South Korea: Discovery of the function of the color gene in enoki mushrooms

[Reporter Lee Byeong-seong of The Korean Rural Newspaper] The Rural Development Administration discovered the function of the gene for the color of enoki mushrooms for the first time in the world through joint research with Konkuk University Professor Park Young-jin's research team. The Rural Development Administration has been breeding enoki mushroom varieties with wild resources with various colors and shapes and crossbreeding between white resources with similar appearances in order to localize enoki mushroom varieties. However, there is a limit to cultivating differentiated varieties with only cross-breeding, so the research team conducted a study to analyze the genetic resources of two types of enoki mushrooms, brown and white. As a result of the study, it was found that the nucleotide sequence structure in a specific gene was in brown and not in white, and based on this, molecular markers were also produced using areas where the nucleotide sequences of white and brown ...