Development and authentication of Panax ginseng cv. Sunhong with high yield and multiple tolerance to heat damage, rusty roots and lodging

Jiho Seo; Joon-Soo Lee; Sung-Lye Shim; Jun-Gyo In; Chol-Soo Park; Yong-Jae Lee; Hee-Jun Ahn

doi:10.1007/s13580-023-00526-x

Development and authentication of Panax ginseng cv. Sunhong with high yield and multiple tolerance to heat damage, rusty roots and lodging

Hortic Environ Biotechnol. 2023 May 22:1-12. doi: 10.1007/s13580-023-00526-x. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Jiho Seo^#¹, Joon-Soo Lee^#¹, Sung-Lye Shim¹, Jun-Gyo In¹, Chol-Soo Park¹, Yong-Jae Lee¹, Hee-Jun Ahn¹

Affiliation

¹ Korea Ginseng Research Institute, Korea Ginseng Corporation, Daejeon, 34128 Korea.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Ginseng (Panax ginseng) has been used as a valuable medicinal plant in Asia, and the demand for ginseng production for health functional food is increasing worldwide after the COVID-19 crisis. Although a number of cultivars have been developed to increase ginseng production, none of them were widely cultivated in Korea because they could not resist various environmental stresses while being grown in one place for at least 4 years. To address this, Sunhong was developed as a ginseng cultivar with high yield and multiple stress tolerance by pure line selection. Sunhong showed high yield and heat tolerance comparable to Yunpoong, a representative high-yielding cultivar, and exhibited 1.4 times lower prevalence of rusty roots than Yunpoong, suggesting that Sunhong can keep its high yield and quality during long-term cultivation. In addition, distinct color and lodging resistance were expected to increase the convenience of cultivation. To supply pure seeds to farmers, we also established a reliable high-throughput authentication system for Sunhong and seven ginseng cultivars through genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) analysis. The GBS approach enabled to identify a sufficient number of informative SNPs in ginseng, a heterozygous and polyploid species. These results contribute to the improvement of yield, quality, and homogeneity, and therefore promote the ginseng industry.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13580-023-00526-x.

Keywords: Genotyping-by-sequencing; Ginseng cultivar; High-throughput authentication system; Pure line selection; SNP marker.

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