• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.430-433
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• 2004

Lilium cv. Casablanca pollen grains stored at $-70^{\circ}C$ were grown in pollen germination medium with Agrobacterium tumefaciens LBA4404 cells harboring pBI121 for 18 hr at $27^{\circ}C$. Following this, cefotaxime (250 mg/L) was treated for 6 hr to eradicate the bacterial cells. Histochemical GUS analysis revealed that the transgenic pollen displayed deep blue color mostly from 12 hr after the co-cultivation. Presence of $200\;{\mu}M$ acetosyringone was determined not to be more effective for GUS transformation than its absence. GUS DNA integration in the transgenic pollen genomic DNA was clearly demonstrated by Southern blot analysis.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제2권5호
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• pp.460-467
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• 2018

Three-dimensional (3D) refractive-index (RI) imaging and quantitative analyses of angiosperm pollen grains are presented. Using optical diffraction tomography, the 3D RI structures of individual angiosperm pollen grains were measured without using labeling or other preparation techniques. Various physical quantities including volume, surface area, exine volume, and sphericity were determined from the measured RI tomograms of pollen grains. Exine skeletons, the distinct internal structures of angiosperm pollen grains, were identified and systematically analyzed.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제80권2호
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• pp.151-161
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• 1991

화분(花粉)의 특징(特徵)으로서 우리나라에서 자라고 있는 참나무과(科)의 분류군(分類群)을 식별(識別)하고자 하였다. 5속(屬) 19종류(種類)의 화분(花粉)에 대(對)하여 광학현미경(光學顯微鏡)과 주사형전자현미경(走査型電子顯微鏡) 관찰(觀察)로서 얻은 결과(結果)는 다음과 같다. 1. 본과(本科)의 화분(花粉)은 4개(個)의 주형(主型)과 4개(個)의 부형(副型)(Quercus)으로 분류(分類)되었다. 1) 너도 밤나무형(型) 2) 밤나무형(型) 3) 돌참나무, 잣밤나무형(型) 4) 참나무형(型) (1) 가시나무부형(副型) (2) 갈참나무부형(副型) (3) 떡갈나무부형(副型) (4) 상수리나무부형(副型) 2. 화분(花粉)의 과립상문(顆粒狀紋)의 형태(形態)는 참나무속(屬)의 각두인편(殼斗鱗片)의 형태분화(形態分化)와 관계(關係)가 깊은 것으로 나타났다. 1) 화분표면(花粉表面)의 균일(均一)한 분기과립상문(分岐顆粒狀紋)은 각두인편(殼斗鱗片)이 동심원상(同心圓狀)으로 배열(配列)하는 형질(形質)과 상응(相應)되었다. 2) 화분표면(花粉表面)에 대소과립(大小顆粒), 단과립(單顆粒)과 괴상과립(塊狀顆粒)등이 혼재(混在)하고 괴상과립상(塊狀顆粒狀)의 소철점(小凸占)이 구형(球型)인 형질(形質)은 단인편상각두(短鱗片狀殼斗) 형질(形質)에 상응(相應)하였다. 3) 화분표면(花粉表面)에 대소과립(大小顆粒), 단과립(單顆粒)과 괴상과립(塊狀顆粒)등이 혼재(混在)하고 괴상과립(塊狀顆粒)의 선단(先端)이 Amoeba형(型)을 이루는 형질(形質)은 떡갈나무와 같이 각두인편(殼斗鱗片)이 박질세장(薄質細長)한 형질(形質)과 상응(相應)하였다. 4) 화분표면(花粉表面)에 대소과립(大小顆粒)이 혼재(混在)하나 단과립문(單顆粒紋)만 있는 형질(形質)은 상수리나무의 각두(殼斗)와 같이 후질세장(厚質細長)한 각두인편(殼斗鱗片)의 형질(形質)과 상응(相應)하였다. 3. 화분표면(花粉表面)의 무늬형태(形態), 표면미공(表面微孔)의 유무(有無), 화분잎(花粉粒)의 크기 및 과립(顆粒)의 형태(形態)를 수량화(數量化)하여 Cluster분석(分析)을 한 결과(結果)는 기(旣) 식물계통(植物系統) 분류체계(分類體系)와 잘 부합(符合)되었고 종이하수준(種以下水準)에서도 유연관계(有緣關係)를 잘 나타내 주었다.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제58권2호
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• pp.211-212
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• 2020

Camacho & Reinhard stated in the December 2019 issue of the KJP (57: 621-625) that we confused a pollen grain with an Enterobius egg found in the grave of a female adolescent residing in ancient Tehran 7,000 years ago". We want here to clarify and answer to the outlined points in their article.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.174-177
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• 2004

기내에서의 발아 및 형질전환 활성을 지닐 수 있는 백합 (Lilium longiflorum) 화분의 장기보존조건을 얻기 위하여 용매를 이용한 연구를 수행하였다. 화분의 용이한 수집을 위하여 용매를 사용했을 때, petroleum ether, n-heptane, benzene 등의 경우 화분의 기내발아에는 영향을 미치지는 않았으나 수집과 정 후 바로 화분건조 및 냉동 보관함으로써 발아활성을 유지 할 수 있었다. 이들의 활성유지는 또한 vacuum infiltration 및 Agrobacterium을 이용한 형질전환에 따른 외래유전자인 tissue plasminogen activator의 발현에 의하여 확인하였다.

• 식물분류학회지
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.202-208
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• 2011

The present study was focused on the careful investigation of Glechoma longituba flowers collected from four populations in Korea to clarify their precise sexual systems. All floral characters of this taxon were examined by using a stereo microscopy. The nutlet size and production were compared between two distinct morphs (i.e., hermaphrodites and females), and pollen viability test of hermaphrodite and intermediate phenotype (i.e., individuals with a mixture of females and perfect flowers) was also observed by light microscopy (LM). All of the investigated floral characters of G. longituba are significantly different from one sexual morph to another. Hermaphroditic plants were larger than the female ones in corolla width and length, calyx length, filament length, anther length, and style length (all P < 0.0001, respectively). However, the nutlet width of the female plants was larger than those of the hermaphrodites (P = 0.013). Nutlet production of females was higher than hermaphrodites in Na-Ju population [H (Hermaphrodite): ca. 17.76%, F (Female): ca. 37.45%], but in Mun-San population was no significant difference between these sexual morphs (H: ca. 57.52%, F: ca. 53.16%). We have found significant differences between the fertile pollen grain of hermaphrodite and sterile pollen grain of intermediate phenotype based on pollen size and viability. The results of the present study suggest that compensation (flower size dimorphism, seed set, and pollen viability) is one of the main mechanisms in order to maintain female plants in gynodioecious G. longituba.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.131-140
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• 2000

The pattern of variations in cone sex ratio and pollen traits such as pollen number and size was examined for two years in populations of red pines In Korea. We evaluated; (1) the relationship between tree size and cone sex ratio, (2) the relationship between year and cone sex ratio, and (3) the relationship between cone sex ratio and pollen traits. Larger trees in height and circumference at breast height produced more male as well as female cones. However, cone sex ratio was independent of these plant sizes. Across the two populations, both female cone numbers per tree and male cone numbers per new shoot increased 2.2 and 1.2 times, respectively, in 1999 compared to 1998, while the yearly pattern of male cone-bearing shoots per tree differed significantly between populations. Thus, cone sex ratio varied significantly between years in one of the two populations. Pollen traits such as the number of pollen grains and diameter did not vary significantly among populations. Pollen diameter and grain numbers per male cone were significantly negatively correlated with the cone sex ratio in two populations and one population, respectively. Trees which stopped female cone production in the first year and those which produced female cones in both years differed in the cone sex ratio and pollen size in the second year. The long duration of one reproductive episode and the potential of masting in red pines emphasize the need to conduct long-term studies on the dynamics of cone production, cone sex ratio, and simultaneous changes in pollen traits in red pines.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.253-275
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• 1994

Many flowering plants possess genetically controlled self -incompatibility (SI) system that prevents inbreeding and promotes outcrosses. SI is usually controlled by a single, multiallelic S-locus. In gametophytically controlled system, SI results when the S-allele of the pollen is matched by one of the two S-alleles in the style, while in the sporophytic system self-incompatible reaction occurs by the interaction between the pistil genotype and genotype of, not the pollen, but the pollen parent In the former system the self-incompatible phenotype of pollen is determined by the haploid genome of the pollen itself but in the latter the pollen phenotype is governed by the genotype of the pollen parent along with the occurrence of either to-dominant or dominant/recessive allelic interactions. In the sporophytic type the inhibition reaction occurs within minutes following pollen-stigma contact, the incompatible pollen grains usually failing to germinate, whereas in gametophytic system pollen tube inhibition takes place during growth in the transmitting tissue of the style. Recognition and rejection of self pollen are the result of interaction between the S-locus protein in the pistil and the pollen protein. In the gametophytic SI the S-associated glycoprotein which is similar to the fungal ribonuclease in structure and function are localized at the intercellular matrix in the transmitting tissue of the style, with the highest concentration in the collar of the stigma, while in the sporophytic SI deposit of abundant S-locus specific glycoprotein (SLSG).is detected in the cell wall of stigmatic papillae of the open flowers. In the gametophytic system S-gene is expressed mostly at the stigmatic collar the upper third of the style length and in the pollen after meiosis. On the other hand, in the sporophytic SI S-glycoprotein gene is expressed in the papillar cells of the stigma as well as in e sporophytic tape is cells of anther wall. Recognition and rejection of self pollen in the gametophytic type is the reaction between the ribonuclease in the transmitting tissue of the style and the protein in the cytoplasm of pollen tube, whereas in the sporophytic system the inhibition of selfed pollen is caused by the interaction between the Sycoprotein in the wall of stigmatic papillar cell and the tapetum-origin protein deposited on the outer wall of the pollen grain. The claim that the S-allele-associated proteins are involved in recognition and rejection of self pollen has been made merely based on indirect evidence. Recently it has been verified that inhibition of synthesis of S$_3$ protein in Petunia inflata plants of S$_2$S$_3$ genotype by the antisense S$_3$ gene resulted in failure of the transgenic plant to reject S$_3$ pollen and that expression of the transgenic encoding S$_3$ protein in the S$_1$S$_2$ genotype confers on the transgenic plant the ability to reject S$_3$ pollen. These finding Provide direct evidence that S-proteins control the s elf-incompatibility behavior of the pistil.

• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2013

Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) pollinosis is the most popular pollinosis in Japan. It has been reported that Cryptomeria japonica pollen allergenic species are suspended as fine particles in the urban atmosphere. These allergenic fine particles are responsible for inducing asthma by breaking into the lower respiratory tract. It has also been found that pollinosis symptoms on the sufferers appear mainly at night-time by the results from epidemiological studies. However, the exact reason for these phenomena is not yet clarified. In this study, the diurnal and nocturnal behaviours of Cryptomeria japonica pollen grains and their allergenic species in the urban area of Saitama city of Kanto Plain were investigated. Airborne pollen grains and allergenic Cry j 1 concentrations in total suspended particulate matter (TSP) were investigated at two sampling sites, a heavy traffic road (roadside site) and at the balcony of the $10^{th}$ floor of the Building of Research and Project of Saitama University (general urban site). The latter sampling site where located about 300 m away from the roadside site was used as a general urban site unaffected by automobile traffic. The airborne pollen counts were measured with a real-time pollen monitor. Cry j 1 particles were collected with two high volume air samplers, and these concentrations were measured by surface plasmon resonance method with a Biacore J system. The diurnal variation of the airborne pollen counts was similar to the trends of temperature and wind speed during the day-time; whereas its tendency with wind speed trend was not observed during the night-time. Airborne pollen counts were lower with northern wind than with southern wind because the pollen comes from the mountainous areas, and the mountains in the south are closer, about half the distance to the northern mountains. It is suggested that the peaks of airborne pollen counts during night-time in the sampling site occurred by transport of pollen grains released during day-time in the mountainous forest areas, located c.a. 100 km away from the sampling site. On the roadside site the allergenic Cry j 1 concentrations were higher than at the general urban site, nevertheless pollen grains counts were lower. These results suggested that worsening of pollinosis symptoms during night-time in urban area was caused by transport of pollen grains during day-time in the mountainous forest areas. Moreover, pollen allergenic species become different morphology from pollen grain at roadside site, and the subsequent pollen grains re-suspension by automobile traffic.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.25-32
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• 1995

The distribution of RNA in the anther wall of Brassica napus during male gametogenesis was followed by 3H-uridine autoradiography. Silver grain(SG) density was not above background in the anther wall just after microspore was released from tetrad callose wall. Significant accumulation of SGs occurred in tapetum, endothecium, and epidermis before microspore vacuolation. Accumulation of RNA in the tapetal cells was peak before the vaculation occurred in the microspore. With the onset of tapetal senescence at the partially vacuolated microspore stage, SGs decreased and they completely disappeared in the tapetum at the bicelled pollen stage. Accumulation of RNA in the endothecial cells was peak after the microspore mitosis and continued just after the generative cell mitosis. Appreciable SGs also occurred in cells of epidermis from nonvacuolate microspore stage to bicelled pollen stage. During this period, SG density was almost same and was not high as compared with tapetum or endothecium. At tricelled mature pollen stage, no incorporation occurred in anther wall. SGs were found mostly over the nucleouls and chromation of the cell nuclei.