Application of the phosphomannose-isomerase/mannose selection system in the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Lonicera hypoglauca Miq.

Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology - The dried buds of Lonicera hypoglauca Miq. have antipyretic, antidotal and anti-inflammatory properties and as Flos lonicerae are widely used in...     

Studies on the regeneration-restore and karyotype of protoplast in Metarhizium anisopliae var. majus

Abstract:  The characteristics and regeneration-restore of protoplasts and its karyotype of an insect pathological fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae var. majus were studied. Among the protoplasts, 25.3% were without a nucleus, and 74.7% contained a nucleus. Among the nucleus protoplasts, 53.6% contained a single nucleus. The regeneration-restore of protoplasts was of three distinct shapes. Considering the frequency of regeneration and the growing speed of the colony, 0.7 mol/l glucose was the optimum as osmotic stabilizer of culture medium in the regeneration-restore of the protoplasts. The chromosomal DNA molecules of M. anisopliae var. majus have been separated into seven bands by pulsed-field gel electrophoreses. Using the Schizosaccharomyces pombe chromosomes as size standard, the size of chromosomal DNA was estimated to be 1.1–6.5 Mb and its karyotype exhibited polytypism among strains.     

Influence of GATC sequences on Escherichia coli DNA mismatch repair in vitro.

The effect of the number and position of DNA adenine methylation (dam) sites, i.e., d(GATC) sequences, on mismatch repair in Escherichia coli was investigated. The efficiency of repair was measured in an in vitro assay which used an f1 heteroduplex containing a G/T mismatch within the single EcoRI site. Both an increase in the number of dam sites and a shortened distance between dam site and mismatched site increased the efficiency of mismatch repair. The sequences adjacent to d(GATC) also affected the efficiency of methylation-directed mismatch repair. Furthermore, heteroduplexes with one extra dam site located close to either the 5' or 3' end of the excised base increased the repair efficiency to about the same extent. The findings suggest that the mismatch repair pathway has no preferred polarity.     

白兰瓜果实输入~(14)C-葡萄糖的转化与蔗糖合成

~(14)C 追踪试验结果表明,白兰瓜幼果中输入的~(14)C-葡萄糖,50%以上转化为稀酸水解和稀酸不水解的结构物质;果实发育后期,输入后48小时,在果肉和种子中分别只有18%和32%的~(14)C 参入结构物质。根据醇溶性糖的纸层析鉴定,幼果薄片渗入的~(14)C-葡萄糖仅转化为果糖,而发育后期果实则更多转化为蔗糖。显然,幼果的代谢模式是使物质和能量导向结构物质的形成;而后期果实生长已基本停止,物质代谢的方向又转向蔗糖合成的轨道上来。蔗糖合成底物试验结果表明,供给幼果不同底物都只有很低的蔗糖合成活性;发育后期果实供给UDPG+F-6-P 底物时可测出较高的蔗糖合成活性,初步推测白兰瓜中蔗糖合成主要是通过蔗糖磷酸酯合成酶来实现的。