Agro-morphological characterization of Hibiscus germplasm is a fundamental prerequisite to initiate plant breeding programs. The prime aim of this study was to characterize 107 Hibiscus syriacus genotypes using agromorphological characteristics and to collect useful data to facilitate the breeders for H. syriacus breeding programs. In this study, it has been recorded that this species appears to have innumerable variability in the morphological characteristics among Korean and exotic cultivars. Plant height of Korean and exotic H. syriacus cultivars were recorded and data revealed that the maximum plant height (143 cm) was recorded in ‘Woodbridge’ which had tall-erect plant shape. ‘Serenade’ and ‘Saemaeul’ cultivars had vigorous growth and had plant height of 141 and 137 cm, respectively and both had tall-erect plant shape. The diameters of H. syriacus flower ranged from 4.1 cm in ‘Kakchang’ to 9.4 cm in ‘Pyonghwa’. The data analysis exhibited that analysis flowers of ~ 86% of Korean cultivars had single type of flower’s form compared to exotic cultivars (~ 61%). The data related to flower shape showed that among Korean native cultivars the maximum plants (52.1%) had intermediate type of flowers followed by bowl (26.1%) and flat type (21.8%). Similar trend in exotic cultivars were observed for flower shape. In case of petal shape among total cultivars studied, 27.9% native H. syriacus plants had broard type of petals whereas 17.7 exotic cultivars had intermediate type of petals. Present results indicated high variability among H. syriacus cultivars, which presents great significance for Hibiscus breeding programs and for genetic studies in order to develop new varieties of H. syriacus.

The taxonomic importance of pollen morphologyin family Malvaceae had long been acknowledged as it pro-vides the basis for palynological and phylogenetic analysis.In present study, pollen morphological characteristics of var-ious Hibiscus syriacus cultivars were examined. The objec-tive of this study was to provide comprehensive evidence onpollen morphology and to determine pollen morphologicaldiversity in cultivars of H. syriacus that would be useful forplant taxonomy and classification. To get a clear insights ofthe pollen morphology, scanning electron microscopy (SEM)was carried out. It has been recorded that the pollen diam-eter of 16 cultivars of H. syriacus ranges from 108.81 to172.15 •Ïm. The maximum pollen size was reported fromthe cultivar ‘Chongdansim’ followed by the cultivar ‘Paedal’.The maximum spine exine length was reported from‘Jabae’ (25.29µm) followed by ‘Collie mullens’ (23.25µm),whereas the minimum value was recorded from ‘Paedal’(8.16µm). It is apparent from this study that pollen morphol-ogy of various H. syriacus cultivars was fairly uniform, andin almost all studied cultivars the pollen shape was spheroi-dal. The spines were present in all studied cultivars and var-ied considerably among the cultivars. The pollen spinefeatures presented notable variations which were of greatsignificance at both specific and generic levels, and hasalso been helpful in understanding the process of spine evo-lution within H. syriacus. The maximum distance betweenspines was observed from cultivar ‘Gyewolhyang’ that haddistance of 45.03µm. The morphological characteristics ofpollen studied in this study could be useful in performing amore efficient Hibiscus hybridization and breeding in future.

본 연구에서는 소비자의 새로운 색상에 대한 다양한 욕구를 충족시키기 위하여 백색 장미 데니스(R. hybrida'Denice')를 사용하여 무지개 색상의 장미를 만들고자 하였다. 온도가 높을수록 염색 시간은 빨랐으나 높은 온도에서는 절화의 개화가 빠르게 진행되었으며, 4시간 이상에서는꽃잎의 끝이 너무 진하게 염색되거나 건조되는 현상이나타났다. 7.5g·L-1보다 11g·L-1이상의 염료농도에서 염색되는 속도가 빨랐으나 큰 차이는 없었다.개화정도는 완전봉오리에서 시각적으로는 빨리 염색이되는 것으로 보였으나 속 꽃잎까지 흡수되는 시간은 3처리모두 유사하였다. 그러나 상품가치 면에서는 바깥꽃잎이3~4장 정도 개화했을 때가 가장 적합하다고 판단되었다.단색 실험의 결과에서 가장 적합한 조건 즉, 20℃염료 용액에 3시간 침지, 화경장 30cm, 11g·L-1의 염료 농도, 바깥꽃잎이 3~4장 개화한 ‘Denice’ 장미에 Hot Pink, True Blue,Yellow 3가지 색상을 조합하여 염료를 물올림 한 결과,6가지 색상을 지닌 무지개색의 장미를 착색, 발현시킬 수있었다.

본 연구에서는 다양한 색상의 염료가 절화 장미 ‘Akito’ 품종의 염색에 미치는 효과를 알아보기 위해 시행되었다. 12가지 색상의 염료를 이용한 염색 결과, 다채로운 색상을 구현해 내고 관상 가치를 높일 수 있었지만 절화수명은 대조구보다 1-3일 단축되었다. 4종류의 blue 염색염료를 비교한 결과 Fantasy blue (Palace Chemical Co., Japan)와 Blue No.1(Vidhi Dyestuff Mfg LTD, India)의 색상이 좋았다. 고농도 (7.5g •L-1와 10.0g •L-1)의 blue 염색의 경우 잎의 착 색이 심하고 불균일 하였으며 꽃잎의 가장자리가 짙어 지는 현상이 나타났다.