Barley landraces harbor significantly higher genetic diversity than modern cultivars. Diversity of agronomic and morphological traits was investigated for 386 accessions of Korean landrace barley which were back-introduced from Okayama University, Japan. Among the accessions, 279 were covered barley and 89 naked barley. Seeds were sowed in late October and major growth characteristics were investigated at maturity and after harvest. The traits evaluated exhibited higher variation with respect to the CV, ranging from 47 to 60. The trait exhibiting the greatest variation was flag leaf width (FLW, CV=60 with 2.8x difference between minimum 0.6 and maximum 1.7). Those traits exhibiting least variation were heading date (HD, CV=47.2 with 31 days difference between the earliest and the latest) and seed number per spike (SNS, CV= 48.9 with 2.8x difference between minimum 36 and maximum 72). The other eight traits [maturity date (MD, CV= 53.7), culm length (CL, CV= 55.4), flag leaf length (FLL, CV= 51.6), spike length (SL, CV= 54.3), awn length (AL, CV= 54.4), whole spike length (WSL, CV= 52.9), spike density (SD, CV= 52.7), seed rows of spike (SRS, CV= 50.1)] were intermediate in their level of variation with respect to the CV. The first, second and third principal components explained about 30.3%, 17.0% and 13.4% of the total variation of the traits, respectively. The traits which contributed more positively to PC1 were SL, SD, WSL and AL. The traits which contributed more positively to PC2 were SRS and SNS, and those contributed more positively to PC3 were FLL and FLW. The Korean landrace barley accessions contain significantly diverse variation to explore for the improvement of agronomic and morphological traits of current elite cultivars. This work was supported by a grant from Regional Subgenebank Support Program of Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea.

Drought is one of the most important types of abiotic stress that affects stability and amount of yield. This study was conducted to screen for drought tolerance at early seedling stages for 318 ecogeographically diverse wild barley (HordeumvulgareL.spp.spontaneum) diversity collection (WBDC). Considerable variation was observed for all the seedling characters examined. Seedling growth was significantly reduced by 17% polyethyleneglycol -induced osmotic stress with significant variation among accessions. Comparison of mean performance under normal and osmotic stress conditions indicated that shoot length was the most sensitive trait, followed by seedling length, seminal root number, root-shoot length ratio and root length. The mean of root-shoot length ratio, however, increased under osmotic stress. Correlation studies indicated that the root length was the most important trait, followed by shoot length and root-shoot length ratio. The accessions from the Fertile Crescent and North Africa showed more drought tolerance than those from the other geographical regions. The accessions WBDC009 (Jordan), WBDC075 (Libya), WBDC181 (Jordan), WBDC242 (Jordan) and WBDC280 (Israel) exhibited the lowest stress susceptibility index ‘S’ values. Consequently, these accessions showed tolerance to drought at the early seedling stage and are considered to be good sources of drought tolerance for cultivated barley improvement. This work was supported by a grant from Regional Subgenebank Support Program of Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea .

To investigate genes related to vernalization and cold- resistance in barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv. Nagaoka), differentially expressed genes were identified from cold-resistant barley leaves with suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) and Northern blot analyses. The nucleotide and the deduced amino acid sequences of the putative gene products were compared. The bvrn-7 showed high homology(84%) with gene related to vernalization, and the bvrn-3, bvrn-12, bvrn-28, bvrn-29 and bvrn-36 related to cold-resistant genes had high identity of 88~98% with low temperature-induced genes. The results indicate that the 6 genes were closely related to vernalization and cold-resistance during low temperature treatment.

비닐피복을 이용, 보리, 밀 품종의 봄철 저온장해의 대규모 유도와 품종간 차이로 선발 가능성을 구명하고자 포장의 비닐 피복을 이용한 저온처리시험을 실시하였다. 저온에 대해 보리, 밀 모두 가장 민감한 생육시기는 수잉기였고 영화 분화기 > 화기발육기 순이었다. 같은 생육정도라도 맥종간 장해정도에 차이를 보였는데 보리, 밀 각각 고사이삭비율 28%, 59%, 고사개체비율 10%, 44%, 퇴화이삭비율 18%, 44%였다. 저온장해 저항성 품종은 없었으나 품종간 장해 정도는 차이를 보여 보리에서는 찰보리가, 밀에서는 그루밀, 조광밀 등이 안정적인 수량을 보였다. 저온스트레스는 수량구성요소중 주로 수수와 일수립수에 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며 보리품종중 수원 259호와 강보리 수량이 수수와 밀접한 상관을 보였으나 일수립수와는 상관이 없었다. 밀은 대부분의 품종들이 세 시기 모두 수수와 밀접한 상관을 보였고 생육이 진전된 시기에는 일수립수와도 상관을 보였다. 저온장해에 대한 유전자형을 구분하기 위해 포장에서 비닐피복이라는 간단한 처리에 의해 저온저항성 품종이나 계통의 선발이 가능할 것으로 생각되나 시험기간의 2~4 월의 저온내습일수와 온도하강 정도에 변이가 있어 최소 2년 정도의 검정기간이 필요하다.

This study was conducted to investigate the changes of chlorophyll contents and chlorophyll fluorescence in barley(Hordeum vulgare L.) 7 day old seedling treated with 0.2M, 0.4M, 0.6M, 0.8M, and 1.0M NaCl concentration containing Hepes buffer(pH 7.5). Barley was affected by NaCl treatment. The chlorophyll a, b and carotenoid of barley decreased with an increase in NaCl concentration. However, chlorophyll a, b and carotenoid of barley were not greatly influenced by o.8M and 1.0M NaCl. Fv, Fv/Fm and qP were gradually decreased by higher concentration of NaCl. qP, qNP, qR and qE were gradually decreased by 6hr. During barley chloroplast was development NaCl affected chlorophyll synthesis than photosynthetic activity. Whereas barley seedling leaves were more influenced photosynthetic activity than chlorophyll contents by NaCl.

This study was conducted to understand the genetic diversity and relationships of Korean cultivated barley groups classified as landrace, improved and introduced varieties by microsatellite variation (SSRP, Simple Sequence Repeats Polymorphism). With the

To investigate low temperature- and light stress-induced genes of Hordeum vulgare L. cv. Dongbori #1, suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) was performed with mRNAs from leaf samples that treated with low temperature (4℃) and extremely high light de

보리의 수확후 건조, 저장, 가공, 포장, 출하 등 유통단계별 문제점을 도출하고 해결방안을 모색하고자 찰쌀보리 집단재배 지역인 충남논산(부적)과 전남영암(군서)에서 처리실태를 조사한 결과 수확단계에서 보리의 수확기간이 16~20일로 짧아 노동력이 집중되는 것과 범용콤바인으로 수확할 경우 쓰러진 보리를 수확하기 곤란한 점 및 크라스콤바인을 임대하여 수확할 때 무리한 작업일정에 따른 2~3%의 수확손실 발생 등이 문제점으로 지적되었다. 건조단계에서는

The effects on photosynthesis of NaCl(0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 or 1.0 M) were examined in etiolated barley seedlings. Chlorophyll(Chl) a, Chl b and carotenoid contents, Chl a fluorescence and quenching coefficients of Chl fluorescence have been determined in the primary leaves of etiolated barley seedlings cultivated under low light(60 μ㏖ m-2s-1). Chl a, b, and carotenoid contents were decreased remarkably in comparison with the control at 0.4 M NaCl. However, the value of Fo and Fv were decreased at 0.6 M NaCl and the ratio of Fv/Fm were deceased at 1.0 M NaCl. Chlorophyll synthesis was seriously inhibited from 0.4 M NaCl, and the photosynthetic electron transport system was inhibited from 0.6 M NaCl. Quantum of photosystem II reaction center was inhibited at 1.0 M NaCl. The effects of NaCl on the Chl content were raised in a 6 hrs, but the effects of NaCl on the value of Fo, Fv and Fv/Fm were raised in 30 hrs. The value of qP was decreased in comparison with the control at all concentrations, but there was a small change in the value qE. These results provide evidence that NaCl inhibited effects of various concentration of NaCl were inhibited quinone redox, however, proton gradient between thylakoid membranes was little damaged.