对水稻第9和第12染色体编号分歧的细胞学考证

在水稻细胞遗传研究中, 对于染色体编号有着较多的争议,这在几条长度较短的染色体上显得尤为突出。为有比较地研究这几条染色体在水稻染色体组中的正确编号,本研究以涉及两条较短染色体相互易位的易位杂合体RT9-12为材料,分析了易位系与普通品种日本晴减数分裂粗线期染色体的形态特征。结果表明,该易位系的易位染色体并非第9和第12染色体,而是第10和第11染色体,从而认为目前国际上统一编号的第9、12染色体,根据染色体的实际长度可能分别为第10、11染色体。 Abstract:Rice chromosomes in mitosis are usually too small to be identified clearly one from others.In recent years,pachytene chromosomes in meiosis have been in vestigated intensively for establishing unified numbering system.However,divergence in numbering system is still existing especially for some short chromosomes such as chromosome 9 and 12.In order to verify these chromosomes,a translocation line RT9-12 and a japonica variety Nipponbare were carefully investigated for all the chromosomes morphologically in late pachytene stage.It was found that the chromosomes involved in translocation were chromosome 10 and 11 in stead of chromosome 9 and 12 as being compared with the karyotype of Nipponbare.So we consider that the chromosome 9 and 12 in the present rice chromosome numbering system could be chromosome 10 and 11 according to their length,arm ratio and the relationship with nucleolus.     

Carboxyl terminal region of the MukB protein in Escherichia coli is essential for DNA binding activity

Abstract The purified MukB protein of Escherichia coli has DNA binding activity and nucleotide binding activity. We have isolated a mutation, mukB1013 , causing a substitution of valine at position 1379 to leucine. This mutant MukB protein was defective for DNA binding, while the ATP binding activity remained unaffected. A truncated MukB protein that is short of 109 amino acids from the C-terminus failed to bind DNA.     

Production of dodecaploid plants of Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.) by colchicine treatment of protoplasts

Summary Dodecaploid plants of Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.) were obtained by colchicine treatment of protoplasts. Callus protoplasts of Jiro (2n=90, x=15) were cultured in modified KM8p medium with 0.1% colchicine for 3–9 days. After colchicine treatment, they were cultured using agarose bead culture. Microcalli were recovered from the protoplasts after 3 months. Flow cytometric measurement showed that nine of 31 callus lines obtained from 6 days of colchicine treatment had twice the nuclear DNA content as non-treated controls. Plantlets were regenerated from the calli with twice the nuclear DNA content. Microscopic observation of root tip cells showed that their somatic chromosome number was 2n=180 (x=15). Compared with Jiro, dodecaploid plants had longer stomatal guard cells and lower stomatal densities, consistent with increased ploidy.     

Electrophoretic and cytological evidence for genetic heterogeneity and the hybrid origin ofAthyrium oblitescens

Athyrium oblitescens, a putative hybrid species, was examined electrophoretically and cytologically to clarify its origin. Allozyme data showed thatA. oblitescens consisted of at least three allozyme types, designated Type C, Type O and Type W. Genotypic compositions of Type C and Type W suggested that they were derived from independent hybridizations betweenA. otophorum andA. clivicola and betweenA. otophorum andA. wardii, respectively. Contrary to previous reports of tetraploidy inA. oblitescens and its hypothesized parent species, cytological observation revealed that Type C and Type W were both hexaploids. Possible pathways for the origin of these hexaploids are proposed. Type O was not genetically distinct fromA. otophorum by either electrophoretic or cytological analyses, and thus there was no evidence of hybrid origin.     

High frequency production of doubled haploid plants of Brassica napus cv. Topas derived from colchicine-induced microspore embryogenesis without heat shock

This report describes a very high genome doubling efficiency of Brassica napus cv. Topas plants, derived from microspores induced to undergo embryogenesis with a colchicine treatment, without the use of a heat treatment. The plants showed normal growth and development, and 90% were fertile. In contrast, only 6% of the plants derived from heat-induced embryos were fertile diploids. All cytological analysis of the progeny of fertile plants showed 2n=38 chromosomes. These results show that colchicine can simultaneously induce microspore embryogenesis and double the ploidy level to produce doubled haploid plants.     

Chromosomal localization of a tandemly repeated DNA sequence in Trifolium repens L

INTRoDUCTIoNlYho1iumrePensL,whiteclover,isaneconomicallyimportantplantspeciesintemperatepastures.Asbrieflyreportedby[1],ithas16pairsofchromosomes(2n=32).Asyet,nodetailedcytologicalexaminationofthisspecies,suchasC-banding,hasbeenrep0rted.Inthelastdecade,thetechnique0fC-bandinghasbeenusedt0examinehighlyrepeatedsequencesinplantchrom0s0mesandhasprovidedausefultoolf0rtheanalysis0fcyt0geneticstructureincr0pplants[2-71.Inplants,thechr0m0s0mall0calizationofhighlyrepeatedDNAsequencesbyinsituhybr…     

绒属Caryomys（Thomas，1911）地位的恢复（啮齿目：仓鼠科：田鼠亚科）

绒属Ｃａｒｙｏｍｙｓ原为Ｔｈｏｍａｓ（１９１１）命名的Ｍｉｃｒｏｔｕｓ属中的一个新亚属,Ｈｉｎｔｏｎ（１９２３）将它升格为独立属,但很快又于１９２６年否定了此属的存在,从此各国学者或认为它是属Ｃｌｅｔｈｒｌｏｎｏｍｙｓ的同物异名,或认为它是绒鼠属Ｅｏｔｈｅｎｏｍｙｓ的亚属,近７０年间再无人承认此属名。本文通过对Ｃａｍｐｍｙｓ所包含的ｉｎｅｚ和ｅｖａ两种的形态学及染色体核型进行研究,并与绒鼠属Ｅｏｔｈｅｎｏｍｙｓ和属Ｃｌｅｔｈｒｉｏｎｏｍｙｓ代表种类的相关特征进行了比较分析,结果表明,ｉｎｅｚ和ｅｖａ除在形态上与绒鼠属及属种类有一些明显差异外,在染色体核型上也有显著不同,主要表现在：ｉｎｅｚ及ｅｖａ的染色体数目２ｎ＝５４,且在常染色体中,其最大的一对染色体均为亚端部着丝粒染色体;而绒鼠属和属的染色体数目则为２ｎ＝５６,且在常染色体中无此对端部着丝粒染色体。为此,作者认为应恢复Ｃａｒｙｏｍｘｓ属的分类地位。     

Identification of dynein heavy chain genes expressed in human and mouse testis: chromosomal localization of an axonemal dynein gene

Dynein heavy chains are involved in microtubule-dependent transport processes. While cytoplasmic dyneins are involved in chromosome or vesicle movement, axonemal dyneins are essential for motility of cilia and flagella. Here we report the isolation of dynein heavy chain (DHC)-like sequences in man and mouse. Using polymerase chain reaction and reverse-transcribed human and mouse testis RNA cDNA fragments encoding the conserved ATP binding region of dynein heavy chains were amplified. We identified 11 different mouse and eight human dynein-like sequences in testis which show high similarity to known dyneins of different species such as rat, sea urchin or green algae. Sequence similarities suggest that two of the mouse clones and one human clone encode putative cytoplasmic dynein heavy chains, whereas the other sequences show higher similarity to axonemal dyneins. Two of nine axonemal dynein isoforms identified in the mouse testis are more closely related to known outer arm dyneins, while seven clones seem to belong to the inner arm dynein group. Of the isolated human isoforms three clones were classified as outer arm and four clones as inner arm dynein heavy chains. Each of the DHC cDNAs corresponds to an individual gene as determined by Southern blot experiments. The alignment of the deduced protein sequences between human (HDHC) and mouse (MDHC) dynein fragments reveals higher similarity between single human and mouse sequences than between two sequences of the same species. Human and mouse cDNA fragments were used to isolate genomic clones. Two of these clones, gHDHC7 and gMDHC7, are homologous genes encoding axonemal inner arm dyneins. While the human clone is assigned to 3p21, the mouse gene maps to chromosome 14.     

披碱草属与大麦属系统关系的研究

禾本科中,披碱草属Elymus L.为多倍体属,约含150余种;大麦属Hordeum L.具二倍体和多倍体,约有40余种,该两属均广泛地分布于全球温带地区。该两属,尤其是披碱草属的系统分类较为困难。基于形态学的传统研究认为这两个属的系统关系较远,而细胞学研究的资料却表明,披碱草属的H染色体组起源于大麦属。笔者对来源不同的披碱草属和大麦属的物种进行了远缘杂交,并对其属间杂种F1的减数分裂中期I染色体配对行为进行了分析。结果表明,若以披碱草属作母本,该两属有相对较高的杂交亲合力,通过对杂种幼胚进行分割和离体培养,也能获得杂种F1植株。属间杂种植株的形态介于双亲之间,但更接近于披碱草属,杂种的生殖器官发育不健全,而且所有的杂种F1均完全不育。细胞学的观察结果表明,这两个属间的杂种F1通常具有较低的减数分裂中期I染色体配对数,但有较大的变异。通过笔者的工作及掌握的形态学和细胞学的资料分析认为：披碱草属和大麦属的亲缘关系较为复杂,不能一概而论。含H染色体组的披碱草属和大麦属物种有着较近的亲缘关系,但这两个属中所含的H染色体组已产生了程度不同的分化;不含H染色体组的披碱草属及大麦属的物种具有较远的亲缘关系。     

半夏属的染色体数目、倍性与珠芽发生的关系

本文通过对半夏属Pinellia 5个种10个群体的染色体计数和珠芽数量统计,首次报道了5个染色体数目,同时发现珠芽的发生与染色体基数及多倍化程度有关：x=13的类群无珠芽,而x=9的有珠芽;在有珠芽的半夏P．ternata(Thunb．)Breit．中,平均每叶珠芽数随倍性的提高而增大。半夏是一个多倍体复合种,起源于无珠芽、染色体基数为x=7～9的二倍体祖先,可能是在该属的早期进化中由鹞落坪半夏P.yaoluopingensis X．H．Guo et X．L.Liu的x=13经非整倍性跌落而成,在发生上比鹞落坪半夏进化。