• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.364-372
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• 2012

Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae causing bacterial leaf blight disease in rice produces and secretes Hpa1 protein that belongs to harpin protein family. Previously it was reported that Hpa1 induced defense responses when it was produced in tobacco. In this study, we expressed hpa1 gene in rice and Arabidopsis to examine the effects of Hpa1 expression on disease resistance to both fungal and bacterial pathogens. Expression of hpa1 gene in rice enhanced disease resistance to both X. oryzae pv. oryzae and Magnaporthe grisea. Interestingly, individual transgenic rice plants could be divided into four groups, depending on responses to both pathogens. hpa1 expression in Arabidopsis also enhanced disease resistance to both Botrytis cineria and Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris. To examine genes that are up-regulated in the transgenic rice plants after inoculation with X. oryzae pv. oryzae, known defense-related genes were assessed, and also microarray analysis with the Rice 5 K DNA chip was performed. Interestingly, expression of OsACS1 gene, which was found as the gene that showed the highest induction, was induced earlier and stronger than that in the wild type plant. These results indicate that hpa1 expression in the diverse plant species, including monocot and dicot, can enhance disease resistance to both fungal and bacterial plant pathogens.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.168-177
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• 2014

Plant has possessed diverse stress signals from outside and maintained its fitness. Out of such plant responses, it is well known that mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade plays important role in wounding and pathogen attack in most dicot plants. However, little is understood about its role in wounding response for the economically important monocot rice plant. In this study, therefore, the involvement of MAPK was investigated to understand the wounding signaling pathway in rice. The OsMPK1 was rapidly activated by wounding within 10 min, and OsMPK1 was also activated by challenge of rice blast fungus. Further analysis revealed that OsMKK4, the upstream kinase of OsMPK1, phosphorylated OsMPK1 by wounding in vivo. Furthermore, OsMPK1 directly interacted with a rice defense-related transcription factor OsWRKY53. To understand a functional link between MAPK and its target transcription factor, we showed that OsMPK1 activated by the constitutively active mutant $OsMKK4^{DD}$ phosphorylated OsWRKY53 in vitro. Taken together, components involving in the wounding signaling pathway, OsMKK4-OsMPK1-OsWRKY53, can be important players in regulating crosstalk between abiotic stress and biotic stress.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.250-257
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• 2016

Abiotic stresses such as drought and low temperature critically restrict plant growth, reproduction, and productivity. Higher plants have developed various defense strategies against these unfavorable conditions. CaPUB1 (Capsicum annuum Putative U-box protein 1) is a hot pepper U-box E3 Ub ligase. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants that constitutively expressed CaPUB1 exhibited drought-sensitive phenotypes, suggesting that it functions as a negative regulator of the drought stress response. In this study, CaPUB1 was over-expressed in rice (Oryza sativa L.), and the phenotypic properties of transgenic rice plants were examined in terms of their drought and cold stress tolerance. Ubi:CaPUB1 T3 transgenic rice plants displayed phenotypes hypersensitive to dehydration, suggesting that its role in the negative regulation of drought stress response is conserved in dicot Arabidopsis and monocot rice plants. In contrast, Ubi:CaPUB1 progeny exhibited phenotypes markedly tolerant to prolonged low temperature ($4^{\circ}C$) treatment, compared to those of wild-type plants, as determined by survival rates, electrolyte leakage, and total chlorophyll content. Cold stress-induced marker genes, including DREB1A, DREB1B, DREB1C, and Cytochrome P450, were more up-regulated by cold treatment in Ubi:CaPUB1 plants than in wild-type plants. These results suggest that CaPUB1 serves as both a negative regulator of the drought stress response and a positive regulator of the cold stress response in transgenic rice plants. This raises the possibility that CaPUB1 participates in the cross-talk between drought and low-temperature signaling pathways.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.87-93
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• 2003

Brachiaria (Poaceae) is the most important forage genus for cattle production in Brazil. The genetic breeding of this genus is limited by the incompatibility among species, differences in ploidy level and the natural cloning of plants by apomixis (Valle and Miles 1992). However, plant regeneration via tissue culture methods and genetic engineering provide an opportunity to introduce new characteristics in plants of this genus. We have developed methods for the 'genetic modification of Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu via biolistic transformation. A higher number of shoots was obtained with 4 mg/L 2.4-diclorophenoxyacetic acid and 0.2 mg/L benzylaminopurine in calli induction medium and 0.1 mg/L naphtaleneacetic acid and 4.0 mg/L kinetin in shoot regeneration medium. A selection curve for mannose was determined to use phospho mannose isomerase (PMI) gene of Escherichia coli as a selection marker. Calli formation was inhibited from 5 g/L mannose, even in the presence of sucrose while calli that were formed in the presence of mannose failed to develop embryos showing that PMI gene can be used for selection of transformants of this grass. Different promoters were tested to evaluate the efficiency based on the detection of the GUS gene expression (Jefferson et al. 1987). The monocot promoters, act1-D and ubi-1, resulted in higher expression levels than dicot promoters, ubi-3 and act-2, or the CaMV35S and CVMV promoters.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.463-472
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• 2009

Although the possible cellular roles of several ubiquitin-specific proteases (UBPs) were identified in Arabidopsis, almost nothing is known about UBP homologs in rice, a monocot model plant. In this report, we searched the rice genome database (http://signal.salk.edu/cgi-bin/RiceGE) and identified 21 putative UBP family members (OsUBPs) in the rice genome. These OsUBP genes each contain a ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase (UCH) domain with highly conserved Cys and His boxes and were subdivided into 9 groups based on their sequence identities and domain structures. RT-PCR analysis indicated that rice OsUBP genes are expressed at varying degrees in different rice tissues. We isolated a full-length cDNA clone for OsUBP6, which possesses not only a UCH domain, but also an N-terminal ubiquitin motif. Bacterially expressed OsUBP6 was capable of dismantling K48-linked tetra-ubiquitin chains in vitro. Quantitative real-time RT-PCR indicated that OsUBP6 is constitutively expressed in different tissues of rice plants. An in vivo targeting experiment showed that OsUBP6 is predominantly localized to the nucleus in onion epidermal cells. We also examined how knock-out of OsUBP6 affects developmental growth of rice plants. Although homozygous T3 osubp6 T-DNA insertion mutant seedlings displayed slower growth relative to wild type seedlings, mature mutant plants appeared to be normal. These results raise the possibility that loss of OsUBP6 is functionally compensated for by an as-yet unknown OsUBP homolog during later stages of development in rice plants.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.82-88
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• 2017

유전자총을 이용한 형질전환 체계와 PPT (D-L-phosphinothricin) 선발을 통하여 나리 인편조직으로부터 형질전환 식물체가 획득되었다. 본 연구에서 나리 '레드플레임' 품종의 인편조직에 선발유전자로 제초제저항성 유전자인 bar 유전자 그리고 내염성과 내건성의 복합환경저항성을 나타내는 AtSIZ 유전자를 목적유전자로 가지고 있는 플라스미드를 금입자에 코팅해서 유전자총을 이용해서 형질전환 하였다. 이러한 형질전환 체계 확립을 위해 헬륨가스 압력은 1,100 psi, 금 입자크기는 $1.0{\mu}m$ 그리고 목적 절편체까지의 거리는 6 cm 그리고 유전자총 처리 24시간 전과 후에 0.2 M sorbitol과 0.2 M mannitol을 혼합해서 MS배지에 첨가한 프로토콜로부터 우수한 형질전환 결과를 나타내었다. 유전자총 발사 처리 후, 1주간 선발제로 사용되는 PPT가 없는 MS 배지로 이식하여 배양 후, PPT 10 mg/l이 첨가된 선발배지에서 4주 간격의 계대배양을 통해 8-12주간 선발과정을 거친다. PPT 선발 배지에서 생존한 신초가 형성된 형질전환 나리 인편 조직들을 호르몬이 없는 MS 배지로 다시 옮겨주면 발근 및 추가 생육이 이루어진다. 생존한 형질전환 나리 기내 소식물체들로부터 PCR 검정을 통해 선발유전자인 bar 유전자 그리고 목적유전자인 AtSIZ 유전자의 도입이 확인되었다. 결론적으로 100여개의 나리 인편조직을 본 연구에서 확립된 유전자총 실험프로토콜을 이용하면 대략적으로 형질전환 나리 17-18 개체를 획득할 수 있으며 본 연구에 기술된 유전자 총 매개 형질전환 체계는 추가적인 보완이 이루어지면, 향후 나리 육종 프로그램에 기여할 것이다.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.127-133
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to investigate the positive or negative effects of 5-aminolevulinic acid(ALA) on the growth of several crops and weeds, by applying a seed soaking treatment, foliar treatment, and application timing, while comparing biological activity between ALA produced by chemical synthesis (Synthetic-ALA) and extracellularly-accumulated ALA by overexpressing the hemeA gene isolated from Bradyrhizobium japonicum(Bio-ALA). Seed soaking treatment of ALA in barley (five cultivars) and wheat (five cultivars) had not shown positive effects at lower concentrations, 0.05 to 0.5 mM as well as negative effects at higher concentrations, 1 to 30 mM. In rice, there also was no positive effect by seed soaking treatment of ALA at lower concentrations, although the rice became damaged by an application of 5 and 10 mM ALA. Growth in barley cultivars, Ganghossalbori, Naehanssalbori, Songhakbori, Saessalbori, and Daehossalbori were increased up to 14%, 19-51 %, 17-64%, 18-23%, and 22-38% by ALA foliar application at lower concentrations, 0.05 to 0.5 mM, respectively. On the other hand, the growth in barley cultivars was inhibited by ALA foliar application at higher concentrations. Barley responded more positively to ALA foliar application than wheat and rice. The growth stimulation caused by ALA seed soaking treatment was less than by ALA foliar treatment. ALA treatment at the 1.5-leaf stage increased growth of barley by 19-58%, while pretreatment to seeds, post-emergence treatment at 3 days after seeding, 3-leaf stages, and 5-leaf stages had not shown positive effects. Thus, the positive effects of ALA on barley were dependent greatly upon the timing of application and its concentration. Monocots weeds were more sensitive to ALA foliar treatment than dicotyledonous weeds. A monocot weed, Setaria viridis L. was the most susceptible plant to ALA while a dicotyledonous weed, Plantago asiatica L. was the most tolerant. No significant difference in biological activity between bio-ALA and synthetic ALA on barley, wheat, rice, and weed, Ixeris dentate tested was observed. Thus, ALA produced by microorganisms would be a potent substance to be used effectively in agricultural production.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.175-182
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• 1995

벼는 임성 식물체의 재분화 뿐만 아니라 유전적으로 안정된 형질전환 식물체를 얻을 수 있는 가장 성공적인 단자엽 식물중 하나이다. 그러나 우리나라에서는 아직 유전적으로 안정된 임성 형질전환 벼품종에 대한 보고가 없었다. 본 연구에서 우리나라의 재배종인 낙동벼로부터 임성 형질전환식물체를 얼을 수 있음을 증명하였다. 현탁뱅양세포로부터 분리된 원형질체를 이용하여 PEG로 HPT와 GUS Plasmids늘 함께 형질전환시켰다. 다섯번의 실험을 통하여 hygromycin 저항성 캘러스는 평균 1.73%이였다. 소식물체는 항생제 저항성 캘러스로부터 재분화되었고 식물체 재분화효율은 약 27%이었다. 항생제에 저항성이 있는 캘러스에서 GUS 유전자가 발현되는 캘러스는 평균 35%였다. R0형질전환식물체는 성숙 개화하여 Rl 종자를 생성하였다. Rl 종자와 유모의 해부학적 GUS 활성을 분석하여 CaMV35S 프로모터 의해 GUS 유전자가 적절히 발현되는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 우리는 Rl세대에서 HPT유전자가 멘델 법칙에 따라 유전됨을 확인하였다

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.247-252
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• 2000

카트뮴은 잎과 엽록체내 폴리아민함량을 증가시키지만 틸라코이드와 광포집체II내에서는 증가효과가 없었다. 카드뮴에 의해 새로 생합성된 폴리아민은 스트로마공간상에 분포하는 것으로 보였다. 폴리아민은 이미 포화되더라도 틸라코이드막에 결합하지는 않는 것으로 밝혀졌으며 엽록체내 putrescine과 spermine은 잎세포내에서 보다 각각 36배와 20배 적었던 반면 agmatine은 3.7배 적었다. 카드뮴의 산소방출 억제효과는 0.2mM spermine 첨가로 현저히 완화되었다. 폴리아민은 또한 시금치 틸라코미드에서 0.5mM 농도이하에서 산소방출을 촉진하였다. 이러한 촉진효과는 동일농도에서 단자엽보다는 쌍자엽에서 2배정도 높았다. 더욱이 쌍자엽 밀에서 상승효과는 putrescine보다는 agmatine처리에서 오히려 낮았다. 이러한 결과로부터 단자엽과 쌍자엽 식물간에 폴리아민의 산소방출 과정에서 다른 효능을 보임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국초지조사료학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.316-320
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• 2015

잔디에 있어서 낮은 형질전환 효율의 직접적인 원인 중에 하나인 낮은 캘러스 유도율과 식물체 재분화율을 개선시키기 위하여 잔디 완숙종자의 전처리의 효과를 비교해 보았다. 살균한 잔디종자에 swelling 처리를 10분간 실시한 후, sea sand를 이용 하여 sea sand와 종자의 비율을 1:1로 한 다음, shaking 처리는 vortex speed 6 (1,000 rpm)에서 처리시간은 10분간 전처리를 실시하였을 때 무처리구에 비해 2배 이상의 배양 효율을 나타내었다. 또한 sea sand로 전처리한 잔디종자로부터 형성된 캘러스를 식물체 재분화 유도배지에 치상했을 그 효율이 훨씬 더 증가하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 결과는 연중 아무 때나 이용할 수 있는 장점을 지닌 잔디 완숙종자로부터 유도시킨 캘러스 세포를 이용하여 Agrobacterium으로 형질전환하는데 있어서 그 효율을 향상 시키는데 큰 기여를 할 것으로 추측된다.