New Wild Lactuca Genetic Resources with Resistance Against Bremia lactucae     

Alex Beharav  Dalia Lewinsohn  Aleš Lebeda  Eviatar Nevo 《Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution》2006,53(3):467-474

A total of 1027 genotypes of wild Lactuca spp. (L. serriola, L. saligna, and L. aculeata), originating from Israel, Jordan, East Turkey, Armenia, Kazakhstan, China, and various other countries in Europe were screened for resistance to the lettuce downy mildew (Bremia lactucae Regel). The genotypes of L. serriola (N = 962); L. saligna (N = 43); and L. aculeata (N = 22) were tested at the seedling stage with two isolates of B. lactucae (race Bl-21 and Isr-74) isolated from cultivated lettuce in Italy and Israel, respectively. Altogether, the isolates possess virulence against 17 out of 20 Dm genes/R-factors composing the established differential set of lettuce lines/varieties. They could therefore be used for preliminary detection of the presence of new resistance factors. A total of 83 and three genotypes of L. serriola and L. saligna, respectively, were resistant to infection by each of the two isolates alone as well as to the infection by a mix of the two isolates. These genotypes probably carry previously unknown resistance, and therefore could be suitable for exploitation by breeders and further detailed research. The wild progenitor of lettuce, L. serriola, and related species harbor significant untapped genetic resources for lettuce improvement.  相似文献   

Gate-variable optical transitions in graphene     

Wang F  Zhang Y  Tian C  Girit C  Zettl A  Crommie M  Shen YR 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2008,320(5873):206-209

Two-dimensional graphene monolayers and bilayers exhibit fascinating electrical transport behaviors. Using infrared spectroscopy, we find that they also have strong interband transitions and that their optical transitions can be substantially modified through electrical gating, much like electrical transport in field-effect transistors. This gate dependence of interband transitions adds a valuable dimension for optically probing graphene band structure. For a graphene monolayer, it yields directly the linear band dispersion of Dirac fermions, whereas in a bilayer, it reveals a dominating van Hove singularity arising from interlayer coupling. The strong and layer-dependent optical transitions of graphene and the tunability by simple electrical gating hold promise for new applications in infrared optics and optoelectronics.  相似文献   

Muscular thin films for building actuators and powering devices     

Feinberg AW  Feigel A  Shevkoplyas SS  Sheehy S  Whitesides GM  Parker KK 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2007,317(5843):1366-1370

We demonstrate the assembly of biohybrid materials from engineered tissues and synthetic polymer thin films. The constructs were built by culturing neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocytes on polydimethylsiloxane thin films micropatterned with extracellular matrix proteins to promote spatially ordered, two-dimensional myogenesis. The constructs, termed muscular thin films, adopted functional, three-dimensional conformations when released from a thermally sensitive polymer substrate and were designed to perform biomimetic tasks by varying tissue architecture, thin-film shape, and electrical-pacing protocol. These centimeter-scale constructs perform functions as diverse as gripping, pumping, walking, and swimming with fine spatial and temporal control and generating specific forces as high as 4 millinewtons per square millimeter.  相似文献   

Creating favorable geometries for directing organic photoreactions in alkanethiolate monolayers     

Kim M  Hohman JN  Cao Y  Houk KN  Ma H  Jen AK  Weiss PS 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2011,331(6022):1312-1315

The products of photoreactions of conjugated organic molecules may be allowed by selection rules but not observed in solution reactions because of unfavorable reaction geometries. We have used defect sites in self-assembled alkanethiolate monolayers on gold surfaces to direct geometrically unfavorable photochemical reactions between individual organic molecules. High conductivity and stochastic switching of anthracene-terminated phenylethynylthiolates within alkanethiolate monolayers, as well as in situ photochemical transformations, have been observed and distinguished with the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Ultraviolet light absorbed during imaging increases the apparent heights of excited molecules in STM images, a direct manifestation of probing electronically excited states.  相似文献   

Hf-W chronometry of lunar metals and the age and early differentiation of the Moon     

Kleine T  Palme H  Mezger K  Halliday AN 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2005,310(5754):1671-1674

The use of hafnium-tungsten chronometry to date the Moon is hampered by cosmogenic tungsten-182 production mainly by neutron capture of tantalum-181 at the lunar surface. We report tungsten isotope data for lunar metals, which contain no 181Ta-derived cosmogenic 182W. The data reveal differences in indigenous 182W/184W of lunar mantle reservoirs, indicating crystallization of the lunar magma ocean 4.527 +/- 0.010 billion years ago. This age is consistent with the giant impact hypothesis and defines the completion of the major stage of Earth's accretion.  相似文献   

Large trench-parallel gravity variations predict seismogenic behavior in subduction zones   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Song TR  Simons M 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2003,301(5633):630-633

We demonstrate that great earthquakes occur predominantly in regions with a strongly negative trench-parallel gravity anomaly (TPGA), whereas regions with strongly positive TPGA are relatively aseismic. These observations suggest that, over time scales up to at least 1 million years, spatial variations of seismogenic behavior within a given subduction zone are stationary and linked to the geological structure of the fore-arc. The correlations we observe are consistent with a model in which spatial variations in frictional properties on the plate interface control trench-parellel variations in fore-arc topography, gravity, and seismogenic behavior.  相似文献   

A bond-fluctuation mechanism for stochastic switching in wired molecules     

Ramachandran GK  Hopson TJ  Rawlett AM  Nagahara LA  Primak A  Lindsay SM 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2003,300(5624):1413-1416

Stochastic on-off conductivity switching observed in phenylene-ethynylene oligomers has been explained in terms of changes in ring conformations, or electron localization, or both. We report the observation of stochastic on-off switching in the simplest of wired molecules: octanedithiol, decanedithiol, and dodecanedithiol bonded on an Au(111) surface. Stochastic switching was observed even when a top gold contact was pressed on by a conducting atomic force microscope tip at constant force. The rate of switching increased substantially at 60 degrees C, a temperature at which these films are commonly annealed. Because such switching in alkanethiols is unlikely to be caused by internal molecular electronic changes and cannot be fully accounted for by breaking of the top contact, we argue that the cause is the well-known mobility of molecules tethered to gold via a thiol linkage.  相似文献   

Mass mortality of krill caused by parasitoid ciliates     

Gómez-Gutiérrez J  Peterson WT  De Robertis A  Brodeur RD 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2003,301(5631):339

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Plant circadian clocks increase photosynthesis, growth, survival, and competitive advantage   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Dodd AN  Salathia N  Hall A  Kévei E  Tóth R  Nagy F  Hibberd JM  Millar AJ  Webb AA 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2005,309(5734):630-633

Circadian clocks are believed to confer an advantage to plants, but the nature of that advantage has been unknown. We show that a substantial photosynthetic advantage is conferred by correct matching of the circadian clock period with that of the external light-dark cycle. In wild type and in long- and short-circadian period mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana, plants with a clock period matched to the environment contain more chlorophyll, fix more carbon, grow faster, and survive better than plants with circadian periods differing from their environment. This explains why plants gain advantage from circadian control.  相似文献   

Chemistry. Building solutions--one molecule at a time     

Huneycutt AJ  Saykally RJ 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2003,299(5611):1329-1330

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