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Current status and prospects of genomics and bioinformatics in grapes (포도 유전체 연구현황 및 전망)

  • Hur, Youn Young;Jung, Sung Min;Yun, Hae Keun
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.298-311
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    • 2015
  • Grape is one of the important fruit crops around the world, and exposed to disease and pests, and internal or environmental stresses in the vineyards. Breeding and cultivation of new varieties of high quality-grapes resistant to diseases and pests and tolerant to stresses are the most important steps in the grape production. However, conventional breeding has laborious and time-consuming procedures in maintaining and selecting seedlings in the fields. Development of molecular breeding technology through understanding of molecular mechanism of useful traits can be used as an alternative strategy to improve the efficiency of grape breeding program by cross hybridization in grape development programs. The completion of the grape genome sequencing project provided the way to discover the novel genes and to analyze their functions. Comparative genomics, transcriptomic analysis, and the genome-wide identification and analysis of useful genes as well as development of molecular marker for valuable traits could provide novel insights into fruit quality and the responses to diseases and stresses, and can be used as important information in molecular breeding programs for grape development.

Functional Properties and Biological Activity of Breeding Lines, Parts, and Various solvents from Acanthopanax (오갈피나무의 계통별, 부위별, 추출용매별 생리활성물질 분석 및 기능적 특성)

  • Jeong, Ji-Eun;Baek, Hyo-Eun;Oh, Duk-Sil;Wi, An-Jin;Yoon, Byeong-Sun
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.242-252
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    • 2013
  • This study was evaluated to biological activity of breeding lines from Acantopanax( A. sessiliflorus: ASF, A. koreanum: AKN, A. chiicanensis: ACS, A. senticosus: AST) and parts(root, stem, fruit, and leaf) and various extracted solvents( 100% water, 100% EtOH, 50% EtOH). Total polyphenol content of AKN root in 100% water extracts was high detected 464.46 mg/100 g. Total flavonoid content in the leaf was significantly higher than in other parts. The content of total sugars was high in the 50% EtOH extracts and fruit. The major free amino acids were arginine in all extracts. The content of arginine was detected in the root of AKN(1.807 mg/100 mg). Contents of eleutheroside B, E were high detected in 100% water extracts. Antioxidative capacity in the leaves of AKN was the higher than other extracts($EC_{50}=84.8{\mu}g/mL$). The results would be useful for understanding of the physiological properties of AKN extracts.

'Goldone', a Yellow - fleshed Kiwifruit Cultivar with Large Fruit Size

  • Kwack, Yong-Bum;Kim, Hong Lim;Lee, Jae Han;Chung, Kyeong Ho;Chae, Won Byoung
    • Horticultural Science & Technology
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.142-146
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    • 2017
  • In Korea, kiwifruit is grown within a limited region on the southern coast where the climate is warm. Since the yellow - fleshed kiwifruit variety, 'Hort16A', first became commercially available, we have focused on breeding additional yellow - fleshed kiwifruits. Here, we describe the cultivar 'Goldone', which originated from 'Red Princess' and is characterized by red coloration around the fruit core. Conventional field crosses were performed in 2003, and permission for final release of 'Goldone' was obtained in 2011. This cultivar is very productive, with an average fruit weight of 129 g, which is 39% heavier than that of the cultivar 'Hayward'. 'Goldone' is harvested in late October, approximately 165 - 170 days after anthesis. In general, 'Goldone' has approximately eight flowers per fruiting shoot; these flowers must be thinned before blooming for commercial production. 'Goldone' was registered at the Korean Seed & Variety Service in 2014 for plant variety protection rights (grant no. 4835).

Variation of Plant and Fruit Characters in Core Collections of Pepper (Capsicum chinense Jacq.)

  • Hur, On-Sook;Ko, Ho-Cheol;Lee, Sukyeung;Choi, Yu-mi;Ro, Na-Young
    • Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2018.10a
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    • pp.68-68
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    • 2018
  • A total of 47 core collections of pepper (Capsicum chinense Jacq.) conserved in National Agrobiodiversity Center (NAC) were studied under field condition at Jeonju. All accessions were characterized for their 14 qualitative and 16 quantitative characters. Results revealed that both qualitative and quantitative characters exhibited wide variation among the studied germplasm. Distribution of fruit characters (fruit length, width, and fruit wall thickness) among the accessions was positively skewed. Of the 47 accessions evaluated, 38.3% accessions had conical shaped fruits and mature fruit color was predominantly red (51.1%), orange (21.3%) and yellow (14.9%). Principal component analyses revealed that (i) 56.64% of the qualitative (fruit shape, color and fruit surface) variation and (ii) 89.42% of the quantitative (plant width, height and fruit maturity days) variation were explained by the first two components. Clustering revealed two groups and dendrogram revealed morphological variation among accessions. The phenotypic diversity exists in this core collections provide valuable information to improve agronomic traits in pepper breeding program.

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USE OF NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY TO PREDICT OIL CONTENT COMPONENTS AND FATTY ACID COMPOSITION IN OLIVE FRUIT

  • Lorenzo, Leon-Moreno;Ana, Garrido-Varo;Luis, Rallo-Romero
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Near Infrared Spectroscopy Conference
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    • 2001.06a
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    • pp.1512-1512
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    • 2001
  • The University of Cordoba conducts since 1991 a breeding program to obtain new olive cultivars from intraspecific crosses. The objective is to obtain new early bearing and high-quality cultivars. In plant breeding, many seedlings must be tested to increased the chance of getting desirable genotypes. Therefore, fast, cheap and accurate methods of analysis are necessary. The conventional laboratory techniques are costly and time-consuming. Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) can satisfy the characteristics requested by plant breeders and offers many advantages such as the simultaneous analysis of many traits and cheap cost. The objective of this work was to asses the performance of NIRS to estimate oil fruit components (fruit weight, flesh moisture, flesh/stone ratio and oil flesh content in dry weight basis) and fatty acid composition in olive fruit. Genotypes from reciprocal crosses between ‘Arbequina’, ‘Frantoio’ and ‘Picual’ cultivars have been used in this study. A total of 287 samples, each from a single plant, were scanned using a DA-7000 Diode Array VIS/NIR Analysis System (Perten Instruments), which covers the visible and NIR range from 400-1700 nm. All samples were analysed for fatty acid composition (gas chromatography) and 220 for oil fruit components (oil content by nuclear magnetic resonance), 70% and 30% of samples were randomly assign for the calibration and validation sets respectively. The preliminary results shows that calibration for palmitic, oleic and linoleic acids were highly accurate with calibration and validation values of $r^2$ from 0.85 to 0.95 and 0.76 to 0.91 respectively. Calibration for palmitoleic and estearic acids were less accurate, probably because of the narrow range of variability available for these fatty acids. For the oil fruit components, calibration were high accurate for flesh moisture and oil flesh content in dry weight basis ($r^2$ higher than 0.90 in both calibration and validation sets) and less accurate for the other characteristics evaluated. The first results obtained indicate that NIRS analysis could be an ideal technique to reduce the cost, time and chemical wasted necessary to evaluate a large number of genotypes and it is accurate enough to use for pre-selecting genotypes in a breeding program.

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Development of SNP Molecular Marker for Red-fleshed Color Identification of Peach Genetic Resources (복숭아 유전자원의 적색 과육 판별 SNP 분자표지 개발)

  • Kim, Se Hee;Nam, Eun Young;Cho, Kang Hee;Jun, Ji Hae;Chung, Kyeong Ho
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.303-311
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    • 2019
  • Various colors of fruit skin and flesh are the most popular commercial criteria for peach classification. In order to breed new red-fleshed peach cultivar, many cross seedlings and generations should be maintained. Therefore it is necessary to develop early selection markers to screen seedlings with target traits to increase breeding efficiency. For the comparison of transcription profiles in peach cultivars differing in flesh color expression, two cDNA libraries were constructed. Differences in gene expression between red-fleshed peach cultivar, 'Josanghyeoldo' and white-fleshed peach cultivar, 'Mibaekdo' were analyzed by next-generation sequencing (NGS). Expressed sequence tag (EST) of clones from the two cultivars were selected for nucleotide sequence determination and homology searches. Putative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) were screened from peach EST contigs by high resolution melting (HRM) analysis displayed specific difference between 8 red-fleshed peach cultivars and 24 white-fleshed peach cultivars. All 72 pairs of SNPs were discriminated and the HRM profiles of amplicons were established. In the study reported here, the development of SNP markers for distinguishing between red and white fleshed peach cultivars by HRM analysis offers the opportunity to use DNA markers. This SNP marker could be useful for peach marker assisted breeding and provide a good reference for relevant research on molecular mechanisms of color variation in peach cultivars.

Effect of Degree of Ripeness and Size of Fruit on the Feeding Preference in Some Breeding Birds (식물의 종류와 열매의 크기 및 성숙도가 조류의 먹이선택에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Hyun-Woo;Cho, Sam-Rae;You, Young-Han
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.334-340
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    • 2009
  • In other to know the feeding preference over the degree of ripeness and size of fruits in birds, we gave them to three bird species in breeding condition, counted and analyzed the number of fruits by correspondence ordination technique. Chrysolophus pictus did not show a distinct preference in respect to degree of maturity or size of fruits of among three tree species. Columba rupestris preferred un-ripen fruits over ripen ones of Prunus yedoensis or Elaeagnus multiflora, but did not choose selectively in case of fruits of Malus sieboldii. Pavo muticus showed the reverse favorable pattern of Columba rupestris. Total feeding amounts eaten by birds were dependent on the initial feeding amounts of fruits. These results indicated that in feeding activity some birds chose differently in terms of species or maturity of fruits, but not in fruit size.

Rapid Multiplication of M.9 Apple Rootstocks in vitro (M.9 계통 사과 대목의 기내 급속 번식)

  • Jun, Ji Hae;Chung, Kyeong Ho;Jeong, Sang Bouk;Hong, Kyung Hy;Kang, Sang Jo
    • Horticultural Science & Technology
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.34-38
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    • 2001
  • This experiment was conducted to find out the optimum cultural conditions for the propagation of M.9 apple rootstocks such as EMLA M.9 and NAKB T-337 in vitro. Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with $1.0mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$ BA, $0.1mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$ IAA, $30g{\cdot}L^{-1}$ sucrose, and $8g{\cdot}L^{-1}$ agar was suitable for shoot proliferation. Removing of apical meristem and horizontal placing of explants on medium increased shoot proliferation significantly. The best rooting was obtained on 1/2 MS medium supplemented with 0$0.5mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$ IBA, $20g{\cdot}L^{-1}$ sucrose, and $8g{\cdot}L^{-1}$ agar.

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