Loss of antibody production accompanied by chromosome loss in a cloned hybrid line secreting antibodies to sheep red blood cells

Summary Somatic cell hybrids between Sp2/O-Ag14 mouse myeloma cells and lymphocytes derived from BALB/c mice hyperimmunized with sheep red blood cells (SRBC) were produced. One hybrid producing IgG₁ antibody to SRBC was selected, cloned twice and subsequently transferred to BALB/c mice. After a number of transfers it was found that the antibody titer in ascitec fluid gradually decreased. Cytogenetic analysis revealed gradual chromosome loss in the hybrid clone, which produced progressively less antibody.     

Identification and classification of subspecies of Asian cultivated rice and their hybrids

Having reviewed the major classification systems proposed by various scholars across the world, it is found thatindica andjaponica underO. sativa L. are two major directions thoroughly differentiated from the Asian cultivated rice, forming the framework of the classification structure. A system withindica andjaponica as the only two subspecies is therefore reiterated. There are various ways to determine the indica-japonica identity of hybrid rice, but the “combined morphological trait index” (CMT index) method is more efficient and easier to handle, although the isozyme analysis, molecular marker analysis and grain quality assay methods are also feasible.     

Rapid growth and sterility of growth hormone gene transgenic triploid carp

Triploid carp (100%) with 150 (3n=150) chromosomes were obtained by crossing the females of improved tetraploid hybrids (♀, 4n=200) of red crucian carp (♀)×common carp (♂) with the males of diploid yellow river carp (♂, 2n=100). The crosses yielded transgenic triploid carp (positive triploid fish, 44.2% of the progeny) and non-transgenic triploid carp (negative triploid fish). Histological examination of the gonads of 24-month-old positive triploid fish suggested they were sterile and the fish were not able to produce mature gametes during the breeding season. Morphologically, both the positive and negative triploid fish were similar. They had a spindle-shaped, laterally compressed, steel grey body with two pairs of barbells. Most of the quantifiable traits of the triploid carp were intermediate between those of the two parents. The positive and negative triploid fish were raised in the same pond for 2 years. The mean body weight of the positive triploid fish was 2.3 times higher than the negative triploid fish. The weight of the largest positive triploid fish was 2.91 times higher than that of the largest negative triploid fish. Thus, we produced fast-growing transgenic triploid carp that have a reduced ecological risk because of their inability to mate and produce progeny.     

湘西4月龄山羊羔羊生长性能的品种差异

测定4月龄波尔山羊、南江黄羊、波尔山羊×南江黄羊F1代羔羊在当地饲养水平下的采食量和日增重差异.结果表明：3个品种羔羊的每周和全期青饲料日干物质采食量差异不显著（P>0.05）;而在正式试验期第1周南江黄羊平均日增重显著高于波尔山羊×南江黄羊F1代（P<0.05）,在第2周南江黄羊平均日增重却显著低于波尔山羊×南江黄羊F1代（P<0.05）;在第3周3个品种平均日增重水平差异不显著（P>0.05）,全期各品种平均日增重差异也不显著（P>0.05）.说明在湘西当地饲养水平下,三品种山羊羔羊的生长性能相近,波尔山羊的杂交优势不显著.     

Abnormalities of meioses in male reciprocal hybrids between the Hiroshima and Ichinoseki populations ofRana japonica

In order to elucidate cytogenetically the cause of male sterility in intraspecific hybrids ofRana japonica, the behavior of chromosomes in the first meiosis was observed in spermatocytes from male reciprocal hybrids between two populations from Hiroshima and Ichinoseki. In the parental Hiroshima and Ichioseki populations, 2530 (96.7%) meiotic spreads had 13 bivalents and 78 (3.0%) contained 12 bivalents and two univalents, whereas in reciprocal hybrids only 337 (7.0%) contained 13 bivalents and the other 4445 (93.0%) had 2–26 univalents. A total of 31647 (93.4%) bivalents was ring-shaped and the other 2234 (6.6%) were rod-shaped in both parental populations, whereas in reciprocal hybrids 26352 (57.1%) and 19819 (42.9%) bivalents were ring- and rod-shaped, respectively. These results show that meiotic chromosomes of reciprocal hybrids are characterized by a remarkable increase in univalents and rod-shaped bivalents.     

A new type of triploid crucian crap?red crucian carp (♀)×allotetraploid (♂)

A new type of triploid hybrids (TC) was produced by crossing red crucian carp (♀) with allotetraploid hybrids (♂). This type of triploids with no barbel was spindle-shaped and gray in color. Compared with their parents, some data of the morphological traits in the triploid hybrids were intermediate to those of their parents, and some were beyond their parents with heterozygous traits. Under the same culture conditions, the growth rate of the new type triploids was faster than their maternal red crucian carp (RC). The gonadal development of triploids was obviously slower than that of diploids, and the germ cells in them were degenerated. Compared with another type of triploids produced by Japanese crucian carp (♀) with allotetraploid hybrids (♂), the new type triploids not only kept faster growth rate and sterility, but also had no barbel that was similar to the common carp. The absence of the barbel in the new type of triploids has the important significance in both the inheritance and fish breeding.     

猕猴桃种间体细胞杂种细胞质DNA遗传的初步分析

提取猕猴桃体细胞杂种叶片总DNA,PCR和限制性内切酶,分析了叶绿体基因组的trnT(UGU)和5'trnL(UAA)外显子之间的a～b间隔区DNA片段和光合系统Ⅱ D1蛋白基因(psbA)片段,以及线粒体基因组的ORF25片段的遗传特征.结果表明,狗枣猕猴桃(A.kolomikta)与中华猕猴桃(Actinidia chinensis)的对称体细胞杂种具有与中华猕猴桃相同的a～b间隔区DNA片段,叶绿体DNA遗传为非随机分离.还讨论了cpDNA遗传与猕猴桃种间的亲缘关系.     

水稻籼粳杂种多倍体的研究

以秋水仙碱诱导的水稻籼粳杂多倍体植株中，部分植株的体细胞呈现具有整倍体和非整倍体染色体数细胞嵌合现象，其中四倍体细胞最高可占35．3％，其余均为染色体数低于48条的各种细胞，与二倍体植株相比，这些植株的叶表皮气孔增大，气孔数减少，花粉粒直径增大都是十分显的，与多倍体植株无明显区别，并对这类植株根尖体细胞中存在具各种染色体数目细胞嵌合现象可能的原因进行了分析。     

Studies on the utilization potentiality of the nucleo-cytoplasmic hybrid in wheat

A series of comparative studies was carried out on the genetic effects of 25 alien cytoplasms of wheat on the growth potential, heading stage, fertility, resistance against diseases, important agronomic traits and its heterosis of 125 nuclei-cytoplasmic hybrids of wheat. The results indicated that there were clearly effects of alien cytoplasms on some characteristics, but the nucleus still exerted main effect on other characteristics. The effect of interactions between nucleus and cytoplasm was comparative obvious in some combination. Consequently, when we utilize the effects of alien cytoplasms, we should pay full attention to the facts such as the characteristic to be improved, the effects of cytoplasm, nucleus, the nucleus-cytoplasm interactions on that characteristics. From the preliminary studies, we believed that the cytoplasmic types of M⁰, S¹, S^v, D², D and B, and the nucleo-cytoplasmic hybrids of (Ae. sharonensis)-B174, (Ae. squarrosa)-352-35 (Ae. cylindrica)-352-35, (Ae. cylindria)-E EN-1, (Ae. cylindrica)-NPFP, and (Ae. speltoides)-352-35 would have some utilization potentiality in cultivar improvement. Foundation item: supported by the Foundation of National 8th Five-year-plan of China Biography: CHEN Jun-ying, (1964-), male, lecturer, and now worked in Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China     

Maternal influences on cardiovascular pathophysiology

Elevated blood pressure (BP) is of special clinical significance because of its association with pathophysiologies such as heart disease, renal failure, and stroke. We described the development of a protocol for use with hypertensive rats in which prepubertal exposure to a high salt (8% NaCl) diet results in a pathophysiological syndrome including rapid increase in BP, failure to maintain normal weight gain, renal damage, cerebrovascular lesions, and early mortality. These phenomena are described for the inbred spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR), and for reciprocal F₁ hybrids of a cross between SHR and the Dahl salt-sensitive (SS/Jr) inbred strain. The study with reciprocal F₁s revealed striking effects of maternal environment on pathophysiological response to a high salt diet. F₁s nurtured by SHR mothers weighed less at 35 days of age, and after exposure to the high salt diet suffered more rapid BP increases, greater incidence of stroke, body weight loss, and mortality, than F₁s nurtured by SS/Jr dams. These results suggest that maternal mediation of the nutritional status of the animal may play an important role in determining susceptibility to elevated BP and subsequent pathophysiology associated with exposure to a high salt diet. The implication of these findings for human hypertension is briefly discussed.