• Rapid Communication in Photoscience
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.28-31
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• 2014

Loss of chlorophyll is the visible symptom of leaf senescence and staygreen refers to the delayed leaf senescence in plants. The staygreen gene (SGR) in rice (Oryza sativa L.) has been identified as its mutation maintains greenness during leaf senescence, and encodes a chloroplast protein required for the initiation of chlorophyll breakdown in plants. In this study, we isolated a rice SGR-homologous gene in creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.), and transgenic creeping bentgrass plants were obtained by introducing pCAMBIA3301 vector harboring antisense SGR gene under control of the senescence-specific SAG12 promoter. Transgenic plants were selected by herbicide resistance assays and genomic integration of the transgenes was confirmed by PCR analysis. Subsequent analyses demonstrated the staygreen phenotype of the transgenic creeping bentgrass plants with decreased chlorophyll loss during leaf senescence. These results suggest that the antisense SGR expression in creeping bentgrass delays leaf senescence, which provides a way to develop genetically engineered turfgrass varieties with the commercially useful staygreen trait.

• Plant Resources
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.202-208
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• 2005

Osmotic stress is one of major limiting factors in crop production. In particular, seasonal drought often causes the secondary disease in the field, resulting in severe reduction in both quality and productivity. Recent efforts have revealed that many genes encoding protein kinases play important roles in osmotic stress signal transduction pathways. Previously, the AtSIK (Arabidopsis thaliana Stress Inducible Kinase) mutants have shown to enhance tolerance to abiotic stresses, accompanying with higher expression of abiotic stress-related genes than did the wild-type plants. In this study, we have transformed potato (cv. Taedong Valley) with the AtSIK expression cassette. Both PCR and RT-PCR using AtSIK-specific primers showed stable integration and expression of the AtSIK gene in individual transgenic lines, respectively. Foliar application of herbicide ($Basta^{(R)}$) at commercial application rate (0.3% (v/v)) revealed another evidence of stable gene introduction of T-DNA which includes the bar gene for herbicide resistance. Overexpression of the AtSIK gene under dual CaMV35S promoter increased sensitivity to salt stress (300 mM NaCl), which was demonstrated by the reduction rate of chlorophyll contents in leaves of transgenic potato lines. These results suggest that possible increase of osmotic tolerance in potato plants may be achieved by antisense expression of AtSIK gene.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2001년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.189-192
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• 2001

Polyamine 함량이 증가된 형질전환 식물체들은 $H_2O_2$ 처리에 의해서 야기된 산화적스트레스에 대해 야생형 식물체보다 조직 손상이 월등히 낮았으며 백화와 괴사되는 정도도 훨씬 낮았으며 chlorophyll 양의 손실도 비교적 적은 편이었다. 또한 고염분 스트레스를 처리하면서 야생형보다 비교적 높게 유지되었으며 4달 정도까지 생장이 지속되었지만 야생형 식물체에서는 생장이 거의 정지되어 식물체가 고사하였다. 그 외에 ABA를 처리하여 노화를 유도한 경우 야생형에서 훨씬 빠르게 노화가 일어났으며 형질전환 식물체 잎에서는 노화가 트게 지연되었다. 또한 pH3.0의 potassium phosphate를 처리한 경우에도 야생형의 잎보다 형질전환 식물체 잎에서 갈변등의 세포 손상이 크게 지연되었다. 곰팡이 감염에서도 높은 저항성을 보였으며 항산화효소임 GST와 CAT 유전자 발현이 증가하였다. Ethylene 발현 저해 식물체에서도 스트레스를 처리한 후 ethylene 생합성 효소의 발현이 억제되면서 스트레스 저항성을 나타내었다. 따라서 이러한 스트레스에 의하여 유도되는 노화의 지연현상이 야생형 식물체보다 형질전환 식물체 잎에서 두드러지게 나타나는데 그 기작은 mpolyamine이 이러한 스트레스를 완화시키는데 작용하였기 때문이라고 생각된다.