1) Plant Breeding and Genetics Research Laboratory, Japan Tabacco Inc. 700 Higashibara, Iwata, Shizuoka-ken, 438 Japan
2) Institute of Genetic Resources, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Fukuoka, 812 Japan
3) Plant Breeding Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Fukuoka, 812 Japan
4) Research Institute for Food Science, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, 611 Japan
Rice storage protein exists in two types of protein bodies, PB-I and PB-II. The former is indigestible, while the latter is digestible. Hence, for improving the nutritional value of rice grain, it would be desirable to increase PB-II content and to decrease PB-I. In SDS-PAGE (sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) analysis, PB-I showed 10 kDa, 13a, 13b and 16 kDa polypeptides, and PB-II showed 22-23 kDa., 26 kDa and 37-39 kDa polypeptides. Formerly, we screened different mutant types of storage proteins (Kumamaru et al. 1988), and reported that gene esp-1 for 13b-L and esp-2 for 57-H were located on Nishimura's chromosomes 10 and 9, respectively (Kumamaru et al. 1987). Gene esp-3 for 10/13a-L appeared to be inherited maternally. We carried out trisomic analysis to determine the chromosome on which esp-3 was located.
Line CM1675 carrying this gene was crossed with trisomic types A, C, D, E, G and L. The F1 plants were classified into disomic and trisomic types according to Iwata et al. (1970), and the F3 seeds were harvested separately from disomic
Table 1. Segregation of normal and 10/13a-L protein types in F2 plants from crosses between certain trisomics and CM1675 _______________________________________________________________ Trisomic Nishimura's F2 plant F2 segregation X2 type chromosome type ____________________ (3:1) Normal 1O/13a-L Total ________________________________________________________________ G 9 2n+1 & 2n 174 11 185 35.8*** A 4 2n+1 29 9 38 0.04 C 7 2n+1 31 7 38 0.9 D 12 2n+1 31 7 38 0.9 E 11 2n+1 32 6 38 1.7 L 2 2n+1 36 8 44 1.1 ________________________________________________________________ *** Significant at 0.1% level.and trisoniic F2 plants derived from the trisomic F1 plant. In the cross with trisomic G, however, the F2 plants could not be divided into disomic and trisomic types clearly and their F3 seeds were harvested without distinction. The F3 seeds from each F2 plant were analyzed by SDS-PAGE (Table 1). In the cross with trisomic type G, the F2 ratio for normal and 1O/13a-L types was about 16: 1, fitting the trisomic ratio which could range between 8: 1 and 44: 1. Crosses with other trisomic types all showed a 3: 1 ratio (Table 1).
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