• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.352-362
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• 2006

Many misconceptions regarding biology and evolution have been reported by students prior to being exposed to a formal education program of evolution which challenged them. This study sought to investigate and to analyze the misconception formation process of evolution originating from TV animation and science books for children. Firstly, to identify TV animation's influence on students' misconceptions of evolution, a questionnaire including TV animation characters was constructed and administered to 146 elementary school students, 161 middle school students, and 156 high school students. The data collected was analyzed. Secondly, 17 science books for children were sampled and the contents related to evolution were selected and analyzed in terms of five evolutionary explanations: creationism internal will explanation, teleological explanations, explanations of use and disuse, mutation and finally, natural selection. Children have understood 'growth' and 'metamorphosis' on TV animation as 'evolution'. The processes by which characters on TV animation undergo some forms of change, which are in fact a kind of metamorphosis has often been understood as 'evolution'. Many respondents have defined evolution incorrectly as the process of growing and changing shape. On the other hand, some science books fur children contained descriptions of evolution including' mutation and finally natural selection explanation'; however, most of the science books fur children sampled in this study were written through the perspectives of alternative evolutionary views such as 'teleology view', 'internal will view', and 'use and disuse view'. It is apparent that TV animation and science books fur children influence the formation of various misconceptions regarding evolution by children.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.186-191
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• 1999

This study was conducted to evaluate the growth characteristics and grain component of 10 collected colored rice cultivars to find out the possibilities of using the agronomically usefull characters to provide information for colored rice breeding and cultivation. The coefficients of variation of culm length, grains number, ripening rate, maturity time, and coat color of grain and seed were higher than those of other characters. The positive correlations were observed among heading dates, grain numbers per panicle, and 1000 grain weight, as well as between culm length and panicle length, panicle length and grain numbers per panicle, 1000 grain weight and darkness of seed coat color, while negative correlations were observed between heading dates and panicle numbers per hill, grain yield and seed coat color as well as among culm length, length, number per hill and seed coat color of brown rice, respectively. The first component of principal component analysis was consist of panicle numbers per hill, 1000 grain weight, and grain yield showing higher correlations among them which explained the variance of the sink size of respective cultivars. The second component of principal component analysis was consist of heading date, grain numbers per panicle and maturing date showing higher correlations among them which explained the variance of maturity of respective cultivars.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.22-28
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• 2014

This study was conducted to investigate the photosynthetic characters of Populus alba${\times}$glandulosa cuttings in response to elevated $CO_2$ concentration and air temperature for selecting tree species adaptive to climate change. The cuttings were grown in environment controlled growth chambers with two combinations of $CO_2$ concentration and air temperature conditions: (i) $22^{\circ}C$ + $CO_2$ 380 ${\mu}mol$ $mol^{-1}$ (control) and (ii) $27^{\circ}C$ + $CO_2$ 770 ${\mu}mol$ $mol^{-1}$ (elevated) for almost three months. The cuttings under the elevated treatment showed reduced tree height and photosynthetic pigment contents such as chlorophyll and carotenoid. In particular, the elevated treatment resulted in a marked reduction in the chlorophyll a closely associated with $CO_2$ fixative reaction system. Different levels of reduction in photosynthetic characters were found under the elevated treatment. A decrease was noted in photochemical reaction system parameters: net apparent quantum yield (7%) and photosynthetic electron transport rate (14%). Moreover, a significant reduction was obvious in $CO_2$ fixative reaction system parameters: carboxylation efficiency (52%) and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate(RuBP) regeneration rate (24%). These results suggest that the low level of photosynthetic capacity may be attributed to the decreased $CO_2$ fixative reaction system rather than photochemical reaction system.

• Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.34-39
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• 1990

The experiment was conducted in the pots of flooded saline paddy soil to evaluate influence of rice straw and gypsum application on germination and early growth status of directly sowed rice seedlings. 1. Germination percentage of rice seedlings were higher in treatment sowing at 1 day after submergence than that of treatment sowing at 21 days after submergence, and was severely interrupted by rice straw application. 2. Application of rice straw promoted the release of bicarbonate and volatile fatty acid of submerged water, while the amount of sulfate and soluble cations were decreased as compared to control. 3. Germination percentage of rice seedling had significant negative correlations with chemical characters of submerged water, and was highly affected by submerged water at 7 days after sowing. 4. Rice straw application interrupted germination of rice seedling by increasing pH of submerged water over critical level, and gypsum application depressed the early growth of young seedling dues to high salt concentration. 5. The relaease of bicarbonate was remarkedly increased with increasing pH over 7.5 of submerged water.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.685-691
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• 1996

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of some soil conditioners, such as polyvinylalcohol(PVA), zeolite and perlite, on the changes of soil physical properties and on tobacco growth in paddy-upland rotated field. Soil conditioners were treated at the rates of 120kg in PVA, 500kg in zeolite and perlite per l0a, respectively. Ratio of soil aggregates formed from the treated plots tended to. be higher than those from the control in the order of PVA > perlite > zeolite. The wet aggregate stability, mean weight diameter, moisture retention and air permeability from the treated plots tended to be higher than those from the control. Amounts of water-stable aggregates of PV A-treated soil increased with higher soil moisture showing a peak at 50% of moisture content. But with respect to particle of size aggregate formed for crop growth and workability in field, it was presumed that 40% of soil moisture content would be most desirable. Visual characters of soil surface throughout the experiment clearly showed that treated soils were maintaining better surface roughness and porosity than control, but difference in water stable aggregates among treated plots tended to be narrowed. The growths of tobacco, espacially its root zone were better in conditioner treated plots than in non-treated plot showing best in PVA-treated soil.

• Korean Journal of Weed Science
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.160-166
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• 2011

The purposes of this study were to analyze the weediness potential associated with 'Vitamin A enforced rice' and to evaluate the relationships between growth characteristics and environmental adaption related to survival ability in the natural environment. 'Vitamin A enforced rice', 'Nagdong', donor variety of 'Vitamin A enforced rice' and three other varieties were used for this study. The 'Vitamin A enforced rice' was experimented according to ratio of ripened grain, shattering of grain, germination traits, germination ratio of low temperature, emergence ratio after wintering, ratio of viviparity, and growth ratio after ratooning ability. 'Vitamin A enforced rice' was not significant between 'Nagdong' and other varieties in seven characters. Germination ratio was similar of Vitamin A enforced rice' and 'Nagdong', but average germination ability of was different at low temperature. Also, shattering of grain and germination ratio of alternating temperature were significant between 'Nagdong' and other varieties. These results suggested that the relationships between growth characteristics and environmental adaption in 'Vitamin A enforced rice' could be applied to the stability of weediness potential and biosafety guide in GM rice.

• Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.218-228
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• 1999

This study was conducted to obtain the information on dry matter productivity in Angelica gigas Nakai for establishing the cultivation method. Cultivation methods such as direct seeding on Mar. 31, Apr. 15 and Apr. 30, and transplanting of $8^{\frac{1}{2}}$, 9, 12 months old seedling were investigated. There were similar tendencies in changes of agronomic characters for all cultivation methods. Dry weight started to increase from 120 DAS. Direct seedling showed vigorous growth for aerial part, whereas transplanting showed better underground part. The quadratic polynomial was suitable to dry weight of root after 120 DAS (or DAT) .Short growing time had higher RGR and NAR independent of cultivation method but Direct seeding on Mar. 31 and transplanting of 9 months old seedling had the highest CGRs. LAI was positively correlated with CGR, and CGR had the highest value as $6.74\g/m^2/day$ when LAI was 1.97. RGR and NAR increased as mean temperature was increased and showed the highest value around . The highest net production of leaf and petiole was obtained at 20 and$23^{\circ}C$, respectively.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.483-492
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• 1986

To find out the responses of plant growth, nodulation, and yield of soybean and their varietal differences to different soil pH, 16 soybean cultivars were examined under three different levels of soil pH. In general, as the soil pH decreased, plant growth, nodulation, yield and yield component and protein con-tents of grains were decreased in most of cultivars studied. But there were significant varietal differences in the responses of the characters investigated to soil pH. Jangbaegkong was evaluated as the most tolerant cultivar to acid soil, and Ulsan, Bongeui, Hwanggeumkong, and LC7852 were also relatively torelant to acid soil. There were significant correlation between soil pH and grain yield in 7 cultivars among 16, but were not in other cultivars.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.43-49
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• 1975

These studies were carried out to know the variation of seeds and top height growth of seedlings by locations along the southern sea coast in Korea. The results obtained were summarized as follows: 1. The number of seeds per cone was showed to be the highest in Chung-mu and the lowest in Wul-jin. 2. The variations of seed length and seed width were showed to be high in Wul-jin and Young-duck along the eastern sea and Bul-kyo, Mok-po along the southern sea. 3. The number of cotyledons was not correlations between seed length and seed width. And the number of cotyledon was showed to be 7 leaves ie. all locations. 4. The results of T-test were not significant by all locations. 5. By the locations, the results of analysis of variance were not significant in top height growth of seedlings by sowing of the present year, but high significant in July of the next year. In conclusion, the number of seeds per cone was showed to be high in the variation of seed characters and the top height growth of seedlings was showed to be significant in sowing of the next year.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.68-76
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• 1984

The study was conducted to investigate an optimum growing condition for various sizes of seedlings of rice for mechanical transplantation under different sowing rates, different levels of fertilizers, different sowing dates and g rowing days. The plant height, leaf number and dry weight of seedlings increased as the sowing rate decreased and amount of fertilizer applied were increased. Also those seedling characters increased as the rice planted late and the total growing periods increased. The factors affected seedling chracters were ordered as following-sowing times>growing days>sowing rate>fertilizer levels. 200 gr. of seeds per box and 4 gr. of fertilizers were optimum for young seedling growth, when sown early. For medium size of seed ling growth, 50 grams and 100 to 125 grams of rice seemed to be adequate for 25 days old and 35 days old seedling, respectively. However, the 45 days old seedling grew too mach and were not suitable for mechanical transplantation. When planted late, similar results were obtained with more differences among treatments. In other words, the suitable plant density was obtained when 100 gr. of seeds were planted per box. Middle class of seedlings were obtained when 100 to 150 gr. of rice were planted per box and grown for 25 days. The seedlings from the box with 100 to 150 gr. of rice per box were over grown and ratio of suitable seedling was also low if they were grown over 35 days.