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A Taxonomic Reconsideration of the Genus Lemna L. (Lemnaceae) in Korea

한국산 좀개구리밥속(개구리밥과)의 분류학적 실체에 대한 재고

  • Kim, Yong-In (Dept. International Biological Material Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology) ;
  • Shim, Sang In (Dept. of Agronomy, Gyeongsang National Univ.) ;
  • Park, Jin Hee (Animal & Plant Resources Research Division, Freshwater Bioresources Research Bureau, Nakdonggang National Institute of Biological Resources (NNIBR))
  • 김용인 (한국생명공학연구원 해외생물소재센터) ;
  • 심상인 (경상대학교 농학과) ;
  • 박진희 (국립낙동강생물자원관 담수생물조사연구실 동식물자원조사부)
  • Received : 2016.12.23
  • Accepted : 2017.07.26
  • Published : 2017.08.31
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Abstract

Duckweed family (Lemnaceae Martinov), including the genus Lemna L., is a typical floating aquatic perennial plant, and about five genera and 40 species in the family are in wide distribution around the world except the polar regions. The genus Lemna is the smallest and the simplest plant among the angiosperms. It has a characteristic of doubling every three days with fast vegetative propagation, which helps the organisms to increase in rapid growth. As such, the plant is ideal for environmental pollution assessment and toxicity test. Although taxonomists and scholars have used different scientific names for the species, many of them have agreed that there is only one member of species of the genus Lemna in Korea. Paying attention to the external morphological variation observed in the Korean genus Lemna, we conducted a molecular phylogenetic analysis to identify the entity of the Korean Lemna species and to investigate the possibility of two or more members of the species existing in Korea. We determined and aligned the DNA sequences of the atpF-H region of the chloroplast DNA in 37 populations of the nationally distributed Lemna species. The results showed that the sequence length of the cp DNA atpF-H region was 463-483 bp, the length of the aligned sequences was 488 bp, and the number of variation site in nucleotide sequences was 47. There were two types of aligned sequences of the cp DNA atpF-H region from 37 populations of Lemna species in Korea. The maximum parsimony analysis revealed that the Korean Lemna consists of two clades, and one of them had two subclades. The results suggest that, contrary to the general understanding, at least two taxa (L.aequinoctialis, L.minor) exist in Korea.

좀개구리밥속(Lemna L.)이 속하는 개구리밥과(Lemnaceae Martinov)는 다년생 초본으로, 5속 약 40종이 극 지방을 제외한 전세계에 널리 분포한다. 좀개구리밥속 식물은 피자식물 중 크기가 가장 작고 형태가 단순한 부유성의 단자엽수생식물로 영양번식이 매우 빨라 약 3일마다 배로 증가하는 특성을 보여 수환경 오염 피해 평가나 독성 시험에 이용되는 등 유용성이 큰 식물로 평가되고 있다. 우리나라의 좀개구리밥속 종 분포에 대해서는 학자별로 다른 학명을 쓰기도 하였으나 1종이 존재하는 것으로 여러 학자들이 보고해 왔다. 본 연구에서는 한국산 좀개구리밥속 식물에서 관찰된 외부 형태적 변이에 주목하여, 2종 이상일 가능성을 염두에 두고 그 실체를 규명하고자 분자계통학적 방법으로 연구를 수행하였다. 전국적으로 분포하는 좀개구리밥속 식물 37개체군의 엽록체 DNA atpF-H 구간 염기서열을 결정한 결과, 염기서열 길이는 463-483bp인 것으로 확인되었고 37개체군의 염기서열을 정렬한 길이는 488bp였으며, 47개 뉴클레오티드지점에서 변이가 나타났다. 한국산 좀개구리밥속 식물 37개체군의 엽록체 DNA atpF-H 구간 염기서열은 크게 두 개의 유형으로 나누어졌으며, 계통분석 결과에서도 최대절약계통수에서 두 개의 clade로 나누어졌고, 그 중 한 clade는 두 개의 subclade로 다시 나누어졌다. 이는 현재까지 우리나라에 1종만 분포한다고 알려진 것과는 다른 결과로 최소 2개 이상 분류군(L.aequinoctialis, L.minor)이 국내에 분포한다는 것을 의미한다.

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