Gliadin proteins, which are a component of gluten and confer viscosity and extensibility on wheat dough, are major determinants of wheat processing suitability and also present dietary problems for consumers with celiac disease or wheat allergies. In this study, gliadin proteins of the hexaploid wheat variety ‘Chinese Spring’ (CS) and of its nullisomic-tetrasomic (NT) and ditelosomic (DT) lines missing group 1 and 6 chromosome, were analyzed using LabChip GXII Touch 24 within 1 min per sample. The chromatogram pattern analysis of gliadin proteins from group 1 aneuploid lines (N1AT1B, N1AT1D; N1BT1A, N1BT1D; N1DT1A, N1DT1B) missing 1A, 1B and 1D chromosomes respectively, from CS showed that 24, 25 and 26 sec peaks of CS, presuming to be ω5-, ω1,2- and γ- gliadins, were disappeared. The analysis of group 6 aneuploid lines (N6AT6B, N6AT6D, 6AL; N6BT6A, 6BL; N6DT6B, 6DL) missing 6A, 6AS; 6B, 6BS; 6D, 6DS chromosomes respectively, from CS indicated that 22, 25 and 26 sec peaks of CS, presuming to be α-/β- gliadins, were disappeared. The results of this study will be applicable to high-throughput screening of wheat gliadin mutants among wheat breeding lines and genetic resources for the development of allergy - reduced wheat.

To identify and apply tissue-specific promoters is one of the major challenges in plants genetic engineering for optimizing efficient expression of interest genes in appropriate tissues. In this research, open-source database information of Arabidopsis thaliana was adapted to determine root-specific expressed promoter region. A total seven sequences that might function as a root-specific promoter element were initially isolated from Arabidopsis genomic DNA. Then seven promoters were cloned into pBGWFS7 in which β-glucuronidase (gus) and green fluorescent protein (gfp) genes were linked. The GUS activities were measured in different tissues of transgenic Arabidopsis by both histochemical GUS staining and fluorescent 4 methylumbelliferyl β-D-glucuronide (MUG) assay. To confirm root-specific expression, GFP-confocal microscope analysis was conducted in Arabidopsis transgenic plant. As a result, the five promoters showed strong GUS activity in the root tissue as compared with the CaMV35S promoter. To test crop application availability as a root-specific promoter, seven promoters were introduced into tomato plants and confirmed transient expression using Agrobacterium rhizogenesis ARqua1 root-nodule inducible strain. Two promoters showed that gus genes were specifically expressed in roots of transgenic tomato plant. Taken together, the novel seven promoters showed specific activity in root suggesting that it is applicable in crop improvement.