Hipparchia autonoe (Esper, 1783) is a protected butterfly species found in Mt. Halla in South Korea. We have determined mitochondrial genome of H. autonoe collected in Mt. Halla. The circular mitogenome of H. autonoe is 15,300 bp long, which is shorter than previously sequenced mitogenome by 189 bp due to differences of tandem repeats. It includes 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, and 22 transfer RNAs. The base composition was AT-biased (78.9%). Nineteen single nucleotide polymorphisms and one insertion and deletion were identified between the two individuals of H. autonoe captured in Mt. Halla, presenting enough genetic diversity of H. autonoe within population.

Blochmannia endosymbionts, belonging to Gammaproteobacteria, live in bacteriocytes, which are specialized cells for these bacterial species in the Camponotus genus (carpenter ants). In this announcement, we describe the complete genome sequence of the Blochmannia endosymbiont of Camponotus nipponensis, which originated from a C. nipponensis colony collected in the Republic of Korea.

Effect of ABA, GA3, zeatin (Zea) and IAA on the inclination activity was examined by a rice lamina inclination assay using a Korean cultivar, Tongjin. Treatment with ABA, GA3, Zea or IAA alone failed to increase the inclination response significantly at the concentration tested from 0.1 ppm to 10 ppm. However, treatment with 0.1 and 1 ppm ABA in the presence of brassinolide inhibited the inclination activity induced by treatment with brassinolide alone. And treatment with 0.1 and 1 ppm GA~ or Zea in the presence of brassinolide strongly inhibited the inclination activity induced by treatment with brassinolide alone. On the other hand, the inclination activity by treatment with brassinolide alone was clearly promoted by treatment with 0.1 and 1 ppm IAA in the presence of brassinolide. Based on the synergistic effect induced by treatment with BR and IAA, we could develope an improved rice lamina inclination assay whose minimum detectable concentration of brassinolide is 0.00001 ppm/petri dish. The minimum detectable concentration in our assay was five times as low as that of the previous rice lamina inclination assay.

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