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Y. Ogihara (Kihara Inst Biol Res, Yokohama City Univ; ogihara@yokohama.cu.ac.jp)
Functional plastomics in wheat: Monitoring of whole plastome gene expressions in the wheat life cycle as revealed by the plastid DNA microarray method

Plastids develop from proplastids to differentiated organella such as chloroplasts, etioplasts, chromoplasts, leucoplasts and amyloplasts. All plastids contain circular DNA with long inverted repeats that separate the rest of the molecule into small and large single copy regions. Recently, the complete nucleotide sequence of chloroplast DNA for Chinese Spring wheat (134,540 bp) has been determined. The 108 plastid genes, so far deduced, as well as 16 light-responsive and ten cold-inducible genes were spotted onto the microarray in order to investigate profiling of gene expressions of whole plastid genes in the wheat life cycle. RNAs were extracted from 13 different tissues: seedlings grown under light and in the dark., roots, fourth leaves at the heading stage, flag leaves at the heading stage, young spikelets, spikes at the heading stage, spikes at the flowering stage, seeds at 5,20, 40, 50 days after pollination (DAP), and embryo. The cDNAs were labelled by incorporation of fluorolink Cy5-dUTP, and hybridized to the spotted genes. The hybridization signals of each gene in each tissue were measured, and compared. Each tissue showed representative hybridization patterns, displaying different gene expression patterns among tissues except the patterns between young seedling grown under light and fourth leaves at the heading stage.

K. Tsunewaki*, K. Ichikawa, I. Oda and K. Morinaga (Dep Bioscience, Fukui Pref Univ; *tunewaki@fpu. ac. jp)
Genetic analysis of three kinds of chlorophyll abnormality appeared in tetiraploid offspring of a pentaploid wheat hybrid

Three chlorophyll abnormalities, striato-virescence, delayed virescence and albino, appeared in tetraploid offspring of the crosses, T. durum cv. Langdon x [ (T. aestivum cv. Jones Fife x T. dicoccum cv. Vernal) x T. dicoccum cv. Vernal3], where Vernal3 means three backcrosses with Vernal as the recurrent parent. Striato-virescence is the appearance of albinotic stripes in leaves of the tillers formed only in winter. Delayed virescence is change of normally green seedlings to albinotic ones in mid-winter to early spring, with slow recovery of green color later. Albino is chlorophyll-deficiency of germinating seedlings. These three abnormalities were subjected to the aneuploid analysis using the disomic substitution series of Langdon durum. The analyses suggested that all three abnormalities are controlled by two recessive alleles; striato-virescence by sv1 on chromosome 3A and sv2 on 2A, delayed virescence by dv1 on 2A and dv2 on 2B, and albino by abn1 on 2A and abn2 on 2B. T. aestivum cv. Chinese Spring carries their normal homoeoalleles, Sv3, Dv3 and Abn3 all on 2D chromosome.


4. Poster session

T. Ibuki, J. Suzuki, Y. Kowyama and K Kakeda* (Fac Bioresour, Mie Univ; *kakeda@bio. mie- u.ac.jp)
Search for self-incompatibility related gene transcripts in Hordeum bulbosum

A. Meguro1, S. Takumi2, Y. Ogihara3 and K. Murai1* (1Dept Biosci,Fukui Pref Univ, 2Fac Agri, Kobe Univ, 3Kihara Inst Biol Res, Yokohama City Univ; *murai@fpu.ac.jp)
Cloning and characterization of wheat AGAMOU homologous gene, WAG

T. Kawahara1, S. Taketa2 and K. Murai1* (1Dept Biosci, Fukui Pref Univ, 2Fac Agri, Kagawa Univ; *murai@fpu.ac.jp)
Development of RAPD markers useful for identifying wheat-barley 5H chromosome recombinant lines

H. Kato and K Murai* (Dept Biosci, Fukui Pref Univ; *murai@fpu.ac.jp)
Detection of DNA markers linked to Vrn-A1 gene by bulked segregant analysis.

T. Yoshii and K. Murai* (Dept Biosci, Fukui Pref Univ; *murai@fpu.ac.jp)
Cloning of novel genes expressed in wheat young spike

S. Hirosawa1, N. Mori1'*, S. Takumi1, T. Kawahara2 and C. Nakamura1 (1Fac Agr, Kobe Univ, 2Fac Agr, Kyoto Univ)
AFLP analysis for the phylogeny and evolution of common wheat

H. Tanaka1, N. Mori*, S. Takumi1, T. Kawahara2 and C. Nakamura1 (1Fac Agr, Kobe Univ, 2Fac Agr, Kyoto Univ)
Allelic diversity at chloroplast microsatellite loci among diploid species of Aegilops and Triticum

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