본 연구에서는 국내 콩 유전체의 변이밀집영역(dVB)에서 유 래한 27개 InDel 마커를 신품종 20개에 적용하여 품종판별용 마커로서 범용성을 검증하고 신품종의 구별성과 국내 품종의 유전적 다양성을 확인하였다. 20개 신품종과 MyCrops에 포함된 기존 149개 품종과의 유사도는 평균 61.3%이고, 최저 25.9%에서 최대 96.3%의 유사도로 완전 일치(100%)되는 바코드는 없어 20개 신품종의 유전적 구별성을 모두 확인할 수 있었다. 유연관계를 분석한 결과에서는 신품종을 포함한 국내 169품종이 4개의 유전집단으로 구분되었으며 풋콩 및 단기성 콩의 80%가 I-2 소그룹, 나물콩의 65.9%가 II-2 소그룹에 주로 속한 반면, 장류 및 두부콩은 I-1 (44.4%), I-2 (26.4%), II-2 (23.6%) 소그룹에 고르게 분포하였다. 20개 신품종에 대한 계보도는 나물콩 주요 계보와 장류 및 두부콩으로 크게 두 그룹으로 나누어지며 유연 관계분석을 뒷받침하였다. 품종판별을 위한 최소 마커를 선발 하기 위해 PIC가 높은 공통마커와 품종별 특이마커를 선발하는 2단계 과정을 통해 품종에 따라 7~9개의 최소 마커로 신품종의 진위를 판별할 수 있었다. 이처럼 콩 변이밀집영역에서 유래된 27개 InDel 마커와 이를 이용한 신품종 바코드 정보의 지속적인 업데이트는 수입산에 대한 국산 품종의 보호와 육성가의 권리 증진에 기여하며, 더불어 육종과정 중 신규 유전변이를 도입하고 목표형질을 선발하는 등 육종 효율을 개선하는데도 도움이 될 것으로 기대한다.

Knowledge of the chromosomal constitution of the ancestors of modern soybean will complement plant breeding efforts to improve agronomic and economic characteristics of soybean. Variation block (VB)-based comparison using genome-wide insertion/deletion (InDel) markers was used on a diverse panel of 147 soybean cultivars to assess the impact of chromosomal changes during modern breeding. There were identical variation patterns of the examined InDels consistently appearing in the genome parts arising from parental varieties, indicating that soybean chromosomes in descendants should be all determined by genetic reshuffling of VBs inherited from parental chromosomes. Structure analysis of the accessions through the 202 InDels separated the accessions into four subgroups. Gene introgression revealed by the structure analysis agreed with the fact that a limited number of landraces and elite varieties were introduced and used as donors for breeding soybean cultivars in pedigree analysis. Especially, VBs became more reshuffled over time as a result of the breeding process, which resulted in using breeding parents with new VB-types for improving the end-use value of soybean. Therefore, their clustering using the 202 VB-specific InDels is strongly influenced by the difference in breeding ancestors among the subgroups. This indicates that the 202 InDel markers are very useful for genetic study by analyzing the reshuffling patterns of the parental genomes in the descendant.

감자 수요를 확대하기 위해서는 소득 증가와 함께 소비자 의 관심이 증대하고 있는 신선편이식품으로 시장을 보다 더 넓혀 나가야 한다. 이를 위해서는 감자에 존재하는 유독 물질 인 glycoalkaloids에 대한 주의가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 도 입품종인 대서, 수미와 최근 국내에서 개발된 하령, 고운, 홍 영, 자영 품종을 포함하여 국내 주요 24품종을 대상으로 부위 별 PGA 함량을 분석하였으며 그 연구 결과를 요약하면 다음 과 같다. 1. 총 PGA 함량(mg/100g·FW)은 하령(10.1), 수미(9.3), 홍영(7.3), 자영(6.9), 대서(4.8), 고운(3.4), 자심(3.1) 순으로 나타났다. 2. 공시품종의 껍질부위 PGA 함량은 전체 함량의 41 ~ 85% 분포를 보였으며, 국내주요 재배 품종에서 대서는 PGA 함량이 껍질(85%)에서 높고 육질 부위(0.7)에서 낮아 PGA 독성으로부터 가장 안전한 품종이었다. 3. 특히 고운, 자심 품종은 PGA 함량이 제일 낮아 껍질째 감자를 이용하기에 적절하며 중간모본으로 활용가치가 크다 고 판단된다.

Arabis glabra is a localized common rhizomatous flowering plant, This plant is often used in Korean traditional systems of medicine as a remedy for blood cleaning, detoxification, abscess, gastrospasm, arthritis, contraction and diarrhea. Generally drugs that are used for arthritis have antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory properties. However, validity of the anti-inflammatory activity has not been scientifically investigated so far. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the anti-inflammatory potential of A. glabra using the ethanolic extract and its sub-fractions. To evaluate the anti-inflammatory effects, we examined the inflammatory mediators such as nitric oxide (NO) and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) on RAW 264.7macrophages. Our results indicated that hexane and chloroform fraction significantly inhibited the LPSinduced NO and PGE2 production in the cells. The hexane fraction inhibitory activity for NO tests with IC50 values showed in 21.0 ㎍/㎖. The chloroform fraction inhibitory activity for PGE2 tests with IC50 values showed in 18.0 ㎍/㎖. These efficacy are expected to be able to present the potential for the development of health functional food for the prevention inflammatory diseases because it has sufficient preventive medical possibilities. Further, it is determined that it is necessary to further study the mechanism of cytokine and protein expression associated with inflammation.

The Arabidopsis gene AVP1 encodes a vacuolar H+-translocating inorganic pyrophosphatase (EC3.6.1.1) that functions as an electronic proton pump in the vacuolar membrane and affects growth development and stress responses in plants. This study was conducted to evaluate the molecular properties of the A. thaliana vacuolar H+-pyrophosphatase (AVP1) gene in rice. Incorporation and expression of the transgene was confirmed by PCR and quantitative real-time PCR, respectively. Expression of the AVP1 gene in transgenic rice plants (TRP1 and TRP2) resulted in significantly enhanced tolerance to 100 mM NaCl under greenhouse conditions when compared to control wild-type (WT) rice plants. Augmented AVP1 expression in the transgenic rice plants also affected total biomass and improved ion homeostasis through increased accumulation of Na+ ions in whole tissues when compared to control WT rice plants under high salinity conditions. The Fv/Fm values of transgenic rice plants were higher than those of WT rice plants, even though the values decreased over time in both WT and transgenic (TRP1 to TRP8) rice plants. Furthermore, rice grain yield and biomass of the transgenic rice plants were at least 15% higher based on the culm and root weights and panicle and spikelet numbers when compared to those of the WT rice plants during the farming season in Korea. Thus, these results suggest that ectopic AVP1 expression conferred tolerance and stress resistance to genetically modified transgenic crop plants by improving cellular ion homeostasis against salt conditions, which enhanced the rice yield and biomass under natural conditions in paddy fields.

Much effort has been expended to find agronomically important QTLs for improving soybean yield. However, the complexity of genome, such as genome duplication, limits the utility of genome-wide association studies and linkage analyses to identify genes controlling yield traits. We propose the variation block method, a three-step process for recombination block detection and comparison. The first step is to detect variations by comparing short-read DNA sequences of the cultivar to a reference genome of the target crop. Next, sequence blocks with variation patterns are examined and defined. The boundaries between the variation-containing sequence blocks are regarded as recombination sites. All the assumed recombination sites in the cultivar set are used to split the genomes, and the resulting sequence regions are named as variation blocks. The practicality of this approach was demonstrated by the identification of a putative locus determining soybean hilum color and known genes such as flower color gene. We suggest that the variation block method is an efficient genomics method for recombination block-level comparison of crop genomes. We expect that this method holds the prospect of developing crop genomics by bringing genomics technology to the field of crop breeding.

Potato glycoalkaloids(PGAs) are potentially toxic to humans at high levels and current safety regulations have recommended that PGAs content in tubers of potato cultivars should not exceed 20 mg/100g·FW. Accordingly, it is important to determine the PGAs composition and levels on potato cultivars for food safty and the breeding for new cultivars with low levels of PGAs. The main aim of this study was to evaluate α-chaconine, α-solanine and total PGAs content in the peel and cortex portions in 24 cultivars including ‘Haryoung’, ‘Goun’, ‘Hongyoung’ and ‘Jayoung’, recently released by Highland Agricultural Research Institute. The total PGAs ranged from 3.1 to 10.1 mg/100g·FW. 75-94% of total PGAs was existed in the peel part of all cultivars. We selected two cultivars, which can be eaten wth the skin on tubers, and so used for soy sauce braised potatoes and baby potatoes for the rest area. These results will provide consumers and breeders with fundamental information about the content of PGAs in Korea major cultivars.

This study was carried out to determine environmental factors affecting the anthocyanin content of colorfleshed potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tubers. After planting of two color-fleshed potato cultivars of ‘Hongyoung’ and ‘Jayoung’ in different 14 locations, their soil chemical properties and meteorological data were evaluated, and anthocyanin contents of tubers were analyzed after harvest, additionally their relationship among them was analyzed through correlation analysis. In comparison with two cultivars, purple-fleshed ‘Jayoung’ potatoes showed higher anthocyanin content than red-fleshed ‘Hongyoung’ in almost locations. When locations were divided to three categories (highland, sub-highland and lowland) according to altitude, in general, highland-grown tubers had the higher content of anthocyanin compared to those grown in lowland. An analysis of the results of chemical components of soil showed that anthocyanin content of color-fleshed potato tubers was negatively correlated with the pH of soil. In addition, mean temperature and minimum temperature from 80 to 100 days after planting most significantly affected on the accumulation of anthocyanin in color-fleshed potato tubers, that is, higher content of anthocyanin was observed in tubers produced in locations with lower mean temperature and minimum temperature from 80 to 100 days after planting. This information can be useful to producers and industries in selection of proper fields for the production of color-fleshed potato tubers having high quality in Korea.

PGA 함량 정보가 없는 유전자원을 활용한 다양한 용도의 감자 품종 개발은 괴경 내 PGA 함량을 높이는 비의도적 결과를 초래할 가능성이 있다. 이러한 배경에서 신품종에 대한 정밀한 PGA 함량 분석은 감자의 식품안전성 제고와 PGA 저 함유 품종 개발을 위한 교배 모부본 확보차원에서 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 도입품종인 대서, 수미와 최근 개발된 하령, 고운, 홍영, 자영 4품종을 대상으로 괴경 부위, 저장기간별 PGA 함량변화를 분석하였다. 그 연구 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다.

The perturbation of the steady state of reactive oxygen species due to biotic and abiotic stresses in a plant could lead to protein denaturation through the modification of amino acid residues, including the oxidation of methionine residues. Methionine sulfoxide reductases (MSRs) catalyze the reduction of methionine sulfoxide back to the methionine residue. To assess the role of this enzyme, we generated transgenic rice using a pepper CaMSRB2 gene under the control of the rice Rab21 promoter with/without a selection marker, the bar gene. A drought resistance test on transgenic plants showed that CaMSRB2 confers drought tolerance to rice, as evidenced by less oxidative stress symptoms and a strengthened PSII quantum yield under stress conditions, and increased survival rate and chlorophyll index after the re-watering. The results from immunoblotting using a methionine sulfoxide antibody and nano-LC-MS/MS spectrometry suggest that porphobilinogen deaminase (PBGD), which is involved in chlorophyll synthesis, is a putative target of CaMSRB2. The oxidized methionine content of PBGD expressed in E. coli increased in the presence of H2O2, and the Met-95 and Met-227 residues of PBGD were reduced by CaMSRB2 in the presence of dithiothreitol. An expression profiling analysis of the overexpression lines also suggested that photosystems are less severely affected by drought stress. Our results indicate that CaMSRB2 might play an important functional role in chloroplasts for conferring drought stress tolerance in rice

In contrast with wild species, cultivated crop genomes consist of reshuffled recombination blocks, which occurred by crossing and selection processes. Accordingly, recombination block-based genomics analysis can be an effective approach for screening target loci with agricultural traits and for developing designed cultivars. We propose the molecular breeding platform based on the variation block (VB) method, which is a three-step process for recombination block detection and comparison. The first step is to detect variations by comparing the short-read DNA sequences of the cultivar to the reference genome of the target crop. Next, sequence blocks with variation patterns are examined and defined. The boundaries between the variation-containing sequence blocks are regarded as recombination sites. All the assumed recombination sites in the cultivar set are used to split the genomes, and the resulting sequence regions are termed variation blocks. Finally, the genomes are compared using the variation blocks. The variation block method identified recurring recombination blocks accurately and successfully represented block-level diversities in the publicly available genomes of 31 soybeans and 23 rice accessions. The practicality of this approach was demonstrated by the identification of a putative locus determining soybean hilum color. In addition, we identified recombination hot spots of soybean genome in 614 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) using VB-specific indel markers. We expect that this platform facilitate the development of designed cultivars by introducing precise target loci into plant genomes.

본 연구에서는 밥밑용 잡곡으로 이용하기 위한 찰옥수수 를 도정하여 이화학특성 및 취반특성에 관련된 연구를 수행 하여 얻어진 결과를 보고하고자 한다. 1. 도정수율은 유색 찰옥수수인 흑진주찰, 미흑찰, 얼룩 찰이 다른 품종에 비해 상대적으로 높았으며, 백색 찰 옥수수 품종에서는 찰옥4호, 일미찰, 연농1호가 높았다. 2. 도정 전 후의 색차변화를 측정하였을 때 도정 후 모든 품종의 L 값은 증가하고 a값은 백색 찰옥수수 품종에 서는 감소하지만, 유색 찰옥수수 품종에서는 전체적으 로 증가하는 경향을 보였으며, 흑진주찰은 도정 후 L, a값이 가장 낮았다. 3. 옥수수쌀의 안토시아닌 색소함량을 측정하였을 때 흑진주찰은 154.1 μg/g, 얼룩찰1호는 42.5 μg/g 함유되 어 있었다. 4. 옥수수쌀 전분의 호화양상을 측정하였을 때 연농1호, 미흑찰은 호화개시온도가 가장 낮았으며, 연농1호, 흑 진주찰, 미흑찰은 최종점도와 치반점도가 낮고, 상대 적으로 강하점도가 높아 호화특성이 양호한 것으로 나 타났다. 5. 취반 후 연농2호, 미흑찰, 흑진주찰이 다른 품종에 비 해 수분흡수율, 퍼짐성이 높고, 연농2호, 연농1호, 미 백2호, 흑진주찰, 얼룩찰이 다른 품종에 비해 경도값 이 낮았다. 6. 취반 후 식미평가에서 흑진주찰 > 미흑찰 > 흑점2호 순으로 높은 기호성을 보였다. 7. 종합적인 결과를 바탕으로 흑진주찰, 연농2호, 미흑찰 품종이 취반용 옥수수쌀로 알맞은 특성을 가지는 것으 로 나타났다.

콩 관련 제품을 생산하는 과정에서 발생되는 부산물은 가축의 사료 및 퇴비 등에 이용되고 있으나 일부는 폐기물로처리되어 추가 비용 및 각종 환경오염을 유발하는 등 사회적인 문제점으로 지적되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 가공 부산물로 다량 발생되는 콩 배아를 활용하여 생리활성물질인 isoflavone과 soyasaponin을 동시에 분리하는 방법을개발하고자 실시하였다.1. 콩 배아 methanol 추출물을 preparative C18 column에 주입하고, 210 nm의 파장에서 0.5% 초산 용액 30%로부터100% acetonitrile까지 분당 15mL의 유속으로 53분간흘려주어 isoflavone과 soyasaponin 분획을 동시에 분리하였다.2. Preparative C18 column으로 분리된 isoflavone 및 soyasaponin분획은 동결건조시켜 isoflavone 분말 ISF-1과 soyasaponinSAP-1, SAP-2, SAP-3 및 SAP-4의 분말을 얻었다.3. Isoflavone 분획 ISF-1의 재분리는 젤투과 컬럼에서100% acetonitrile을 분당 5 mL가 되도록 흘려주면서254nm 파장에서 관찰하여 2종의 분획 ISF-1-1 및ISF-1-2을 분리하였다.4. 분리된 2종의 isoflavone 중 ISF-1-1은 그 조성이daidzin, glycitin 및 genistin 이고, ISF-1-2는 genistin 단일물질이 주성분인 것으로 나타났다.5. 분리된 4종의 soyasaponin 중 SP-1은 soyasaponin A계열인 Aa(MW: 1364), Ab(MW: 1436), Ac(MW: 1420),Ae(MW: 1202), Af(MW: 1274), SAP-2는 B계열인 Ba(MW: 958), Bb(MW: 942), Bc(MW: 912)와 E계열인Bd(MW: 956), Be(MW: 940), SAP-3는 B계열인 Ba,Bb, Bc, E계열인 Bd, Be와 DDMP계열인 βg(MW:1068), SAP-4는 B계열인 Ba, Bb, Bc, E계열인 Bd, Be와 DDMP계열인 βg, βa(MW: 1038)가 주성분임을 알 수 있었다.

Rice transformation method using A. tumefaciens has already been widely used to generate transgenic plants, the transformation rate is still low in most Korean elite cultivars. We made several modifications of the standard protocol especially in the co-cultivation step to improve the efficiency of the rice transformation. The co-culture medium was modified by the addition of three antioxidant compounds (10.5㎎/ℓ L-cysteine, 1mM sodium thiosulfate, 1mM dithiothreitol) and of Agrobacterium growth-inhibiting agent (5㎎/ℓ silver nitrate). Co-cultivation temperature (23. 5℃ for 1 day, 26.5℃ for 6 days) and duration (7 days) were also changed. The plasmid of pMJC-GB-GUS carrying the GUS reporter gene and the bar gene as the selectable marker was used to evaluate the efficiency of the transformation. After co-cultivation, a high level of GUS gene expression was observed in calli treated with the modified method. It is likely that those newly added compounds helped to minimize the damage due to oxidative bursts during plant cell-Agrobacterium interaction and to prevent necrosis of rice cells. And the transformation rate under the modified method was also remarkably increased approximately 8-fold in Heungnambyeo and 2-fold in Ilmibyeo as compared to the corresponding standard method. Furthermore, we could produce the transgenic plants stably from Ilpumbyeo which is a high-quality rice but its transformation rate is extremely low. Transformation and the copy number of transgenes were confirmed by PCR, bar strip and Southern blot analysis. The improved method would attribute reducing the effort and the time required to produce a large number of transgenic rice plants.

Rice transformation method using A. tumefaciens has already been widely used to generate transgenic plants, the transformation rate is still low in most Korean elite cultivars. We made several modifications of the standard protocol especially in the co-cultivation step to improve the efficiency of the rice transformation. The co-culture medium was modified by the addition of three antioxidant compounds (10.5㎎/ℓ L-cysteine, 1mM sodium thiosulfate, 1mM dithiothreitol) and of Agrobacterium growth-inhibiting agent (5㎎/ℓ silver nitrate). Co-cultivation temperature (23. 5℃ for 1 day, 26.5℃ for 6 days) and duration (7 days) were also changed. The plasmid of pMJC-GB-GUS carrying the GUS reporter gene and the bar gene as the selectable marker was used to evaluate the efficiency of the transformation. After co-cultivation, a high level of GUS gene expression was observed in calli treated with the modified method. It is likely that those newly added compounds helped to minimize the damage due to oxidative bursts during plant cell-Agrobacterium interaction and to prevent necrosis of rice cells. And the transformation rate under the modified method was also remarkably increased approximately 8-fold in Heungnambyeo and 2-fold in Ilmibyeo as compared to the corresponding standard method. Furthermore, we could produce the transgenic plants stably from Ilpumbyeo which is a high-quality rice but its transformation rate is extremely low. Transformation and the copy number of transgenes were confirmed by PCR, bar strip and Southern blot analysis. The improved method would attribute reducing the effort and the time required to produce a large number of transgenic rice plants.

Soybean seed contains a wide range of secondary metabolite compounds such as isoflavones, phyto-sterols, lecithins and saponins. The secondary metabolites are diverse in chemical structure and property. Therefore, it is not easy to analyze simultaneously the diverse metabolites. We assessed LC-MS profiling analysis to evaluate seed component diversity in 33 soybean cultivars and to identify diverse substances according to their fragmentation patterns. The 33 cultivars were divided clearly into two groups according to PCA of the profile data of seed components. The soluble extracts from hypocotyle as well as cotyledon in Group 1 were characterized by the presence of a compound with 969.5 m/z, while the extracts in Group 2 were characterized by the presence of a compound with 980.6 m/z. The two cultivars Williams 82 and Enrei were selected from each group, and then subjected to further analyses. PMF (Peptide MS Fingerprint) data generated by the Q-TOF analysis and MASCOT database search identified the compounds composed of 37 amino acids as the 4-kDa peptide (Albumin 1b). Substitution of three amino acids was found between the two groups. Three candidate genomic sequences were distributed on soybean genome. Expression analysis by RT-PCR indicated one of the three sequences encodes the 4-kDa peptide and expressed in developing seed. In this study, we confirmed the comprehensive analysis with LC-MS is a powerful tool to elucidate metabolite diversity in plant materials including soybean seed.

We previously reported that reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction/restriction fragment length polymorphism (RT- PCR/RFLP) was an effective method to identify SMV strains. Using this method a new SMV strain G6H was successfully identified. To introduce resistance locus Rsv4 of V94-5152, we made crosses between two parents, Hwanggumkong and V94-5152, and obtained 6 BC3 F3 progeny lines, which have different size of DNA fragment of Rsv4 locus region. To confirm the virus resistance of progeny lines, artificial inoculation were conducted with 10 SMV strains, G1-G7, G7A, G6H, and G7H. Genomic DNA of tested lines was extracted and used marker genotyping using 9 SSR marker, which covered about 20 cM genetic distance including Rsv4 locus. In the virulence test, only two progeny lines showed resistance to all the SMV strains like a V94-5152. However, the other lines showed necrotic symptoms to G6H strain. It is considered that a minor gene is located near the Rsv4 locus between Satt157 and Sat_254 marker which interacts with G6H. A new strain can be a clue to find a minor gene in the SMV resistance soybean breeding.

Soybean (Glycine max(L.) Merr.) is an important source of high protein and oil. Use of soybean meal bythe food industry is increasing, but severely limiting dietary choices and the quality of life of food-allergic individuals. Gly m Bd 30K (P34) is known as the main seed allergens in soybean-sensitive patients. The objective of this work was to determine the molecular basis of the low mutation of soybean P34 and to design polyclonal antibody for the selection of the causative mutations for wild homozygous, heterozygous and mutant homozygous. Using soybean genome assembly, we knew that soybean P34 genes are existing 2 copies in LG A1 and 1 copy in LG A2 in soybean genome. Actually, we confirmed that 3 copies for P34 gene were existed on soybean genome with Southern blot analysis. Glyma08g12270 of those was expressed at significantly higher level compared with Glyma08g12280 and Glyma05g29130by RT-PCR and western analysis. However this gene was not expressed in the low-P34 germplasm accessions. We develop a co-dominant marker based on the sequence of Glyma08g12270 containing a four-base pair insertion at the P34 start codon. Also, we make a polyclonal antibody for investigation of P34 protein levels. Further study, we will perform the crossing between low P34 accession and elite variety, backcrossing and allergen test using low P34 line.

Soybeans X soybeans mosaic virus (SMV) strains interactions affected plant growth and seed transmission. Strain virulence of SMV depended on host cultivars. Kwangankong and Tawonkong were susceptible to G7H and G5 strains, causing mosaic symptoms. The distribution patterns of two SMV strains in soybean plants inoculated with G7H, G5 and G7H/G5 sets were investigated by RT-PCR/RFLP analysis. In the first treatment, two primary leaves in a single plant were infected with both strains by means of one strain per leaf. The leaves of Kwangankong and Tawonkong at V2, V4 and V6 stage were doubly infected with the two strains and the upper leaves than those had only G7H strain. Secondly, the two soybeans were inoculated with G7H, and 24 h after followed by the other strain inoculation. The leaves of V6 and V8 stages in all infected plants showed mosaic symptoms caused by G7H, and there was no detection of G5 strain. In contrast, the reverse treatment with G5 and G7H induced different results. Pre-inoculated G5 strain detected in every stage besides G7H strain. Host X SMV strain compatibility influenced seed coat mottling, yield, plant height, number of pod per plant. G7H had a seed mottling rate of 98.5% in Kwangankong, while G5 had an incidence of seed mottling of 1.4% in the same cultivar. G5 was more virulent to Kwangankong and had a lower affinity for infecting soybean seed mottling. Additional inoculation of G7H protected soybean yield and growth from G5-inducing loss in Kwangankong.

Colored soybean for cooking with rice have been used traditionally in Korea which is distinguished from other countries. Although many soybean cultivars have been developed for cooking with rice since the launch of the first cultivar Geomgeongkong1 in 1994, the breeding history of soybeans for cooking with rice is not quite long comparing to that of soybean paste/ bean curd and soy-sprout. In addition to developed cultivar, various landrace soybeans have still used for cooking with rice to Korean. This study was performed to select useful breeding materials and to evaluate the diversity of Korean landrace germplasms, especially black and/or green color seed coat soybeans. About five hundred eighty Korean colored soybean landraces were investigated for agricultural traits in experimental field and for DNA diversity using five SSR markers which showed high polymorphism between Korean soybean cultivars in a previous study. PowerCore (v. 1.0) software (http://genebank.rda.go.kr/PowerCore/) was used to analyze diversity of our landraces and to construct core set. In conclusion, we could obtain core set of forty-five germplasms by PowerCore analysis. Satt002 in analysed five SSR markers had twenty-two alleles and well represented diversity of black and/or green color germplasms.