds.
Roguing flattened the gradient (decrease in percentage plants diseased with increasing distance from the source of infection) with rugose mosaic, but had little effect with leaf roll. Evidently any plants prevented by roguing from contracting virus Y were near the initially infected plants.
In 1948, Majestic and King Edward potatoes at three places were rogued during 22–24 June and tubers were dug during 28–30 July and again at the end of the season. Leaf roll spread more in Majestic than in King Edward, and rugose mosaic spread more in King Edward. Roguing reduced the spread of both by about one-fifth at Rothamsted, but had no effect at Sutton Bonington. At Bretton, in the Derbyshire hills, roguing had no effect on leaf roll, but prevented the spread of rugose mosaic.
The small benefit occasionally achieved by roguing in the ware-growing districts of England does not make the practice economically worth while.     

THE DEVELOPMENT OF POTATO SKIN-SPOT DISEASE

A study of the development of skin spot in the potato variety Kerr's Pink has shown that humid conditions, both before and after infection by Oospora pustulans , increase the incidence of the disease. The results of inoculation experiments have indicated that infection of the tuber does not take place much before the normal time of lifting.
It has been found that the pathogen may enter the tuber by way of the lenticels, and that invasion of the cortex and the production of a cork cambium takes place shortly after infection. Some damage to buds was observed within 16 days of inoculation. Although the affected pocket of cortical tissue soon dies, discoloration of the periderm is not apparent until much later. It is suggested that this may be the reason for the comparatively long period which elapses between infection and the appearance of skin-spot symptoms.