A Study on the Chemical Constituents of Pilea sinofasciata C. J.Chen

[Objectives] To study the chemical constituents of Pilea sinofasciata C. J. Chen. [Methods] Column chromatography,such as silica gel,Sephadex LH-20 and preparative HPLC were used to isolate and purify the compounds. Spectroscopic methods like MS,1H NMR and^(13)C NMR and physical constants were used to elucidate their structure. [Results]Ninteen compounds were isolated from 95% ethanol extracts of Pilea sinofasciata C. J. Chen,including α-tocopherol(1),stigmasterol(2),epihernandulcin(3),hernandulcin(4),benzoic acid(5),ethyl linolenate(6),ethyl hexadecanoate(7),α-amyrin(8),palmitic acid(9),behenic acid(10),adenosine(11),indole-3-carboxylic acid(12),protocatechuate(13),gallic acid(14),betulinic acid(15),oleanolic acid(16),potassium nitrate(17),diosmetin7-O-β-D-glucopyranoside( 18),3-O-β-D-xylopyranosyl(1→2)-β-D-glucopyranosyl-28-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl oleanolic acid(19). [Conclusions] All of the compounds were isolated from the plant for the first time.

Rice DENSE AND ERECT PANICLE 2 is essential for determining panicle outgrowth and elongation

包括谷物尺寸和圆锥花序形态学，圆锥花序的建筑学直接决定谷物产量。圆锥花序直立，为在中国的北部分完成理想的植物建筑学被选择，引起了米饭 breeders 的增加的注意。这里，稠密、直立的圆锥花序 2 (dep2 ) 异种，显示出稠密、直立的圆锥花序显型，被识别。没有任何已知的功能的领域， DEP2 编码植物特定的蛋白质。表示介绍 DEP2 表明它高度在年轻纸巾被表示，与在年轻圆锥花序的大多数丰富。词法并且表示分析显示在 DEP2 的那个变化主要影响脊柱和主要、第二等的分支的快速的延伸，但是不损害圆锥花序 primordia 的开始或形成。进一步的分析建议在 dep2 的圆锥花序长度的减少被一个缺点在圆锥花序的指数的延伸期间在房间增长引起。尽管有在 dep2 异种的一种更紧缩的植物类型，在谷物生产的重要改变都没在野类型和 dep2 异种之间被发现。因此， DEP2 的学习不仅加强我们圆锥花序建筑学的分子的基因基础的理解而且为米饭繁殖有重要含意。

A snapshot of the Chinese SOL Project

In 2003, the International Solanaceae Project （SOL） was initiated by an international consortium of ten countries including Korea, China, the United Kingdom, India, the Netherlands, France, Japan, Spain, Italy and the United States. The first major effort of the SOL aimed to produce a DNA sequence map for euchromatin regions of 12 chromosomes of tomato （Solanum lycopersicum） before 2010. Here we present an update on Chinese effort for sequencing the euchromatin region of chromosome 3.

Anti-inflammatory Effect and Mechanism of Characteristic Medicine Baeckea frutescens L. in Guangxi

[Objectives] This study aimed to investigate the anti-inflammatory effects of Baeckea frutescence L.in vitro and in vivo.[Methods]The anti-inflammatory activity of B.frutescence was measured by mouse peritoneal capillary permeability test,mouse auricle swelling test and rat cotton granuloma test.The RAW264.7 macrophage model was stimulated by lipopolysaccharide(LPS),and the effects of B.frutescence on tumor necrosis factor-α(TNF-α) and interleukin-6(IL-6) were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA),and the relative expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase(i NOS) and cyclooxygenase-2(COX-2) proteins was detected by Western blot.Thus,the in vitro anti-inflammatory activity of B.frutescence was studied.[Results] B.frutescence significantly inhibited mouse peritoneal capillary permeability,inhibited xylene-induced mouse auricle swelling and rat cotton granuloma,significantly inhibited TNF-α and IL-6 levels,and down-regulated the expression of i NOS and COX-2 proteins in cells.[Conclusions]B.frutescence showed good anti-inflammatory activity both in vitro and in vivo,and the mechanism may be related to the release inhibition of inflammatory factors TNF-α and the regulation of COX-2.

Chemical Composition of Fruit of Embelia undulata(Wall.)Mez

[Objectives]To study the chemical constituents of the fruit of Embelia undulata(Wall.)Mez.[Methods]Silica gel column chromatography,gel column chromatography,recrystallization,high-performance preparative liquid chromatography and other modern separation methods and techniques were used to separate and purify the chemical components of the ethyl acetate fraction of the fruit of E.undulata(Wall.)Mez,and based on the physical and chemical properties and spectral data,their structure was identified.[Results]Six compounds were isolated from the fruit of E.undulata(Wall.)Mez,including trimethyl citrate(1),vanillic acid(2),5-hydroxymethylfurfural(3),1,5-dimethyl citrate(4),1,6-dimethyl-5-ethyl citrate(5)and 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid(6).[Conclusions]Compounds 1-6 are all isolated from E.undulata(Wall.)Mez for the first time.

A CNN-SVR model for NO_(2)profile prediction based on MAX-DOAS observations:The influence of Chinese New Year overlapping the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown on vertical distributions of tropospheric NO_(2)in Nanjing,China

In this study,a hybrid model,the convolutional neural network-support vector regression model,was adopted to achieve prediction of the NO_(2)profile in Nanjing from January 2019to March 2021.Given the sudden decline in NO_(2)in February 2020,the contribution of the Coronavirus Disease-19(COVID-19)lockdown,Chinese New Year(CNY),and meteorologi cal conditions to the reduction of NO_(2)was evaluated.NO_(2)vertical column densities(VCDs) from January to March 2020 decreased by 59.05%and 32.81%,relative to the same period in 2019 and 2021,respectively.During the period of 2020 COVID-19,the average NO_(2)VCDs were 50.50%and 29.96%lower than those during the pre-lockdown and post-lockdown pe riods,respectively.The NO_(2)volume mixing ratios(VMRs)during the 2020 COVID-19 lock down significantly decreased below 400 m.The NO_(2)VMRs under the different wind fields were significantly lower during the lockdown period than during the pre-lockdown period This phenomenon could be attributed to the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.The NO_(2)VMRs be fore and after the CNY were significantly lower in 2020 than in 2019 and 2021 in the same period,which further proves that the decrease in NO_(2)in February 2020 was attributed to the COVID-19 lockdown.Pollution source analysis of an NO_(2)pollution episode during the lockdown period showed that the polluted air mass in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei was trans ported southwards under the action of the north wind,and the subsequent unfavorable meteorological conditions(local wind speed of<2.0 m/sec)resulted in the accumulation o pollutants.

Comparison Analysis of Transcripts from the Halophyte Thellungiella halophila

The Brassicaceae family halophyte Thellungiella halophila has a high salinity tolerance and serves as a valuable halophytic genetic model plant with experimental convenience similar to Arabidopsis thaliana. A cDNA library of Thellungiella was generated from salt-treated seedlings including rosettes and roots. More than 1000 randomly selected clones were sequenced and 946 expressed sequence tags （ESTs） were generated. The accession numbers of our EST data are available online in the GenBank database from EC598928 to EC599965. In total 679 unique clusters were assembled, and 632 （93%） had BLASTX hits in the nr databases and 7% are Thellungiella unique. According to the Gene Ontology （GO） hierarchy, 385 of 679 unigenes were categorized. Compared with public Arabidopsis microarray data, our results provide more potential salt tolerance genes in Thellungiella. These results will provide a broader coverage into Thellungiella transcriptome and benefit the discovery of salt tolerance related genes.

Fifteen Million Years of Evolution in the Oryza Genus Shows Extensive Gene Family Expansion

In analyzing gene families in the whole-genome sequences available for O. sativa （AA）, O. glaberrima （AA）, and O. brachyantha （FF）, we observed large size expansions in the AA genomes compared to FF genomes for the superfamilies F-box and NB-ARC, and five additional families： the Aspartic proteases, BTB/POZ proteins （BTB）, Glutaredoxins, Trypsin a-amylase inhibitor proteins, and Zf-Dof proteins. Their evolutionary dynamic was investigated to understand how and why such important size variations are observed between these closely related species. We show that expansions resulted from both amplification, largely by tandem duplications, and contraction by gene losses. For the F-box and NB-ARC gene families, the genes conserved in all species were under strong purifying selection while expanded orthologous genes were under more relaxed purifying selection. In F-box, NB-ARC, and BTB, the expanded groups were enriched in genes with little evidence of expression, in comparison with conserved groups. We also detected 87 loci under positive selection in the expanded groups. These results show that most of the duplicated copies in the expanded groups evolve neutrally after duplication because of functional redundancy but a fraction of these genes were preserved following neofunctionalization. Hence, the lineage-specific expansions observed between Oryza species were partly driven by directional selection.

Genome and Comparative Transcriptomics of African Wild Rice Oryza Iongistaminata Provide Insights into Molecular Mechanism of Rhizomatousness and Self-Incompatibility

Dear Editor, Oryza Iongistaminata is an African wild rice species with AA genome type possessing special traits that are highly valued for improving cultivated rice, such as strong resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses （Song et al., 1995） for improving resistance of cultivars, rhizomatousness for perennial breeding （Glover et al., 2010）, and self-incompatibility （SI） for new ways to produce hybrid seeds （Ghesquiere, 1986）. Deciphering the genome of O. Iongistaminata will be the key to uncovering the mechanism of these hallmark traits and improving cultivated rice.