• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.471-476
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• 2013

Plants are frequently exposed to numerous environmental stresses such as dehydration and high salinity, and have developed elaborate mechanisms to counteract the deleterious effects of stress. The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) plays a critical role as an integrator of plant responses to water-limited condition to activate ABA signal transduction pathway. Although perception of ABA has been suggested to be important, the function of each ABA receptor remains elusive in dehydration condition. Here, we show that ABA receptor, pyrabactin resistance-like protein 8 (PYL8), functions in dehydration conditions. Transgenic plants overexpressing PYL8 exhibited hypersensitive phenotype to ABA in seed germination, seedling growth and establishment. We found that hypersensitivity to ABA of transgenic plants results in high degrees of stomatal closure in response to ABA leading to low transpiration rates and ultimately more vulnerable to drought than the wild-type plants. In addition, high expression of ABA maker genes also contributes to altered drought tolerance phenotype. Overall, this work emphasizes the importance of ABA signaling by ABA receptor in stomata during defense response to drought stress.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.306-314
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• 2018

Korean ginseng (Panax ginseng) has long been cultivated as an important economic medicinal plant. Owing to the seasonal and long-term agricultural cultivation methods of Korean ginseng, they are always vulnerable to various environmental stress conditions. ABSCISIC ACID (ABA) is an essential plant hormone associated with seed development and diverse abiotic stress responses including drought, cold and salinity stress. By modulating ABA responses, plants can regulate their immune responses and growth patterns to increase their ability to tolerate stress. With recent advances in genome sequencing technology, we first reported the functional features of genes related to canonical ABA signaling pathway in P. ginseng genome. Based on the protein sequences and functional genomic analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana, the ABA related genes were successfully identified. Our functional genomic characterizations clearly showed that the ABA signaling related genes consisting the ABA receptor proteins (PgPYLs), kinase family (PgSnRKs) and transcription factors (PgABFs, PgABI3s and PgABI5s) were evolutionary conserved in the P. ginseng genome. We confirmed that overexpressing ABA related genes of P. ginseng completely restored the ABA responses and stress tolerance in ABA defective Arabidopsis mutants. Finally, tissue and age specific spatio-temporal expression patterns of the identified ABA-related genes in P. ginseng tissues were also classified using various available RNA sequencing data. This study provides ABA signal transduction related genes and their functional genomic information related to the growth and development of Korean ginseng. Additionally, the results of this study could be useful in the breeding or artificial selection of ginseng which is resistant to various stresses.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.684-691
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• 2019

Evolution of adaptive mechanisms to abiotic stress is essential for plant growth and development. Plants adapt to stress conditions by activating the abscisic acid (ABA) signaling pathway. It has been suggested that the ABA receptor, clade A protein phosphatase, SnRK2 type kinase, and SLAC1 anion channel are important components of the ABA signaling pathway. In this study, we report that the shaker type potassium (K⁺) channel, GORK, modulates plant responses to ABA and abiotic stresses. Our results indicate that the full length of PP2CA is needed to interact with the GORK C-terminal region. We identified a loss of function allele in gork that displayed ABA-hyposensitive phenotype. gork and pp2ca mutants showed opposite responses to ABA in seed germination and seedling growth. Additionally, gork mutant was tolerant to the NaCl and mannitol treatments, whereas pp2ca mutant was sensitive to the NaCl and mannitol treatments. Thus, our results indicate that GORK enhances the sensitivity to ABA and negatively regulates the mechanisms involved in high salinity and osmotic stresses via PP2CA-mediated signals.

• 한국식물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물학회 1996년도 식물학심포지움 식물호르몬과 신호전달
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• pp.68-78
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• 1996

Two types of immunoloigcal probes, anti-ABBP Abs, have been developed. The purified ABBP from ABA-C1-BSA-sepharose 4B column was identified by PAGE and appeared in one band of about 56KD, as well as showed a specific binding ability and a high affinity for ABA (Kd2.0$\times$10-9 mol/L). Unexpectedly, the existence of rRNA with a length of around 300 nucleotides could be found, when the ABBP was digested with proteinase K and identified by eletrophorsis on an agarose gel (1%). As a result, about 120 cDNA clones coding maize 17s RNA and only one cDNA clone coding ABBP (24cDNA) were obtained from 200,000 seperated phage plaques by the anti-ABBP pAbs. 24cDNA had 1075bp and contained an open reading frame coding 254 amino acids. The anti-idiotypic Ab raised against an ABA MAb showed the ability of either mimicking ABA or competing with ABA. The localization of ABBPs in plant cell was investigated.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.14-18
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• 2006

The effect(s) of the volatile oil (VO) of Nigella sativa and its two components, ${\alpha}-pinene$ and ${\rho}-cymene$ on body temperature of male and female conscious mice were studied. Further investigations to delineate the mechanism(s) of action of the observed effect(s) by using various blockers involved in the central regulation of body temperature were made. VO and ${\alpha}-pinene$ caused significant reductions in rectal body temperature at is and 30 minute after treatment. ${\rho}-cymene$ had negligible effect on body temperature of mice. Cyproheptadine inhibited VO and ${\alpha}-pinene-induced$ hypothermia significantly. Nalbuphine inhibited ${\alpha}-pinene-induced$ hypothermia significantly but did not affect VO-induced hypothermia. Droperidol potentiated VO and ${\alpha}-pinene-induced$ hypothermia to a non-significant level; whereas atropine potentiated VO-induced hypothermia non-significantly. The study confirms further the role of serotoninergic receptors in the mechanism(s) of the observed pharmacological effects of the VO of Nigella sativa. It also indicated a possible role of opioid receptors in ${\alpha}-pinene-induced$ hypothermia.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2017년도 9th Asian Crop Science Association conference
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• pp.90-90
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• 2017

Regulation of seed dormancy is important in many grains to prevent pre-harvest sprouting. To identify and understand the gene related to seed dormancy regulation, we have screened for viviparous phenotypes of rice mutant lines generated by insertion of Ds transposon in a Korean Japonica cultivar (Dongjin) background. One of the mutants, which represented viviparous phenotype, was selected for further seed dormancy regulation studies and designated dor1. The dor1 mutant has single Ds insertion in the second exon of OsDor1 gene encoding glycine-rich protein. The seeds of dor1 mutant showed a higher germination potential and reduced abscisic acid (ABA) sensitivity compared to wild type Dongjin. Over-expression of Dor1 complements the viviparous phenotype of dor1 mutant, indicating that Dor1 function in seed dormancy regulation. Subcellular localization assay of Dor1-GFP fusion protein revealed that the OsDor1 protein mainly localized to membrane and the localization of OsDOR1 was influenced by presence of a giberelin (GA) receptor OsGID1. Further bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) analysis indicated that OsDOR1 interact with OsGID1. The combined results suggested that OsDOR1 regulates seed dormancy by interacting with OsGID1 in GA response. Additionally, expression of OsDOR1 partially complemented the cold sensitivity of Escherichia coli BX04 mutant lacking four cold shock proteins, indicating that OsDOR1 possessed RNA chaperone activity.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제66권1호
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• pp.37-71
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 유채 두 계통에 0℃ 이하의 저온 스트레스를 처리하고 이에 따른 proline 함량 및 생존율 변화를 확인하고 이에 따른 저온에서의 유전자 발현 변화를 비교 분석하기 위해 수행되었으며, 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 0℃ 이하의 저온 스트레스 처리 전 저온 순화 후 유채 'J8634-B-30' 계통에서 proline 함량이 2.02 mM/g FW로 증가하여 처리 전보다 8.7배 증가하였으며, 'EMS26' 계통에서는 0℃ 이하의 저온 스트레스 처리로 인한 proline 함량 변화를 보이지 않았다. 2. 저온 순화 전후 유채 두 계통의 전사체를 분석한 결과, 'J8634-B-30' 계통의 DEG는 발현이 유도된 DEG가 2,784개로, 발현이 억제된 DEG 2,299개보다 많았으며, 'EMS 26' 계통에서는 발현이 유도된 DEG가 2,199개로 발현이 억제된 DEG 3,632개로 적었다. 3. 저온 스트레스 처리에 의한 유채 두 계통의 상위 100개 DEG를 분석한 결과, 'J8634-B-30' 계통에서는 flowering-promoting factor (BnaA10g21640D) 유전자가 강하게 발현되었으며, 특히 proline 생합성 관련 유전자의 발현이 강하게 유도되었다. 'EMS26' 계통의 DEG에서는 식물체 생장과 관련된 유전자가 발현이 억제되었다. 4. 'J8634-B-30' 계통에서는 proline 생합성 관련 P5CSA(BnaA04g22810D, BnaC04g46630D) 유전자의 발현이 유도되었으며, proline 이화작용 관련 PDH (BnaAnng 37880D, BnaC04g31100D) 유전자 발현이 억제되어, 저온 처리에 의한 proline 함량 이 증가한 것으로 판단된다. 5. 저온 반응 관련 생리반응 경로 유전자 중 ABA 호르몬 수용체 PYL5 (BnaAnng40650D), PYL9 (BnaA07g38130D, BnaC06g17940D)는 'J8634-B-30' 계통에서만 발현이 유도되었다. 또한, ICE-CBF-COR 신호 회로 중 원형질막 안정화에 관여하는 COR413 유전자(BnaA08g15470D, BnaC03g61740D)에서도 'J8634-B-30' 계통에서만 발현이 유도되었다. 6. 이러한 저온 스트레스 반응과 관련된 유전자 발현 차이는 초기 저온 처리 후 두 유채 계통의 스트레스 반응에 관여했을 것으로 판단되며, 특이적인 발현 양상을 보인 유전자에 대해 향후 추가적인 기능을 분석하여 내동성 유채 품종 개발에 활용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.