Sanggolbyeo is a new japonica rice cultivar developed from Ilpumbyeo mutation lines by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea(MNU) treatment on fertilized egg cell by the rice breeding team of Gangwon Provincial Agricultural Res.& Ext. Service in 2006. This cultivar has about 135 days growth duration from transplanting to harvesting. Sanggolbyeo has short and round grain and non-glutinous endosperm with very low phytate content, below 50% of Ilpumbyeo, implying it could help men to absorb Calcium from rice. This cultivar shows midium diseases tolerance to leaf blast, bacterial blight, virus and insect pest. The milled rice yield of Sanggolbyeo is about 4.98 MT/ha at ordinary transplanting culture in the local adaptability test. Sanggolbyeo would be adaptable for the mid-northern plain areas of Korea.

This study was carried out to screen high α-glucosidase inhibitor (AGI) activity pepper lines from EMS treated mutants of pepper. The optimal concentration of EMS for inducing mutants to pepper was 0.15M and the optimal treatment time of EMS was 2 hours. With this condition, many mutants which have high AGI activity were screened and especially leaf of two lines were showed 27 times inhibitory activity on α-glucosidase comparing with control. There is no difference between mutants and nornmal plant in growth. These results indicated that AGI activity of pepper leaf would be increased by mutation.