Fig. 2. Distribution of culm length in F\2\ populations from crosses of FL282 (D-53) with Hwachung (H) and its dwarf line (D-h).
Coll. of Agric. & Life Sci., Seoul Nat'l Univ., Suwon, 441-744 Korea
Fifty dwarfing genes have been reported in rice (Kinoshita and
Takahashi 1991). Among them, D-53 was the only dominant gene (Iwata et al.
1977). We identified another dominant dwarfing gene induced by
N-methyl-N-nitrosourea from a Korean Japonica cultivar, Hwachung.
Some agronomic characteristics of the dwarf Hwachung line and its F\1\ plants
Table 1. Heading date, panicle and internode lengths of dwarf-Hwachung
line, original cultivar, Hwachung, and their F\1\
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Heading Panicle Length of internode (cm)
date length (cm) 1 2 3 4 5 Total
Hwachung (A) Aug. 23 18.9 34.7 21.4 17.1 13.5 5.6 92.3
Dwarf-Hwa. line (B) Aug. 20 14.0 26.7 16.4 12.0 8.0 3.8 66.9
F\1\ (C) Aug. 21 14.8 29.5 17.7 13.2 9.7 3.2 73.3
Difference (A vs B & C) * ** ** ** ** ** * **
(B vs C) ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns
Ratio of B/A (%) - 74.1 76.9 76.6 70.2 59.3 67.9 72.5
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Table2. Grain dimension of dwarf-Hwachung line, original
cultivar, Hwachung, and their F\1\
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Grain dimension of brown rice
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Length Width Thick. L/W grains wt.
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-(mm)- (g)
Hwachung (A) 0.502 0.292 0.210 1.72 24.8
Dwarf-Hwa. line (B) 0.396 0.273 0.188 1.45 17.4
F\1\ (C) 0.399 0.272 0.193 1.47 18.9
Difference (A vs B & C) ** ** ** ** **
(B vs C) ns ns ns ns ns
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a) rough rice
Fig. 1. Distribution of culm length in F\2\ populations between
Hwachung and its dwarf line, and between a dwarf (D-h) and a tall (T-h)
plant derived from a segregating population. The short:tall ratios fitted
3:1 with high probabilities.
Fig. 2. Distribution of culm length in F\2\ populations from crosses of
FL282 (D-53) with Hwachung (H) and its dwarf line (D-h).
For comparison, line FL282 carrying gene D-53 was crossed with Hwachung
and its dwarf line. As shown in Fig. 2, the F\2\ ratio for short and tall
plants was 3:1 in the cross FL282 x Hwachung. In FL282 X dwarf-Hwachung
and its reciprocal cross, however, the F\2\ plants showed continuous
variations and a few of them had the normal height of Hwachung (these may
be assumed to be 1/16 of total plants). This suggests that genes D-53 and
D-h are non-allelic and independent of each other.
The dwarf Hwachung line has a good plant type with short-compact panicles and small-round grain. Culm and panicle lengths showed high correlations in F\2\ populations, suggesting pleiotropic effects of gene D-h on both characters (Table 3).
We thank Dr. Nobuo Iwata for providing line FL282 with D-53.
Table 3. Correlation coefficients between culm and panicle length in F\2\'s of dwarf-Hwachung cross (all significant at 1% level) ============================================== Cross combination r\ph\ r\g\ DF ============================================== Hwachung/Dwarf-Hwa. 0.72 0.80 523 Tall-Hwa./ " 0.80 0.95 501 Dwarf-Hwa./Tall-Hwa. 0.73 0.86 517 ============================================== r\ph\ and r\g\: phenotypic and genotypic correlation coefficient
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Kinoshita, T. and M. Takahashi. 1991. The 100th report of genetical studies on rice plant-linkage studies and future prospects. J. Fac. Agr. Hokkaido Univ. 65(1): 1-61.