Exploring the Availability of Wild Corn Teosinte to Develop Flooding-tolerant Maize Varieties
2017
Kim, S.G., NICS, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea | Bae, H.H., NICS, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea | Lee, J.S., NICS, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea | Son, B.Y., NICS, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea | Nikolau, B.J., Iowa State University, Ames, USA | Baek, S.B., Iowa State University, Ames, USA | Kim, J.T., NICS, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea
Teosinte, commonly known as wild species of corn, has distributed in Central and South America. It is believed that teosinte contains genes for resistance to flooding because of the climate characteristics of the collected countries. Recent studies have shown that teosinte has the ability to form adventitious roots, to develop aerenchyma tissues of teosinte, and the resistance to toxic substances under flooding soil condition. Therefore, development of corn varieties to cope with climate change and the growing corn at paddy field in Korea are required to introduce the characteristics of teosinte. However, in order to utilize teosinte resources, preconditions must be settled such as photoperiodic responsibility, physiological and ecological characteristics. Also if the preconditions are studied together with the metabolic level studies, the possibility of utilization for flooding resistant varieties will be even higher.
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