马尾松二代育种群体生长和开花结实性状

对马尾松二代核心育种群体内亲本无性系的树高、胸径等生长性状及开花量、结实量等生殖性状进行了全面调查和分析。51个马尾松二代亲本无性系7年生时平均树高、胸径和材积分别为5.53 m、9.05 cm和0.021 m3,各生长性状在无性系之间的差异显著,各性状的无性系重复力较高。对进入开花结实盛期的39个无性系调查发现,开花量、结实量等生殖性状在不同亲本无性系之间的变异程度比生长性状的高。基于主要生长性状、生殖性状,将39个亲本无性系聚在4个类群内,不同类群存在显著性状差异:类群1生长性状总体较优,雌球花、球果量也较多;类群2生长性状总体较差,开花、球果量也较少;类群3生长性状较优、雄球花数量较多,但雌球花、球果数量较少;类群4生长性状总体较差,但雌球花、球果数多。无性系的雌球花、球果数与生长量呈弱度负相关,因而在选择杂交亲本或种子园建园亲本时,有必要在开展亲本配合力测评的同时,开展亲本的多性状选择,选出28个生长、生殖性状较为均衡(生长量、开花结实量均在中等或中等以上)的无性系,其单株雄球花数、球果数和单株材积分别比参试群体均值高18.2%,8.0%和9.6%。可将这些无性系作为候选优良亲本,结合亲本配合力的测评,从中选择优良的杂交亲本及二代种子园的建园材料。     

基于马尾松测交系子代的生长、干形和木材密度的配合力分析

利用设置在浙江省淳安县姥山林场的14年生测交系交配设计(测交系未经过一般配合力测定)的遗传测定林,研究马尾松生长、干形和木材基本密度的一般配合力(GCA)和特殊配合力(SCA)及所受的遗传控制。结果表明:马尾松胸径、树高、木材基本密度和干物质积累量皆存在显著的GCA和SCA效应,其全同胞家系遗传力在0.746～0.908间,受较强的遗传控制,其中胸径、木材基本密度和干物质积累量受加性基因效应控制为主、显性基因效应次之,树高受基因的显性效应控制略高于加性效应,而树干通直度完全由加性基因效应影响。统计分析表明,来自中南部的1134、1127和5906测交系其胸径、树高和木材干物质积累量的GCA为正值且较高,而来自北部安徽的3203测交系木材基本密度的GCA最高。在9个待测系中,5476、5158、3205的胸径、树高、木材干物质积累量和树干通直度的GCA均较高,但5476和5158的木材基本密度的GCA则较低,与木材基本密度GCA较高的5910和3205差异显著。马尾松SCA的大小则独立于GCA,因性状和组合而异。依据单株干物质积累量大于总体平均值的20%及树干通直度得分不小于4的选择标准,筛选出7个优良杂交组合,其单株干物质积累量的现实增益和遗传增益分别为22.68%～67.34%和20.25%～60.13%。     

低温-秋水仙素诱导甜瓜多倍体研究

以刚展开子叶的甜瓜植株为材料,采用低温-秋水仙素处理,植株全部成活,通过检测气孔-叶绿体的变化情况,选出4株定植于营养箱内,采收全部植株所结果实,保留种子并测量.采收期过后,用嫩芽叶尖为材料,对3株甜瓜进行染色体计数检测,检出1个四倍体.结果表明:低温-秋水仙素处理可以有效降低秋水仙素的毒害作用,提高植株成活率.植株后期,有由四倍体回复到二倍体的现象,说明在植株生长后期倍性稳定性有所改变.     

Genome sequence and analysis of the tuber crop potato

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-grain food crop and is central to global food security. It is clonally propagated, highly heterozygous, autotetraploid, and suffers acute inbreeding depression. Here we use a homozygous doubled-monoploid potato clone to sequence and assemble 86% of the 844-megabase genome. We predict 39,031 protein-coding genes and present evidence for at least two genome duplication events indicative of a palaeopolyploid origin. As the first genome sequence of an asterid, the potato genome reveals 2,642 genes specific to this large angiosperm clade. We also sequenced a heterozygous diploid clone and show that gene presence/absence variants and other potentially deleterious mutations occur frequently and are a likely cause of inbreeding depression. Gene family expansion, tissue-specific expression and recruitment of genes to new pathways contributed to the evolution of tuber development. The potato genome sequence provides a platform for genetic improvement of this vital crop.     

Evidence for a spin-aligned neutron-proton paired phase from the level structure of (92)Pd

Shell structure and magic numbers in atomic nuclei were generally explained by pioneering work that introduced a strong spin-orbit interaction to the nuclear shell model potential. However, knowledge of nuclear forces and the mechanisms governing the structure of nuclei, in particular far from stability, is still incomplete. In nuclei with equal neutron and proton numbers (N = Z), enhanced correlations arise between neutrons and protons (two distinct types of fermions) that occupy orbitals with the same quantum numbers. Such correlations have been predicted to favour an unusual type of nuclear superfluidity, termed isoscalar neutron-proton pairing, in addition to normal isovector pairing. Despite many experimental efforts, these predictions have not been confirmed. Here we report the experimental observation of excited states in the N = Z = 46 nucleus (92)Pd. Gamma rays emitted following the (58)Ni((36)Ar,2n)(92)Pd fusion-evaporation reaction were identified using a combination of state-of-the-art high-resolution γ-ray, charged-particle and neutron detector systems. Our results reveal evidence for a spin-aligned, isoscalar neutron-proton coupling scheme, different from the previous prediction. We suggest that this coupling scheme replaces normal superfluidity (characterized by seniority coupling) in the ground and low-lying excited states of the heaviest N = Z nuclei. Such strong, isoscalar neutron-proton correlations would have a considerable impact on the nuclear level structure and possibly influence the dynamics of rapid proton capture in stellar nucleosynthesis.     

Gravity modes as a way to distinguish between hydrogen- and helium-burning red giant stars

Red giants are evolved stars that have exhausted the supply of hydrogen in their cores and instead burn hydrogen in a surrounding shell. Once a red giant is sufficiently evolved, the helium in the core also undergoes fusion. Outstanding issues in our understanding of red giants include uncertainties in the amount of mass lost at the surface before helium ignition and the amount of internal mixing from rotation and other processes. Progress is hampered by our inability to distinguish between red giants burning helium in the core and those still only burning hydrogen in a shell. Asteroseismology offers a way forward, being a powerful tool for probing the internal structures of stars using their natural oscillation frequencies. Here we report observations of gravity-mode period spacings in red giants that permit a distinction between evolutionary stages to be made. We use high-precision photometry obtained by the Kepler spacecraft over more than a year to measure oscillations in several hundred red giants. We find many stars whose dipole modes show sequences with approximately regular period spacings. These stars fall into two clear groups, allowing us to distinguish unambiguously between hydrogen-shell-burning stars (period spacing mostly ～ 50 seconds) and those that are also burning helium (period spacing ～ 100 to 300 seconds).     

The circadian molecular clock creates epidermal stem cell heterogeneity

Murine epidermal stem cells undergo alternate cycles of dormancy and activation, fuelling tissue renewal. However, only a subset of stem cells becomes active during each round of morphogenesis, indicating that stem cells coexist in heterogeneous responsive states. Using a circadian-clock reporter-mouse model, here we show that the dormant hair-follicle stem cell niche contains coexisting populations of cells at opposite phases of the clock, which are differentially predisposed to respond to homeostatic cues. The core clock protein Bmal1 modulates the expression of stem cell regulatory genes in an oscillatory manner, to create populations that are either predisposed, or less prone, to activation. Disrupting this clock equilibrium, through deletion of Bmal1 (also known as Arntl) or Per1/2, resulted in a progressive accumulation or depletion of dormant stem cells, respectively. Stem cell arrhythmia also led to premature epidermal ageing, and a reduction in the development of squamous tumours. Our results indicate that the circadian clock fine-tunes the temporal behaviour of epidermal stem cells, and that its perturbation affects homeostasis and the predisposition to tumorigenesis.     

Fault lubrication during earthquakes

The determination of rock friction at seismic slip rates (about 1?m?s(-1)) is of paramount importance in earthquake mechanics, as fault friction controls the stress drop, the mechanical work and the frictional heat generated during slip. Given the difficulty in determining friction by seismological methods, elucidating constraints are derived from experimental studies. Here we review a large set of published and unpublished experiments (～300) performed in rotary shear apparatus at slip rates of 0.1-2.6?m?s(-1). The experiments indicate a significant decrease in friction (of up to one order of magnitude), which we term fault lubrication, both for cohesive (silicate-built, quartz-built and carbonate-built) rocks and non-cohesive rocks (clay-rich, anhydrite, gypsum and dolomite gouges) typical of crustal seismogenic sources. The available mechanical work and the associated temperature rise in the slipping zone trigger a number of physicochemical processes (gelification, decarbonation and dehydration reactions, melting and so on) whose products are responsible for fault lubrication. The similarity between (1) experimental and natural fault products and (2) mechanical work measures resulting from these laboratory experiments and seismological estimates suggests that it is reasonable to extrapolate experimental data to conditions typical of earthquake nucleation depths (7-15?km). It seems that faults are lubricated during earthquakes, irrespective of the fault rock composition and of the specific weakening mechanism involved.     

A New Theoretical Framework of Pyramid Markov Processes for Blockchain Selfish Mining

In this paper,we provide a new theoretical framework of pyramid Markov processes to solve some open and fundamental problems of blockchain selfish mining under ...     

H5亚型禽流感病毒HA基因昆虫/杆状病毒系统的表达及对BALB/c小鼠的免疫保护

经RT-PCR扩增了禽流感病毒A/Goose/Guangdong/1／96 H5N1亚型1．7kb HA基因的cDNA,将其克隆到pMD18-T中并测序。亚克隆到杆状病毒转移载体pMelBacA的蜜蜂蜂毒素分泌信号下游中,测序正确后与线性化的杆状病毒DNA(Bac-N-BlueTM DNA)共转染Sf9昆虫细胞。将重组杆状病毒感染HFive细胞,72h左右收获细胞,超声波裂解,SDS—PAGE结果表明HA基因在重组杆状病毒感染的HFive细胞中获得表达。蛋白胶薄层扫描分析显示:表达的HA蛋白占重组杆状病毒感染细胞总蛋白含量的17．1％。Western-blot 及血凝实验结果显示,表达的禽流感H5N1亚型病毒HA蛋白具有生物学活性。表达的H5 HA蛋白定量乳化后,皮下多点注射免疫SPF 级BALB/c雌性小鼠,免疫后产生了H5 HA特异抗体,并在三免前后达到并保持较高水平。用致死剂量的HPAIV H5N1攻击小鼠,免疫组小鼠提供了100％的保护力,而对照组小鼠先后发病且死亡:为研制禽流感H5N1亚型病毒亚单位疫苗,防制禽流感奠定了基础。