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Development of a Planting Density-Growth-Harvest Chart for Common Ice Plant Hydroponically Grown in Closed-type Plant Production System (식물 생산 시스템에서 수경재배한 Common Ice Plant의 재식밀도-생육-수확 도표 개발)

  • Cha, Mi-Kyung;Park, Kyoung Sub;Cho, Young-Yeol
    • Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.106-110
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    • 2016
  • In this study, a planting density-growth-harvest (PGH) chart was developed to easily read the growth and harvest factors such as crop growth rate, relative growth rate, shoot fresh weight, shoot dry weight, harvesting time, marketable rate, and marketable yield of common ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.). The plants were grown in a nutrient film technique (NFT) system in a closed-type plant factory using fluorescent lamps with three-band radiation under a light intensity of $140{\mu}mol{\cdot}m^{-2}{\cdot}s^{-1}$ and a photoperiod of 12 h. Growth and yield were analyzed under four planting densities ($15{\times}10cm$, $15{\times}15cm$, $15{\times}20cm$, and $15{\times}25cm$). Shoot fresh and dry weights per plant increased at a higher planting density until reached an upper limit and yield per area was also same tendency. Crop growth rate, relative growth rate and lost time were described using quadratic equation. A linear relationship between shoot dry weight and fresh weights was observed. PGH chart was constructed based on the growth data and making equations. For instance, with within row spacing (= 20 cm) and fresh weight per plant at harvest (= 100 g), we can estimate all the growth and harvest factors of common ice plant. The planting density, crop growth rate, relative growth rate, lost time, shoot dry weight per plant, harvesting time, and yield were $33plants/m^2$, $20g{\cdot}m^{-2}{\cdot}d^{-1}$, $0.27g{\cdot}g^{-1}{\cdot}d^{-1}$, 22 days, 2.5 g/plant, 26 days after transplanting, and $3.2kg{\cdot}m^{-2}$, respectively. With this chart, we could easily obtain the growth factors such as planting density, crop growth rate, relative growth rate, lost time and the harvest factors such as shoot fresh and dry weights, harvesting time, marketable rate, and marketable yield with at least two parameters, for instance, planting distance and one of harvest factors of plant. PGH charts will be useful tools to estimate the growth and yield of crops and to practical design of a closed-type plant production system.

Optimization of Cultivation Conditions on Effective Seedlings of Veronica rotunda var. subintegra (Nakai) T.Yamaz. (산꼬리풀의 효과적인 육묘를 위한 재배조건 최적화)

  • Lee, Sang In;Yeon, Soo Ho;Cho, Ju Sung;Jeong, Mi Jin;Lee, Cheol Hee
    • Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.181-188
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    • 2020
  • This study was conducted to identify the optimal conditions for seedling growth in Veronica rotunda var. subintegra (Nakai) T.Yamaz. which a endemic plant and can be development as ornamental plants. We sowed V. rotunda var. subintegra (Nakai) T.Yamaz. seeds, and exposed the seedling was different treatment conditions. We varied soil type and fertilizer concentration, shading ratio, additional fertilizer concentration, pretreatment light exposure and collection time of seeds. We found that seedling growth was good in horticultural substrate (with no additional fertilizer), but mixed soils supplemented with fertilizer inhibited growth, regardless of the fertilizer concentration. In the 55% shading treatment, seedling growth was greater than in the non-shading treatment. High concentration addition of fertilizer (Hyponex) promoted plant growth, in terms of both plant length and fresh weight. Exposure of seeds to a red light-source prior to germination had a greater effect on seedling growth than exposure to other light sources. Seedlings exhibited better growth when grown from seed collected in 2018, rather than 2017.

Phytotoxic Effects of Xanthium occidentale Extracts and Residues on Seedling Growth of Several Plant Species

  • Chon Sang-Uk
    • Plant Resources
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.116-121
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    • 2005
  • Compositae plants are known to contain biologically active substances that are allelopathic to agricultural crops as well as weed species. Aqueous or methanol extracts and plant residues from leaves of Xanthium occidentale were assayed against alfalfa (Medicago sativa) to determine its allelopathic effects, and the results showed that the extracts applied onto filter paper significantly inhibited seed germination as well as root growth of alfalfa. Aqueous leaf extracts of $40g\;L^{-1}$ were completely inhibitory on root growth of alfalfa, while root growths of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and soybean (Glycine max L.) were less sensitive. Leaf residue incorporation at $100g\;kg^{-1}$ into soil on seedling growth of barnyard grass (Echinochloa crus-galli Beauv. var. oryzicola Ohwi) inhibited both shoot and root fresh weights of barnyard grass by 94 and $96\%$, respectively. Methanol extracts from BuOn and EtOAc fractions of X. occidentale reduced alfalfa root growth more than did those from hexane and water fractions. The results based on bioassay of extracts and residues show that X. occidentale had potent an allelopathic activity against other plant species.

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The Theory of Boundary Distribution of the Plant and Wave Character of the Timber Line on Mt. Paektu (식물의 경계분포 이론과 백두산 삼림한계량의 파동성)

  • 장남기;심규철;이현욱;강경미;소금현
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.21 no.5_2
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    • pp.491-499
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    • 1998
  • An investigation was performed to establish the mathematical theories of a vibration for the plant growth and a wave distribution of a plant population on the boundary condition of a limiting factor in the environment. The mathematical theories of the plant growth vibration and wave distribution had been elucidated by the plant growth and the timber line on the middle slope of the west side of Mt. Paektu. The Betula ermaruii composes the timber line on about 2,060 m elevation of sea label, has a growth vibration on the ground surface and takes a wave distribution due to a boundary condition of alpine temperature gradient.

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Effect on Plant Growth and Antibiosis of Rice Straw Liquor Extracted from Rice Straw (볏짚에서 추출한 짚초액의 식물성장에 대한 영향과 항균 효과)

  • Kang, Hwa-Young;Kim, Se-Hoon;Kim, Young-Ju;Park, Sang-Sook
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.178-186
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    • 2009
  • Rice straw liquid was prepared from rice straw using simple pyrolysis furnace, and its effects on plant growth and antibiosis were investigated. Effects of straw liquid on plant growth of Oryza sativa L., Glycine max Merr. and Lactuca sativa L. and antibiosis of bacteria and mold of rice straw liquid were studied. Th rice straw liquid showed good results on plant growth and multiplication. Rice straw liquid showed a little antibiosis on bacteria but non antibiosis on mold. Rice straw liquid had minimal inhibitory concentration of 2.5-5% for bacteria.

Effects of Heavy Metals on Growth and Seed Germination of Arabidopsis thaliana (중금속이 애기장대의 생장과 종자발아에 미치는 영향)

  • 박영숙;박종범
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.319-325
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    • 2002
  • This experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of heavy metals (copper, cadmium, lead and chrome) on the growth of plant and seed germination of Arabidopsis thaliana treated with various concentrations of heavy metals. Cadmium and chrome among the 4 heavy metals had no effect on the growth of stem even in the concentration fifty times higher than the official standard concentration of pollutant exhaust notified by the Ministry of Environment. The official standard concentration of cadmium, however, stimulated the growth of stem in general, increasing leaf size and surface area, although it had no effect on the length of stem. But the growth of stem was decreased about 18% in the official standard concentration of pollutant exhaust of lead and copper. There was no growth of root in the concentration of lead and copper ten times higher than the official standard concentration. Cadmium and chrome had no effect on the seed germination, but lead and copper decreased the rate of seed germination. Seeds were not germinated in the concentration of copper ten times higher than the official standard concentration and in the concentration of lead fifty times higher than the official standard concentration. From this research three peculiar results were obtained. Chrome in the soil did not have much effect on the plant growth and seed germination of Arabidopsis thaliana. Cadmium stimulated the stem growth in an optimum concentration. But lead and copper reduced the plant growth and seed germination even in a small concentration, especially copper had the worse effect.

Implementation of Non-contact Plant Growth Measurement System based on USN Technologies (USN 기술 기반의 비접촉 식물 생장 측정 시스템 구현)

  • Suk, Jin-Weon;Ryoo, In-Tae
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.15 no.10
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    • pp.137-145
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    • 2010
  • This paper is proposed non-contact plant growth measurement system using infrared sensor based on USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) technologies. The proposed system has used noncontact sensors to reduce any potential damage when it measures the growth of the plant. In this system, plant growth parameters such as diameter, cross-sectional area and thickening form are measured in real-time non-contact method. The measured data are transmitted to remote server by using sensor network technologies, stored and analyzed at the server, and the analyzed data are finally provided for users. In this paper, the proposed plant growth measurement system has been designed and implemented using non-contact infrared sensor based measurement methods and devices, and its performances have been verified by actual measurement experiments at the fields.

Plant Growth Promotion in Soil by Some Inoculated Microorganisms

  • Jeon, Jong-Soo;Lee, Sang-Soo;Kim, Hyoun-Young;Ahn, Tae-Seok;Song, Hong-Gyu
    • Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.271-276
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    • 2003
  • The inoculation of some microorganisms into a microcosm containing soil from a barren lakeside area at Lake Paro in Kangwon-do enhanced plant growth significantly. The direct and viable counts of soil bacteria and soil microbial activities measured by electron transport system assay and fluorescein diacetate hydrolysis assay were higher in inoculated soil. The plant growth promoting effect of this inoculation may be caused by phytohormone production and the solubilization of insoluble phosphates by the inoculated bacteria. Three inoculated strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens produced several plant growth promoting phytohormones, including indole-3-acetic acid (auxin), which was confirmed by thin layer chromatography and GC/MS. P. fluorescens strain B16 and M45 produced 502.4 and 206.1 mg/l of soluble phosphate from Ca3(PO4)2 and hydroxyapatite, respectively. Bacillus megaterium showed similar solubilization rates of insoluble phosphates to those of Pseudomonas spp. We believe that this plant growth promoting capability may be used for the rapid revegetation of barren or disturbed land.