珍稀濒危植物翅果油树表皮毛的微形态观察研究

利用体视显微镜、扫描电镜和光学显微镜,对珍稀濒危植物翅果油树(Elaeagnus mollis Diels)的茎、叶、果、休眠芽等多种器官表面覆盖的表皮毛,进行了详细观察．发现其表皮毛的形态和结构具有多样性,各器官有差异,据此将它们分为分支状毛、星状毛、盾状-星状毛、盾状毛四类,以及一些特殊的表皮毛,如：分支状毛与星状毛或盾状-星状毛的过渡类型称为类星状毛和类盾状-星状毛．叶片上表面的表皮毛,为分枝状表皮毛,且稀疏散布．叶片下表面的白色表皮毛,也多为分枝状表皮毛,但分布较密,叶主脉处最为稠密多为星状毛．叶柄的表皮毛形态呈现一定的梯度变化,远轴端(靠近叶片端)为类星状毛,近轴端(靠近茎的一端)为盾状-星状表皮毛,中间段为星状毛介于前二者之间．茎表面灰色的或褐色的表皮毛,以盾状表皮毛为主,夹杂少量盾状-星状表皮毛,因茎的老嫩其表皮毛形态略有不同．外果皮沟槽内的表皮毛多为盾状表皮毛,嵴部则密集星状或分支状表皮毛．休眠芽的鳞片多覆盖盾状表皮毛,只在鳞片的尖端有少量星状毛和分枝状毛．翅果油树多种器官表面多种表皮毛的存在是其适应高山(海拔800～1300m)环境的一种形态特征．表皮毛具有反射阳光、阻止水分过度散失、保温、防止机械损伤等功能．为探究翅果油树耐早、耐寒、耐高温机理以及组织培养过程中外植体易污染等问题,提供了形态学依据,也为进一步进行表皮毛的发育和分子生物学研究打下了一定的基础。     

The effect of osmotics on plant cells: a study using 1H NMR relaxation and self-diffusion of water.

The osmotic changes in root cells of Zea mays L. under the effect of mannitol (concentration range 1-15%; range of osmotic pressures: -0.13 to -2.01 MPa) were studied by measuring time and concentration dependence of water self-diffusion constant (Deff) and proton spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) using proton NMR relaxation spectroscopy. In addition, in vivo uptake of Mn2+ by roots after their incubation in mannitol solutions were studied. At low (less than or equal to 5%) and medium (5-10%) concentrations of the osmoticum dehydration takes place proportional to the concentration, whereas membrane destruction occurs at higher concentrations (10-15%). It seems that there is a distribution of cells within root tissue regarding their sensitivity to osmotic stress.     

Diffusion properties of water in the human crystalline lens during cataract development

Normal and cataractal decapsulated lenses of man were studied by NMR method-spin echo to obtain information concerning efficient coefficients of self diffusion, times of spin-spin relaxation of water protons (T2) and water content in the lens (c) at 25 degrees C in the course of cataractogenesis. It has been found that the values T2 and c at 25 degrees C are much higher in the nuclei of completely turbid lenses than in the transparent ones; the self-diffusion coefficients in the turbid lenses were also higher. At -9 degrees C a significant decrease of the content of undestroyed by frost (bound) water was observed at the stage of mature cataract as compared to transparent lenses. It is suggested that the most specific differences between the nuclei of transparent and completely turbid lenses are related to increased diffusion mobility of water molecules, apparently, at the expense of damaged plasmic membranes of the lens fibres noted during cataract development.