温敏转绿型水稻叶绿素缺失突变体1103s失绿复绿特性研究

叶绿素突变泛指能导致叶绿素代谢失调的核基因或叶绿体基因突变。发生叶绿素突变的植物个体普遍表现为叶色的变化，目前已报道的多数叶绿素突变体为人工诱变产物。叶绿素缺失突变导致的叶结素代谢缺陷实际上反映了叶绿体发育过程的缺陷，研究叶绿素突变更重要的意义是在于阐明叶绿体发育过程。 本研究所用材料1103s是一类特殊的叶绿素突变体，为籼性光敏核不育水稻（Oryza sativa L.）8902s群体中发现的自发突变体。该突本所具有的失绿特性为特定温度条件下才表现出来的瞬时性状，在环境温度恢复后，失绿组织可复发。遗传分析表明该突变由隐性核基因控制。本文不1103s所具有的温度敏感和失绿复绿特性，在亚细胞水平和生理化水平进行了详细的探讨。 叶绿素含量的检测表明，诱导后表现失绿的叶片组织内叶绿素含量明显降低，叶绿素a/b比值升高，原脱植基叶绿素含量低于绿色组织。失绿组织中的这种原脱植基叶绿素在失绿组织中含量的减少是由两方面因素造成的，其一是叶绿素合成过程中原脱植基叶绿素合成之前的某一步过程反应受阻;其二是原脱植基叶绿素向叶绿素转化的过程是正常进行的。 对1103s叶绿体内部的超微结构观察表明：1.控制叶绿素缺失性状的是一多效基因。该基因在特定温度条件下表达时，不仅影响到叶绿体的发育，也对细胞质中的其他细胞器产生重要的影响，其结果是细胞质中的高度有序的内膜系统被大量形状不规则的泡状结构所取代。放大后发现，这类泡状结构由（1）线粒体（2）功能未知的泡状结构I，其内部含颗粒状物质泡结构被膜内还有数层不连续的膜残片（3）功能未知的泡状结构II，其内部含大颗粒状物质。2.该突变体表达失绿和复绿过程中，叶绿体内部膜结构的变化伴随叶绿素含量的变化也有退脂和恢复的过程，但与已报道的其他突体有两个明显的不同：首先，在退化细胞的叶绿体内未观察到前片层体的存在。前片层体是叶绿体发育过程中黄化体阶段常见的非常明显的特殊结构，在电镜下为有规律的晶格状结构。已有研究表明，前片层体的形成与原脱植基叶绿素的积累有密切关系。与组培白化苗中检测到的结果不同，失绿组织中原脱植基叶绿素的含量不但没有积累，反而少于绿色组织中的含量，而造成该突变体在失绿过程中质体内无前片层体形成。其次，1103s在叶绿体退化过程中类囊体膜的变化不同于其化温敏的转绿型叶绿素突变体，尤其是在失绿过程中，其类囊体膜不是以直接解体的方式减少而是以单类囊体膜紧靠为主要特征。 对野生型 8902s与1103s类囊体膜结构的冰冻蚀刻分析表明，1103s失绿叶片上的失绿组织和绿色组织中，EFs面的大颗粒结构均异常。其异常之处表现在每个颗粒明显解离成两个亚单位（上面观），而在野生型8902s中则无上述现象出现。亚单位的解离程度在失绿组织中更明显。有间接证据研究表明，EFs面上的大颗粒代表PS II。如果该推论正确，那么失绿叶片的失绿组织和绿色组织中，PS II都可能是异常的。 另外，通过对失绿组织和绿色组织全叶蛋白双向电泳图谱的比较，得到了一个特异缺失的叶蛋白组分，该蛋白的分子量为51kd。此蛋白在失绿叶片上的失绿组织和绿色组织之间存在组织差异性。通过对该蛋白在不同温度处理和不同遗传背景下的变化规律分析，发现该蛋白是一存在于许多水稻品系叶片中的高含量组分，此蛋白表达本身不受变温诱导过程的影响，而是受另一感温过程的调控。初步分析表明该蛋白为一失绿相关蛋白。 综上所述，1103s所具有的失绿和复绿特性是核基因多效表达的结果，有一感温过程调控下游蛋白表达的复杂过程。此外，该突变特性很可能与PS II的结构异常有关。

Pattern recognition using invariants defined from higher order spectra : 2-D image inputs

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A detailed investigation of nominally 2-D radical-farming scramjet combustion

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A semi-alternating direction method for a 2-D fractional FitzHugh–Nagumo monodomain model on an approximate irregular domain

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The first observation of a Na2TiS2 related structure in a 2-D anionic manganese trimesate intercalated by cationic imidazole

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Superconformal transformations of theN = 2,D = 4, SSYM

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An interactive graphics system for 2-D drawing and design

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A mixed-split scheme for 2-D DPCM based LSF quantization

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Effective action and adiabatic expansions for the 1-D and 2-D hubbard models at half-filling

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Design of some 2-D filters through the transformation technique

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