QTL mapping of fire blight resistance in apple

Fire blight caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora is a severe threat to apple and pear orchards worldwide. Apple varieties exhibit a wide range of relative susceptibility/tolerance to fire blight. Although, no monogenic resistance against fire blight has been identified yet, recent evidence indicates the existence of quantitative resistance. Potential sources of fire blight resistance include several wild Malus species and some apple cultivars. F1 progenies of ‘Fiesta’בDiscovery’ were inoculated with the Swiss strain Ea 610 and studied under controlled conditions to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for fire blight resistance. Disease was evaluated at four time points after inoculation. Shoot lesion length and the area under disease progress curve (AUDPC) values were used for QTL analysis. One significant (LOD score of 7.5–8.1, p<0.001) QTL was identified on the linkage group 7 of ‘Fiesta’ (F7). The F7 QTL explained about 37.5–38.6% of the phenotypic variation.     

Identification of resistance gene analogs linked to a powdery mildew resistance locus in grapevine

Oligonucleotide primers, designed to conserved regions of nucleotide binding site (NBS) motifs within previously cloned pathogen resistance genes, were used to amplify resistance gene analogs (RGAs) from grapevine. Twenty eight unique grapevine RGA sequences were identified and subdivided into 22 groups on the basis of nucleic acid sequence-identity of approximately 70% or greater. Representatives from each group were used in a bulked segregant analysis strategy to screen for restriction fragment length polymorphisms linked to the powdery mildew resistance locus, Run1, introgressed into Vitis vinifera L. from the wild grape species Muscadinia rotundifolia. Three RGA markers were found to be tightly linked to the Run1 locus. Of these markers, two (GLP1–12 and MHD145) cosegregated with the resistance phenotype in 167 progeny tested, whereas the third marker (MHD98) was mapped to a position 2.4 cM from the Run1 locus. The results demonstrate the usefulness of RGA sequences, when used in combination with bulked segregant analysis, to rapidly generate markers tightly linked to resistance loci in crop species. Received: 2 May 2001 / Accepted: 3 August 2001     

神经精神性狼疮患者血清可溶性fractalkine、乳酸脱氢酶水平与疾病活动程度的关系及其影响因素分析

摘要 目的：探讨神经精神性狼疮（NPSLE）患者血清可溶性fractalkine（sFKN）、乳酸脱氢酶（LDH）水平与疾病活动程度的关系,分析NPSLE发病的危险因素。方法：选取2016年1月-2020年12月我院收治的106例系统性红斑狼疮患者,其中44例患者出现神经精神症状（NPSLE组）,62例患者未出现神经精神症状（非NPSLE组）。检测血清sFKN、LDH水平,采用SLE疾病活动程度（SLEDAI）评分评估疾病活动程度,根据 SLEDAI评分将NPSLE组患者分为轻度组（17例）、中度组（15例）、重度组（12例）。Spearman秩相关分析血清sFKN、LDH水平与SLEDAI评分之间相关性,多因素Logistic回归分析NPSLE发病的影响因素。结果：NPSLE组血清sFKN、LDH水平、SLEDAI评分均高于非NPSLE组（P＜0.05）。重度组血清sFKN、LDH水平高于中度组和轻度组（P＜0.05）,中度组血清sFKN、LDH水平高于轻度组（P＜0.05）。血清sFKN、LDH水平与SLEDAI评分均呈正相关（rs=0.868、0.732,P＜0.05）。多因素Logistic回归分析结果显示发病年龄较小、病程较短、未接受正规糖皮质激素治疗、高sFKN、高LDH是NPSLE发病的危险因素（P＜0.05）。结论：NPSLE患者血清sFKN、LDH水平均增高,高水平sFKN、LDH与NPSLE发生和疾病活动程度增加有关,临床监测血清sFKN、LDH水平有助于早期识别NPSLE。     

高粱抗病虫资源创新与利用研究

利用"八五"、"九五"期间,发掘和鉴定出的一些具有单一抗病虫特性和优良农艺性状的资源,通过有性杂交和人工接种鉴定,有目的进行抗性基因转移和优良基因聚合,从而获得了具有多抗、农艺性状优良的LR625、LR622、2381等3个恢复系和L405A、L407A 2个不育系等新种质资源,并用新创资源组配了一批高产、多抗、综合农艺性状好的杂交组合.     

类器官组织在感染性疾病研究中的应用

类器官(organoid)是体外3D培养组织干细胞所形成的多功能细胞团,具有自身增殖和多向分化的能力,在空间和结构上与来源器官组织的基因、结构和功能相似,可用于模拟体内组织细胞生长、分化及器官形成过程,在药物筛选与评价、生物医学材料及组织工程等方面具有重要的应用潜能.当前在感染性疾病研究方面,越来越多数据表明不同类器官...     

肠道菌群与疾病关系的研究进展

人类肠道是一个多元化和充满活力的微生态系统,它的结构和功能成为目前生命科学和医学的研究热点。人类肠道拥有100万亿近1 000-1 150种细菌,在这个空间中它们与人类相互作用,对人类健康产生了巨大影响,其中有积极的作用,同时又伴随着潜在的威胁。本文详细论述了国内外关于肠道菌群与疾病关系的研究现状,益生菌对肠道菌群和健康的影响,以及研究肠道菌群的最新方法,为我国开展肠道微生物的研究提供部分参考,同时让人们更加了解肠道微生物对人类健康的影响。     

Two plant NLR proteins confer strain-specific resistance conditioned by an effector from Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae

Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae(Psa) causes bacterial canker, a devastating disease threatening the Actinidia fruit industry. In a search for non-host resistance genes against Psa, we find that the nucleotidebinding leucine-rich repeat receptor(NLR) protein ZAR1 from both Arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana(Nb) recognizes Hop Z5 and triggers cell death. The recognition requires ZED1 in Arabidopsis and JIM2 in Nb plants, which are members of the ZRK pseudokinases and known components of the...     

城市群新冠疫情时空分布格局与分异机制的地理探测

自从2019年12月湖北武汉爆发新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）以来,疫情在全国范围内迅速传播并蔓延。城市群既是我国新型城镇化主体特定的空间组织形态,也是相互连接的城市网,集合了相当数量不同性质、类型和等级规模的城市,城市群经济发展程度较高、人口密度大,交通发达,是疫情传染扩散-关联的重点区域,因而跨区域感染风险高,联防联控难度大。以疫情集中地区城市群为研究对象,通过核密度分析聚焦重点研究的城市群,从多层空间尺度对疫情在数量、人口迁移和空间分布上进行测度,利用空间自相关分析疫情分布特征,运用地理探测器方法客观地测度城市群疫情发展的差异性主导因素,从景观格局中挖掘相关主导因子,为生态、安全的空间规划和治理提供科学依据和思路。结果显示：①全国范围感染人数核密度高值区的空间分布与长江中游城市群和三大沿海城市群范围耦合,首位核心城市确诊感染数在城市群中占比均较高,城市群疫情扩散分布呈现典型的由核心城市向外辐射的特征,湖北地区迁出的人数对迁往地区的疫情形势构成一定程度的影响;②全国范围的COVID-19感染人数和感染增长率分布存在显著空间集聚特征,城市群范围感染人数的空间聚集性从长江中游城市群向其他城市群依次减弱;③地理探测器识别出人口密度、城乡建设、交通、卫生、科技、生态绿地为疫情的主导因素,并且交互后所产生的共同作用增加了对疫情的解释力;④生态与建设用地景观格局对疫情的解释能力较强,其中建设用地的聚集性和生态用地的蔓延性为主要因子。     

Experimental studies on the distribution of the aphid counts

The present paper dealt with the sequential changes of the distribution pattern of apterous females aphid populations, that were artificially settled at the beginning on the experimental barley ‘field'. The aphids were settled at random or even with a fixed denisty per plant. For five or six days after the settling, the number of individuals followed the negative binomial distributions in all cases while the parameters k and p were varying. The estimated values of k were rather small for the first one week after the settling, which may suggest that the number of moving aphids between plants was relatively small and the degree of concentration expressing the intrinsic increase was high. After that, as the number of individuals increased, the number of moving aphids between plants would be considered to be increased. It was found that with the lapse of time the degree of concentration decreased or k became larger. The distribution of aphids per blade in a plant was also described briefly.