国产胡桃科次生木质部导管分子的比较解剖及其系统位置的讨论

通过对国产胡桃科6属13种植物所做的次生木质部导管分子的长度,弦径,端壁斜度,穿孔板类型,管孔形状及其排列,导管密度及其在分类中作用的解剖学研究,证实了从导管分子来看黄杞属和青钱柳属是相当原始的属,而化香树属,山核桃属是最进化的属,并根据导管分子的解剖学特征探讨了胡桃科各属间的进化顺序。     

Dicotyledonous woods from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Illinois

Dicotyledonous woods from the Upper Cretaceous of Southern IllinoiS. Five species of fossil dicotyledonous wood are described from an Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian; locality in Alexander County, IllinoiS. U.S. A. Paraquercimum cretaceum has structure similar to the Fagaceae (evergreen Oak- Lithocarpus ) and Casuarinaceae and represents the earliest known occurrence of this structural type (large solitary pores and uniseriate and large multiseriale rays). Paraphyltanthoxyhin illirioisense and Icacinoxylon alternipunctata are species of genera represented at other Cretaceous and Early Tertiary localities In large diameter trees. Parabombacaceoxylon magniporosum has large diameter pores and scalariform perforation plates, a combination of characters that is extremely rare in the extant flora. Paraapocynaceoxylon barghoorni has a combination of characters represented in extant Apocynaceae. These five species lack growth rings, have high vulnerability indices (mean vessel diameter divided by mean number of vessels per square millimeter, and a relatively high proportion of ray parenchyma. They lack specialized wood anatomical characters, and a compilation of vessel element lengths in these and other Cretaceous woods indicates that short vessel elements (a derived character) were less frequent in the Cretaceous than in extant dicotyledonous trees.     

SEM studies on vessels in ferns. 11. Ophioglossum

With scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the nature of metaxylem vessel elements and tracheids was examined in Ophioglossum crotalophomides, 0. pendulum subsp. falcatum , and 0. vulgatum roots and rhizomes. Vessels were identified in all species. End walls of vessel elements, which bear perforations, are like lateral wall pitting of those elements in the secondary wall framework and differ only in absence of pit membranes or presence of pit membrane remnants. Some of the perforations contain pit membrane remnants that have large pores, small porosities, or are threadlike or weblike in structure. Dimorphic perforations were found in some vessel elements of rhizomes of 0. pendulum subsp. falcatum. Tracheids are very likely present in addition to vessels in all three species. The secondary wall framework of both tracheids and vessels is basically scalariform, although deviations in pattern are present. Vessel elements of Ophiglossum are entirely comparable to those of leptosporangiate ferns.     

Myosin,microtubules, and microfilaments: co-operation between cytoskeletal components during cambial cell division and secondary vascular differentiation in trees

The immunolocalisation of unconventional myosin VIII ('myosin') in the cells of the secondary vascular tissues of angiosperm (Populus tremula L. x P. tremuloides Michx. and Aesculus hippocastanum L.) and gymnosperm (Pinus pinea L.) trees is described for the first time and related to other cytoskeletal elements, as well as to callose. Both myosin and callose are located at the cell plate in dividing cambial cells, whereas actin microfilaments are found alongside the cell plate; actin and tubulin are both associated with the phragmoplast. Myosin and callose also localise to the plasmodesmata-rich pit fields in the walls of living cells, which are particularly abundant within the common walls between ray cells and between ray cells and axial parenchyma cells in the phloem and xylem. In those xylem ray cells that contact developing vessel elements and tracheids, myosin, tubulin, actin and callose are localised at the periphery of developing contact and cross-field pits; the respective antibodies also highlight the bordered pits between vessels and between tracheids. The aperture of the bordered pits, whose diameter diminishes as the over-arching border of these pits develops, also houses myosin, actin and tubulin. Myosin, actin and callose are also found together around the sieve pores of sieve elements and sieve cells. We suggest that an acto-myosin contractile system (a 'plant muscle') is present at the cell plate, the sieve pores, the plasmodesmata within the walls of long-lived parenchyma cells, and at the apertures of bordered pits during their development.     

Water Flow Through Vessel Perforation Plates--A Fluid Mechanical Approach

The effect of scalariform perforation plates on the flow ofwater through plant vessels remains poorly understood. In thisstudy, a new computational tool based on finite element methodsolutions to the Navier-Stokes equation was applied to modellingfluid flow through these structures in plant vessels. Modelsdeveloped for Liriodendron tulipifera vessel elements were solvedfor cells with and without the perforation plate to study effectsof the plate on the pressure drop along the cell. Results indicatethat the pressure gradient was 5-fold greater through the platethan for regions before and after the plate. However, the perforationplate in this species accounts for only about 8% of the resistanceto flow through typical vessels because the plate influencesflow for only a short distance along the cell relative to itslength. Details of the flow characteristics through pores ofthe perforation plate are also described. Key words: Conductance, finite element method, perforation plate, vessel, water flow     

Comparative Anatomical Studies on Vessel Elements of Chinese Ranunculaceae

The vessel elements in 77 species of 36 genera of Chinese Ranunculaceae were studied. The vessel elements of Ranunculaceae could be divided into primitive and more specialized groups on the basis of their morphological characters through clustering analysis. The most primitive type of the vessel elements was seen in Asteropyrum, and some vessel elements were considered more primitive, as in Paeonia, Trollius, Actaea, Helleborus, Souliea, Calathodes, Beesia, Caltha, Coptis, Kingdonia, Circaeaster, Adonis, Hepatica, than others. There was a marked difference between Paeonia and other genera of Ranunculaceae. The vessel elements of Paeonioideae and Helleboroideae with follicles were more primitive than Ranunculoideae with achenes. In Thalictroideae, .the vessel elements of Thalictrum with achenes were more specialized than other genera with follicles. All these findings coincided with the evolution of fruits. The character of evolution of vessel elements ran parallel with that of other parts of plant (flower, carpel, petiole, venation). The features of vessel elements in the same genus were at similar evolutional level, however, some difference between species do exist.     

The Role of Intervessel Pits and Vessel Plugs in Determining Flow Pathways Through and Between Vessels in Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.)

It has previously been suggested from physical evidence thatvessels in twigs of sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) are connectedby small pores in intervessel pit membranes. From results obtainedusing a combination of physical techniques and electron microscopyit is clear that this is an oversimplification: almost all intervesselpit membranes are absent in sycamore twig and stem wood, yetphysical tests still suggest that vessels are connected by poressmaller than pit apertures. Where these pores are is less certain.They may be in plugs observed to fill vessel lumens. They maypossibly be in a small number of intact intervessel pit membranesin the terminal elements of vessels, but such membranes couldnot be found under the microscope. In either case, the resultsof physical tests suggest that vessels connected by membranelessintervessel pits must effectively end together at a particularpoint in the tree. Key words: Flow, vessels, sycamore     

钩叶藤属和省藤属导管分子的比较研究

本文描述３种钩叶藤属（Ｐｌｅｃｔｏｃｏｍｉａ）植物茎的后生木质部导管分子,并与省藤属（Ｃａｌａｍｕｓ）比较分析。钩叶藤属的导管分子大部分具单穿孔板．类似省藤属,但具复穿孔板导管分子的比量和横隔数目以及导管分子长度均比省藤属大．讨论了导管分子特化同两属天然分布植被区的关系。     

Water Flow Through Vessel Perforation Plates--The Effects of Plate Angle and Thickness for Liriodendron tulipifera

The effects of scalariform perforation plate thickness and anglewithin vessel elements of Liriodendron tulipifera were studiedwith a computational fluid dynamical model. The pressure gradientand hence resistance to flow through the plate increased asthe perforation plate increased in thickness. Increasing theangle of the plate relative to the axis of the vessel (samenumber of pores) also increased the pressure gradient alongthe modelled cell. For the model matching the actual vesselelement, the plate contributed 8% to the flow resistance ofthe vessel element. This contribution increased only to 11%for doubled plate thickness, and to 14% for a plate at an angleof 60° to the vessel axis. The perforation plate alteredthe velocity profile across the vessel element, but to a differentextent depending on the angle of the plate. A plate at an acuteangle to the vessel axis has little effect on the paraboloidprofile as found upstream from the plate, while obtuse angleplates change the flow profile such that fluid through poresnear the wall is accelerated to a greater velocity than foundin the centre of the cell. Key words: Conductance, perforation plate, vessel, water flow     

The Vascular System of Maize Stems Revisited: Implications for Water Transport and Xylem Safety

The plexus of vascular bundles in the nodes of grasses is notoriouslycomplex, where long axial bundles pass through a network oftransverse bundles. The xylem pathways for water in maize stemshave been investigated anatomically and with dye and particulatetracers, revealing some of the details of this complexity. Onlyapprox. 3% of axial vessels pass through nodes without beinginterrupted by end walls. Axial bundles at nodes differ fromthose in internodes in having the metaxylem and protoxylem vesselsconnected by small tracheary elements. So it is only at nodesthat exchange of sap occurs between the large vessels withina bundle. End walls, acting as filters for particles and gasbubbles, always separate axial vessels from vessels in transversebundles. The high redundancy of bundle connections in the nodalplexus is interpreted as providing alternative water pathwaysto bypass embolisms and damaged or diseased sections of thexylem. The pores in the filters at the base of nodes and betweenaxial and transverse vessels within nodes are <20 nm in diameter.Where axial vessels connect to transverse vessels, a varietyof unusual shapes of vessel elements mediate two- and three-wayconnections within the plexus.Copyright 2000 Annals of BotanyCompany Zea mays, cryoSEM, maize, node, pits, pit membranes, vessel ends, vessels, xylem embolism, xylem pathogens     

First record of Cercidiphylloxylon(Cercidiphyllaceae)from the Palaeocene of Fushun,NE China

Cercidiphylloxylon spenceri(Brett)Pearson is described from the Lizigou Formation,Palaeocene in China.The growth rings are distinct; pores are diffuse,solitary,with somewhat angular outlines in cross section;vessel elements long with long scalariform perforation plates; intervessel pitting is opposite to scalariform; fibertracheids are present; axial parenchyma is scarce; rays are mostly biseriate and heterogeneous.All wood characters of the fossil specimen fall into the range of those of extant Cercidiphyllum(Cercidiphyllaceae).The finding is one of the earliest fossil wood records of Cercidiphyllaceae.     

What do we know about growth of vessel elements of secondary xylem in woody plants?

Despite extensive knowledge about vessel element growth and the determination of the axial course of vessels, these processes are still not fully understood. They are usually explained as resulting primarily from hormonal regulation in stems. This review focuses on an increasingly discussed aspect – mechanical conditions in the vascular cambium. Mechanical conditions in cambial tissue are important for the growth of vessel elements, as well as other cambial derivatives. In relation to the type of stress acting on cambial cells (compressive versus tensile stress) we: (i) discuss the shape of the enlarging vessel elements observed in anatomical sections; (ii) present hypotheses regarding the location of intrusive growth of vessel elements and cambial initials; (iii) explain the relationship between the growth of vessel elements and fibres; and (iv) consider the effect of mechanical stress in determining the course of a vessel. We also highlight the relationship between mechanical stress and transport of the most extensively studied plant hormone – auxin. We conclude that the integration of a biomechanical factor with the commonly acknowledged hormonal regulation could significantly enhance the analysis of the formation of vessel elements as well as entire vessels, which transport water and minerals in numerous plant species.     

Pit membrane remnants in perforation plates and other vessel details of Cornales

Perforation plates and other vessel details as studied with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) have been reported for four species of Cornaceae (s.l.): similar features are shown by the four, suggesting that a more extensive sampling of the family might reveal similar phenomena. Perforation plates contain pit membrane remnants in the form of threads or, less commonly, laminar portions perforated by pores. When least well-represented, the pit membrane remnants are restricted to lateral ends of perforations and to the perforations transitional to lateral wall pitting. Perforations are all clearly bordered. Helical thickenings that do not form a continuous gyre are reported for the vessel walls ofAucuba. The presence of pit membrane remnants in vessel elements of Cornaceae correlates with the mesic habitats occupied by species in this family. The presence and type of pit membrane remnants reported by us in the three genera is very similar, although pit membrane remnants are doubtless a symplesiomorphy and thus not an indicator of relationships. The presence of pit membrane remnants in the three genera, however, does attest to the primitiveness of wood and other features of Cornaceae s.l.     

海桑属(Sonneratia)植物的木材结构及其系统演化意义

研究了海桑科海桑属(Sonnerotia)6种植物的木材结构特征,并与同科的八宝树属(Duabanga)、千屈菜科的紫薇属(Lagerstroemia)植物的木材结构进行比较。结果表明：1.射线高度和射线宽度可作为卵叶海桑区别于其它种类的鉴定特征或辅助特征;2．海桑属形成一单系的类群,并与紫薇属有更近的亲缘关系,而与同科的八宝树属的亲缘关系更远;3．导管数量特征的聚类分析可以推测海桑属植物沿两支进化,一支进化为水分输导效率高的种类(即导管直径宽和输导面积大,管孔密度小,如海桑和拟海桑),另一支进化为水分输导安全性高的种类(即导管直径窄、输导面积小,管孔密度大,如杯萼海桑、卵叶海桑、无瓣海桑、海南海桑)。     

银桦次生木质部导管分子观察研究

对银桦 (Grevillearobusta)次生木质部导管分子进行了观察研究。在银桦次生木质部导管分子中存在着许多不同的样式 ,分别对其进行了描述 ,并从导管分子个体发育与系统发育的角度进行了讨论。银桦导管分子中还存在着特殊的样式 ,如具三个单穿孔的导管以及导管分子侧壁上存在明显的皱褶 ,对其也分别进行了讨论     

蜈蚣草导管分子的观察

对蜈蚣草(Pteris vittata)叶轴中导管分子进行了观察。结果表明,其导管分子十分细长,均具长、且十分倾斜的梯状穿孔板,穿孔没有纹孔膜的残余,与侧壁上的梯纹纹孔有着明显的差异。     

First record of Cercidiphylloxylon (Cercidiphyllaceae) from the Palaeocene of Fushun,NE China

Abstract Cercidiphylloxylon spenceri (Brett) Pearson is described from the Lizigou Formation, Palaeocene in China. The growth rings are distinct; pores are diffuse, solitary, with somewhat angular outlines in cross section; vessel elements long with long scalariform perforation plates; intervessel pitting is opposite to scalariform; fiber‐tracheids are present; axial parenchyma is scarce; rays are mostly biseriate and heterogeneous. All wood characters of the fossil specimen fall into the range of those of extant Cercidiphyllum (Cercidiphyllaceae). The finding is one of the earliest fossil wood records of Cercidiphyllaceae.     

Sieve Elements of Minor Veins in the Leaves of Beta vulgaris L.

End walls of sieve elements of minor veins of the leaves ofBeta vulgaris L. do not contain the multi-perforate sieve plateswhich typically occur on the end walls of sieve-tube membersof major veins. Instead, both end and side walls of the sieveelements of minor veins contain scattered pores which may occursingly or in small numbers. These pores are similar to thosewhich are grouped in sieve plates of major veins in size, possessionof callose and plugs of filaments. In addition to these pores,there are tubular connections 0.1 µ in diameter throughcharacteristically thickened parts of the cell wall betweensieve cells and companion cells. Sieve elements of minor veinsdiffer from those of major veins in structure as well as infunction.     

Origin and nature of vessels in monocotyledons. 5. Araceae subfamily Colocasioideae

Tracheary elements from macerations of roots and stems of one species each of five genera of Araceae subfamily Colocasioideae were studied by means of SEM (scanning electron microscopy). All of the genera have vessel elements not merely in roots, as previously reported for the family as a whole, but also in stems. The vessel elements of stems in all genera other than Syngonium are less specialized than those of roots; stem vessel elements are tracheid-like and have porose pit membrane remnants in perforations. The perforations with pit membrane remnants demonstrate probable early stages in evolution of vessels from tracheids in primary xylem of monocotyledons. The vessel elements with such incipient perforation plates lack differentiation in secondary wall thickenings between perforation plate and lateral wall, and such vessel elements cannot be identified with any reliability by means of light microscopy. The discrepancy in specialization between root and stem vessel elements in genera other than Syngonium is ascribed to probable high conductive rates in roots where soil moisture fluctuates markedly, in contrast with the storage nature of stems, in which selective value for rapid conduction is less. Syngonium stem vessels are considered adapted for rapid conduction because the stems in that genus are scandent. Correlation between vessel element morphology and ecology and habit are supported. Although large porosities in vessel elements facilitate conduction, smaller porosities may merely represent rudimentary pit membrane lysis.     

洋蒲桃次生木质部中导管分子的解剖学

运用细胞图像分析系统和显微照相的方法对洋蒲桃（Syzygium samarangense）次生木质部导管分子进行了观察研究。次生木质部导管分子类型有：两端具尾导管、一端具尾导管和无尾导管。导管分子穿孔板存在着4种类型：两端均为具2个单穿孔的复穿孔板;一端为1个单穿孔板,另1端为具2个单穿孔的复穿孔板;两端均为单穿孔板：两单穿孔板位于同一端壁两侧相互对应以及一些过渡类型穿孔板。根据观察结果,分析了各类型穿孔板之间的演化关系。