Drought stress is a condition that occurs frequently in the field, it reduces of the agricultural yield of field crops. The aim of the study was to screen drought-adapted genotype of Italian rye grass. The experiments were conducted between the two Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum L.) cultivars viz. Hwasan (H) and Kowinearly (KE). The plants were exposed to drought for 14 days. The results suggest that the morphological traits and biomass yield of KE significantly affected by drought stress-induced oxidative stress as the hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) level was induced, while these parameters were unchanged or less affected in H. Furthermore, the cultivar H showed better adaptation by maintaining several physiological parameter including photosystem-II (Fv/Fm), water use efficiency (WUE) and relative water content (RWC%) level in response to drought stress. These results indicate that the cultivar H shows improved drought tolerance by generic variation, improving photosynthetic efficiency and reducing oxidative stress damages under drought stress. These findings can be useful to the breeder and farmer for improving drought tolerance in Italian rye grass through breeding programs.

The genus Loxoblemmus has three speices in Korea: L. doenitzi, L. campestris and L. equestris. Males of L. doenitzi have flat heads and triangular horns on both sides of their frons, whereas males of L. campestris and L. equestris have flat heads and no horns. The latter two species are not clearly distinguished based on morphology and thus may constitute cryptic species. We studied the divergence in morphology, calling songs, and genetic sequences to understand patterns of differentiation of these three species. Distributions of the number of file teeth and wing morphology overlapped in L. campestris and L. equestris. In calling songs, the number of pulses in a chirp was four in L. campestris, but that was greater than or equal to six in L. equestris. The genetic sequence analyses using 16S rRNA and COI barcode revealed that L. doenitzi diverged off earlier from the other two species. Thus, the genetic data were congruent with the calling song data in three Loxoblemmus species. Our results suggest that the speciation processes may be closely related to differentiation in calling songs in the Loxoblemmus complex.

본 연구는 파파리반딧불이 (Hotaria papcrinsis), 애반딧불이 (Luciola lateralis) 및 늦반딧 불이 (Pyrocoelia fufa)등 국내 주요 반딧불이 종의 유전적 분화 및 계통분류학적 관련을 파악하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 mtDNA의 COI유전자 및 16S rRNA유전자 일부의 염기서열 (각 403bp 및 490bp~504bp)을 분석하였으며 아울러 GenBank에 등록된 일본 반딧불이 29종(반딧불이과 27종, 홍반딧과 1종 및 Rhagophthalmus과 1종)의 16S rRNA유전자의 동일부위 염기서열을 사용하였다. 국내 세 종간의 COI및 16S rRNA유전자의 염기서열 그리고 COI유전자의 아미노산 분화정도를 비교한 결과, 반딧불이아과(Lampyrinae)의 늦반딧불이는 애반딧불이아과(Luciolinae)에 공통적으로 속해있는 애반딧불이 및 파파리반딧불이와 다소 큰 유전적 차이를 나타냄으로 기존의 분류학적 위치를 확인하였다. 16S rRNA유전자의 염기서열을 이용, PAUP과 PHYLIP에 의한 계통분류학적 분석 결과, 우리 나라 애반딧불이는 일본 애반딧불이와 강력한 단일그룹을 형성하였으나 이들간 상당한 유전적 차이 (2.9%의 16S rRNA유전자 염기분화율)를 보였다. 국내 두 지역의 파파리반딧불이는 일본 대마도 고유종인 H. tsushimana와 같은 계통그룹을 형성하였으므로 Hotaria란 속명의 사용이 타당해 보이나 파파리반딧불이는 지역 개체간 자매분류군을 형성하지 않으므로 이에 대한 추가 연구가 요망되는 실정이다. 마지막으로, 국내 늦반딧불이 지역 개체가 일본 늦반딧불이와 강력한 단일 계통그룹을 형성한 점으로 미루어 Pyrocoelia란 속명의 사용은 타당해 보이나 다른 모든 늦반딧불이로부터 큰 유전적 거리론 보인 제주도 개체에 대한 추가적인 연구가 요망되는 실정이다. 결론적으로, 국내 반딧불이 종들은 일본에서 공통적으로 발생하는 반딧불이종 또는 속과 아주 강력한 계통그룹을 형성하였으므로 기존의 계통관련 연구를 지지하고 있는 실정이다.

Background : Compositae is one of the largest plant families which has high probability of diversity and mutation. Though the various researches about the Compositae are ongoing, it is incomplete and need to be conducted the molecular genetic researches to back up the previous studies. This research was performed to identify the genetic divergence of Compositae plants based on the DNA barcoding for cpDNA-matK and rbcL regions. Methods and Results : For this studies, the genetic sequence analysis (SNP/InDel) and phylogenetic analysis were conducted by using Neighbor-Joining algorithm as targeting the nineteen specimens from 7 species which received a IT number along with NCBI Genbank database (http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) sequences. The result of matK sequence analysis, 68 SNP and 2 InDel regions (at nt 527-538bp and 695-706bp positions) were confirmed. Also 10 SNPs were found in rbcL region. The genetic divergence showed 0.000-0.059% in matK regions, and the mean was 0.024%. The highest distance were observed between Ligualria fischeri and the group composed with Aster tataricus and Solidago virgauria (2 and 3). The sequence divergence for rbcL regions showed 0.000-0.018%, and the mean was 0.005%. The highest sequence distance in rbcL region were observed between L. fischeri group and S. virgauria (HE574593). In result of phylogenetic analysis in matK region, the most species formed independent clade. A. tataricus in Aster genus and two samples of S. virguaria in Solidago genus were formed one same clade. S. virguaria(1) and A. spathulifolius(2) has been separated into independently for the plants belonging to same genus, respectively. A. spathulifolius showed differences with NCBI data. The rbcL formed one same clade except L. fischeri and Synurus deltoides. Conclusion : This study indicates that matK is more valuable than rbcL for the distinction among the species of Compositae. This results are expected to be used for the establishment of the classification system of Compositae as well as for the studies in the development of an authentication marker.

Improving grain yield and quality of japonica rice continues to be a major breeding objective in Korea. In this study we evaluated genetic divergence among four japonica rice cultivars and assessed the relationship between genetic distance and hybrid perf