密花香薷的化学成分

从密花香薷 (Elsholtzia densa Benth.)中分得 10个化合物 ,经波谱分析和化学方法鉴定为 :二十九碳烷 (1)、丁二酸 (2 )、5- (3″,3″-二甲基烯丙基 ) - 8-甲氧基呋喃香豆素 (3)、5- (3″-甲基丁基 ) - 8-甲氧基呋喃香豆素 (4)、5- (3″-羟基 - 3″-甲基丁基 ) - 8-甲氧基呋喃香豆素 (5)、3,4-二羟基肉桂酸 (6)、5-羟基 - 3′-甲氧基双氢黄酮 - 7- O-芸香糖甙 (7)、槲皮素 - 3- O- β- D-葡萄糖甙 (8)、山奈素 - 3- O- β- D-葡萄糖甙 (9)、5-羟基 - 4′-甲氧基黄酮 - 7- O-芸香糖甙 (10 )。其中 ,化合物 4和 5是新的天然产呋喃香豆素。     

Studies on the biochemistry and fine structure of silica shell formation in diatoms

Summary The sequential wall formation in the centric diatom,Ditylum brightwellii (West) Grunow, is described. The silica deposition vesicle is formed by the coalescence of small vesicles. Silicification of the new valve starts from the central labiate process area prior to the completion of cytokinesis, and the developing valve grows in a centrifugal direction. The initiation of the structures on the valve follows the sequence: labiate process, marginal ridge, and rota. A novel labiate process apparatus, which is situated in the cytoplasm close to the developing labiate process, appears prior to the initiation of the labiate process and disappears upon its maturation. Segments of the girdle bands are formed in individual silica deposition vesicles after the valve matures and is exocytosed. Three morphological forms of deposited silica have been determined: thin base layers, microfibrils, and hexagonal columns. The involvement of cytoplasmic structures in the patterning of the siliceous wall is discussed.     

Aberrant valve formation in a centric diatom,Ditylum brightwellii

Summary Interphase cells of the centric diatom,Ditylum brightwellii (West) Grunow, were treated with a microtubule-inhibitor (amiprophosmethyl, 6×10^–7 M); the cells could proceed to divide, but the spindle apparatus in about 25% of the cells was displaced and their two sibling cells has either two nuclei or none. The cells with two nuclei formed a new valve with two labiate processes, instead of one as in normal cells. Most of the cells lacking a nucleus were unable to form a new valve, and of the 2% that did form new valves, all did so without dividing. The valves with two labiate processes were originally formed in two separate silica deposition vesicles (SDVs) and the two embryonic siliceous valves fused when these two expanding SDVs met. Accordingly, both the pattern of perforations and the shape of the marginal ridges on the new valve vary with the distance between the two initiation sites of the two SDVs. Implications of these observations in the evolution of valves in diatoms are discussed and a hypothesis on multiple origins of the valves is proposed.     

Cell division and morphogenesis of the labiate process in the centric diatomDitylum brightwellii

Summary Cells of the centric diatomDitylum brightwellii were filmed undergoing cell division and valve secretion, and were fixed for transmission electron microscopy. Attention was directed particularly at the origin of the Labiate Process Apparatus (LPA).As reported previously (li andVolcani 1985 a), the nucleus, centrally situated during interphase, moves laterally to undergo mitosis against the girdle bands. We describe the spindle which splits up into numerous fibres of overlapped polar microtubules (MTs) by metaphase. The chromosomes are diffuse and the spindle elongates rapidly during anaphase. A complex of organelles is found at the poles and ill-defined, dense material extends to the nearby plasmalemma from prophase on. The two Silica Deposition Vesicles (SDVs) are initiated during anaphase close to the poles and by midcleavage, the dense LPA arises on each SDV close to dense polar material. After cleavage, the daughter protoplasts round up and the SDV, already containing a nascent valve, expands over the cleavage furrow. The labiate process, a long straight hollow tube of silica, is rapidly (ca. 25 minutes) secreted from directly under the LPA; a fibrous plug (polysaccharide?) always appears in the SDV immediately adjacent to the LPA during the initiation of this secretion. The ill-defined Microtubule-Organizing Center (MC) from the spindle pole remains close to the LPA and in it can be seen the tiny presumptive primordial spindle on the nuclear envelope.The raphe and the labiate process (LP), both highly differentiated apertures in the valve, probably function in a specialized form of the mucilage secretion involved in generation of movement in raphid diatoms, and in a simple form of movement in some centrics. Morphogenesis of the LP is associated with the LPA while differentiation of the raphe is almost associated with the MC; both MC and LPA have an intimate ontological relationship with the spindle pole and the postmitotic cytoskeletal system of MTs. This association also is seen in the formation of the LP in an araphid pennate,Diatoma (work in progress). Therefore, from functional, morphogenetic and ontogenetic observations, we support the proposal that the raphe of pennate diatoms arose from the LP of centric diatoms.     

The Chemical Constituents of Elsholtzia densa Benth.

Ten compounds were isolated from Elsholtzia densa Benth. and their structures were identified by spectral and chemical methods as following: n-nonacosane (1), succinic acid (2), 5- ( 3 ”, 3 ”-dimethylallyl ) -8-methoxyfurocoumarin (3), 5- ( 3 ”-methylbutyl) -8- methoxyfurocoumarin (4), 5- (3”-hydroxy-3”-methylbutyl) -8-methoxyfurocoumarin (5), 3, 4-dihydroxycinnamic acid ( 6 ), 5-hydroxy-3’-methoxyflavanone-7-O-rutinoside ( 7 ), quercetin-3-O-β-D-glucoside ( 8 ), kaempferol-3-O-β-D-glucoside ( 9 ), 5-hydroxy-4’- methoxyflavone-7-O-rutinoside (10). Among them, compounds 4 and 5 are new naturally occurring furocoumarins.     

A palynological study of the genus Mentha L. (Lamiaceae)

The pollen morphology and exine structure of 10 Mentha L . species were investigated using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The pollen grains of all 11 species were hexazonocolpate with granular membranes and a circular amb, varying in shape from prolate-spheroidal to suboblate. Different colpus shapes were recognized in M . ×  dumetorum . The exine was bireticulate in section Pulegium , and reticulate in section Menthae . A correlation was found between pollen size and chromosome number. The results indicate that the pollen characters of the genus Mentha are valuable for taxonomic applications and may be useful for classification.  © 2008 Uludag University. Journal compilation © 2008 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society , 2008, 157 , 141–154.     

Studies on the biochemistry and fine structure of silica shell formation in diatoms

Summary The morphogenesis of the different types of labiate processes is compared among three species of centric diatoms [Stephanopyxis turns (Greville) Ralfs,Odontella sinensis (Greville) Grunow, andOdontella aurita (Lyngbye) Agardh]. In all species, a cytoplasmic structure,i.e., the labiate process apparatus, situated close to the developing labiate process, appears before the labiate process begins to form and disappears upon its maturation. The possibility that the labiate process apparatus is implicated in the phylogeny of the labiate process is discussed.