Undomesticated soybeans (Glycine soja) are an important source of genetic variation for introducing useful traits to domesticated soybeans (Glycine max). Although Korea is known as the origin of the soybean, a little is known about genetic diversity and structure analysis of G.soja. The objectives of this study were to investigate the genetic diversity and the structure analysis of wild soybeans, and to construct a core collection of G. soja accessions in Korea. To evaluate the genetic diversity and structure analysis of G.soja, we analyzed allelic profiles at 21 SSR loci of 1028 accessions using POWERMARKER V3.25. These markers generated a total of 581 alleles over all loci. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 21 to 40, with a mean of 28 alleles per locus and a mean gene diversity of 0.886 in this accessions tested. Polymorphic information content value ranged from 0.737 to 0.946, with an average of 0.877. Using STRUCTURE V2.34, wild soybean originated from Korea was divided into two distinct populations, largely corresponding to two geographic regions. Population 1 consisted of eight sub-groups corresponds to mountains; population 2 to entire regions in Korea. Based on theses 21 SSR markers, a core collection development was performed by POWERCORE V1.0. A G. soja core collection consisted of 148 accessions which were established from 1028 accessions in Korea. Most accessions of the core collection were belonged to population 2 and only four were belonged to population 1. These results of this study would provide valuable information for future breeding programs using the G. soja core collection.

Amaranths (Amaranthus sp.) are cosmopolitan and include grain, vegetable, ornamental and weed types. Forteen simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were used to analyze the genetic diversity of 59 accessions of cultivated amaranth from Asian countries. A total of 63 alleles were detected with an average of 4.5 per locus. The averaged values of gene diversity and polymorphism information content (PIC) were 0.35 and 0.33, respectively. Alleles per locus in accessions from South Asia was 4.35, whereas 2.93 and 3.79 alleles per locus were found in Nepal and India, respectively. The mean gene diversity in Central Asia and East Asia was 0.36 and 0.28, respectively, whereas the mean PIC values were 0.27 and 0.22, respectively. The genetic diversity and PIC of the India amaranths were higher than that of other Asian countries. The model-based structure analysis revealed the presence of three subpopulations, which was basically consistent with clustering based on genetic distance. An AMOVA analysis showed that the between-population component of genetic variance was less than 56.16% in contrast to 43.84% for the within-population component. The overall FST value was 0.56, reflecting genetic differentiation within Asian amaranths. These findings could be used for designing effective breeding programs aimed at broadening the genetic bases of commercially grown varieties.

농촌진흥청 농업유전자원센터의 식물유전자원 확보, 보존 및 활용과 관련하여 수요자가 요구하는 유전자원 확보 및 유전자원의 품질향상 방안을 도출하기 위하여 2010년도에 종자 유전자원을 분양받아 활용한 수요자를 대상으로 2011년에 우편설문 방법에 의하여 설문조사를 실시하고 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 분양된 유전자원에 대한 만족도는 종자의 순도, 발아율 및 기대 특성 발현도 등에서 '보통이상이다'고 답변한 비율이 각각 87.5%, 88.9%, 84.2%로 높게 나타났으며, 유전자원을 분양신청한 후 자원을 수령하기까지는 76.7%가 15일 이내에 수령한 것으로 만족도를 나타내었다. 2. 유전자원을 분양받은 후 자원을 활용하여 추진하고 있는 경과상황 및 예상 성과, 분양자원의 활용결과보고서 제출 여부 등에 관한 설문조사에서는 89.2%가 '분양받은 자원이 목적한대로 활용 중이다'는 답변을 나타내었다. 자원 활용 예상성과에 대해서는 자원정보 축적과 논문발표가 비교적 높은 비율이고 신품종 등록과 특허 출원이 상대적으로 낮은 비율을 나타내었는데 현시점에서의 유전자원 분양요청자의 성향을 나타낸 것으로 해석할 수 있다. 분양자원의 활용결과보고서 제출여부에 대한 답변결과는 자원분양 시 별도의 조치가 필요한 것으로 나타났다. 3. 유전자원 분양과 관련한 개선사항에 대한 설문에서는 특성이 있는 유전자원의 확보 제공과 유전자원의 특성정보 제공에 대한 답변 합계가 75.0%로서 유전자원 분양업무 절차보다는 현실적으로 필요한 자원이나 정보가 보다 더 절실함을 나타내었다. 금후 필요한 유전자원에 대한 설문에서의 답변은 국내의 재래종이 23.8%로 가장 많았고, 국제농업연구기관 보유 유전자원 21.4%, 외국국가가 보유한 유전자원 21.4%로 외국의 유전자원에 대한 희망이 42.8%로 나타나고 있으며, 다음이 해당 작물의 야생종 또는 야생근연종 10.7%, 외국의 육성품종 또는 계통 9.5%, 국내의 육성품종 또는 계통 9.5%의 순이었다. 또한, 수요자 소속별로 희망하는 유전자원이 다르게 나타났다. 4. 설문조사 분석결과, 유전자원 관리 단계별로 반영하여 수요자가 요구하는 유전자원을 우선적으로 확보하고 보존자원의 품질향상 관리가 되도록 하는 것이 중요한 것으로 나타났다. 수요자 맞춤형 자원도입 및 우선순위에 의한 자원 확보가 요구되었고, 보유 자원의 품질향상을 위해서는 자원 도입 시부터 특성 있는 자원을 확보하고 보존자원의 특성평가가 조속히 추진될 필요가 있으며, 유전자원 정보의 확충 및 확대 제공 노력이 요구되었다.

Regarding carotenoids content, the genetic basis, heritability and combining ability in six red pepper inbred lines were investigated using full diallel crosses. Both additive and non-additive gene actions govern inheritance of carotenoids content. The mean square of array through variance and covariance analysis (Wr-Vr) was insignificant, which suggest that inbred lines involved in diallel cross may have no epistatic effects. The Vr/Wr graph revealed the influence of partial dominant gene action towards low carotenoids content and the absence of non-allelic interaction. The H2 component was smaller than the H1 and the [H2/4H1] component was 0.187 less than 0.25, indicating unequal proportion of positive and negative alleles in the parents. The estimates of broad and narrow sense heritability for carotenoids content were 0.956 and 0.832, respectively. The variance of general combining ability (GCA) was relatively higher than that of specific combining ability (SCA), which implied that the additive gene effects were predominant as compared to both dominant and epistatic effects for the accumulation of carotenoids in this genetic population. The values of GCA of ‘62024L1’ and ‘62067L2’ were higher than those of the other parents. These 2 inbred lines, therefore, can be considered as useful breeding materials to enhance fruit carotenoids content in other red pepper varieties.

본 연구는 복숭아 유전자원의 유전적 다양성을 분석하여 육종의 기초 자료로 활용하기 위하여 재배 품종 및 국내에서 수집한 야생 복숭아 64점을 대상으로 SRAP, AFLP와 RAPD 분석을 수행하였다. 19종과 20종의 primer조합을 이용한 SRAP와 AFLP분석에서 각각 143개(26.7%)와 193개(27.2%)의 다형성 밴드를 획득하였고, 평균 다형성 밴드 수는 7.53개와 9.65개였다. RAPD분석에서 52종의 선발 primer를 이용하여 201개(45.9%)의 다형성 밴드를 얻었으며, 평균 다형성 밴드 수는 3.90개였다. SRAP, AFLP와 RAPD분석에서 획득된 537개의 다형성 밴드를 이용하여 UPGMA(비가중 평균결합) 방식으로 유사도 및 집괴분석을 수행한 결과 유전적 유사도 0.751을 기준으로 8개의 그룹으로 분류되었다. 복숭아 유전자원 간 유전적 유사도 값은 0.370～0.978의 범위로 평균 유전적 유사도는 0.737이었다. 가장 높은 유사도 값(0.978)을 나타낸 유전자원은 PH065와 PH066 간이었고 가장 낮은 유사도 값(0.370)을 나타낸 유전자원은 Prunus davidiana와 PH020간이었다. 본 연구에서는 이용된 64종의 복숭아 유전자원은 집괴분석 결과 유전자원들이 수집된 지역은 다르지만 유전적 다양성은 낮은 것으로 추정되었다.

Gastrodia elata, an achlorophyllous orchid plant, is rare medicinal plant. We investigated the genetic diversity in G. elata from 4 locations by using Inter-Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSR) markers. Shannon's information Index (S.I.) indicating genetic diversity ranged from 0.255 (Pocheon) to 0.322 (Muju) with the mean of 0.29. The level of genetic diversity was lower than other plant and most genetic diversity was allocated among individuals within populations (26.81%). The UPGMA dendrogram based on genetic distance failed in showing decisive geographic relationship. In the case of gastrodin (GA), the major components in G. elata, Sangju was highest. The ergothionine (ERG) was detected a lot of contents in Muju and Pocheon. In conclusion, our results is very important information for explaining relationship of genetic variation and functional substances without the effects of environment factors and developing genetic marker by ISSR in G. elata, which may be responsible for the development of breeds with a lot of functional substance in G. elata.

본 연구는 총 50개의 SSR primer를 이용하여 색소옥수수(색소종실 옥수수 12계통, 색소찰 옥수수 12계통) 및 비색소옥수수(종실옥수수 2계통, 찰옥수수 5계통) 계통들에 대하여 유전적 다양성, 계통유연관계 및 집단구조를 분석하였다.1. 그 결과 50 개의 SSR primer들은 색소 및 비색소옥수수 31계통들에서 총 282개의 대립단편을 증폭시켰으며, SSR primer들에서 증폭된 대립단편의 수는 최소 2개에서부터 최대 11개까지의 범위로 나타나 평균 5.64개가 증폭되었다. MAF(major allele frequency)는 0.23(bnlg279)에서 0.90(umc2338)의 범위로 나타나, SSR primer 당 평균 0.45개로 나타났고, 유전적 다양성(GD)값은 0.17(umc2338)에서 0.86(bnlg279)의 범위로 나타나, SSR primer 당 평균 0.67의 값을 나타내었다. 2. 31개의 색소 및 비색소옥수수 계통들의 집단구조를 분석한 결과, 이들 옥수수 계통들은 Groups I, II, III, IV, V, admixed로 구분되었다. Group I은 찰옥수수 1계통, 색소종실옥수수 1계통, 색소찰옥수수 5계통이 포함되었고, Group II는 찰옥수수 1계통, 색소찰옥수수 3계통이, Group III는 색소종실옥수수 3계통, Group IV는 색소종실옥수수 2계통이, Group V는 종실옥수수 2계통, 찰옥수수 2계통, 색소종실옥수수 5계통이 포함되어 있었다. 그리고 admixed group에는 찰옥수수 1계통, 색소종실옥수수 1계통, 색소찰옥수수 4계통 이 포함되어 있었다.3. UPGMA법에 의한 계통유연관계 분석 결과, 31개의 색소 및 비색소옥수수 계통들은 유전적 유사성 27.4%의 수준에서 크게 3개의 그룹으로 나누어졌다. Group I은 10개의 옥수수 계통(종실옥수수 2계통, 찰옥수수 2계통, 색소종실옥수수 6계통)을 포함하고 있었고, Group II는 20개의 옥수수 계통(찰옥수수 3계통, 색소종실옥수수 5계통, 색소찰옥수수 12계통)을, 그리고 Group III은 색소종실옥수수 1계통을 포함하고 있었다. 따라서 본 연구의 결과는 앞으로 강원도 농업기술원 옥수수시험장에서 색소옥수수 자식계통들에 대한 선발과 품종 육성 연구에 유용한 정보를 제공할 것으로 생각된다.

In this study, Expressed Sequence Tag-Simple Sequence Repeat (EST-SSR) analyses were used to clarify the genetic polymorphisms among Korean ginseng cultivars and breeding lines and to classify them into distinct genetic groups. Polymorphic and reproducible bands were produced by 14 primers out of total 30 primers used in this study. Fourteen EST-SSR loci generated a total of 123 bands. Amplified PCR products showed the highly reproducible banding patterns at 110~920 bp. The number of amplified bands for each EST-SSR primers ranged from 2 to 19 with a mean of 8.8 bands. P26 and P35 primers showed 13 and 12 banding patterns, respectively. The number of alleles for each EST-SSR locus ranged from 1.67 to 2.00 with a mean of 1.878 alleles. P34 and P60 primers showed the highest and the lowest genetic polymorphism, respectively. Cluster analysis based on genetic similarity estimated by EST-SSR markers classified Korean cultivars and breeding lines into 4 groups. Group included Gopoong and Chunpoong and 9 breeding lines (55%), group included 2 breeding lines (10%), group included 3 breeding lines (15%), group included Gumpoong and 3 breeding lines (20%). Consequently, the EST-SSR marker developed in this study may prove useful for the evaluation of genetic diversity and differentiation of Korean ginseng cultivars and breeding lines.

In order to clarify the chromosomal location of quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with the yield and agronomic traits in waxy corn and sweet corn (Zea maysL.), we were conducted identifying of QTLs associated with yield and agronomic traits by employing genetic linkage map of F2:3 population. A total of 14 QTLs each for days to silking (DTS), plant height (PH), ear height (EH), ear height ratio (ER), ear length (L-Ear) and kernel setting length (L-Sear) were detected in the 158 F2 families. The number of QTL per each trait was ranged from 1 to 6, and also phenotypic variance was ranged from 3.55 to 16.86%. For DTS, one QTLs was found to be controlled by genomic regions at locations chromosomes 1 contributing 9.21% of phenotypic variance. While three QTLs for PH, were found to be controlled by 3 genomic regions at locations chromosomes 1 and 2 contributing 6.68, 6.85 and 8.17% of phenotypic variance, respectively. For EH, six QTLs were found to be controlled by 6 genomic regions at locations chromosomes 1, 7, 8 and 10 range from 3.55 to 11.44% of phenotypic variance. The one QTLs for ER was found at locations chromosomes 1 contributing 7.25% of phenotypic variance. For L-Ear, two QTLs were found to be controlled by 2 genomic regions at location chromosome 7 and 10 contributing 7.40 and 11.63% of phenotypic variance, respetively. The one QTLs for L-Sear was found at locations chromosomes 3 contributing 16.86% of phenotypic variance. Among them, three QTLs, such as qEH8 (11.44%), qLEar10 (11.63%), and qLSear3 (16.86%) may be considered as a major QTLs, while the remaining 11 QTLs might be regarded as minor QTLs. This study may provide valuable information for the further identification and characterization of genes responsible for agronomic traits in waxy corn and sweet corn.

The genus Rubus belongs to the Rosaceae family and is comprised of 600-800 species distributed worldwide. Understanding the genetic relationships and genetic structure in Rubus species is important for enabling efficient management, conservation, characterization and utilization of the species. However, as a minor crop, genetic research foundation was limited to explore genetic diversity and relationships in Rubus species. The present study shows the results of application SSR markers that were developed from SSR-enriched libraries of the one Rubus species (Rubus coreanus Mique.) in our previous study. We used 34 polymorphic microsatellite markers to analysis of genetic diversity within the Rubus species, including redraspberry, blackraspberry, blackberry and mountainberry. All the 34 SSR primers pairs produced 483 polymorphic and reproducible amplification fragments. The largest number of alleles per primer pair was confirmed at GB-RC-167, GB-RC-100, GB-RC-076 and GB-RC-245, which contained 26, 25, 23 and 21, respectively. An average value of polymorphic information contents (PIC) were 0.74 with a range of 0.36 to 0.92. Population structure and phylogenetic analyses showed that all Rubus species formed three largely distinct clusters, which were confirmed by principal coordinate analysis (PCoA). We obtained the results that the developed SSR markers showed a substantial degree of genetic diversity in the various Rubus species distributed in Korea.

A core genetic map of the legume Medicago truncatula has been established by analyzing the segregation of 288 sequence-characterized genetic markers in an F2 population composed of 93 individuals. These molecular markers correspond to 141 ESTs, 80 BAC end sequence-tags, and 67 resistance gene analogs, covering 513 cM. In the case of EST-based markers we used an intron-targeted marker strategy, with primers designed to anneal in conserved exon regions and amplify across intron regions. Polymorphisms were significantly more frequent in intron vs exon regions, thus providing an efficient mechanism to map transcribed genes. Genetic and cytogenetic analysis produced eight well-resolved linkage groups, which have been previously correlated with eight chromosomes by means of FISH with mapped BAC clones. We anticipated that mapping of conserved coding regions would have utility for comparative mapping among legumes; thus 60 of the EST-based primer pairs were designed to amplify orthologous sequences across a range of legume species. As an initial test of this strategy, we used primers designed against M. truncatula exon sequences to rapidly map genes in Medicago sativa. The resulting comparative map, which includes 68 bridging markers, indicates that the two Medicago genomes are highly similar, and establishes the basis for a “Medicago” composite map.

We investigated the expression patterns of a granule-bound starch synthase I (GBSSI = Waxy) gene at different developmental stages of storage and non-storage organs in Amaranthus cruentus. GBSSI transcripts were strongly expressed in the middle and mid-late stages of seed development and thereafter expression decreased. In addition, this gene was expressed in all non-storage organs tested (the leaf, stem, petiole and root) and showed a tendency to increase during plant development. Therefore, our results indicate that the amaranth GBSSI gene exhibits late expression in the perisperm, and that it is expressed in both storage and non-storage tissues. We also investigated the genetic diversity of GBSSI among 37 strains of amaranth grains originating from New World. A comparison of the GBSSI coding sequence revealed an extremely high level of sequence conservation, and a single nucleotide polymorphism between the sequences of non-waxy (Type I) and waxy (Type II) phenotypes was detected. This indicates that a G–T polymorphism in exon 10 (a nonsense mutation) was a unique event in the evolution of the GBSSI gene in amaranth grains.

The need to develop work on conservation of crop genetic diversity is emphasized in change of agricultural environment, such as climate change, turn of dietary habits, use of cereal to bioenergy production. To secure provide the germplasm and to derive improve quality, customers demands was surveyed in 2011 and the results are as follows. In the questionnaire on genetic resources necessary in the future, Korean landrace was the highest as 23.8%, followed by genetic resources of international agricultural research institutions as 21.4% and genetic resources of foreign countries of 21.4%. Followed by 42.8% for genetic resources from foreign countries, response ratio were 10.7%, 9.5% and 9.5% for wild or wild-relative species, advanced cultivar or breeders’ line from foreign countries, and advanced cultivar or breeders’ line from Korea, respectively. In addition, consumers desired different genetic resources according to their institutes. Satisfaction on seed purity, germination rate and expected characteristic expression with the genetic resources was higher than normal by 87.5%, 88.9%, 84.2% of respondents, respectively. In order to improve the quality of conserved resources, it is necessary to select the resources having useful characteristics from the time of introduction, and to facilitate the evaluation of the preserved accessions in the near future. Efforts for expansion and opening of information on genetic resources are required.

Two sugary mutants, Hwacheong sugary-1 (Hsu1) and Hwacheong sugary-2 (Hsu2) were obtained by chemical mutagenesis from japonica cultivar, Hwacheongbyeo. Sugary mutants exhibited wrinkled and translucent grain with high soluble sugar content. In addition, amber-colored endosperm of sugary mutants was loosely packed due to abnormal starch granules compared to densely packed wild-type. Especially, the grain of Hsu2 mutant was less wrinkled than that of Hsu1, thus Hsu2 can be polished easily. Previous studies reveal that su1 mutant was resulted from mutation in gene for a debranching enzyme, isoamylase but the sequence of the mutated gene has not been identified. To identify the sequence of sugary genes, the map-based cloning strategy was applied. The genetic study revealed that the phenotype of Hsu2 mutant was controlled by two recessive genes. Interestingly, one of the genes was located on chromosome 8 at the position of isoamylase which was known as su-1. This indicates that mutation in isoamylase gene causes sugary endosperm characteristics. However we found different mutation points between the Hsu1 and Hsu2. The point mutation in Hsu1 was occurred at 10th exon whereas the other mutation related with Hsu2 was occurred at 15th exon. As mentioned above, the Hsu2 mutant has less wrinkled shape and less soluble sugar content than the Hsu1 mutant. Thus, we hypothesize that the other gene controlling Hsu2 mutant phenotype may have a role in weakening the effect of the su-1. Further study on the other gene associated with the Hsu2 phenotype is in progress.

Korea signed to the international union for the protection of new varieties of plants (UPOV) 2002, it has been increased that the importance of the rights protection for breeder. National institute of horticultural & herbal science (NIHHS) has been bred using crossing and tissue culture since 1992 and released nineteen new Phalaenopsis varieties from 2002 to 2011. This study was conducted to develop DNA markers for discrimination of the Phalaenopsis varieties bred in NIHHS, Korea. Also the genetic relationships among 14 Phalaenopsis varieties were analyzed using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Fifty five polymorphic bands (4.6 per primer) were generated by polymerase chain reaction with selected 12 primers among 111 primers. The dendrogram was constructed by using the UPGMA clustering algorithm based on genetic similarity. The Similarity values among the breeding Phalaenopsis cultivars ranged from 0.593 to 0.945. Fourteen Phalaenopsis cultivars were classified into three major groups at similarity coefficient value of 0.66. Understanding of the genetic diversity could be useful in Phalaenopsis breeding program. We could discriminate these breeding varieties using SSR 20 and SSR 21. These molecular markers could be utilized as a reliable tool for variety discrimination with morphological characterization in breeding Phalaenopsis.

Amylose content of rice endosperm is one of the determinants of rice eating quality. This study was conducted to elucidate the mode of inheritance of dull gene in Milyang262, tentatively designated as du7(t), and to identify the molecular marker for du7(t) to be employed in marker-assisted breeding and gene pyramiding. Genetic analysis was carried out on F2 population derived from a cross between Junam and Milyang262. The low amylose content of Milyang262 was indicated to be under single recessive control. Allelism tests were as well conducted by crossing Milyang262 with Baegjinju and Baegokchal, which harbor du1 and wx gene, respectively. du7(t) was demonstrated to be inherited independently to du1 and wx. F2 population of Baegokchal/Milyang262 was used for molecular mapping. Linkage analysis was conducted on a population consisted of 120 individuals by several SSR markers. Initial mapping indicated that du7(t) is located on the end of long arm of chromosome 6 between SSR marker RM20590 and RM3509. To fine map the gene, a bigger population and several additional markers were employed. du7(t) was further mapped to a 1.74 Mb region between two SSR markers (RM6926 and RM412). Furthermore, we indentified three SSR markers that co-segregated with du(t) i.e. RM6811, RM3765, and RM176.

Genus Taraxacum has been widely used as a folkloric medicine for treatment of diverse diseases. The genetic diversity and relationship among 32 accessions belonging to five Taraxacum species (T. mongolicum T. coreanum, T. coreanum var. flavescens, T. officinale and T. laevigatum) which collected from field, mountain, island and seaside of Korea were evaluated using ISSR markers. A total of 142 ISSR loci detected in the overall species were all polymorphic loci (100%) and interspecies polymorphisms obtained from Korean native and naturalized species were 98.2% and 94.5%, respectively. The genetic similarity matrix (GSM) among 32 accessions ranged from 0.025 to 0.860 with an average of 0.303. According to the clustering analysis, the Korean native species and naturalized species were divided two major clusters. In addition, the different species were divided into independent groups except for the T. coreanum and T. coreanum var. flavescens, and all the 32 accessions could be classified into 7 categories. The study findings indicate that Taraxacum accessions have a high genetic diversity and the dandelion accessions as breeding materials can be effectively utilized for the improvement of Taraxacum breeding.