The molecular processing of upstream regulation of Pi response genes during Pi starvation remains inadequately understood. Several transcription factor have been studied that appear to regulate subsets of the responses to Pi stress either positively or negatively. MYB genes are responsive to one or multiple type of hormone and stress treatments. In this study, cDNA of the MYB have been cloned, and we generated Rice overexpressing plants for characterization of these genes. OsMYB gene function focused on phosphate conditions with rice and Arabidopsis transgenic plants. We selected 30 - T1 transgenic lines from T0 transgenic rices. those are shown high Pi content. The Pi contents of shoots part of transgenic plants were shown 10~20% increased Pi contents than WT, whereas roots have 30% increased Pi contents. As a result, OsMYB genes affect Pi uptake in plants. To investigate interactions between MYB proteins and phosphate signaling related genes. We demonstrate that Myb-binding sites (MBSs) exist in putative promoter of OsPT transporter by analysis of bioinformatics, and its bind specific MYB transcription factor. OsMYB expression is induced by low Pi and Pi deficiency, and its overexpression plants are shown morphological phenotype in Pi stress.

The utilization of several genetic resources is the most important for developing rice, such as high yield seeds or various stresses. We used an efficient system to create rice mutant by Ac/Ds transposon insertion mutagenesis, such as selected homozygous mutant in dwarf phenotypes. We reported here the identification of function of dwarf OsGASD gene (Oryzasativa Gibberellin Acid Sensitive Dwarf). OsGASD gene encodes a 344 amino acid polypeptide and nohomology proteins in GeneBank. The osgasd mutnat was sensitive to exogenous gibberellic acid (GA) level. We performed experiment to controlled expression the OsGASD gene, its role in plant development, a quantitative analysis of endogenous GA content and sensitivity to GA. The osgasd mutant includes smaller amount of active GAs than wild-type. osgasd mutant plant of GA biosynthesis pathway causes GA deficiency and dwarf plants ,and endogenous GA suppliance can restore the wildtype phenotype in this mutant. The result indicated that OsGASD gene regulated the elongation of shoot, stem and plant height. The increased expression of OsGASD gene dramatically induces expression of the factors associated with GA biosynthesis such as CPS, KO, KAO, GA20ox and GA2ox, whereas osgasd mutant suppression of the factors associated with GA biosynthesis, loading to dwarf phenotypes. That applied GA3 at the plant development stage to survey the response of OsGASD gene to GA3. We suggest that OsGASD gene is related to factors of GA biosynthesis pathway regulating rice internodes development.

In this study, we generated and characterized the transgenic rice plant expressing a spider silk protein. A cDNA coding for the C-terminus of spider silk protein (AvMaSp) was cloned from the spider Araneus ventricosus. Analysis of the cDNA sequence shows that the C-terminus of AvMaSp consists of 165 amino acids of are petitive region and 99 amino acids of a C-terminalnon-repetitive region. The peptide motifs found in spider silk proteins, GGX and An, were conserved in the repetitive region of AvDrag. The AvMaSp cDNA was expressed as a 28kDa polypeptide in baculovirus-infected insect cells. To produce transgenic rice plant with high contents of glycine and alanine, the prolamin promoter-driven AvMaSp was introduced into rice plant via Agrobacteriumtumefaciens-mediated gene transformation. Because of seeds pecific prolamin promoter, expression of AvMaSp protein has been achieved inriceseed. The introduction and copy number of the AvMaSp gene in transgenic rice plants were determined by PCR and Southern blot analysis. AvMaSp expression in transgenic rice seeds was examined by Northern blot and Western blot analysis. Immuno fluorescence staining with the AvMaSpantiserum revealed that the recombinant AvMaSp proteins were localized in transgenic rice seeds. Furthermore, the amino acid content analysis showed that transgenic rice seeds were greatly increased in glycine and alanine as compared to controls. The present study is the first to show the expression of spider silk protein in rice seed.