Modified CTAB method,SDS method and kit method were applied to extract RNA from different tissues of Tamarix chinensis Lour and Canna indica Linn,the quality of extracted RNA was detected by UV spectrophotometry and agarose gel electrophoresis.The results showed that the A260 nm/ A280 nm of RNA extracted from leaves of T.chinensis and C.indica by CTAB method was 1.96 and 1.91,respectively,indicating high purity of RNA.Agarose gel electrophoresis showed that RNA of the two plants extracted by CTAB and SDS method was with clear and bright 28 S rRNA and 18 S rRNA bands,indicating the integrality and concentrating of RNA was well;while the RNA extracted by kit method was degraded and with impurity interference.

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was applied to somatic chromosomes preparations of Oryza sativa L. (AA), O. glaberrima (AA), and O. officinalis Wall. (CC) with a labeled probe of C0t-1 DNA. Genomic in situ hybridization to its own chromosomes (self-GISH) was conducted in a control experiment. The homologous chromosomes showed similar signal bands probed by C0t-1 DNA, while karyotypic analysis of chromosomes between A genome in the two cultivated species and C genome in O. officinalis were conducted based on the band patterns. The ideograms with C0t-1 DNA signal bands were also built. The nonuniform distribution of hybridization signals of C0t-1 DNA from O. sativa and that on its own chromosome of O. officinalis were observed. However, the similarity and correspondence between C0t-1 DNA signal patterns and genomic DNA signal patterns indicated that the self-GISH signals actually resulted from the hybridization of genomic repetitive sequences to the chromosomes. The restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) marker, R2676, from the chromosome 8 of O. sativa and O. officinalis, was used as a probe to somatic hybrid on chromosomes for comparative karyotypic analysis between O. glaberrima and O. officinalis. The results showed that R2676 was located on the short arm of chromosome 7 in O. officinalis and chromosome 4 in O. glaberrima. The percentage distances from the centromere to hybridization sites were 91.56±5.62 and 86.20±3.17. Our results revealed that the relative length of O. officinalis chromosome 8 does not follow conventional chromosome length in descending order of number. C0t-1 DNA of A genome signals were detected in the end of the short arm of O. officinalis chromosome 8, indicating that the highly and moderately repetitive DNA sequences in this region were considerably similar between C and A genomes. However, the fluorescence intensity on the chromosomes of C0t-1 DNA of A genome was less than that of its own C genome from O. officinalis, which would be one of the causes for the fact that highly and moderately repetitive DNA sequences were amplified in O. officinalis. No homology signal of C0t-1 DNA from O. sativa was detected in the end of the long arm of O. glaberrima, indicating that repetitive DNA sequences of A genome in two cultivated rice were lost in the evolutional history. In this paper, using comparative karyotypic analysis of RFLP combined C0t-1 DNA signal bands, the evolutionary mechanism of genome in genus Oryza was also discussed.

In the title compound, [Zn(NCS)(C(12)H(18)N(2)O(2))(2)]NO(3), the Zn(II) ion is chelated by the phenolate O and imine N atoms from two zwitterionic Schiff base ligands and is also coordinated by the N atom of a thio-cyanate ligand, giving a distorted trigonal-bipyramidal geometry. Intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds are observed in the complex cation. The nitrate anions are linked to the complex cations through N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds.

Two new copper(II) complexes, [CuL1(N3)] (1) and [CuL2(NCS)] (2) (HL1 = 4-chloro-2-[(2-piperidin-1-ylethylimino)methyl]phenol, HL2 = 4-chloro-2-[(2-morpholin-4-ylethylimino)methyl]phenol), were prepared and structurally characterized by elemental analyses, infrared spectroscopy, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Complex 1 is an azide coordinated mononuclear complex, while complex 2 is a terminal thiocyanate coordinated mononuclear complex. The coppers in both complexes are four-coordinate, square-planar. Both complexes show potent urease inhibitory properties.