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Effects of Soil Drought and Waterlogging on Photosystem II Activities in Cercis Bunge (토양 건조 및 침수처리가 박태기나무의 광계 II 활성에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, K.C.;Lee, U.Y.;Youn, K.K.;Kwon, Y.H.;Han, S.K.
    • Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 2020
  • This study was conducted to investigate the photosystem II activities of Cercis chinensis by soil water condition. Drought stress was induced by withholding water and waterlogging treatments was immerging the pots for 15 days. Results showed that the relative activities per reaction center such as ABS/RC, TRo/RC and Dio/RC were significantly increased compared with the control group after 12 days in waterlogging treatments. Particularly, Dio/RC increased substantially under waterlogging stress, indicating that excessive energy was consumed by heat dissipation. Furthermore, the performance index on absorption basis(PIabs) and responses to structural and functional PS II(SFIabs) were dramatically decreased after 15 days in both the drought and waterlogging treatments, which reflects the relative reduction state of the photosystem II. These results of chlorophyll a fluorescence by OKJIP analysis show that the sensitive changes photosystem II activity. Thus, on the basis of our results that Cercis chinensis was exhibited a strong reduction of photosynthetic activity to waterlogging stress, and OKJIP parameters such as ABS/RC, DIo/RC, PIabs and SFIabs could be useful indicator to monitor the physiological states of Cercis chinensis under soil water condition.

Development of the pyramiding lines with strong culm genes derived from crosses among the SCM near isogenic lines in rice

  • Ookawa, Taiichiro;Kamahora, Eri;Ebitani, Takeshi;Yamaguchi, Takuya;Murata, Kazumasa;Iyama, Yukihide;Ozaki, Hidenobu;Adachi, Shunsuke;Hirasawa, Tadashi;Kanekatsu, Motoki
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Crop Science Conference
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    • 2017.06a
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    • pp.21-21
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    • 2017
  • Severe lodging has recurrently occurred at strong typhoon's hitting in recent climate change. The identification of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and their responsible genes associated with a strong culm and their pyramiding are important for developing high-yielding varieties with a superior lodging resistance. To identify QTLs for lodging resistance, the tropical japonica line, Chugoku 117 and the improved indica variety, Habataki were selected as the donor parent, as these had thick and strong culms compared with the temperate japonica varieties in Japan such as Koshihikari. By using chromosome segment substitution lines (CSSLs) in which chromosome segments from the japonica variety were replaced to them from Habataki, we identified the QTLs for strong culm on chrs. 1 and 6, which were designated as STRONG CULM1 (SCM1) and STRONG CULM2 (SCM2), respectively. By using recombinant inbred lines (BILs) derived from a cross between Chugoku 117 and Koshihikari and introgression lines, we also identified the other QTLs for strong culm on chrs. 3 and 2, which were designated as STRONG CULM3 (SCM3) and STRONG CULM4 (SCM4), respectively. Candidate region of SCM1 includes Gn1 related to grain number. SCM2 was identical to APO1, a gene related to the control of panicle branch number, and SCM3 was identical to FC1, a strigolactone signaling associated gene, by performing fine mapping and positional cloning of these genes. To evaluate the effects of SCM1~SCM4 on lodging resistance, the Koshihiakri near isogenic line (NIL) with the introgressed SCM1 or SCM2 locus of Habataki (NIL-SCM1, NIL-SCM2) and the another Koshihikari NIL with the introgeressed SCM3 or SCM4 locus of Chugoku 117 (NIL-SCM3, NIL-SCM4) were developed. Then, we developed the pyramiding lines with double or triple combinations derived from step-by-step crosses among NIL-SCM1 NIL-SCM4. Triple pyramiding lines (NIL-SCM1+2+3, ~ NIL-SCM1+3+4) showed the largest culm diameter and the highest culm strength among the combinations and increased spikelet number due to the pleiotropic effects of these genes. Pyramiding of strong culm genes resulted in much increased culm thickness, culm strength and spikelet number due to their additive effect. SCM1 mainly contributed to enhance their pyramiding effect. These results in this study suggest the importance of identifying the combinations of superior alleles of strong culm genes among natural variation and pyramiding these genes for improving high-yielding varieties with a superior lodging resistance.

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An Analysis on the Less Favored Condition of Fishing Village in Korean Island Regions using Census of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (도서지역 어촌의 조건불리성 분석: 농림어업총조사 자료를 이용하여)

  • Kim, Bong-Tae
    • The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.11-25
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of the study is to analyze the status and trend of less favored condition of fishing village in Korean island regions using the census of agriculture, forestry and fisheries. The less favored condition was measured as the difference in accessibility to major services and in fishery sales and resident infrastructure, applying the difference-in-difference method and propensity score matching method respectively. The result shows that access to major services has improved in island area between 2010 and 2015, implying that related policies such as the island comprehensive development project have been successful to some extent. However, some educational facilities, cultural facilities, and health facilities still have low inaccessibility and fishery sales are also significantly lower than in general area. This suggests that it is necessary to maintain related policies like the direct payment of fisheries.

Trends on Income Inequality and Bi-polarization for Forest Household (임가의 소득불평등과 양극화 추이)

  • Kim, Eui-Gyeong;Jung, Byung-Heon;Kim, Dong-Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.106 no.4
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    • pp.497-508
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    • 2017
  • This study conducted to examine about the income inequality and bi-polarization for forestry household. For this purpose, Gini coefficient and Atkinson index were used to analyze the income inequality for forestry household. Also, DER index were employed to show their income bi-polarization. Before using these methodologies, forestry household income was divided into three parts that was forestry income, non forestry business income and transfer income. And then, income inequality and bi-polarization were analyzed respectively. The result shows that forestry household income inequality was higher than whole household inequality. Apart from transfer income, forestry household income, forestry income and non forestry business income inequality was aggravated. At the same time, these tendency was able to observe the bi-polarization for forestry household income and other income sources.

Monitoring Land-use Changes by Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques: Case Study of Barind Tract, Bangladesh

  • Sohel, Md. Shawkat Islam;Rana, Md. Parvez;Islam, A.Z.M. Zahedul;Akhter, Sayma
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.73-79
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    • 2011
  • The Barind tract is threatened by desertification and undergoing rapid change. In view of this fact it is very much essential to manage this barind tract under proper land-use plan. The present study evaluates the effectiveness of high-resolution satellite data and computer aided GIS techniques in assessing land-use change detection for the period 1990 to 2007 within the study area, which is very much essential to manage this barind tract under proper land-use plan, and for proper land-use plan it is necessary to get reliable information. The present study found five major land-use such as current fallow, current agriculture, settlement, irrigation water and water bodies. From the result, it is found that current fallow and water bodies decrease while settlement and current agriculture increase. Study concludes that as Barind tract is threatened by desertification, decrease of water bodies is not a good sign for the study area.

Molecular Cloning and Characterization of a Novel Cold-Adapted Family VIII Esterase from a Biogas Slurry Metagenomic Library

  • Cheng, Xiaojie;Wang, Xuming;Qiu, Tianlei;Yuan, Mei;Sun, Jianguang;Gao, Junlian
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.24 no.11
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    • pp.1484-1489
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    • 2014
  • A novel esterase gene, est01, was successfully unearthed from a biogas digester microbiota metagenomic library. The 1,194 bp est01 gene encodes a protein of 44,804 Da (designated Est01). The amino acid sequence of Est01 shows only moderate (33%) identity to a lipase/esterase. Phylogenetic analysis and biochemical characterization confirmed that Est01 is a new member of family VIII esterases. The purified Est01 from recombinant Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) showed high hydrolytic activity against short-chain fatty acid esters, suggesting that it is a typical carboxylesterase rather than a lipase. Furthermore, the Est01 was even active at $10^{\circ}C$ (43% activity remained), with the optimal temperature at $20^{\circ}C$, and had a broad pH range from 5.0 to 10.0, with the optimal pH of 8.0. These properties suggest that Est01 is a cold-adaptive esterase and could have good potential for low-temperature hydrolysis application.

Environmental management strategies of Korean paper industry for response to climate change (기후변화 대응을 위한 국내 제지산업의 환경 경영 방안)

  • Kim, Dong Seop;Sung, Yong Joo;Kim, Se-Bin;Lee, Joon-Woo;Park, Gwan-Soo
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.45 no.4
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    • pp.42-51
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    • 2013
  • Climate changes have become the major issue for the sustainable society and the various regulation has been established for promoting low carbon and green growth in Korea. The paper industry as a large comsumer of energy is forced to cope with these regulation. In this study, the various examples were investigated for providing the basic schemes to develop environmental management strategies of Korean paper industry. The various cases to follow carbon economic were introduced and were categorized into five ways, for example, the carbon capture projects such as reforestation, the increasing the process efficiency, the resource recovery form process waste, the cogeneration systems, the application of non-woody biomass.

Investigation into Methods for reducing Greenhouse Gas Emission in Paper Industry with Development of Greenhouse Gas Inventory (온실가스 인벤토리 구축을 통한 제지산업에서 온실가스 절감 방법론 조사)

  • Kim, Dong-Seop;Sung, Yong-Joo;Lee, Joon-Woo;Kim, Se-Bin;Park, Gwan-Soo
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 2012
  • The reduction of greenhouse gas emission currently becomes more urgent task for Korean Industries, especially for the paper industries because of the new regulation based on the low carbon-green growth law. In order to reduce effectively the greenhouse gas emission, the development of greenhouse gas emission inventory has been widely considered as one of the basic processes and has been applied to many industries. In this study, the fundamental schemes and the cases of greenhouse gas inventories were investigated. Especially, the major considering units for paper industries were suggested to develope greenhouse emission inventory of paper industry.

Growth and Physiological Characteristics of Prunus × yedoensis Matsum. by Irrigation Level (관수량에 따른 왕벚나무의 생장과 생리적 특성)

  • Koo, Nam In;Song, Yeong Geun;Yoon, Kyeong Kyu;Lee, Kyeong Cheol
    • Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.5-11
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    • 2022
  • Prunus × yedoensis is a representative tree species in residential areas often used as a street tree or park tree, with its popularity due to splendid flowers in the spring. We investigated plant growth, photosynthesis, chlorophyll, and carotenoid concentrations of Prunus yedoensis at 400ml/pot, 1,000ml/pot, and 2,000ml/pot Irrigation treatments. Overall growth indices such as tree height, diameter at root collar (DRC), and total dry weight could be ranked in the decreasing order "2,000ml/pot > 1,000ml/pot > 400ml/pot.". However, 2,000ml/pot featured decreased photosynthesis and total chlorophyll carotenoid contents than 1,000ml/pot treatment after July. And also, The 1,000ml/pot treatment showed relatively high photosynthetic activity and chlorophyll contents. These results suggested that the cultivation of Prunus yedoensis under 1,000ml/pot Irrigation treatment(soil water contents 25~35%) showed the best condition in growth.

Description of a new species of the whitefly genus Pealius Quaintance & Baker (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from China

  • WANG, Ji-Rui;DU, Yu-Zhou;MARTIN, Jon H.;XU, Zhi-Hong
    • Entomological Research
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    • v.48 no.5
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    • pp.348-353
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    • 2018
  • A new whitefly species, Pealius yunnanensissp. nov., collected from Mengzi, Caoba village (Yunnan, China) on Ficus microcarpa Linn. f. (Urticales: Moraceae), is described with morphology, line illustrations, photographs and scanning electron microscope images. In addition, a checklist of Chinese species of Pealius is provided and all Pealius species recorded from Ficus around the world are listed. Specimens have been deposited in the Insect Collection of Zhejiang Agriculture & Forestry University (ZAFU), Lin'an, China.