常压非平衡态等离子体降解挥发性烃类污染物

采用无声放电产生的非平衡态等离子体,对含有易挥发性有机化合物正己烷、环己烷、苯和甲苯4种典型的烃类废气的空气进行了处理．结果表明,对于一个大气压下正己烷含量（体积分数）为0．26％、0．79％、13％的宁气,在12kV的电压下放电ls,正己烷的降解率分别为88％、81.8％、64．9％．含有环己洗、苯及甲苯浓度为0．26％的空气,在同样的条件下,放电ls后,环己烷、苯及甲苯降解率分别为87．4％、8l％和70．3％,其主要降解产物为CO₂和H₂O．还研究了污染物浓度与氧含量对非平衡态等离子体法降解挥发性烃类污染物的影响     

不同量子化学算法在多环芳烃光解行为定量结构-性质关系(QSPR)中的应用

以采用MINDO/3、MNDO和AMI算法计算的17种多环芳烃（PAHs）的前线分子轨道能为分子结构参数,进行了这些PAHs光解速率常数的定量结构－性质相关（QSPR）的研究,并与基于PM3算法得到的QSPR模型进行了比较,研究结果表明,应用PM3算法得到的前线分子轨道能进行这些PAHs光解速率常数QSPR拟合的结果最好,其次是AMI算法,而MINDO/3和MNDO算法得到的结果较差。     

甲胺磷降解真菌的研究

从受甲胺磷长期污染的土壤样品中通过富集培养,亚硝基胍（ＮＴＧ）诱变处理,从中分离筛选到一株降解甲胺磷活性较高的Ｌ４８菌株。该菌株可以利用甲胺磷作为碳源和能源而生长,降解甲胺磷的最适温度为３０℃,最适宜ＰＨ值为７．０,其完整细胞悬液对３０００ｍｇ／Ｌ左右甲胺磷的降解率最高可达８３％。经初步鉴定该菌株为华丽曲霉Ａｓｐｅｒｇｉｌｌｕｓ．ｏｒａｎｔｕｓ。     

Pharmacophagous acquisition of clerodendrins by the turnip sawfly (Athalia rosae ruficornis) and their role in the mating behavior

Summary. Adults of the turnip sawfly, Athalia rosae ruficornis (Tenthredinidae: Hymenoptera), frequently visit a plant, Clerodendron trichotomum (Verbenaceae), and feed pharmacophagously on the glandular trichomes on the leaf surface. A series of neo-clerodane diterpenoids (e.g. clerodendrins B and D) contained in glandular organs on the leaf surface stimulate feeding of the sawflies (both males and females). The adults fed selectively on the trichomes were found to sequester a series of the bitter-tasting diterpenes (clerodendrin D, ajugachin A, athaliadiol) in the body tissues, which suggested their primary role as defense substances against predators. Females fed on Clerodendron leaves or on clerodendrin B or D were more successful in mating than unfed females. Thus, females seem to obtain an advantage in mating success through the acquisition of the defensive principles from the Clerodendron plant. Received 20 April 1999; accepted 29 June 1999     

Chemical defense and evolutionary trends in biosynthetic capacity among dorid nudibranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)

Summary. An evolutionary scenario incorporating recent advances in phylogenetic research begins with an opisthobranch-pulmonate common ancestor that was herbivorous and had some diet-derived chemical defense. The Nudibranchia and their closest relatives, the Notaspidea, form a lineage the ancestors of which had switched to feeding upon sponges and deriving protection from metabolites contained in them. Subsequently there have been repeated shifts in food and defensive metabolites, and trends are evident in the ability to detoxify, sequester and utilize metabolites from food, as well as to synthesize defensive compounds de novo. The Notaspidea display a minor adaptive radiation that foreshadows a more extensive one in the various lineages of nudibranchs. This review emphasizes changes that have occurred within the Holohepatica, or dorid nudibranchs (order Doridacea). Their sister-group, the Cladohepatica, consists of three other orders, Dendronotacea, Arminacea, and Aeolidiacea, in which there has been a shift from sponges to Cnidaria as food. The Dendronotacea often feed upon Octocorallia, which combine spicules, chemical defense, and stinging capsules and thereby suggest a transition from feeding on sponges. A previous diet of Octocorallia is suggested by the defensive use of prostaglandins in the dendronotacean Tethys fimbria, which eats crustaceans. A shift to bryozoans in some Arminacea is accompanied by use of different metabolites. Dorid nudibranchs evidently began as sponge-feeders, but some lineages have shifted to a variety of other food organisms, and others have specialized in the kind of sponges they feed on and how they do it. There have been shifts to bryozoans (Ectoprocta) and ascidians (Chordata: Urochordata) that track metabolites rather than the taxonomy of the food. There is a crude correlation between the genealogy and the defensive metabolites of the sponge-feeding dorids. De novo synthesis is well documented in this order and the metabolites are appropriately positioned so as to have an adaptive effect. The hypothesis that the capacity for de novo synthesis was acquired by gene transfer across lineages is rejected, partly on the basis of different chirality of metabolites in the nudibranchs and their food organisms. Instead it is proposed that there has been a preadaptive phase followed by evolution in a retrosynthetic mode, with selection favoring enzymes that enhance the yield of end products that are already present in the food. Received 5 February 1999; accepted 26 July 1999     

Quantitative analysis of pyrrolizidine alkaloids sequestered from diverse host plants in Longitarsus flea beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)

Summary. Several species of the flea beetles genus Longitarsus are able to sequester pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) from their host plants. In five Longitarsus species we compare the concentration of PAs present in their host plants belonging to the Asteraceae or Boraginaceae with those found in the beetles. To get an estimate of the intrapopulation variability, three samples of five beetles each and five individual plants were analyzed for each comparison. A strong intrapopulation variability could be detected both among plant and beetle samples. The total concentration found in the beetles varied strongly between species. The local host plant and its phenology influence the concentrations present in the beetles as evidenced in comparisons of a single beetle species from two different hosts and of one beetle species collected at the same site at different times of the year. In addition, different beetle species apparently vary in their capacity to sequester the alkaloids, at the lowest extreme the mean PA concentration in the beetles (0.034 μg PA/mg dry weight) was 1/30 of the mean concentration found in the plant leaves (L. aeruginosus from Eupatorium cannabinum), at the highest extreme (2.098 μg PA/mg dw) the concentration in the beetles was a 1000 fold higher than in the plant leaves (L. nasturtii from Symphytum officinale). The highest mean concentration found in the beetles was 3.446 μg/mg dw (L. exoletus from Cynoglossum officinale). The absolute concentrations found in the beetles are comparable to other insects which have been shown to be effectively defended against their potential predators. Received 22 June 1999; accepted 25 August 1999     

Metabolic transformations of acquired lucibufagins by firefly “femmes fatales”

Summary. Female Photuris fireflies sequester defensive steroidal pyrones (lucibufagins) from male fireflies of the genus Photinus. Lucibufagin analyses of Photuris females and Photinus ignitus males show that the lucibufagin mixtures of predator and prey differ in their composition. Analyses of whole body extracts showed that P. ignitus males contain a mixture of eight non-glycosylated lucibufagins, composed mostly of compounds with two oxygenated positions in the steroidal A-ring (C-3, C-5). After feeding on P. ignitus males, Photuris females contain six major lucibufagins. Three of these compounds are not present in the prey, including the novel lucibufagin glycoside 5β,11α-dihydroxy-12-oxo-3β-O-β-D-xylopyranosylbufalin, and two other lucibufagins with a trioxygenated A-ring (C-2, C-3, C-5). These results indicate that Photuris females transform the sequestered lucibufagins both by glycosylation and oxidation, which could affect the systemic transportability of these compounds due to an increase in their polarity. Received 18 February 1999; accepted 19 April 1999.     

Chemical egg defense in Photuris firefly “femmes fatales”

Summary. Female Photuris fireflies contain defensive chemicals of two types. They sequester steroidal pyrones (lucibufagins) from male fireflies of the genus Photinus that they eat, and themselves produce the defensive betaine N-methylquinolinium 2-carboxylate. Chemical analyses of Photuris eggs showed that females that fed on Photinus males endow their eggs with both lucibufagin and the betaine, while those that did not feed on Photinus lay eggs that contain betaine, but virtually no lucibufagin. Photuris females collected in the field during the Photinus flight season laid eggs that invariably contained betaine, but lucibufagin only at times. Predation experiments showed that Photuris eggs are essentially unacceptable to larvae of a coccinellid beetle (Harmonia axyridis) and an ant (Leptothorax longispinosus), but moderately acceptable to an earwig (Forficula auricularia). When applied experimentally to palatable insect eggs, lucibufagin proved deterrent to these three predators, while the betaine proved deterrent to the ant and coccinellid larva only. Both types of defensive compound decreased egg predation in the field. By endowing their eggs with both exogenous and endogenous chemicals, Photuris females are essentially “maximizing their options”– when feeding on Photinus, their eggs are doubly protected, but they are not entirely defenseless when the females are unable to procure lucibufagin. Received 12 August 1999; accepted 27 August 1999     

菌根真菌在墨兰和建兰根中的感染特征及生理特性

从产于粤北山区的野生建兰报中分离出4株内生真菌,并对这些真菌在兰根上的感染特征及生理学特性进行了研究。结果表明,菌根真菌多数浸染植株根段离很尖3～18cm的根毛区,而根尖和新长出的根则很少被感染;几乎所有的老根都受过真菌的感染。真菌菌丝从兰报表皮侵入,通过表皮层进入皮层薄壁细胞内部形成菌丝团,而在表皮层并不进入细胞内,也不形成菌丝团。真菌感染极状整后第9天,皮层细胞内的菌丝团开始消解。所分离的菌株能利用大部分简单的有机碳源和氮源,能在营养成分不明确的天然介质中生长良好,但对硝酸盐的利用较差。     

智能型防碰天车装置的安全可靠性分析

针对目前油田钻井现场使用的智能型防碰天车装置存在一些安全问题，分析了问题的实质是设计测量精度和安全可靠性不高。提出了具体改进设计的方案与意见。