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Our objectives were to quantify and compare soil CO2 efflux of two dominant soil types in an old-growth neotropical rain forest in the Atlantic zone of Costa Rica, and to evaluate the control of environmental factors on CO2 release. We measured soil CO2 efflux from eight permanent soil chambers on six Oxisol sites. Three sites were developed on old river terraces (old alluvium) and the other three were developed on old lava flows (residual). At the same time we measured soil CO2 concentrations, soil water content and soil temperature at various depths in 6 soil shafts (3 m deep). Between old alluvium sites, the two-year average CO2 flux rates ranged from 117.3 to 128.9 mg C m–2 h–1. Significantly higher soil CO2 flux occurred on the residual sites (141.1 to 184.2 mg C m–2 h–1). Spatial differences in CO2 efflux were related to fine root biomass, soil carbon and phosphorus concentration but also to soil water content. Spatial variability in CO2 storage was high and the amount of CO2 stored in the upper and lower soil profile was different between old alluvial and residual sites. The major factor identified for explaining temporal variations in soil CO2 efflux was soil water content. During periods of high soil water content CO2 emission decreased, probably due to lower diffusion and CO2 production rates. During the 2-year study period inter-annual variation in soil CO2 efflux was not detected.  相似文献   

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Chloroplasts with high rates of photosynthetic O2 evolution (up to 120 mol O2· (mg Chl)-1·h-1 compared with 130 mol O2· (mg Chl)-1·h-1 of whole cells) were isolated from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells grown in high and low CO2 concentrations using autolysine-digitonin treatment. At 25° C and pH=7.8, no O2 uptake could be observed in the dark by high- and low-CO2 adapted chloroplasts. Light saturation of photosynthetic net oxygen evolution was reached at 800 mol photons·m-2·s-1 for high- and low-CO2 adapted chloroplasts, a value which was almost identical to that observed for whole cells. Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) saturation of photosynthesis was reached between 200–300 M for low-CO2 adapted chloroplasts, whereas high-CO2 adapted chloroplasts were not saturated even at 700 M DIC. The concentrations of DIC required to reach half-saturated rates of net O2 evolution (Km(DIC)) was 31.1 and 156 M DIC for low- and high-CO2 adapted chloroplasts, respectively. These results demonstrate that the CO2 concentration provided during growth influenced the photosynthetic characteristics at the whole cell as well as at the chloroplast level.Abbreviations Chl chlorophyll - DIC dissolved inorganic carbon - Km(DIC) coneentration of dissolved inorganic carbon required for the rate of half maximal net O2 evolution - PFR photon fluence rate - SPGM silicasol-PVP-gradient medium  相似文献   

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The relative contribution of autotrophic carbon sources (aquatic macrophytes, flooded forest, phytoplankton) for heterotrophic bacterioplankton was evaluated in a floodplain lake of the Central Amazon. Stable carbon isotopes (13C) were used as tracers. Values of 13C of different autotrophic sources were compared to those of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and those of bacterially produced CO2.The percentage of carbon derived from C4 macrophytes for bacterially produced CO2 was the highest, on average 89%. The average 13C value of CO2 from bacterial respiration was –18.5 ± 3.3. Considering a fractionation of CO2 of 3 by bacterial respiration, 13C value was –15.5, near C4 macrophyte 13C value (–13.1).The average value of total DOC 13C was –26.8 ± 2.4. The percentage of C4 macrophytes carbon for total DOC was on average 17%. Considering that bacteria consume mainly carbon from macrophytes, the dominance of C3 plants for total DOC probably reflects a faster consumption of the former source, rather than a major contribution of the latter source.Heterotrophic bacterioplankton in the floodplain may be an important link in the aquatic food web, transferring the carbon from C4 macrophytes to the consumers.  相似文献   

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We measured the concentrations and isotopic values (14C and 13C) of dissolved inorganic, dissolved organic, and particulate organic carbon (DIC, DOC, and POC, respectively) in the Parker River watershed and estuary in Massachusetts, USA, to determine the age of carbon (C) entering the estuary and how estuarine processing affects the quantity and apparent age of C transported to the Gulf of Maine. The watershed measurements indicated the transport of 14C-enriched modern DIC and DOC and variably aged POC from the watershed to the estuary. The transport of organic matter from the watershed was dominated by DOC transport, with POC making up less than 10% of the total. Surveys within the watershed aimed at determining which land-use type dominated the DOC export indicated that wetlands, although they made up only around 20% of the land use, could be responsible for approximately 75% of the DOC export. We therefore conclude that the wetland land uses of the Parker River watershed are exporting mainly 14C-enriched modern DOC. DIC isotopes indicate that the source of DIC in the Parker River watershed is dominated by the weathering of noncarbonate parent material by 14C-enriched carbon dioxide (CO2) originating from the respiration of young organic matter in soils. Transects in the estuary displayed net additions of all C species. For DOC and DIC, the export of this internally added DOC and DIC was approximately equal to the amount being exported from the watershed, showing the importance of focusing on estuaries when estimating the export of C to the coastal ocean. With respect to DIC, the total input is even larger when the atmospheric exchange of excess pCO2 is calculated. The 14C-DOC and 14C-DIC transects indicate that the internally added DOC and DIC is 14C-enriched modern material. The source of this material is the fringing marshes and estuarine phytoplankton, with the relative importance of these two sources changing over time. Taken together, the bulk C and 14C measurements show that the estuary is adding significant quantities of young DOC despite the presence of vast quantities of old marsh peat flanking the entire estuary. Furthermore, the DIC data indicate that 14C-enriched modern material is what is fueling the majority of heterotrophic respiration within the system.  相似文献   

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Elevated CO2 (ambient + 35 Pa) increased shoot dry mass production in Avena fatua by 68% at maturity. This increase in shoot biomass was paralleled by an 81% increase in average net CO2 uptake (A) per unit of leaf area and a 65% increase in average A at the ecosystem level per unit of ground area. Elevated CO2 also increased ecosystem A per unit of biomass. However, the products of total leaf area and light-saturated leaf A divided by the ground surface area over time appeared to lie on a single response curve for both CO2 treatments. The approximate slope of the response suggests that the integrated light saturated capacity for leaf photosynthesis is 10-fold greater than the ecosystem rate. Ecosystem respiration (night) per unit of ground area, which includes soil and plant respiration, ranged from-20 (at day 19) to-18 (at day 40) mol m-2 s-1 for both elevated and ambient CO2 Avena. Ecosystem below-ground respiration at the time of seedling emergence was -10 mol m-2 s-1, while that occuring after shoot removal at the termination of the experiment ranged from -5 to-6 mol m-2 s-1. Hence, no significant differences between elevated and ambient CO2 treatments were found in any respiration measure on a ground area basis, though ecosystem respiration on a shoot biomass basis was clearly reduced by elevated CO2. Significant differences existed between leaf and ecosystem water flux. In general, leaf transpiration (E) decreased over the course of the experiment, possibly in response to leaf aging, while ecosystem rates of evapotranspiration (ET) remained constant, probably because falling leaf rates were offset by an increasing total leaf biomass. Transpiration was lower in plants grown at elevated CO2, though variation was high because of variability in leaf age and ambient light conditions and differences were not significant. In contrast, ecosystem evapotranspiration (ET) was significantly decreased by elevated CO2 on 5 out of 8 measurement dates. Photosynthetic water use efficiencies (A/E at the leaf level, A/ET at the ecosystem level) were increased by elevated CO2. Increases were due to both increased A at leaf and ecosystem level and decreased leaf E and ecosystem ET.  相似文献   

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Summary Organic pyrophosphates such as UppA and NAD are formed when a solution containing a nucleotide, a nucleoside 5-polyphosphate, Mg2+ and imidazole are allowed to dry out. We suggest that this synthesis may have occured concurrently with oligonucleotide formation.Abbreviations Im Imidazole - CDI 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-carbodiimide hydrochloride - EDTA ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid - A adenosine - U uridine - pnA adenosine 5-poly-phosphate containing n phosphate residues - pU uridine 5-phosphate - AppA P1,P2-diadenosine 5-pyrophosphate - UppA P1-(uridine 5)-P2-(adenosine 5)-pyrophosphate - ImpA adenosine 5-phosphorimidazolide - NMN nicotinamide mononucleotide - NAD nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide  相似文献   

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We present a comprehensive dataset of hourly, daily, and monthly measurements of carbon isotope measurements of CO2 in canopy air from a temperate deciduous forest with the aim to identify the relevance of short-term variations in the isotopic signature of ecosystem respiration (13CR) and to understand its underlying physiological processes. We show that during daytime low vertical mixing inside the canopy can lead to decoupling of the air in the lower and upper canopy layer resulting in large spatial variation of 13C in CO2 of canopy air. Intercept of Keeling Plots also showed large temporal variation (3.8) over the course of the day demonstrating that intercepts can differ between day and night and suggesting that choosing the right time for sampling is essential to capture the isotopic signature of ecosystem respiration (13CR). 13CR as obtained from night-time measurements showed large variation of up to 2.65 on a day-to-day basis, which was similar to the observed variation of 13CR over the seasonal cycle (3.08). This highlights the importance of short-term physiological processes within ecosystems for the isotopic composition of CO2 in the atmosphere, not reflected by bulk plant and soil organic samples. At daily and monthly time scales, 13CR increased with increasing ratio of vapour pressure deficit to photosynthetically active radiation, measured 4–5 days before. This suggests that ecosystem respiration was isotopically linked to assimilation. Furthermore, assimilates recently fixed in the canopy seem to form a labile carbon pool with a short mean residence time that is respired back to the atmosphere after 4–5 days.  相似文献   

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Processes affecting the concentration and isotopiccomposition of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) wereinvestigated in pore waters of two freshwaterintertidal areas of the Scheldt Estuary, Belgium. Porewater 13CDIC values from marshes andmudflats varied from –27 to +13.4, these very largevariations reflect the contribution of differentcarbon sources to the DIC pool.In pore waters of the upper mudflat, river water DICand dissolution of calcite contribute to a lesserextent (10% and 16% respectively) to the total DICpool. Results indicate that inorganic carbon added tothe pore water of the mudflats has a 13Cvalue of +20.3 in May 1998. These strongly enriched13CDIC values suggest that the majorcontribution (up to three-quarters) to total DIC isCO2 derived from methanogenesis.In pore waters of the marshes, CO2 derived fromorganic matter degradation (–27.5) and river DIC(–11.5 to –16.1) are the major sources of inorganiccarbon contribution to the total DIC pool. In porewaters from a marsh site colonised by willow trees,the contribution from CO2 derived from organicmatter degradation is larger than in pore waters froman area with only reed vegetation. In the latter caseriver water DIC is the major source of pore waterDIC.  相似文献   

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Dr. Bogislav Rackow 《Planta》1958,51(5):575-583
Zusammenfassung Es wird gezeigt, daß mit Hilfe einer quantitativen O2-Bestimmungsmethode bei Belichtungsbeginn einer Chlorella-Suspension kein Einquanten-Sauerstoff gefunden wird, wie er aus Manometer-Versuchen vonWarburg erschlossen wurde.Dann wird nachgewiesen, daß die in den Manometergefäßen sich abspielende Zeitreaktion CO2+H2OH2CO3 den Kreisprozeß der Photosynthese vortäuschen kann, ja sogar vortäuschen muß.Mit 2 Textabbildungen  相似文献   

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MHC class I molecules are heterotrimeric complexes composed of heavy chain, 2-microglobulin (2m) and short peptide. This trimeric complex is generated in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), where a peptide loading complex (PLC) facilitates transport from the cytosol and binding of the peptide to the preassembled ER resident heavy chain/2m dimers. Association of mouse MHC class I heavy chain with 2m is characterized by allelic differences in the number and/or positions of amino acid interactions. It is unclear, however, whether all alleles follow common binding patterns with minimal contributions by allele-specific contacts, or whether essential contacts with 2m are different for each allele. While searching for the PLC binding site in the 3 domain of the mouse MHC class I molecule H-2Db, we unexpectedly discovered a site critical for binding mouse, but not human, 2m. Interestingly, amino acids in the corresponding region of another MHC class I heavy chain allele do not make contacts with the mouse 2m. Thus, there are allelic differences in the modes of binding of 2m to the heavy chain of MHC class I.  相似文献   

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Photosynthetic carbon fixation of freshly isolated cells of Prochloron, the symbiont of Lissoclinum patella, proceeded at high rates (80–180 mol O2·mgChl-1·h-1) in buffered seawater and showed a typical light response, saturating at about 300 E·m-2·s-1. However, in NaCl solutions osmotically equivalent to seawater CO2-dependent O2 evolution ceased or was severely inhibited. Hypotonic or hypertonic conditions induce degrees of swelling or shrinkage, respectively, apparently causing similar increases in the plasmamembrane's permeability to ferricyanide. Initially high, but rapidly declining, rates of electron transport were observed when the cells were suspended in distilled water. This inhibition was not caused by rupture of the cells, indicating instead diffusive loss of some essential factor(s) which normally exchange easily and rapidly between the cells and/or the host environment. Such rapid exchange may be part of the mechanism of this symbiosis and, if not adequately understood, may frustrate attempts to culture Prochloron away from its host.Abbreviations HEPES N-2-hydroxyethyl piperazine-N-2 ethane sulphonic acid - EPPS N-2-hydroxyethyl propane sulphonic acid - FeCN potassium ferricyanide - DBMIB 2,5-dibromo-3-methyl-6-isopropyl-p-benzoquinone - DCMU 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea - TMPD N,N,N,N,-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine - DCIP 2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol - MV methylviologen - PS photosystem - Chl chlorophyll Publication No. 219 of the Australian Institute of Marine Science  相似文献   

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The characteristics of gas exchange and carbon isotope discrimination were determined for a number of lichen species, representing contrasting associations between fungal (mycobiont) and photosynthetic (photobiont) organism. These parameters were evaluated with regard to the occurrence of any CO2-concentrating mechanism (CCM) expressed specifically by the green algal (phycobiont) or cyanobacterial (cyanobiont) partner. Carbon isotope discrimination () fell into three categories. The highest , found in lichens comprising a phycobiont plus cyanobacteria limited to pockets in the thallus (known as cephalodia), ranged from 24 to 28, equivalent to a carbon isotope ratio (13C) of around -32 to-36 vs. Pee Dee Belemnite (PDB) standard. Further evidence was consistent with CO2 supply to the carboxylating system entirely mediated by diffusion rather than a CCM, in that thallus CO2 compensation point and online instantaneous were also high, in the range normally associated with C3 higher plants. For lichens consisting of phycobiont or cyanobiont alone, organic material formed two distinct ranges around 15 (equivalent to a 13C of -23%.). Thallus compensation point and instantaneous were lower in the cyanobiont group, which also showed higher maximum rates of net photosynthesis, whether expressed on the basis of thallus dry weight, chlorophyll content or area. These data provide additional evidence for the activity of a CCM in cyanobiont lichens, which only show photosynthetic activity when reactivated with liquid water. Rates of net CO2 uptake were lower in both phycobiont associations, but were relatively constant across a wide working range of thallus water contents, usually in parallel with on-line . The phycobiont response was consistent whether photosynthesis had been reactivated with liquid water or water vapour. The effect of diffusion limitation could generally be seen with a 3–4 decrease in instantaneous at the highest water contents. The expression of a CCM in phycobiont algae, although reduced compared with that in cyanobacteria, has already been related to the occurrence of pyrenoids in chloroplasts. In view of the inherent requirement of cyanobacteria for some form of CCM, and the smaller pools of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC = CO2 + HCO inf3 su– + CO inf3 su2– ) associated with phycobiont lichens, it appears that characteristics provide a good measure of the magnitude of any CCM, albeit tempered by diffusion limitation at the highest thallus water contents.Abbreviations ANOVA analysis of variance - CCM CO2-concentrating mechanism - cyanobiont cyanobacterium - DIC CO2 + HCO inf3 su– + CO inf3 su2– (dissolved inorganic carbon) - photobiont photosynthetic organism present in the association - phycobiont green alga - phycobiont + cephalodia green algae + cyanobacteria in cephalodia - Pmax maximum photosynthetic rate - PPFD photosynthetic photon flux density, 400–700 nm - Rubisco ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase - carbon isotope discrimination () - 13C carbon isotope ratio () We would like to thank Dr. Enrico Brugnoli (CNR, Porano, Italy) and E.C. Smith (University of Newcastle) for many helpful discussions. Dr. Kristin Palmqvist (Department of Plant Physiology, University of Umeå, Sweden) kindly provided the samples of Peltigera apthosa. In particularly, Cristina Máguas would like to thank to Prof. Fernando Catarino (University of Lisbon) for his support throughout this study. Cristina Máguas has been supported by JNICT-Science Programme studentship (BD/153/90-RN).  相似文献   

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The dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) cycle in a softwater lake was studied using natural variations of the stable isotopes of carbon,12C and13C. During summer stratification there was a progressive decrease in epilimnion DIC concentration with a concomitant increase in 13CDIC), due to preferential uptake of12C by phytoplankton and a change in the dominant CO2 source from inflow andin situ oxidation to invasion from the atmosphere. There was an increase in hypolimnion DIC concentration throughout summer with a concomitant general decrease in 13CDIC from oxidation of the isotopically light particulate organic carbon that sank down through the thermocline from the epilimnion.Mass balance calculations of DI12C and DI13C in the epilimnion for the summer (June 23–September 25) yield a mean rate of net conversion of DIC to organic carbon (Corg) of 430 ± 150 moles d-1 (6.5 ± 1.8 m moles m-2 d-1. Net CO2 invasion from the atmosphere was 420 ± 120 moles d-1 (6.2 ± 1.8 m moles m-2 d-1) with an exchange coefficient of 0.6 ± 0.3m d-1. These results imply that at least for the summer months the phytoplankton obtained about 90% of their carbon from atmosphere CO2. About 50% of CO2 invasion and conversion to Corg for the summer occurred during a two week interval in mid-summer.DIC concentration increased in the hypolimnion at a rate of 350 ± 70 moles DIC d-1 during summer stratification. The amount of DIC added to the hypolimnion was equivalent to 75 ± 20% of net conversion of DIC to Corg in the euphotic zone over spring and summer implying rapid degradation of POC in the hypolimnion. The 13C of DIC added to the deep water (-22.) was too heavy to have been derived from oxidation of particulate organic carbon alone. About 20% of the added DIC must have diffused from hypolimnetic sediments where relatively heavy CO2 (-7) was produced by a combination of POC oxidation and as a by-product of methanogenesis.  相似文献   

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The present paper reports our attempts to determine whether the inclusion of 0.0014 mM Zn++ within a hydroponic culture medium affects the ability of 12-day-old Zea mays, cv. SS-522 to take-up [3H]-aflatoxin B1. Data from the corollary experiment, i.e., whether inclusion of aflatoxin affects the ability of Zea mays, cvs. Truckers White, X-Sweet and Merit to take-up 65ZnCl2 are presented also. This report is a preliminary to one regarding an in-progress analysis of whether pollutant levels of Zn++ affect aflatoxin uptake and distribution. In the absence of irrigating seedlings, which were grown in Perlite containing 65ZnCl2, with a solution containing mixed aflatoxins, the stem contained the greatest amount of label with root plus seed the next highest and the leaf the least for each of the cvs. In contrast, when the seedlings were irrigated with a solution containing mixed aflatoxins, the root plus seed contained either an amount nearly identical to (cv. Truckers White) or in excess of that within the stem (cvs. X-Sweet and Merit). Calculation of the percentages of aflatoxin-induced diminutions in leaf, stem and root label suggested that the aflatoxins interfered with the translocation of 65ZnCl2 from the root to the stem and leaf, at least for cvs X-Sweet and Merit. When 0.0014mM Zn++ as ZnSO4 was added to an incubation medium in which 12-day-old seedlings were suspended and plant growth assessed over 72 hours, a 15% increase (significant at 0.05 level) in seedling height over that of Zn++-deficient plants was observed. No differences in [3H]-aflatoxin B1 uptake were noted between those seedlings which were grown in either Zn++-containing or lacking media. Less than one % of the[3H]-aflatoxin B1 which was taken-up was recovered within chloroform extracts of the seedlings. The distributions of radioactivity from [3H]-aflatoxin B1 for leaf, stem, seed and root were 0, 57, 26 and 19% and 0, 26, 58 and 18% for Zn++-containing and -lacking media, respectively.  相似文献   

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A quantitative analysis of JPH scalar couplings in nucleic acids is difficult due to small couplings to phosphorus, the extreme overlap of the sugar protons and the fast relaxation of the spins involved in the magnetization transfer. Here we present a new methodology that relies on heteronuclear Constant Time Correlation Spectroscopy (CT-COSY). The three vicinal 3JPH3, 3JPH5 and 3JPH5 scalar couplings can be obtained by monitoring the intensity decay of the Pi-H3i – 1 peak as a function of the constant time T in a 2D correlation map. The advantage of the new method resides in the possibility of measuring the two 3JPH5 and 3JPH5 scalar couplings even in the presence of overlapped H5/H5 resonances, since the quantitative information is extracted from the intensity decay of the P-H3 peak. Moreover, the relaxation of the H3 proton is considerably slower than that of the H5/H5 geminal protons and the commonly populated conformations of the phosphate backbone are associated with large 3JPH3 couplings and relatively small 3JPH5 / H5. These two facts lead to optimal signal-to-noise ratio for the P-H3 correlation compared to the P-H5/H5 correlation.The heteronuclear CT-COSY experiment is suitable for oligonucleotides in the 10–15 kDa molecular mass range and has been applied to the 30mer HIV-2 TAR RNA. The methodology presented here can be used to measure P-H dipolar couplings (DPH) as well. We will present qualitative results for the measurement of P-Hbase and P-H2 dipolar couplings in the HIV-2 TAR RNA and will discuss the reasons that so far precluded the quantification of the DPHs for the 30mer RNA.  相似文献   

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The basic structures of the catalytic portion (F1, 33) of ATP synthase are the 33 hexamer (oligomer with cooperativity) and 11 heterodimer (protomer). These were reconstituted from the and subunits of thermophilic F1 (TF1), and the 33 hexamer was crystallized. On electrophoresis, both the dimer and hexamer showed bands with ATPase activity. Using the dimer and hexamer, we studied the nucleotide-dependent rapid molecular dynamics. The formation of the hexamer required neither nucleotide nor Mg. The hexamer was dissociated into the dimer in the presence of MgADP, while the dimer was associated into the hexamer in the presence of MgATP. The hexamer, like mitochondrial F1 and TF1, showed two kinds of ATPase activity: one was cooperative and was inhibited by only one BzADP per hexamer, and the other was inhibited by three BzADP per hexamer.  相似文献   

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Summary Previous experiments have shown that during prey-catching behavior (orienting, snapping) in response to a worm-like moving stripe common toads.Bufo bufo (L.) exhibit a contrast-and direction-dependent edge preference. To a black (b) stripe moving against a white (w) background (b/w), they respond (R*) preferably toward the leading (l) rather the trailing (t) edge (R l * > R t * ), thus displaying head preference. If the contrastdirection is reversed (w/b), the stripe's trailing edge is preferred (R l * < R t * ), hence showing tail preference. In the present study, neuronal activities of retinal classes R2 and R3 and tectal classes T5(2) and T7 have been extracellularly recorded in response to leading and trailing edges of a 3 ° × 30 ° stripe simulating a worm and traversing the centers of their excitatory receptive fields (ERF) horizontally at a constant angular velocity in variable movement direction (temporo-nasal or naso-temporal).The behavioral contrast-direction dependent edge preferences are best resembled by the responses (R) of prey-selective class T5(2) neurons (Rl Rt=101 for b/w, 0.31 for w/b) and T7 neurons (RlRt=61 for b/w, 0.41 for w/b); the T7 responses may be dendritic spikes. This property can be traced back to off-responses dominated retinal class R3 neurons (RlRt=61 for b/w, 0.51 for w/b), but not to class R2 (RlRt =1.21 for b/w and 0.91 for w/b). The respective edge preference phenomena are independent of the direction of movement.When stimuli were moved against a stationary black-white structured background, the head preference to the black stripe and the tail preference to the white stripe were maintained in class R3, T5(2), and T7 neurons. If the stripe traversed the ERF together with the structured background in the same direction at the same velocity, the responses of tectal class T5(2) and T7 neurons were strongly inhibited, particularly in the former. Responses of retinal R2 neurons in comparable situations could be reduced by about 50%, while class R3 neurons responded to both the stimulus and the moving background structure.The results support the concept that the prey feature analyzing system in toads applies principles of (i) parallel and (ii) hierarchial information processing. These are (i) divergence of retinal R3 neuronal output contributes to stimulus edge positioning and (in combination with R2 output) area evaluation intectal neurons and to stimulus area evaluation and (in combination with R4 output) sensitivity for moving background structures inpre tectal neurons; (ii) convergence of tectal excitatory and pretectal inhibitory inputs specify the property of prey-selective tectal T5(2) neurons which are known to project to bulbar/spinal motor systems.Abbreviations ERF excitatory receptive field - IRF inhibitory receptive field - N nasal - T temporal - R w response to a worm-like stripe moving in the direction of its longer axis - R A response to an antiworm-like stripe whose longer axis is oriented perpendicular to the direction of movement - R l response to the leading edge of a worm-like moving stripe - R t response to the trailing edge of a worm-like moving stripe - b/w black stimulus against a white background - w/b white stimulus against a black background - sm structured moving background - ss structured stationary background - u minimal structure width of a structured background consisting of rectangular black and white patches in random distribution - HRP horseradish peroxidase  相似文献   

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Onion (Allium cepa L.) plants were examined to determine the photosynthetic role of CO2 that accumulates within their leaf cavities. Leaf cavity CO2 concentrations ranged from 2250 L L–1 near the leaf base to below atmospheric (<350 L L–1) near the leaf tip at midday. There was a daily fluctuation in the leaf cavity CO2 concentrations with minimum values near midday and maximum values at night. Conductance to CO2 from the leaf cavity ranged from 24 to 202 mol m–2 s–1 and was even lower for membranes of bulb scales. The capacity for onion leaves to recycle leaf cavity CO2 was poor, only 0.2 to 2.2% of leaf photosynthesis based either on measured CO2 concentrations and conductance values or as measured directly by 14CO2 labeling experiments. The photosynthetic responses to CO2 and O2 were measured to determine whether onion leaves exhibited a typical C3-type response. A linear increase in CO2 uptake was observed in intact leaves up to 315 L L–1 of external CO2 and, at this external CO2 concentration, uptake was inhibited 35.4±0.9% by 210 mL L–1 O2 compared to 20 mL L–1 O2. Scanning electron micrographs of the leaf cavity wall revealed degenerated tissue covered by a membrane. Onion leaf cavity membranes apparently are highly impermeable to CO2 and greatly restrict the refixation of leaf cavity CO2 by photosynthetic tissue.Abbreviations Ca external CO2 concentration - Ci intercellular CO2 concentration - CO2 compensation concentration - PPFR photosynthetic photon fluence rate  相似文献   

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The inheritance of host plant resistance and its effect on the relative infection efficiency for leaf blast was studied in the crosses IR36/CO39 (partially resistant × highly susceptible) and IR36/IR64 (both partially resistant). On the natural scale, gene action appeared multiplicative. After log transformation, additive effects described most of the genetic variation in the cross IR36/CO39, while additive and dominance effects were about equal in magnitude in the cross IR36/IR64. Dominance was towards increased resistance. No transgressive segregation occurred in the cross IR36/CO39. The number of genes that reduce lesion number was estimated to be zero in CO39 and five or more in IR36. The cross IR36/IR64 showed transgressive segregation in both directions, and IR36 and IR64 each contain at least one gene that is not present in the other cultivar. The heritabilities (narrow sense) in the F2 were low (range 0.06–0.16), while narrow sense heritabilities based on F3 lines were much higher (range 0.41–0.68). Lesion numbers in F3 lines were reasonably correlated with those in F5 progenies derived from the same F2 plant (r was±0.6 in both crosses). Partial resistance can be effectively improved by selecting the most resistant plants from the most resistant F3 lines.  相似文献   

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K. Okada  A. Kumura 《Plant and Soil》1986,91(2):209-219
Summary To determine whether sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Poir.) takes up organic matter through the roots from the medium, the concentrations of natural14C (14C) in plant organic matter, atmospheric CO2 and compost applied to media were examined under soil and sand culture conditions. In these experiments, three kinds of composts of different 14C were used. CO2 derived from the mineralization of compost was continuously pumped out from the pots and its direct uptake by the leaves was prevented.14C of plant parts harvested after the 43 days experimental period were affected by the 14C of the compost in the treatments where the compost of rice straw was applied, and which suggested that a significant amount of plant carbon was derived from the compost.  相似文献   

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