水稻胚乳过表达VIT1/VIT2对Fe和Cd积累的影响

水稻籽粒铁(Fe)缺乏和镉(Cd)含量超标是农业生产亟待解决的重要问题。以往研究表明,OsVIT1和OsVIT2是液泡铁转运蛋白,本研究选取野生型ZH11为背景材料,使用胚乳特异性表达启动子Glb-1构建了胚乳过表达OsVIT1和OsVIT2材料。RT-qPCR分析表明,OsVIT1在转化植株的胚乳和叶片过量表达,OsVIT2在转化植株的胚乳过量表达。通过田间试验,研究胚乳过表达OsVIT1和OsVIT2对水稻不同部位Fe和Cd积累的影响。结果表明,胚乳过表达OsVIT1显著降低籽粒中的Fe浓度约50%,显著增加秸秆的锌(Zn)、铜(Cu)浓度和籽粒中的Cu浓度,胚乳过表达OsVIT2显著降低籽粒中的Fe、Cd浓度约50%,显著增加秸秆的Fe浓度45%–120%。胚乳过表达OsVIT1和OsVIT2不影响水稻的农艺性状。总之,胚乳过表达OsVIT1和OsVIT2降低了水稻籽粒的Fe积累,未达到预期效果,胚乳过表达OsVIT2还降低籽粒的Cd积累,增加秸秆Fe积累,为水稻铁生物强化和降镉提供了借鉴。     

10种野牡丹科植物引种栽培及应用研究

通过对广州地区6个野牡丹科植物野生种及国外引进4个园艺栽培种进行物候学、抗寒性系统观察,综合评价观赏价值和适应性后对其打分,筛选出7个野牡丹科植物可大规模应用于广州及周边地区园林绿化,丰富了本市园林植物品种种类。     

纤维素酶液体深层发酵生产工艺的研究

对纤维素酶液体深层发酵进行了生产工艺的研究。在实验室摇瓶试验的基础上,进行了纤维素酶的二级和三级液体深层发酵的工业生产性试验。使酶活力达到140～155u／ml．为进一步的工业化生产提供了生产工艺路线及工艺参数。     

产脂肪酶木霉菌株的筛选鉴定及酶学性质研究

筛选到4株可产生脂肪酶的真菌菌株,分别是153—1、13—2、30425和西1-1,经形态观察、ITS序列测方法鉴定,30425、153—1鉴定为Trichoderma harzianum,西1-1、13—2鉴定T.longibrachiatum。研究了脂肪酶的基本酶学性质,153—1、13-2、30425和西1-1酶的最适作用温度为45℃、40℃、20℃、20℃,最适pH为9．5、10．0、7.5、9．5,金属离子对153—1、13—2、30425和西1-1酶活的影响存在差异,其中Mn^2＋、Cu^2、Pb^2＋对4株菌株的酶活均为抑制作用,而Ba^2＋对4株菌株的酶活均为不同程度的激活作用。     

大豆遗传转化技术在转基因大豆研究中的应用

大豆是公认的难转化的作物,大豆的遗传转化还没有模式化。利用转基因技术的原理和方法,对大豆遗传体系进行优化,可以实现对大豆产量和品质的改良。综述了应用于大豆遗传转化的研究方法,浅谈转基因技术的重要性,对转基因发展方向进行了展望。现阶段大豆遗传转化的效率依旧偏低,无法形成规模化的转基因体系。因此,建立高效、快速、稳定的大豆组织培养再生体系,解决外源基因难导入的难题,使之广泛应用于大豆生产成为亟待解决的问题。     

Nrf2 has a protective role against neuronal and capillary degeneration in retinal ischemia-reperfusion injury

Retinal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) involves an extensive increase in reactive oxygen species as well as proinflammatory changes that result in significant histopathologic damage, including neuronal and vascular degeneration. Nrf2 has a well-known cytoprotective role in many tissues, but its protective function in the retina is unclear. We investigated the possible role of Nrf2 as a protective mechanism in retinal ischemia-reperfusion injury using Nrf2^−/− mice. I/R resulted in an increase in retinal levels of superoxide and proinflammatory mediators, as well as leukocyte infiltration of the retina and vitreous, in Nrf2^+/+ mice. These effects were greatly accentuated in Nrf2^−/− mice. With regard to histopathologic damage, Nrf2^−/− mice exhibited loss of cells in the ganglion cell layer and markedly accentuated retinal capillary degeneration, as compared to wild-type. Treatment with the Nrf2 activator CDDO-Me increased antioxidant gene expression and normalized I/R-induced superoxide in the retina in wild-type but not Nrf2^−/− mice. CDDO-Me treatment abrogated retinal capillary degeneration induced by I/R in wild-type but not Nrf2^−/− mice. These studies indicate that Nrf2 is an important cytoprotective mechanism in the retina in response to ischemia-reperfusion injury and suggest that pharmacologic induction of Nrf2 could be a new therapeutic strategy for retinal ischemia-reperfusion and other retinal diseases.     

Ribodysgenesis: sudden genome instability in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae arising from RNase H2 cleavage at genomic-embedded ribonucleotides

Ribonucleotides can be incorporated into DNA during replication by the replicative DNA polymerases. These aberrant DNA subunits are efficiently recognized and removed by Ribonucleotide Excision Repair, which is initiated by the heterotrimeric enzyme RNase H2. While RNase H2 is essential in higher eukaryotes, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae can survive without RNase H2 enzyme, although the genome undergoes mutation, recombination and other genome instability events at an increased rate. Although RNase H2 can be considered as a protector of the genome from the deleterious events that can ensue from recognition and removal of embedded ribonucleotides, under conditions of high ribonucleotide incorporation and retention in the genome in a RNase H2-negative strain, sudden introduction of active RNase H2 causes massive DNA breaks and genome instability in a condition which we term ‘ribodysgenesis’. The DNA breaks and genome instability arise solely from RNase H2 cleavage directed to the ribonucleotide-containing genome. Survivors of ribodysgenesis have massive loss of heterozygosity events stemming from recombinogenic lesions on the ribonucleotide-containing DNA, with increases of over 1000X from wild-type. DNA breaks are produced over one to two divisions and subsequently cells adapt to RNase H2 and ribonucleotides in the genome and grow with normal levels of genome instability.     

钉螺分布与滩地环境因子的关系

长江中下游滩地钉螺的分布与滩地的地下水位关系显著,当地下水位为３２ｃｍ左右时,钉螺密度和有螺框出现率分别达到其最大值。活螺密度（Ｙ）与地下水位的回归方程为：Ｙ＝－１．９６８６＋０．２５１２Ｘ－０．００４０１３Ｘ＾２;有螺框出现率（Ｙ）与地下水位的关系为：Ｙ＝－５５．９７２０＋７．５６８９Ｘ＝－０．１１８０Ｘ＾２;５月份钉螺适宜在土壤含水率３０％左右的土壤表层生活。当土壤含水率为２８－３０％时,滩面