Abstract:
An MDH plastid transgenic plant is provided to show significantly increased growth rate, area of leaves, diameter of stem and bio-mass compared with a control plant, thereby being usefully used for increasing the photosynthesis amount or biomass of the plant. A transgenic C3 plant is characterized in that an MDH(malate dehydrogenase) gene derived from prokaryote such as Corynebacterium glutamicum, Rhodococcus, Oceanobacillus, Aspergillus, Methanothermus, Chaetomium, Methanopyrus, Bacillus, Methanocaldococcus, Magnaporthe, Phaeosphaeria, Gibberella, Desulfitobacterium, coccidioides, Thermus, Candidatus, Pyrococcus, Solibacter, Aurantimonas, Syntrophus, Enterococcus, Methanosphaera, Anopheles, Entamoeba, Yersinia, Mesorhizobium, Tribolium, Salmonella, Aurantimonas, Amycolatopsis, Escherichia coli, Apis, Burkhoderia, Bordetella, Pseudomonas and Aedes is inserted into plastid genome of the C3 plant. A method for preparing the transgenic plant comprises the steps of: (a) inserting the MDH gene sequence into a transforming vector to prepare an MDH plastid transforming vector; (b) introducing the MDH plastid transforming vector into a C3 plant or a culture cell of the C3 plant to prepare a transgenic body; (c) culturing the transgenic body; and (d) redifferentiating the cultured transgenic body through tissue culturing.