비소의 농도에 따른 봉의꼬리의 생육 반응 및 비소 축적능을 분석하기 위해 As(III)와 As(V)의 농도를 달리하여 봉의꼬리를 12주간 재배하였다. 연구의 결과 비소의 종류에 관계없이 50, 500mg·kg-1 처리구는 비소 무처리구와 생육이 비슷하였으나, 비소의 농도가 증가할수록 초장이 감소되는 경향을 보였다. 비소의 농도를 50, 500mg·kg-1 처리하여 재배한 봉의꼬리 지상부의 비소 축적능은 As(III) 처리구가 각 802.7, 2,956.0mg·kg-1 DW로, As(V) 처리구(622.6, 2,841mg·kg-1 DW)에 비해 높았다. 그러나 고농도 처리구인 1,000과 2,000mg·kg-1에서는 As(V) 처리구(3,883.3, 5,250.6mg·kg-1 DW)에서 As(III) 처리구(3,347.8, 4,272.7 mg·kg-1 DW)에 비해 비소 축적능이 더 우수하였다. 지하부의 축적능은 2,000mg·kg-1 농도 처리구를 제외한 모든 농도에서 sodium arsenate 처리구가 sodium arsenite 처리구에 비해 높았다.

Proline (Pro) accumulation is a common physiological reaction in response to abiotic stresses in many plants. Accumulation of Pro is believed to play the important role in protecting cellular components from dehydrating effects due to such stresses. The study was performed to investigate the relationship between cold hardiness and Pro content or expression of related genes in peach cultivars during a constant experimental deacclimation. Changes in cold hardiness were determined using electrolyte leakage method in the shoots of 10 peach cultivars (Prunus persica ‘Aikawanakajima’, ‘Chiyomaru’, ‘Daewol’, ‘Janghowon Hwangdo’, ‘Kiraranokiwami’, ‘Mihong’, ‘Misshong’, ‘Soomee’, ‘Suhong’, and ‘Sun Gold’). Pro content was analyzed using the ninhydrin method and related gene expressions were examined using quantitative real-time RT-PCR. While cold hardiness of 10 peach cultivars decreased, Pro contents of those increased during the deacclimation. Notably, at the same time, expression of P5CS (Δ1-pyrroline-5-carboxylatesynthase) decreased in 10 peach cultivars, whereas expressions of P5CR (Δ1-pyrroline-5-carboxylatereductase) and OAT (ornithine-δ-aminotransferase) increased. Our results demonstrate that Pro responds positively to higher temperature in the shoots of 10 peach cultivars and expression of both P5CS and P5CR genes could show contrasting patterns during the deacclimation. Furthermore, our results suggest that ornithine pathway, which has been suggested to be important during seedling development, could serve as an alternative pathway in Pro synthesis process during the deacclimation in peach.

Rice bran has been reckoned as a potential source of edible oil contained 15-20 % of oil, in its natural state, also contains several constituents of potential significance in diet and health. Interest has focused primarily upon gamma-oryzanol, tocotrienols, and tocopherols, all of which demonstrate antioxidant properties. We analyzed the transcriptome profiles for rice grain from high and low oil content lines at the early milky stage using the Illumina sequencing method. This analysis indicated that many transcripts showed different expressions level between high and low oil content rice. The functional classification of those genes indicated their connection with various metabolic pathways, oil transport, signal transduction, transcriptional regulation, and other processes. The results obtained here will enable to understand how changes in oil concentration or availability are interpreted into adaptive responses in early milky stage of rice. Based on the functional annotation of the differentially expressed genes, the possible processes that regulate these expressed transcripts in rice grain was further analyzed. The candidate transcripts may provide genetic resources that may be useful in the improvement of oil contents of rice.

The GA application on grapevines induces parthenocarpy, fruit set without fertilization, and the inhibition of pollen tube growth. But the molecular mechanism underlying this inhibition is not understood. Similar defective pollen tube growth within the transmitting tract has been reported in the mutant of GABA transaminase (GABA-T), referred to as pollen-pistil-interaction2 (pop2) in Arabidopsis. In spite of the similarity of pollen tube growth inhibition observed in GA-applied grapevines with that of pop2, only the effects of GABA on stress responses in grapevines have been reported. In present study, transcriptional changes of Vitis GABA metabolic genes, together with changes in GABA levels with or without GA application were analyzed to define how GA application restrained the pollen tube growth in grapevines. A GA solution (Dongbu, Seoul, Korea) at 100 ppm was onto inflorescence clusters 14 days before full bloom (DBF) and clusters were harvested at 0, 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, and 19 days after GA application. Harvested inflorescence samples were immediately frozen in LN2 and extracted RNA and amino acid. The GABA contents were analyzed using high-performance liquid chromatography (Agilent 1100 HPLC, Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, USA) equipped with a C18 column (4.6 mm×150 mm, 3.5 μm/VDS optilab, Berlin, Germany), according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Without GA application, the simultaneous high expressions of VvGAD1, VvGAD4 and VvGABA-T2 during 10 to 5 days before full bloom (DBF) showing the activation of GABA metabolism. But the contents of GABA were low before 2 DBF, and it peaked only at near full bloom when expression levels of VvGABA-T2 remained low. After GA application, the contents of GABA were constant during 10 to 5 DBF, although transcription levels of both VvGAD1 and VvGABA-T2 rapidly declined less than 30% of the levels observed without GA application. However, the GABA levels increased more than 2-fold only at near full bloom, compared to those without GA application, and at that time, expression levels of VvGAD1 up-regulated more than 3-fold and those of VvGABA-T2 kept low. But other amino acid contents did not show significant changes. In case of VvSSAHDs, their transcriptional changes with or without GA application were not correlated with GABA levels. These results indicates that GABA levels before pollination is tightly regulated, but GA application alters the GABA-shunt to accumulate excess GABA more than needed for proper pollen tube growth at full bloom. Gibberellin application alters the GABA-shunt to accumulate excess GABA resulting in inhibition pollen tube growth in grapevines.

Anthocyanin is known for positive health beneficial effects that including reduces age related oxidative stress and inflammatory responses. It was produced by vegetable crops and a lettuce is one of the crops. The general pathway of anthocyanin expression is well defined but it is not clear how environments effects on anthocyanin accumulation in a lettuce. Therefore we initiated to study interaction between anthocyanin expression and environment factors. Frist, we applied RGB leaf images in a lettuce to calculate anthocyanin areas in a leaflet with two different cultivars, different developmental stages, and different environments. Later, we attempted to capture RNA expression level with next generation sequence (NGS) RNA sequencing method called RNA-seq. As a result, combined two technologies showed that quantitate phenotypic data help to understand the gene expression of anthocyanin in lettuce cultivars.

Plants strictly regulate the uptake and distribution of Zinc (Zn), which is essential for growth and development. Arabidopsis thaliana plant cadmium resistance 2 (AtPCR2), a protein containing a placenta-specific 8 domain (PLAC8), is specifically expressed in the vascular tissue and epidermis of roots and is thought to act as a Zn efflux transporter (Song et al. 2010). Proteins containing PLAC8 domain function as major organ size regulators in Solanum lycopersicum and Zea may, and putative metal ion transporters in Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza sativa and Brassica juncea. But, there are no reports which showed that the protein containing PALC8 have the function both of seed size regulation and metal homeostasis. In our study, we found that plant cadmium resistance 1 (PCR1) influences on both Zn accumulation and grain weight in rice. The expression of OsPCR1 is elevated in developing seeds of introgression line for GW2, which encodes a protein known to regulate grain weight. Grain weight of OsPCR1 knockout and knockdown lines decreased than the wild type, while OsPCR1 overexpression lines produced heavier grains. Furthermore, the grains of OsPCR1 knockdown lines exhibited substantially higher Zn and lower Cd concentrations than the control. We identified some variation in the OsPCR1 amino acid sequence between the japonica and indica rice types using 15 different rice varieties. Japonica-type PCR1 had a shorter N-terminus than did PCR1 in the other rice types. Furthermore, japonica-type grains accumulated less Zn than did indica-type grains. Our study suggests that rice PCR1 maintains metal ion homeostasis and grain weight and might have been selected for during domestication.

사막의 모래는 바람의 영향으로 인한 비산 및 퇴적작용으로 사구(모래언덕)를 형성하거나, 이동시켜 사막 지형을 변화시킨다. 특히 사막에 철도궤도 부설시 이러한 사막모래의 비산으로 인한 퇴적은 철도유지보수에 지장을 주어 철도운행 및 안전에 심대한 악영향을 미치며, 심각한 경제적 손실을 야기할 수 있다. 이러한 문제는 모래의 비산 및 퇴적작용에 대한 예측을 이용한 적절한 예방대책 수립을 통하여 최소화 할 수 있다. 이 연구에서는 지형 및 기상조건 등을 고려하여 바람으로 인한 사막모래의 비산 및 퇴적작용을 예측할 수 있는 기법을 고찰하였다. 세부적으로는 지형에 따른 풍향 및 풍속의 예측 기법과 이에 따른 모래의 비산 및 퇴적 예측 기법, 모래 입자의 크기 및 성질에 따른 특성 변화 예측 기법들에 대하여 고찰하였으며, 기법의 적용 방법은 수치 예제를 통하여 제시하였다.

비소 함유 골재를 토양개량제로 사용하였을 경우 광미에 포함된 유효태 또는 광물로 존재하는 비소가 용출되어 식물 생육에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위해 실험 한 결과를 요약 하면 다음과 같다. 1. 중세사에서 자갈크기의 유비철석 입자시료에서는 비 소가 약 95.28 mg kg-1 정도 함유된 있으나 밭토양 시 료에서는 비소가 없는 것으로 조사되었다. 2. 상추 재배토양에 함유된 양을 기준으로 생물학적 이용 가능 비소와 그리고 상추로 전이된 비소의 양의 비율 을 비교한 결과 토양으로부터 생물학적 이용 가능 비 소 형태로 전환된 비소의 비율은 최저 2.20%에서 최 대 3.31%로 조사되었다. 3. 상대적 생물학적 이용가능 비소와 상추내 비소 지수는 정의 상관관계를 보이고 있는 반면 이의 비소 지수가 증가함에 따라 상추의 엽장, 엽폭, 엽수, 생체중과 건 물중 모두 반비례로 감소하는 것으로 조사되었다. 4. 입자직경이 토양보다 큰 모래 또는 자갈크기의 비소를 포함한 자갈이 혼합량이 증가됨에 따라 식물가용수분 함량이 감소될 뿐만 아니라 상추가 자라는 동안 비소 를 포함된 유비철석입자부터 비소가 토양내로 용존되 어 작물체내로 전이기 증가되어 상추 엽장, 엽폭 엽수, 생체중, 그리고 건물중에 영향을 준 것으로 판단한다.

Steroidal glycoalkaloids which serve the plant defense, are toxic secondary metabolites present in the plants of solanaceae family. The upper safe limit of glycoalkaloids for human consumption is 20mg/KG FW, excess of which may cause severe health disorders. Several factors like drought, high temperature, light exposure, and wounding increase tuber glycoalkaloid content. Among these, drought is an important factor which causes a rapid increase in potato glycoalkaloid content. Glycoalkaloid biosynthetic genes and their expression pattern need to be characterized to regulate the glycoalkaloid accumulation. Three key genes SGT1, SGT2 and SGT3 are demonstrated to be directly participated in the biosynthetic pathway for glycoalkaloid formation. Present study was focused on the study of expression pattern of key genes in GA pathway under drought stress in two different potato cultivars Atlantic and Haryoung which are low and high glycoalkaloid accumulating respectively. Drought stress was imposed by withholding water to the plants grown in pots and control plants kept irrigated. Expression analysis of SGT1, SGT2 and SGT3 was done from the leaf and tuber sample of three time intervals i.e 5, 10 and 20 days after imposing stress. Variation in the expression level of genes was observed in leaf and tuber where the fold increase in expression over control was higher in tuber sample compared to leaf. Expression levels also varied in leaf and tuber among two cultivars. However, expression of SGT1, SGT2 and SGT3 is significant indicating the involvement of these genes in glycoalkaloid accumulation under drought stress.

Chronic gamma irradiation can be used an alternative mutation breeding methods for induction of many useful mutants. Seedlings of purple-colored wheat plants were irradiated with wide range doses of chronic gamma-rays (20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 70, 100, 125, 150, 200, 250, 300 Gy) during 6 weeks at gamma-phytotron in the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, respectively. To identify the biological responses purple-colored wheat, we examined the plant height, chlorophyll, carotenoid and total anthocyanin contents in leaf. Plant growth, chlorophyll and carotenoid contents in leaf were decreased when the dose rate increased. Anthocyanin contents were increased with the increase of the radiation dose until 50 Gy treatment. To confirm the real contents of anthocyanin, we also investigated cyanidin-3-glucoside in purple-colored wheat leaf by using UPLC analysis. These results indicate that anthocyanin accumuation was observed under chronic gamma irradiation.

Onion is one of the most widely consumed vegetables. There are many cultivars, which are grouped according to skin color as yellow, white or red. Onions can also be classified as sweet or non-sweet. Their importance in cooking comes from their typical taste and flavour. The sugars, pyruvic acid accumulation and transcript level of some transcription factors involved in the biosynthesis of high sugars and pyruvic acid was analyzed at different stages of bulb onion (Allium cepa) growing under light and dark condition using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Quantitative real time PCR. A genetic map and cultivar lines 36101and 36122 were used to identify transcription factors controlling pungency and sugar. We compared 2 different lines for low pungency and high sugars during water and photoperiod stress, which showed significant positive phenotypic and genetic correlations. These results could be presumably used as useful information to obtain onion varieties rich in sugars.

본 연구는 중금속 오염지역의 토양정화에 적합한 식물을 선발하기 위해 양치식물 12종을 중금속으로 오염된 토양에 8주 동안 재배한 다음 생육반응과 부위별 비소, 카드뮴, 구리, 납, 아연 등의 중금속의 축적능을 분석하였다. 봉작고사리(Adiantum capillus-veneris)를 제외한 양치식물 11종의 생육은 비교적 양호하였다. 봉의꼬리 (Pteris multifida, 66.9mg․kg-1 DW)와 사다리봉의꼬리(P. vitata, 62.2mg․kg-1 DW)의 지상부에서 비소 축적능이 가장 우수하였으며, 사다리봉의꼬리(13.6mg․kg-1 DW)는 지하부의 비소 축적능도 가장 높았다. 반면, 카드뮴 축적능은 양치식물 12종 모두가 저조하였다. 구리의 축적능은 창날봉의꼬리(P. ensiformis)의 지하부가 44.4mg․kg-1 DW로 가장 높았으며, 지상부는 봉작고사리(26.8mg․kg-1DW)가 가장 우수하였다. 양치식물 12종의 지상부는 1.2(뱀고사리, Athyrium yokoscens)∼8.8mg․kg-1 DW(봉의꼬리)의 납이 축적되었으며, 지하부는 1.2(창날봉의꼬리)～10.3mg․kg-1 DW(반쪽고사리, P. dispar)가 축적되어 있었다. 아연의 축적능은 푸른각시고사리(Thelypteris viridifrons)의 지상부(96.8mg․kg-1 DW)에서 가장 높았으며, 지하부는 봉의꼬리(63.6mg․kg-1 DW)에서 가장 우수하였다.