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Comparison of the Plant Characteristics and Nutritional Components between GM and Non-GM Chinese Cabbages Grown in the Central and Northern Parts of Korea  

Cho, Dong-Wook (Department of Applied Plant Science, Chung-Ang University)
Oh, Jin-Pyo (Department of Applied Plant Science, Chung-Ang University)
Park, Kuen-Woo (Division of Life Science, Korea University)
Lee, Dong-Jin (Department of Crop Science and Biotechnology, Dankook University)
Chung, Kyu-Hwan (Department of Applied Plant Science, Chung-Ang University)
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Horticultural Science & Technology / v.28, no.5, 2010 , pp. 836-844 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was carried out to investigate plant characteristics and nutritional components of the genetically modified (GM) Chinese cabbage and its control line grown in the central and northern parts of Korea in order to establish the evaluating protocol and standard assessment. The GM and non-GM Chinese cabbage was planted with normal and concentrated density at two locations in spring and fall of 2008 and 2009. From the statistic analysis on plant characteristics and nutritional components, there were not many significant differences between GM and non-GM Chinese cabbage. Only few differences in the plant characteristics were found between the dense and normal planting. In the dense planting, there was no significant difference between GM and non-GM Chinese cabbages except for three out of 18 plant traits, such as leaf shape, hairiness and midrib length. On the other hand, nine plant traits including leaf length, leaf width, leaf color, leaf shape, fresh weigh of ground part, number of leaf, midrib length, midrib width and root diameter were slightly different between GM and non-GM Chinese cabbage in the normal planting. In case of leaf length, midrib length, midrib width and fresh weigh of ground part, there were significantly differences not only between two lines, but also between two locations. From nutritional component analysis, only five fatty acids were identified in the Chinese cabbage: palmitic acid, oleic acid, stearic acid, linoleic acid and linolenic acid. Except linoleic acid, four fatty acids in one gram of dried sample from GM line were little higher than those from non-GM line. However, there were no significant differences in total contents of fatty acids not only between GM and non-GM Chinese cabbage line, but also between northern and central cultivating areas in the normal and dense planting. According to the composition of inorganic elements identified in the samples from both lines, there were six macro-elements, such as N, P, Ca, K, Mg and Na, and four micro-elements, Cu, Fe, Mn and Zn. Based on the result from PCA analysis, specific clusters were not found between GM Chinese cabbage and the control line, but found between two regions.
Keywords
dense planting; fatty acids; macro-elements; micro-elements; standard assessment;
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