작물학적 특성을 신속히 보완하며 확충할 수 있는 이점을 가지고 있는 돌연변이 육종을 통해 육성된 유용형질발현 돌연변이계통들의 다양한 작물학적 특성과 병해충 저항성은 유용한 유전자원으로 평가되고 있으며, 다양한 작물학적 특성 및 병해충 저항성에 대한 돌연변이 계통의 유용형질들을 교배를 통해 고품질 벼의 보완을 위해 이전하는 것이 용이한 이점을 가지고 있다. 농촌진흥청 국립식량과학원에서는 국내 육성 자포니카 벼품종인 남일에 아지드화나트륨을 돌연변이원으로 활용하여 단간이며 도열병 저항성 돌연변이 후대계통인 Namil(SA)- bl5를 육성하였다. 본 연구는 염색체상에서 Namil(SA)-bl5의 단간 특성과 도열병 저항성에 관련된 유전좌위를 탐색하고자 수행하였다. 주요 연구 결과로 Namil(SA)-bl5와 밀양23호간에서 유래한 F2 94 개체로부터 단간에 대한 표현형을 조사하고 68개 SSR 마커의 유전자형을 검정하여 연관분석(association analysis)을 수행한 결과 목표 유전좌위는 6번 염색체 중하단 부위와 7번 염색체 하단 부위로 간장의 단축은 주동유전자적 조절에 의한 것으로 추정되었다. 또한, 분자마커의 유전자형과 도열병저항성 간의 연관성평가를 수행한 결과를 보면, Namil(SA)- bl5의 도열병 저항성에 관여하는 주동 유전좌위는 12번 염색체 중단의 RM1337 좌위에 위치하는 것으로 추정되었다. 추후 목표 유전좌위에 대한 마커밀도를 선택적으로 높여 고밀도 유전자지도 작성함으로 초정밀 분자표지인자를 개발할 계획이다.

작물학적 특성을 신속히 보완하며 확충할 수 있는 이점을 가지고 있는 돌연변이 육종을 통해 육성된 유용형질발현 돌연변이계통들의 다양한 작물학적 특성과 병해충 저항성은 유용한 유전자원으로 평가되고 있으며, 병해충 저항성에 대한 돌연변이 계통의 유용형질들을 교배를 통해 고품질 벼의 보완을 위해 이전하는 것이 용이하다. 농촌진흥청 국립식량과학원에서는 국내 육성 자포니카 벼 품종인 남일에 EMS를 돌연변이원으로 활용하여 도열병 및 벼멸구 저항성 돌연변이 후대계통인 Namil(EMS)-bl10,bph1를 육성하였다. 염색체 상에 Namil(EMS)-bl10,bph1의 도열병 및 벼멸구 저항성에 관련된 유전자좌위를 표지하기 위해 Namil(EMS)-bl10,bph1 x 밀양23호로부터 유래한 F2 97 개체로부터 도열병과 벼멸구에 대한 저항성을 검정하고 60개 SSR 마커의 유전자형을 검정하여 연관성분석(association analysis)을 수행하였다. 분자마커의 유전자형과 저항성 간의 연관성분석 결과, Namil(EMS)- bl10,bph1 의 도열병 및 벼멸구 저항성에 관여하는 주동유전자위는 12번 염색체 중단의 RM1337 및 RM0277에 각각 표지 되었다.

Among the abiotic stresses, heavy metal (HM) toxicity is thought to be one of the major abiotic stresses leading to hazardous effects in plants. In spite of its potential physiological and economical significance, morphological alterations induced by heavy metals in plants have so far been grossly overlooked. In the present study, the morphological and physiological changes were observed in the leaf of sorghum plants treated with different concentrations (0, 50, 100, and 150 μM) of CdCl2. Results revealed that plants endured reduction in growth and morphological changes amazingly altered by cadmium. The growth of sorghum seedlings treated with 150 μM cadmium was more inhibited than that of sorghum seedlings treated with 100 μM Cd, 50μM and non-treated plants. The morphological characteristics revealed that the cadmium stress inhibited the root and shoot elongation after growing the rise seedling in the presence of cadmium. In the case of ion concentration, the concentrations of Zn2+, Ca2+ were decreased whereas Fe2+ concentration was increased except 100 μM under cadmium stress. In confocal microscopy, results showed that the absorption degree of cadmium was increased by the higher concentration of cadmium. The fluorescence intensity of cadmium was also increased. Thus, it seemed that cadmium has an influence on sorghum in the case of early stages of sorghum. This study reported the effects of heavy metal, cadmium on the growth and physiological characteristics of sorghum seedlings, hoping to provide references on the mechanism of heavy metal damaging plants, and phyto-remediation for heavy metal polluted soil.

Sub-cellular proteomics provide insight into the molecular mechanisms of plant cell modulation of protein accumulation in intracellular compartments regarding various perturbations, and thus provides rectified knowledge about signal transduction in organelles. Mitochondria are important organelles for cellular respiration within the eukaryotic cell and serve many important functions including vitamin synthesis, amino acid metabolism and photorespiration for the cell as well. To define the mitochondrial proteome of the roots of wheat seedling, a systematical and targeting analysis were carried out on the mitochondrial proteome from 15 days-old wheat seedling roots material. Mitochondria were isolated by Percoll gradient centrifugation; and extracted proteins were separated and analyzed using Tricine SDS-PAGE along with LTQ-FTICR mass spectrometry. From the isolated mitochondrial proteins, a total of 140 proteins were identified. The identified proteins were functionally classified into 12 classes using ProtFun 2.2 server based on cellular roles, Proteins were shown to be involved in including amino acid biosynthesis (17.1%), biosynthesis of cofactors (6.4%), cell envelope (11.4%), central intermediary metabolism (10%), energy metabolism (20%), fatty acid metabolism (0.7%), purines and pyrimidines (5.7%), regulatory functions (0.7%), replication and transcription (1.4%), translation (22.1%), transport and binding (1.4%), and unknown (2.8%). These results indicated that many of the protein components present and functions of identified proteins are common to other profiles of mitochondrial proteomes performed to date. The data presented here will begin to reveal a better understanding the characteristics of proteins and metabolic activity in mitochondria in wheat roots.

High temperature impediment in developing stages of crops has been occurred due to the impact of global warming. Rice production is notable to be sensitive to increasing environmental temperature and grain filling temperatures are already approaching threatening levels in many countries with rice cultivation. Recent proteomic analyses exposed impulsive changes of metabolisms during rice grain development. Interestingly, proteins involved in glycolysis, citric acid cycle, lipid metabolism, and proteolysis were accumulated at higher levels in mature grain than those of developing stages. High temperature (HT) stress in rice ripening period enhances damaged (chalky) grains which have loosely compacted shape starch granules. We carried out two-dimensional gel electrophoresis to analyze protein profiles during grain filling and different developmental stages of rice seed maturation. Proteins were separated from the fertilized seeds (seeds from 7 days and 21 days after fertilization) and seed maturation stage using IEF in the first-dimension and SDS-PAGE in the second dimension along with MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. More than 1,000 protein spots were detected on a two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. A total of 120 different protein spots out of 140 protein spots were identified by MALDI-TOF and nano LCQ-TOF mass spectrometer. The identified proteins were categorized into six (6) different groups according to their expression patterns during grain filling and seed maturation. Some proteins were confirmed during seed development stages such as cytoplasmic malate dehydrogenase, whereas others were appeared at a specific stage like putative subtilisin-like protease, germin-like, seed allergenic proteins. Furthermore, the chalking mechanism of rice grain under the HT stress could be discussed in terms of grain starch glycome, transcriptome, and proteome.

We improved the separation of the basic proteins from the soybean cotyledon, Glycine max L. Merr. by searching N-terminal sequences data in proteins isolated by two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE). After removed Hexane, proteins were extracted from cotyledon with a urea/Triton/2-mercaptoetanol solution. Using this method, the highly reproducible isoelectric focusing (IEF) can formed with polyacrylamide gels with pH 4.0-9.8. The IEF tube gels were used as the first dimension, and proteins were visualized by second-dimensional gel electrophoresis, and identify a number of soybean cotyledon proteins using mass spectrometry in the proteome analysis. These instruments of 2-DE and IEF tube gels were used 27 cm and investigate under various conditions. The total number of spots and features was obtained by PDQuest software (Bio-Rad). In this experiments performed, the IEF tube gels and instruments afforded good reproducibility in the number of PDQuest-detected spots from gel to gel while IPG offered better reproducibility in the total number of manually detected spots from gel to gel. In conclusion, we have separated of the basic 13 proteins in soybean. The glycinin subunit separations are also considered to play important roles in soybean breeding and biochemical characterization. The improved technique will be useful to dissect the genetic control of glycinin expression in soybean.