Manpung is a new japonica rice cultivar developed from three-way cross between Nakdongbyeo, Iri390 and Milyang111 by the rice breeding team of National Honam Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES), RDA in 2000. This cultivar has a short grain shape and a

An efficient system of rice microspore culture could contribute to the production of genetically modified rice. The microspores were isolated by mechanical or shed methods. The number of microspores per 100 anthers isolated at uninucleate stage was higher than (or similar to) those at binucleate stage in isolation method with pestle or spatular, but microspore divisions were not easily observed on both stages. On the other hand, pollen division in shed pollen culture was observed more frequently at uninuclear than at binuclear stage. Cold pretreatment at 10~circC for 10 days resulted in the best multicellular division to produce microcalli at 12.5% efficiency in shed microspores. Heat shock at 33~circC for one hour before or after pollen shedding enhanced cell division and callus formation. Out of twelve green regenerants, two were haploids and ten were diploids based on the chromosome analysis of root tips. The size of stoma was 12m m in haploids and 15 ~mu~textrmm in diploids determined by scanning electron microscope (SEM).

This study was carried out to investigate the characteristics of shattering habit and germination of offtype rice plants collected in Korea which were classified into seven groups based on grain characteristics. In the long-grain red rice group, the short-grain red rice group, the long-grain normal rice group, and the long-grain waxy rice group, the tensile strength of grain and primary rachis branch was relatively low and the fiber cell of the primary rachis branch was short. Characteristics of shattering-related traits and germination in relation to grain and esterase isozyme zymogram type of off-type rice plants. In most lines of the extremely late and sterile rice group, the tensile strength of grain was low, while that of primary rachis branch was high, and the fiber cell was long. However, in the type 1 esterase isozyme zymogram(EIZ) lines among the long-grain normal rice group and the type 6 and 5+6 EIZ plants among the extremely late and sterile rice group, the tensile strength of grain was relatively higher. The long-grain waxy rice group and the type 3 EIZ lines among the long-grain red rice group, showed higher germinability than did cultivars which are known to germinate well even in low-temperature. The other off-type rice group, except for the short-grain waxy rice group and type 1 and 7 EIZ lines among the long-grain normal rice group, had higher germination speed than that of the cultivars.

아프리카 벼에 있어서 벼알과 소피경 사이에 형성되는 이층조직의 특이성에 따라, '부분이층', '불규칙이층' 및 '완전이층'의 품종을 각각 2품종씩 공시하여 유수형성 이후 유수와 영화의 신장에 따른 이층조직의 형성 및 발달과정을 해부형태학적으로 관찰하였다. 또한 출수후 수확기까지 등숙과정에 있어서 탈립성정도의 변화와 이층조직과의 관계에 대하여 검토하였다. 아프리카 벼의 유수와 영화는 출수전 15일 이후 급격한 신장을 보여 출수전 5일 경에는 출수기와 거의 동일한 길이로 신장되었다. 출수전 15일 경에는 작은 유조직세포로 구성된 이층조직의 형성부위를 인정할 수 있었는데, 부분이층의 외영쪽에는 이층조직의 형성부위를 인정할 수 없었고, 불규칙이층의 외영쪽에는 부분적으로 집단화되어 있는 소형의 유조직세포들을 관찰할 수 있었다. 출수전 10일경 이층조직 주변의 세포들은 세포벽이 식후하고 목화되어 1-2층의 유조직세포로된 이층조직을 더욱 뚜렷하게 구분할 수 있었는데, '부분이층'의 외영쪽에는 후벽조직속에 1-2개의 유조직세포가 혼재되어 있었고, '불규칙이층'의 외영쪽에는 불규칙하게 집단화된 유조직세포를 관찰할 수 있었다. 아프리카 벼에 있어서는 출수후 2주째 벼알의 등숙이 수확기와 거의 비슷하게 진전되었는데, 이때 이층구조의 붕괴현상 관찰할 수 있었으며, 또한 벼알과 소피경 사이의 인장강도도 수확기와 동일하게 저하하였다.