Study on method of paeonia radix alba producing and concocting integration processing / 中国中药杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the origin pre-treating and processing integration techniques of Paeonia Radix Alba.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>Different processing integration techniques were adopted and compared with traditional processing techniques to determine drying rate, aqueous extracts and peoniflori content.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>Half-dry slices baked at 100 degrees C for 20 min and steamed at 100 degrees C for 10 min had the highest peoniflori contents. Half-dry slices baked at 100 degrees C for 20 min had the highest content of aqueous extracts. Products processed with conventional method and sulfur-fumigation had the lowest content of aqueous extracts.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The origin processing integration techniques of Paeonia Radix Alba lose less active ingredients than conventional processing methods.</p>

Construction and transfection experiment of a goose circovirus infectious clone / 病毒学报

A pair of primers with BamH I restriction site were designed to amplify the complete genome of goose circovirus. Two copies of the genome were ligated in tandem and cloned into pGEM-T Easy vector to construct an infectious clone named as pGEMT-2GoCV. The pGEMT-2GoCV linearized with EcoR I was transfected to negative embryos and gosling with Lipfectamine. PCR detection verified the proliferation of GoCV in geese. Some sera of the embryo transfected group were detected to be positive at 2 and 4 weeks after hatching and one bursa was detected to be positive at 4 weeks. Some sera of the gosling transfected group were also detected to be positive at 2 weeks after transfection. Furthermore, the mark in the PCR products were identified by BamH I digestion and the GoCV in positive tissue and sera were quantitated by Real-time PCR. The results showed that the virus load in positive bursa was 1.57 x 10(6) copies/mg, the virus load in positive sera were 3.52 x 10(4)-5.92 x 10(5) copies/microL. In conclusion, the infectious DNA clone constructed with two copies of full-length GoCV genome in tandem can transfect embryo and gosling and propagate the marked goose circovirus.

Cloning and analysis of the complete genomes of pigeon circovirus from Zhejiang Province / 病毒学报

Pigeon circovrius (PiCV) is a member of circovirus, which is usually regarded as an immunosuppression agent. There were reports that pigeons infected by PiCV showed symptoms of lethargy, weight loss, vomiting, diarrhea, respiratory distress, etc. In this study, we established a PCR method for the detection of PiCV DNA. Samples from 5 different farms in Zhejiang Province were examined and samples from a farm in Hangzhou were positive. Furthermore, the genomic segments of 2 strains of PiCV were amplified, cloned and sequenced using designed primers and the complete genomes of the strains were then assembled and named as PiCV-zj1 and PiCV-zj2, respectively. The sequences were deposited in GenBank under the GenBank Accession number of DQ090945 and DQ090944, respectively. Sequence Analysis had shown that the complete genomes of 2 strains of PiCV from Zhejiang Province had 2 039 nucleotides totally in length and common characters of circovirus such as a stem-loop structure and conserved motifs for Rep protein, which were supposed to be related to the replication of the virus. Pairwise comparisons showed that the nucleotide sequence of the genome of PiCV strains from Zhejiang Province had 86%-89.1% identities to that of 11 published PiCV strains, and that the amino acid identities of the replication-associated protein (Rep) and capsid protein (Cap) displayed 92.1%-94.7% and 76.6%-81.4%, respectively. A phylogenic tree was built using PHYLIP with bootstrap support for 1 000 replicates. The result showed that 10 strains from Europe and America formed one big branch and the others from Zhejiang Province and Australia formed the other two, respectively. This was the first report on the detection and full genome sequencing of PiCV in China.

Study on correlation between Atractylodes macrocephala viability and germination rate / 中国中药杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To screen the optimized methods for detection seed viability and germination rate determination of Atractylodes macrocephala, and determine the relationship between seed viability and germination rate.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>There were four methods, which including 2,3,5-triphynel tetrazolilum chloride (TTC) staining, red ink staining, BTB staining and Nongjia method, to evaluate the 12 A. macrocephala local varieties'seed viability and measure their germination rate.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>Seed viability of A. macrocephala using TTC staining ranked the first compared to that of other three methods. Seed viability was significantly related with germination rate using TTC method. Their correlation coefficient reached 0.915 and regression equation was also found out between seed viability (X) and germination rate (Y), which was Y = -0.083 4 + 0.995 4X.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>TTC staining was the optimal method to determine A. macrocephala seed vitality. Furthermore, seed viability was significant related with germination rate of A. macrocephala.</p>

Mutagenic effects of gamma-rays on Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen / 中国中药杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the mutagenic effect of gamma-rays on Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>Physiological and mutagenic effects of gamma-rays on C. lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen dormant seeds were studied. The germination percentage, seeding survival, seeding height and root length of M1 plants and the frequency of chlorophyll mutation in M2 generation were selected as criteria.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>The gamma-rays showed obvious inhibitory action to the seedling growth, and a strong ability in inducing the chlorophyll mutation.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The gamma-rays is one kind of C. lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen effective mutagen. The appropriate dose of gamma-rays is 450 Gy for C. lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen dormant seeds.</p>