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.

The quality characteristics of rice wine seed mash and rice wine made with different lactic acid concentrations were investigated. The pH decreased along with the lactic acid concentration. The total titratable acid content of the rice wine seed mash was lowest when 0.5% lactic acid was added, and the ethanol contents of the mash samples were not significant. The results of the measurement of the microorganism number, C (cell numbers of the total bacteria and the lactic acid bacteria), decreased along with the lactic acid concentrations of the mash samples. The yeast cell numbers of the rice wine seed mash samples according to the lactic acid concentrations were high (0.5, 0.3, 1.0, control, and 0.7%, respectively). The pH and total titratable acid levels of rice wine according to the lactic acid concentration were stable during fermentation, according to the increase in the amount of lactic acid. The organic acids in the rice wines were highest in the lactic acid. The rice wines to which lactic acid had been added had lower acetic acid contents than the control. Also, the acetic acid contents decreased along with the lactic acid concentrations, except in the rice wine treated with 1.0% lactic acid. The ethanol contents of the tested rice wines were not significant. All in all, in the sensory evaluation, the rice wines treated with 0.5 and 0.7% lactic acid scored higher than the other treatments.

Gene expression profiles can serve as a valuable reference for deciphering gene functions. We exploited the potential of whole genome microarrays to measure the temporal expression profiles of rice genes in 13 stages of reproductive development. We could profile expression of 17,676 genes in at least one of the tissues. Differential expression analysis with compare to leaf and preceding stages of development revealed reproductive stage-preferential/-specific genes. we identified 35 genes expressing specifically during panicle and seed development. The metabolic/hormonal pathways and transcription factor families playing key role in reproductive development were elucidated after overlaying the expression data on the public databases and manually curated list of transcription factors, respectively. During floral meristem differentiation (P1cm) and male meiosis (P5cm), the genes involved in jasmonic acid and gebbellin biosynthesis were significantly upregulated. F11DAP stage of seed, containing enlargement organ, exhibited enrichment of transcripts involved in starch or sucrose biosynthesis. Genes regulating auxin biosynthesis were induced during early seed development. We validated the stage-specificity of regulatory regions of two panicle-specific genes, AK072471, Os08g0538700, and AK121412, an early seed-specific gene, in transgenic rice. The data generated here provides a snapshot of the underlying complexity of the gene networks regulating rice reproductive development.

천립중이 가벼워 수량은 낮으나 sucrose와 glucose함량이 상대적으로 높아 환자의 이유식 등의 사용을 목적으로 개발된 단미 벼 종자의 발아 및 출아특성과 기계이앙 상자육묘시 적정 파종량을 구명하기 위한 시험결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 단미의 비중별 분포비율은 1.0이하로 가벼운 종자가 97.4%로 대부분이었고 1.12이상인 충실한 종자비율은 2.0% 이하로 낮았다. 반면 일미벼는 단미와 달리 1.12이상 충실한 종자의 비율이 82.3%로 가장 높았고 1.0이하의 충실하지 못한 종자의 비율은 6.4%로 낮았다. 2. 비중별 발아율은 단미의 경우 88-91%로 비중에 관계없이 비슷하였으나 일미벼의 발아율은 단미와 달리 1.0이하는 24%, 1.0～1.12는 61～66%, 1.12이상은 93%로 종자 비중이 무거울수록 발아율이 높았다. 3. 발아속도도 단미 및 일미벼 모두 발아율과 비슷한 경향을 나타냈으나 비중이 1.12이상일 경우 일미벼의 발아속도는 단미보다 빨랐다. 4. 육묘를 위한 단미의 침종기간은 침종온도에 관계없이 일미벼보다 2～4일 더 길었다. 5. 단미는 일미벼에 비해 정상모의 비율이 낮고 비정상모의 비율이 높았는데 비정상모중에서 출아불량이 4.9%, 출아후 shoot의 생육정지는 4.7%, 출아후 생육불량모는 5.3%로 높았다. 6. 기계이앙 육묘시 단미의 적정 파종량은 관행 일미벼 어린모 및 중묘의 상자당 성묘개체수를 기준으로 볼때 관행과 같이 어린모는 220g, 중묘는 130g이었고 부피로는 육묘일수에 관계없이 관행 일미벼의 1.5배량이었다.

There was highly improved and developed in hill seeding on puddled wet soil condition for direct seeded rice with sandy type silicate application. The amount of silicate for coverage of preemerged rice seeds(approximately 10 seeds) per hill bases was 840kg/ha which would be so recommended rate for rice plant growth as well. There was no inhibition in terms of germination and seedling stand at early growing stage of the rice plant both laboratory and pot experiments. In particular there was the highest plant height in silicate covered than those of Iron-coated seed, Phyllite-coated seed and Silicate-coated seeds. In field experiment of farmer's paddy silicate covered hill seeded rice was 97.5% of seedling establishment as comparison of control, 87.5%. Rice seedling height at seedling establishment stage was 27.9cm but there was 21.2cm in the untreated control. Plant number was also higher in silicate covered seed by 27.5 per hill at 55days after sowing than that of control, 15.1 per hill. Thus a final yield was also 4.56t/ha in silicate covered rice plant which was 11% higher yield than that of control.

Experiments were conducted to investigated the change of primary dormancy and viability of Chinese milk vetch(CMV) seed buried in soil both as seed and pod with seeds under CMV-rice cropping system during the period of 2007～2009. The freshly harvested CMV seed alone and pods with seeds were buried in rice field at 0, 5 and 10cm depths and determined change of seed dormancy and viability at one to three month intervals for 10 months. The CMV seed had high dormancy of 95%, showing only 4～5% germination at the beginning in June but the seed dormancy was gradually broken at rice harvest time in autumn, showing 25 to 35% for seed and 55 to 61% for pod with seeds. The viability loss was faster in the seed than in the pod with seeds regardless of depths of placement in the soil base on decayed seeds. Also the seed placed on the soil surface lost viability faster than the 5～10 burial depths. However, appreciable number of CMV seeds still remained at even 4 months after burial in soil. These results indicate that seed dormancy was enable CMV plant to regenerate naturally from the remained soil seed bank at rice harvest time in autumn.

Field experiments were conducted to investigate persistence of Chinese milk vetch(CMV) seed under naturally reseeded CMV-rice cropping systems during the period of 2007～2009. Persistence of the CMV seeds were evaluated in the naturally reseeded CMV-rice field on different tillage methods and soil depths based on the seed number recovered and the seed longevity in soil. Field observation in the naturally reseeded CMV rice field showed that as many as 917～2,185 CMV seeds m-2 were found from 0～15cm soil depth in the rotary tillage and 250～10,105 CMV seeds in minimum tillage rice cultivation in autumn. The recovered seed germinated 25～33%, 23～43% but still had high percentage of hard seed having 64～72% and 51～77%. Field experiment showed that the CMV seedling still emerged even after 2 years of continuous destructive killing of emerged CMV plant by rotary tillage in naturally reseeded CMV-rice field, indicating that CMV seeds persistent at least two years in rice field.

자운영 지속재배시 토양에 매몰된 종자의 휴면 및 발아특성을 조사하여 토양속 종자 동태를 구명하기 위해 자운영종자와 꼬투리의 토양매몰 깊이 및 기간별 휴면성과 종자활력 변화를 조사하고 또한 자운영 지속재배 포장에서 낙수후 자운영 종자의 토양속 분포 개수, 발아율 및 종자활력기간을 조사한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 자운영 종자 회수율은 종자 매몰 한달후부터 활력이 잃기 시작하여 낙수전 9월까지 52~65%, 낙수후 10월에는 급격히 떨어져 종자와 꼬투리 모두 30% 이하를 나타내었고, 꼬투리 매몰의 경우는 낙수전 9월까지 활력소실이 되지 않고 100%를 보였다. 2. 자운영 종자의 휴면은 수확당시는 95%로 높았으나 시간이 경과함에 따라 점차 파괴되어 9월에는 휴면율(경실율)이 종자는 12~22%, 꼬투리는 31~33%로 급격히 낮아졌고, 낙수후 10월에는 경실율이 종자는 2~8%, 꼬투리는 5~12%로 보다 더 낮아졌다. 3. 발아율은 토양 매몰전 종자는 4%로 낮았으나 토양에 120일간 매몰후 종자 및 꼬투리속 종자 발아율은 휴면이 타파되어 각각 21%~31%, 49~51%로 증가하였다. 4. 자운영 지속포장에서 9월 낙수후 토양속 잔존 자운영 종자는 로터리 부분경운이앙은 경운이앙보다 2.3~2.6배가 많았고, 자운영 종자분포 깊이는 로터리 경운은 0~15 cm 깊이에 고르게 분포되었으나 부분경운 이앙은 대부분의 종자가 5cm 이하 깊이에 분포하고 있었다. 5. 자운영 종자의 출아기간을 기준으로 한 토양 속에서 활력유지기간은 매몰 후 2년정도 인 것으로 조사되었다.

This study was conducted to identify the varietal differences of the viviparous germination and viviparous germinated seed characteristics occurred by continuous rain during maturing stage of rice in 2007. The viviparous germination rates were increased in early and medium-maturing cultivars such as Unkwangbyeo and Gopumbyeo. In the germinating rates using already viviparous germinated seeds were severely deteriorated by 15.3 and 28.2% compared to those of normal seeds as 97.3 and 98.5% on Unkwangbyeo and Gopumbyeo. The regermination rates were increased as the plumule length of already viviparous germinated seeds was shorter, so it is 46.7% in less than 0.9mm plumule length and 12.7% in 1.0~1.9mm.

저장기간이 벼 생태형에 따라 미립 특성에 영향하는 정도를 검토하기 위하여 자포니카형, 통일형 및 통일형에서 유래된 1대잡종형의 정조를 4~40 개월간 외부환경이 제어되지 않은 종자 저장실에 저장하여 저장기간에 따른 물리화학적 특성 변화에 대하여 조사한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 종자 발아율은 저장기간이 길어짐에 따라 낮아졌는데 자포니카형은 16개월 저장시 66.7%, 28개월 저장시 2.5%로 크게 떨어졌고 40개월 후에는 전혀 발아되지 않았으며, 통일형과 1대잡종형은 28개월까지는 뚜렷한 차이가 없었으나 40개월에는 각각 54.0% 및 67.9%로 발아율의 차이를 보였다. 2. 현미 경도는 통일형, 1대잡종형, 자포니카형의 순서로 높았으며 저장기간에 따른 유의한 차이는 없었다. 3. 알카리 붕괴도는 저장기간이 길어짐에 따라 증가하는 경향이었으며, 단백질 함량은 완만하게 감소하였고, 아밀로즈 함량은 일정한 경향이 없었다. 4. 전당 함량과 환원당 함량은 저장기간이 경과함에 따라 증가하였는데 저장 28 개월 이내에서 증가폭이 컷고 그 이후는 완만한 증가를 보였다. 5. 전당 함량에 대한 환원당 함량의 비율은 저장기간이 길수록 전당 함량보다는 환원당 함량의 증가가 많아서 비율이 높아졌다.

The pollen grain is a unique tricellular structure suitable for the delivery of the sperm cells to the ovule. All nutrients required for microspore and pollen cell growth are derived by passage through the anther locule and secretion by the tapetum lining. During later stages the tapetum degenerates but contributes to produce pigments, waxes, lipids and proteins which form the pollen coat and function in signaling between male (pollen) and female (pistil) tissues. The development of both normal pollen and tapetum is necessary for the fertilization processes in rice and would be exploited for the induction of male-sterility which is very useful to improve economic value of crops. We aredeveloping new approaches using a conditional male-sterility for the F1 hybrid seed production in rice. The conventional three parental systems for F1 hybrid seed production requirethe following three lines: male-sterile line, maintainer line, and restorer line. In this system, a critical requirement is to maintain the male-sterile inbred lines. Here we suggest molecular approaches, in which the engineered male-sterile plants are generated by regulating endogenous hormonal balance through the loss-of-function of genes. We can expect the male-sterility can be restored by exogenous applications of hormones such as gibberellin or jasmonic acid. Based on two parental systems, we will address the answer onfollowing question: how can we maintain a male-sterile line producing 100% male-sterile progenies without a maintainer? This work was supported by grants from Crop Functional Genomics Center of the 21C Frontier Program (CG1517), RepublicKorea.

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of seed disinfectant, in control of brown leaf blight, growth characteristics, and dry root yield in the cultivation of Alisma plantago after early maturing rice cropping. Experimental plot was laid out in split plots design with three replications. The major seed disinfectants were benomyl Wp, 20%, Captan Wp, 50%, Triferine Ec, 17%, Etridia zole Ec, 25%, and Thioplant-mythyl Wp, 50%. Even though seed disinfectant treated had no effect on the growth and flowering date of Alisma plantago, dry root yield was increased largely with benomyl Wp, 20%, in seed disinfectant than in the other seed disinfectants and contorl. All seed disinfectants had no injury with standard dosage. But all seed disinfectants had slight injury in the double dosage level for the Alisma plantago. On the basis of yield, vegetative and disease paramerer, benomyl Wp (20%) (100g/20l) had shown superior performance, however, all the seed disinfectants are effective as compare to without treatment.

This experiment was conducted on rice (cv. 2005 Thaoi) seeds to study whether priming with deep sea water (DSW) results in enhancement of seed emergence and seedling growth and to identify the optimum concentration of Deep Sea Water (DSW) for priming. Two experiments were conducted subsequently. In experiment 1, four concentrations of the DSW (10%, 20%, 30% and 40%), and in experiment 2, five concentrations of DSW (10%, 15%, 20%, 25% and 30%) were prepared and seeds were primed for 24 hours duration at 25℃. Beside this, hydro priming with plain water was also included as a control. Experiments were laid out in Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with three replications. Result showed that 20% DSW seed priming treatment had improved the emergence, seedling height, number of roots and root length as compare to other with DSW or without DSW treatments. Beyond 20% DSW priming (i.e. 25%, 30% and 40%) were not suitable for priming the seed. On the basis of seedlings growth parameters; emergence, seedling height, root number and length, and shoot root ratio, 20% DSW priming was the best priming treatment.