野生 茶나무(Thea sinensis L. var. Bohea)의 Isogyme Patterns

Tea plant has been mainly grown in shade and wet place of several temple surroundings for a long years in sourthern area of Korea, since it has been introduced about 1,000 years ago. In those places, it has been mostly grown in semi-wild, but recently cultivated in a part of Bosung-gun, Cheonnam province. External forms of tea plant were considered that those have a little changed according to geographic and climatic conditions of growing places. To investigate how is the variation of tea plant by the difference of environment conditions under growing places, we had examined the protein and isozyme patterns of seeds of tea plant. In spite of difference of geographic and climatic conditions, the patterns of catalase, esterase, acid phosphatase isozyme and protein showed the same aspects.