连作对三七种子萌发及种苗生长的影响

为进一步明确三七的连作效应,以不同种植年限及不同空间分布的土壤为栽培基质,研究了连作对三七种子萌发及种苗生长的影响。结果表明:连作使三七种子萌发的最大速度增加,种子的发芽势变化不大,而发芽率、发芽指数和快速发芽期则呈明显降低或变短的趋势;与根区外土相比,根区土和根区下土使三七种子的发芽势、发芽率和发芽指数显著降低,对种子萌发的最大速度也有降低的作用;种植1年三七的土壤(1年土)对后茬三七种苗的生长并无明显障碍效应,2年土比3年土具有更强的抑制三七种苗生长的作用。连作对三七种子萌发及种苗生长均会产生明显的障碍效应,自毒作用可能只是造成三七连作障碍的原因之一。     

A green and effective method for the determination of metalaxyl enantiomers in tobacco and soil by supercritical fluid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

We reported a new methodology for the stereoselective determination of metalaxyl enantiomers in tobacco and soil. The QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe) method was used for the extraction and clean-up of the tobacco and soil samples. Separation of the metalaxyl enantiomers was performed on an ACQUITY UPC2 Trefoil CEL1 chiral column coupled with supercritical fluid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (SFC-MS/MS), and the run time was only 5 minutes. Under the optimized conditions, the recoveries for the enantiomers were between 78.2% and 93.3% with intraday relative standard deviations (RSDs) ranging from 1.1% to 5.4%. The limit of detection (LOD) for the enantiomers in tobacco and soil varied from 0.005 to 0.007 mg/kg, and the limit of quantitation (LOQ) ranged from 0.017 to 0.020 mg/kg. In this method, only a small amount of methanol was consumed to obtain a rapid stereoselective separation. This proposed method showed good accuracy and precision and might be suitable for fast enantioselective determination of metalaxyl in food and environmental samples. The developed method was further validated by application to the analysis of authentic samples.     

Testing hypotheses driving genetic structure in the cooperatively breeding Brown‐headed Nuthatch Sitta pusilla

Habitat fragmentation has often been implicated in the decline of many species. For habitat specialists and/or sedentary species, loss of habitat can result in population isolation and lead to negative genetic effects. However, factors other than fragmentation can often be important and also need to be considered when assessing the genetic structure of a species. We genotyped individuals from 13 populations of the cooperatively breeding Brown‐headed Nuthatch Sitta pusilla in Florida to test three alternative hypotheses regarding the effects that habitat fragmentation might have on genetic structure. A map of potential habitat developed from recent satellite imagery suggested that Brown‐headed Nuthatch populations in southern Florida occupied smaller and more isolated habitat patches (i.e. were more fragmented) than populations in northern Florida. We also genotyped individuals from a small, isolated Brown‐headed Nuthatch population on Grand Bahama Island. We found that populations associated with more fragmented habitat in southern Florida had lower allelic richness than populations in northern Florida (P = 0.02), although there were no differences in heterozygosity. Although pairwise estimates of F_ST were low overall, values among southern populations were generally higher than northern populations. Population assignment tests identified K = 3 clusters corresponding to a northern cluster, a southern cluster and a unique population in southeast Florida; using sampling localities as prior information revealed K = 7 clusters, with greater structure only among southern Florida populations. The Bahamas population showed moderate to high differentiation compared with Florida populations. Overall, our results suggest that fragmentation could affect gene flow in Brown‐headed Nuthatch populations and is likely to become more pronounced over time.     

Peptide sequence analysis using exopeptidases with molecular analysis of the truncated polypeptides by mass spectrometry

Fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry is used for the analysis of the series of molecular products formed by the cleavage of polypeptide substrates with the exopeptidases carboxypeptidase Y and leucine aminopeptidase. By following the polypeptide molecular species rather than the released residues, sequence information is obtained regardless of the relative rates of cleavage of peptide bonds. In addition, unambiguous assignments of sequence can be made in the presence of multiple identical residues. The lower level of sensitivity for the analysis is in the picomole range. When carboxypeptidase Y is used, the method provides a specific and sensitive method for the sequencing of polypeptides from the C-terminus.     

0.21nm分辨率BO-(L-精氨酸)牛胰岛素晶体结构研究

应用差值Fourier技术,立体化学最小二乘技术和XPLOR程序并辅以电子密度图的人工拟合,以三方二锌猪胰岛素模型为起点,解析了0.21nm分辨率BO-(L-精氨酸)牛胰岛素的晶体结构,最终R因子为18.2%,与标准键长与键角的均方根偏差分别为0.0022nm和 4.3°.从电子密度图与模型的拟合来看,独立区两个分子中B链N端加长的L-精氨酸清晰可见.相对于三方二锌猪胰岛素分子,B链N端晶体学微环境发生了变化.     

Regulatory perspective of antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces

<正>Streptomycetes are Gram-positive bacteria with high GC DNA content. They produce the most abundant secondary metabolites including over two-thirds of the clinically used antibiotics of natural origin (Barka et al., 2016), for example,the important broad-spectrum antimicrobials oxytetracycline(OTC) and chlortetracycline, which are the tetracycline antibiotics, produced by Streptomyces rimosus and Strepto-