• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.41-46
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• 1995

This experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of temperature, light quality and gibberellic acid on the seed germination of Rhododendron weyrichii Max. Optimum temperature for germination was $20^{\circ}C$ at constant temperature, but the final germination rate at $15^{\circ}C$ was about the same with the rates were attained by alternating temperature under higher temperature such as $25^{\circ}C$ or $30^{\circ}C$. The germination rate was increased by yellow and red light treatments at $20^{\circ}C$, but green light treatment strongly inhibited seed germination at $25^{\circ}C$. Gibberellic acid substitutes light requirement for germination of R. weyrichii seeds.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.279-284
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• 2002

To establish the mass propagation method of Typha orientatis Presl, several factors influencing seed germination were investigated. The best seed germination of T. orientalis was achieved under the light and 25~3$0^{\circ}C$ temperature. GA$_3$ tended to enhance seed germination, and 500 mg.L$^{-1}$ GA$_3$ showed 90.7% germination, which was 1.2 times of control. Compared to control, BA treatment prohibit seed germination. Especially, seeds were not germinated under 500 mg.L$^{-1}$ BA treatment. In case of KNO$_3$ and Ca(NO$_3$)$_2$ treatment, the germination rate was decreased by all concentrations, except 100 mM Ca(NO$_3$)$_2$.

• Current Research on Agriculture and Life Sciences
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• v.13
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• pp.65-70
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• 1995

The experiments were conducted to determine the influence of seed size and mucilaginous substance on seed germination of herbaceous peony collected from farmers' fields in Korea. No significant difference was recognized between the size of seed and the rale of germination. The maximum percentage(68%) of seed germination was obtained from the seeds with thin brown colour treated at $20^{\circ}C$. The amount of mucilaginous substances exuded from peony seeds was the highest in the seeds with black brown colour. Germination rate of peony seeds was negatively correlated with the amount of mucilaginous substance exuded from the seeds. High frequency(93%) of seed germination was obtained from the seeds which treated in the mixture(1:1) of sands and activated charcoal.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
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• v.19 no.4 s.45
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• pp.240-242
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• 1980

Recently, a powdery mildew on the leaves of Capsium spp., Pimento and pepper, occurred greatly in the vinyl-house at Seungchon area, Chonnam province. According to the field survey, the disease is severe at high temperature and high humidity conditions in the vinyl house. Diseased loaves were severely fallen and remained only several top leaves, thus the setting and thickening of fruits were greatly depressed. The pathogenic fungus was identified as Oidiopsis taurica(Lev.) Arn., imperfect stage of Leveillula taurica (Lev.) Arn., The perfect stage of fungus was not observed. Optimum temperatures for conidial germination ranged at $25-30^{\circ}C$ with high humidity.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.481-489
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• 2007

Present experiments are conducted to study the seed viability and optimum germination temperature of Polygonatum odoratum var. pluriflorum that is known to have low germination ability and long germination duration. To enhance germination rate, various growth regulators and inorganic salts were employed. Low germination rate was obtained with 4 year old seeds, but not with $1{\sim}2$ year old seeds. The seeds germinated very well under $22{\sim}25^{\circ}C$ and germinated speed was rapid. Especially, $1{\sim}2$ year old seeds germinated at $25^{\circ}C$ showed $70{\sim}71.2%$ germination rate. Priming treatments using $GA_3$, IAA, NAA, kinetin, $KNO_3$, $KH_2PO_4$, $Ca(NO_3)_2$ were effective compared to control except BA. 1 year old seeds treated with $GA_3$ 0.5 mM and IAA 1 mM showed 96% and 93% germination rate, respectively.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.16 no.3 s.76
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• pp.493-499
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• 2006

In this study, we investigated the effect of growth regulators, seed priming, and light condition for the germination and early growth in Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus L.). The optimum concentration of growth regulator for the promotion of germinability turned out to be 250 uM of $GA_3$. The germination enhancement in combination of $GA_3+BAP$ was not significant. The optimum priming condition for the maximum germinability was 2 day treatment of 200 mM of $KNO_3$. which increased germination by 14% and shortened the day to germination by 3.5 days. The optimum temperature for germination was $15{\sim}25^{\circ}C$. The germination frequency was decreased to lower than 20% at $30^{\circ}C$, which showed that seeds of Snapdragon germinates better at low temperature than high temperature. The germination frequency was different at light condition; it was low at dark condition, but was increased by $15{\sim}20%$ at red light condition. The combination of $GA_3$ and seed priming showed better germinability than the single treatment of $GA_3$ and seed priming.

• Asian Journal of Turfgrass Science
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.31-35
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• 2010

Several experiments were conducted to investigate the germination characteristics among the Rumex crispus, R. japonicus, R. obtusifolius, and R. nipponicus. The germination point of R. japonicus was started 4 days after application, and then R. obtusifolius (5th), R. crispus (6th), R. nipponicus (10th) with appeared order. The optimum temperatures for germination of all tested Rumex spp. occurred at the $15^{\circ}C$. Especially, R. obtusifolius will have the widest germination range at $10^{\circ}C{\sim}30^{\circ}C$. To compared with 1996 and 2004 year selected R. japonicus germination were did not significantly difference, otherwise, all tested Rumex spp. on dark condition was not germinated. The parameters of germination characteristics of Rumex spp. were investigated mean germination rate (MGR, %), mean germination time (MGT, day), mean germination velocity (MGV, No./day), and coefficient of germination uniformity (CGU). The R. japonicus compared in tested Rumex spp. showed the highest MGR. The MGT and MGV of R. obtusifolius was appeared the earliest compared with R. obtusifolius and R. crispus.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Grassland and Forage Science
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.174-178
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• 1986

This experiment was carried out to study the influence of temperature treatments on germination of sorghum (cv. Pioneer 931), sorghum-sudangrass (cv. Pioneer 988), sudangrass (cv. Piper) and corn (cv. Suweon 19) in growth chamber. Each crop seeds were germinated under different day/night temperature of 10/5, 15/10, 20/15, 25/20, 30/25, 35/30 and $40/35^{\circ}C$ over 14/10 hour days. The results obtained are summarized as follows. 1. Germination of sorghum and sorghum-sudangrass were less affected by high temperature than those of corn and sudangrass. The optimum temperatures for germination were $20-40^{\circ}C$ for sorghum and $20-30^{\circ}C$ for corn. High temperature($40/35^{\circ}C$), however, resulted in great decrease of seed germination rates of seed germination rates of corn, while those of sorghum and sorghum-sudangrass shown high germination rates with the value of 95.8% and 89.9%, respectively. 2. Sorghum-sudangrass hybrid was shown to have a great tolerance to low temperature. Under low temperature($10/5^{\circ}C$) seed germination of sorghum-sudangrass was 80.0% but those of corn and sudangrass were 43.2% and 24.8% respectively. Germination rates of sorghum were decreased to about 68.8% at low temperature from a value of 98.1% at optimum temperature. 3. The days required to the seed germination of sorghum and sorghum-sudangrass hybrid were shortened by increasing of temperature. Under different temperature treatments, it was required 12 days ($15/10^{\circ}C$), 6 days ($25/20^{\circ}C$) and 3 days ($40/35^{\circ}C$) in sorghum but corn required 16, 7 and 3 days, respectively.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.708-714
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• 2002

A new leaf blight was found on the perilla leaves at the major perilla-cultivating areas such as Kangdong in Busan and Miryang in Kyungnam province. Symptoms of the disease initially appeared on the edge of perilla leaves showing black necrosis and drying, and the infected leaves were finally fell down. The SD1 isolate showing strong pathogenicity and forming abundant conidial spores on the diseased lesions was isolated. Among the tested media, mycelial growth was abundant on PDA (Potato Dextrose Agar) medium at $25^{\circ}C$ under dark condition, but conidial formation was greater on V8A (V-8 juice A8ar) medium than that on PDA medium. Optimal temperatures for mycelial growth and conidial formation on PDA medium were respectively $25^{\circ}C$ and 3$0^{\circ}C$. The rate of conidial germination and the elongation of germ tube were more effective in 10% tomato juice than those in PDB (Potato Dextrose Broth) and sterile water. In 10% tomato juice, the rate of conidial germination and the length of germ tube were 100% after incubation for 24k and 535.2${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ after incubation for 36hr, respectively. According to the result of pathogenicity, it revealed that conidial suspention with 10% tomato juice was the most effective for pathogenicity test showing as 100% of disease incidence, and the symptoms caused by artificial inoculum were same as those of naturally infected perilla. In this study, the SD1 isolate according to the results of morphological characteristics, the incubation characteristics and pathogenicity was firstly identified A. alternata, and named as leaf blight of perilla.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.69-75
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• 2011

This study was conducted to investigate the variation of cone, seed and germination characteristics among populations and among individuals within populations of Picea jezoensis(Siebold & Zuccarini) Carriere distributed in Korea. Cone collected from 25 trees in two natural populations(Mt. Jiri and Mt. Dokyu) and their thirteen cone and seed characteristics as well as three germination behaviors were analyzed. Statistical analysis showed significant differences among populations and among individuals within populations in 9 traits except for seed breadth, seed weight, index of seed wing and mean germination time. Generally, morphological variation of cone and seed wings from Mt. Jiri population has smaller and longer than those of Mt. Dokyu population. Percentage of sound seeds and Tetrazolium test from Mt. Jiri population showed 1.79 and 1.87 higher values than Mt. Dokyu population, respectively. The maximum germination percentage was obtained at the optimum temperature of $20^{\circ}C$ and in this case, mean germination time and germination rate showed 7.5 days and 2.9 ea./day, respectively. In seed germination behaviors, percentage(40.7%) and rate(0.90 ea./day) of germination in Mt. Jiri population were more higher and faster than those of Mt. Dokyu population(17.7%, 0.37 ea./day). According to correlation analysis, P. jezoensis populations with small restricted distribution may have been reduced because seed qualities were correlated with increased levels of inbreeding and disproportion flowering.