用乙烯作褪绿处理引起的柑桔蒂腐病及其防治

在美国佛罗里达州,由蒂腐色二孢菌(Diplodia natalensis)引起的蒂腐病是以乙烯作柑桔采后催熟处理时的主要病害之一。为了弄清发病原因,本试验做了各种乙烯浓度下果实腐烂率、真菌生长率的观察对比;对催熟前、后采用杀真菌剂处理的效果也做了比较。     

癌基因产物的第一张肖象

以California大学Berkeley分校Sung-Hou Kim研究组为主发表的文章,被视作为癌基因作用研究上的一个里程碑。Kim及其同事报道了有关ras癌基因家族中的一个成员所编码的一种蛋白质的三维结构。“这是第一个被确定了结构的癌基因蛋白质”,Kim说,“由此提供了认识ras基因生物功能的结构基础”。     

关节炎疾病的分子反应机理

引起类风湿性关节炎疼痛、浮肿的病因机制,现已有了一定的了解。伦敦西部的CharingCross Sunley研究中心的医学家们在风湿性关节炎患者的关节处发现了关节炎症的分子反应机理。作出这一发现的免疫学小组负责人,Marc Feldmann乐观地认为,该发现最终将有助于     

免疫健全鼠和免疫缺陷鼠对致死性汉坦病毒感染不同的敏感性与抵抗力

本文研究了不同鼠龄的免疫健全(mu/ )和先天性T细胞缺陷(nu/nu)CD—1鼠对致死性汉坦病毒脑膜脑炎的敏感性与抵抗力。nu/ 鼠对致死性感染的敏感性取决于鼠龄。生后一周鼠脑内接种汉坦病毒76一118株,死亡率为100%;接种9日龄鼠,死亡率60%;接种14～42日龄鼠则不发病死亡。接种的nu/ 鼠,5和7日龄比生后24小时鼠死亡发生时间明显提前。同龄组nu/nu鼠在鼠龄与生存时间之间无类似的逆相关。然而,14日龄或更大龄的鼠尽管发病和死亡的时间延长,但仍是敏感的。接种的7日龄nu/ 鼠和7、9、14日龄nu/nu鼠的脑内病毒滴度近乎一样。较大龄鼠尽管病毒滴度峰值相对较低,但似乎不受中和抗体反应的影响。接种的一周龄nu/ 鼠比接种的新生鼠死得快,断奶nu/ 鼠与nu/nu鼠对汉坦病毒脑膜脑炎的抵抗力不同,这表明细胞免疫对疾病的发展与恢复起作用。     

二分抑或三分—关于二叠纪地质年表

一、前言自从六十年代以来,由于齿菊石类化石在华南、苏联及伊朗各自的卓勒法地区、伊朗的阿巴德地区、日本北上山地、苏联远东地区及墨西哥考会拉地区的不断发现,致使在二叠系上部分出一个以含齿菊石类为特征的上统的意见日趋强烈。迄今,世界上尚未发现一条完整的,包     

A higher plant enzyme exhibiting broad acceptance of stereoisomers

An arginase, purified from the leaf of the jack bean, Canavalia ensiformis, can effectively hydrolyze both l- and d-arginine. Arginases, examined from a number of other plant and animal sources, exhibit marked substrate stereospecificity and fail to catabolize d-arginine. In order to provide essential nitrogen, jack bean leaf arginase also catabolizes l-canavanine, an arginine analog that is a predominant nitrogen-storing metabolite of this legume. The ability of arginase to metabolize both stereoisomers of arginine may result from the requirement for this enzyme to exhibit limited substrate specificity in order to hydrolyze both arginine and canavanine.     

Streptomyces thermoautotrophicus sp. nov., a Thermophilic CO- and H(2)-Oxidizing Obligate Chemolithoautotroph

The novel thermophilic CO- and H(2)-oxidizing bacterium UBT1 has been isolated from the covering soil of a burning charcoal pile. The isolate is gram positive and obligately chemolithoautotrophic and has been named Streptomyces thermoautotrophicus on the basis of G+C content (70.6 +/- 0.19 mol%), a phospholipid pattern of type II, MK-9(H(4)) as the major quinone, and other chemotaxonomic and morphological properties. S. thermoautotrophicus could grow with CO (t(d) = 8 h), H(2) plus CO(2) (t(d) = 6 h), car exhaust, or gas produced by the incomplete combustion of wood. Complex media or heterotrophic substrates such as sugars, organic acids, amino acids, and alcohols did not support growth. Molybdenum was required for CO-autotrophic growth. For growth with H(2), nickel was not necessary. The optimum growth temperature was 65 degrees C; no growth was observed below 40 degrees C. However, CO-grown cells were able to oxidize CO at temperatures of 10 to 70 degrees C. Temperature profiles of burning charcoal piles revealed that, up to a depth of about 10 to 25 cm, the entire covering soil provides a suitable habitat for S. thermoautotrophicus. The K(m) was 88 mul of CO liter and V(max) was 20.2 mul of CO h mg of protein. The threshold value of S. thermoautotrophicus of 0.2 mul of CO liter was similar to those of various soils. The specific CO-oxidizing activity in extracts with phenazinemethosulfate plus 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol as electron acceptors was 246 mumol min mg of protein. In exception to other carboxydotrophic bacteria, S. thermoautotrophicus CO dehydrogenase was able to reduce low potential electron acceptors such as methyl and benzyl viologens.     

湖北菱科植物的数量分类研究 Ⅲ.分类性状的定量评价

用R聚类分析和主分量分析,定量研究了湖北菱科5种8变种37个形态和生态性状的变异及分类学价值。结果表明,植物体大小变异是形态演化的主要方向之一。形态演化的同时,也发生生态分化。除少数性状例外,形态演化与生态分化在相当程度上是独立的。