Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 4
C
HARACTERIZATION OF A
R
EACTIVE
O
XYGEN
S
PECIES
-R
ESISTANT
H
IGH
Y
IELDING
M
UTANT
R3-1
OF
P
ISUM SATIVUM
CV
.
'A
LASKA
'
WITH
H
IGH
T
EMPERATURE
-
R
ESISTANT
P
HENOTYPE
Kohji Hasunuma
1,
, Md. Emdadul Haque
1
,
Osamu Miyoshi
2
and Yusuke Yoshida
1
1
Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University,
Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
2
Kanagawa Agricultural Technology Center,
Vegetable and Crop Science Research Division,
Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan
A
BSTRACT
A reactive oxygen species (ROS)-resistant
Pisum sativum
cv.
„Alaska‟ mutant,
R3-1,
has been reported as a double mutant of transit
peptide-NDPK2 Ile12Leu and Lys205Glu and pre-sequence-NDPK3
Pro45Ser [Haque et al. (2010)
Planta
232:367-382]. The yield of young
pods was 2.1-fold higher in
R3-1
than that in the wild-type in the field of
Kanagawa Agricultural Technology Center. The yield of plant weights in
E-mail: kohji.hasunuma@gmail.com, Phone: +81-42-795-1430, Fax: +81-42-799-6045.
