禾本科植物内生菌研究进展

从19世纪到现在,国际上已有许多关于植物内生菌的研究报道,无论是它在草坪草和牧草中的生态经济价值,还是它所涉及相关领域如医学、病理,都引起人们对它的重视和关注.综述了禾本科内生菌的种类、抗性机制及其应用,并据此提出了关于内生菌研究的一些问题,从而为进一步研究内生菌在禾本科植物中的作用提供参考.     

AsHSP17, a creeping bentgrass small heat shock protein modulates plant photosynthesis and ABA‐dependent and independent signalling to attenuate plant response to abiotic stress

Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are molecular chaperones that accumulate in response to heat and other abiotic stressors. Small HSPs (sHSPs) belong to the most ubiquitous HSP subgroup with molecular weights ranging from 12 to 42 kDa. We have cloned a new sHSP gene, AsHSP17 from creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera) and studied its role in plant response to environmental stress. AsHSP17 encodes a protein of 17 kDa. Its expression was strongly induced by heat in both leaf and root tissues, and by salt and abscisic acid (ABA) in roots. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants constitutively expressing AsHSP17 exhibited enhanced sensitivity to heat and salt stress accompanied by reduced leaf chlorophyll content and decreased photosynthesis under both normal and stressed conditions compared to wild type. Overexpression of AsHSP17 also led to hypersensitivity to exogenous ABA and salinity during germination and post‐germinative growth. Gene expression analysis indicated that AsHSP17 modulates expression of photosynthesis‐related genes and regulates ABA biosynthesis, metabolism and ABA signalling as well as ABA‐independent stress signalling. Our results suggest that AsHSP17 may function as a protein chaperone to negatively regulate plant responses to adverse environmental stresses through modulating photosynthesis and ABA‐dependent and independent signalling pathways.     

Gene expression involved in dark-induced leaf senescence in zoysiagrass (Zoysia japonica)

Zoysiagrass (Zoysia japonica) is one of the important turfgrass species. Extending green period of zoysiagrass via delaying leaf senescence will make this species have more potential in the turfgrass industry. In this study, we found that zoysiagrass seedlings treated with GA₃ could delay the leaf senescence induced by darkness. To study expression of genes responsive to staying green in zoysiagrass, suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) was used to identify differentially expressed genes between non-GA₃-treated and GA₃-treated seedlings subjected to darkness. A total of 307 ESTs were generated, of which 226 ESTs clustered into 54 contigs and 81 were singlets. Differentially expressed genes selected by subtractions were classified into six categories according to their putative functions generated by BLAST analysis. Expression of five selected genes, Met, SAM, V-ATPase, Cry (Cryptochrome gene), and An (diphthine synthase gene) were examined by RT-PCR and Real-time PCR. Both RT-PCR and Real-time PCR results demonstrated that the differential expressions of these genes were attributable to delaying senescence by exogenously applied gibberellic acid. This is the first genome-wide study of senescence in a species of turfgrass.     

植物细胞程序性死亡研究进展

植物细胞死亡分为坏死和程序性死亡。细胞程序性死亡是具有信号或一系列分子参与,并且由细胞内在的死亡程序介导的有序过程。它在植物生长发育和抵御外界胁迫中具有重要作用。简要介绍了植物PCD的特征,对植物PCD中的信号分子和类caspase的作用等进行了综述,并对植物PCD存在的问题进行分析和展望,为深入研究植物PCD提供参考。     

高羊茅胚性悬浮细胞系的快速建立及其单细胞培养

本研究采用高羊茅(Millennium和Hundog Ⅴ)成熟种子为材料,以MS为基本培养基,通过添加2.5 mg/L CuSO4·5H2O,或提高NH4NO3浓度至2.5 g/L等措施均能明显提高愈伤组织的质量,经过3～5个月的筛选获得疏松干燥、颗粒状、生长旺盛、适合悬浮培养的Ⅱ型胚性愈伤组织.悬浮培养初期需用MSⅠ液体培养基进行一个月的启动培养,之后转用MSⅡ继代保持,约2个月左右即建立起来自高羊茅2个品种的3个悬浮细胞系.生长特性测定结果表明,悬浮培养的初始接种量以1.0～3.0 ml/40 ml为宜,生长周期内其pH值不断波动变化,最适范围在5.0～5.7之间.5～8 d为悬浮系的对数生长期,此时细胞分裂旺盛,增殖较快,是分离单细胞的最佳时期.单细胞培养方式以悬浮培养效果最好.     

Generation of large numbers of transgenic Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) plants following biolistic gene transfer

A very efficient transformation system, using biolistic bombardment, has been developed for the production of transgenic plants of Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.). Embryogenic calli, initiated from immature embryos, were transformed either with pAct1IHPT-4 containing the hygromycin phosphotransferase (hpt) gene or with pDM803 containing the phosphinothricin acetyltransferase (bar) gene and the β-glucuronidase (uidA) gene. In total 119 independent transgenic plants were recovered from 153 hygromycin-resistant lines. Bialaphos selection yielded a total of 99 bialaphos-resistant lines and from these 34 independent transgenic plants were recovered. Southern blot analysis demonstrated the independent nature of the transgenic plants and also revealed a complex transgene integration pattern with multiple insertions. The first two author contributed equally to this work     

日本结缕草总RNA提取和mRNA分离方法的优化

介绍了分别以日本结缕草根部、叶部、匍匐茎等为材料的总RNA提取的改良步骤,质量和浓度检测及其注意事项,并采用Promega公司的Poly ATract Systems Ⅲ(Z5300)试剂盒进行mRNA分离,尽管这一方法成熟可行,但仍存在洗脱体积较大,常需先沉淀浓缩后才能进行后续试验(如cDNA合成),在制备少量mRNA时回收率较低等问题。据此,对mRNA分离方法作了改良,介绍了mRNA分离的优化步骤,通过增加体系形成了一种更适合于日本结缕草mRNA分离的方法,从而为日本结缕草的分子生物学研究提供基础资料。结果证明所提取的总RNA和mRNA完整,质量较高,并应用到日本结缕草cD-NA文库的构建。     

植物ERFs类转录因子在逆境胁迫中的作用

Ethylene responsive factors(ERFs)是植物中特有的一类重要的转录因子.ERFs转录因子含有一段高度保守的DNA结合区域,被称之为ERF区域.ERFs类转录因子可以直接与GCC-box等启动子结合,从而转录激活功能基因的表达,调节植株的抗性应答.它们参与植物的生长发育、代谢、生物胁迫和非生物胁迫相关的应答过程,并且在水杨酸和脱落酸和茉莉酸信号转导途径中发挥一定的作用,调控植物多个信号转导途径.现针对ERFs类转录因子在植物逆境胁迫中的研究进展进行讨论.