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Current Status and Issues of Nuclear Safety Culture

  • Lee, Yong-Hee
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.247-261
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    • 2016
  • Objective:The aim of this paper is to discuss the nuclear safety culture in Korea. Background: Recently, Korean nuclear field has met a strong anti-nuclear trend after a few happenings, as well as Fukushima accident, which are turned out to be caused by organizational pitfalls and safety culture defects in general. Method: We review the concepts and constructs of safety culture based on the brief history of the nuclear safety culture that IAEA mainly raised after the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Additionally, we give a comparative discussion on the approach to the safety culture with U.S. Results: Finally, we discuss the three technical domains and propose six selected domestic issues related to the nuclear safety culture for coping with the demanding requests on nuclear safety in Korea. Conclusion and Application: We suggest several recommendations and a research direction in the form of a re-start line for the nuclear safety culture in Korea.

Developing screening system for resistance to anthracnose in grapes by using culture filtrates from Elsinoe ampelina

  • Yun, Hae-Keun;Park, Kyo-Sun;Park, Jeong-Ho;Park, Youn-Jung;Jeong, Sang-Bouk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Plant Pathology Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.70.1-70
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    • 2003
  • It was investigated whether culture filtrates produced by X. fastiduosa could be used to determine varietal susceptibility in grape cultivars to anthracnose as a substitute for pathogen inoculation or field screening. Bioassay of grape leaves with culture filtrates showed that their phytotoxicities were active and host-selective. Ethyl acetate extracts from those also showed the toxicities and host selectivity among grape cultivars. The sensitive range of plants to culture filtrates and their ethyl acetate extracts was consistent with the host range to the pathogen. Susceptible cultivars were sensitive to even highly diluted culture filtrates but resistant cultivars were not affected even at original culture filtrates. Susceptible cultivars were sensitive to the undiluted culture filtrates than highly diluted culture filtrates and the younger leaves were the more sensitive to the culture filtrates and their ethyl acetate extracts in grapes.

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Salt Tolerance in Transgenic Pea (Pisum sativum L.) Plants by P5CS Gene Transfer

  • Najafi F.;Rastgar-jazii F.;Khavari-Nejad R. A.;Sticklen M.
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.233-240
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    • 2005
  • Slices of embryonic axis of mature pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. Green Arrow) seeds were used as explant. Transformation of explants was done via Agrobacterium tumefaciens bearing vector pBI-P5CS construct. The best results for inoculation of explants were obtained when they were immersed for 90 s at a concentration of $6{\times}10^8$ cell $ml^(-1)$ of bacterial suspension. Transformed pea plants were selected on $50\;mg\;l^(-1)$ kanamycin and successful transformants were confirmed by PCR and blotting. Transgenic plants were further analyzed with RT-PCR to confirm the expression of P5CS. Transgenic plants and non-transgenic plants were treated with different concentrations of NaCl 0 (control), 100, 150 and 200 mM in culture medium. Measurement of proline content indicated that transgenic plants produced more amino acid proline in response to salt in comparison with non-transgenic plants. Photosynthetic efficiency in transgenic plants under salt-stress was more than that of non-transgenic plants.

Status and Prospects of the Utilization of Medicinal Plants in the Philippines

  • Waje, Catherine K.
    • Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.11-16
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    • 2005
  • Utilization of herbal medicine has been an intrinsic part of Philippine culture for many centuries. In spite of tremendous development in the field of modern medicine, traditional and alternative medicine will continue to flourish and take an important role in meeting the basic health needs of the people. The National Integrated Research Program on Medicinal Plant (NIRPROMP), the lead government institution for herbal medicinal research had already validated ten medicinal plants and is currently studying new batch of medicinal plants. Five of the ten clinically-tested medicinal plants have been elevated to herbal medicinal drugs that are now being commercially manufactured in the different parts of the country. Research on medicinal plants takes longer time as the nature of medical research dictates it to be. It must adhere to the internationally accepted standards of medicinal research in the Philippines was observed making alternative medicine an effective health delivery system to the people.

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Influence of medium addition and agitation on the production of embryos in isolated microspore culture of hot pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) (고추의 소포자 배양 시 배지 첨가와 진탕이 배의 생산에 미치는 영향)

  • An, Dong-Ju;Park, Eun-Joon;Kim, Moon-Za
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.30-41
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    • 2011
  • The influences of the agitation as well as the addition of medium during culture on the production of embryos were invested in isolated microspore culture of hot pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). When the culture medium was added during initial liquid culture step of liquid-double layer culture, the embryo yield and quality greatly increased. The most effective time point for medium addition was 5 days after the culture commenced. On the other hand, the effect of medium addition at later double layer culture step in liquid-double layer culture on the embryo production was less compared to that of medium addition during the initial liquid culture step. Agitating the culture for 1 week during later double layer culture step in liquid-double layer culture effectively increased the production of normal cotyledonary embryos. In the case of liquid culture, agitating the culture for 1 week from 7 days after the culture commenced was also effective for embryo development. However, when the total agitation time was longer (2 to 3 weeks) during liquid-double layer culture or liquid culture, the embryos developed abnormally in both cases. The normal cotyledonary embryos obtained in this study successfully developed to plants when transferred to regeneration media. These regenerated plants were either diploid or haploid, and there was a difference in the number of chloroplasts between guard cells of diploid and haploid. These results can be used as an important data for developing an efficient microspore culture system with high quality embryo production in hot pepper.

Adequate Standard Pot and Number of Plants Per Tree of Raising Seeding Pot on the Foxtail Millet Transplanting Culture in the Southern Province (남부지방 조 이식재배시 육묘폿트의 적정규격 및 주당본수)

  • Kim, Yong-Soon;Kim, Dong-Kwan;Choi, Jin-Gyung;Park, Heung-Gyu;Kim, Myeong-Seok;Shin, Hae-Ryoung;Choi, Gyung-Ju;Yun, Jong-Tag
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.60 no.1
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    • pp.23-28
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    • 2015
  • This study was performed to investigate the adequate standard pot and number of plants per tree of raising seeding pot on the foxtail millet transplanting culture in the southern province. Due to the various application of wellbeing-health food recently, for upbringing of the foxtail millet, millet and sorghum in minor cereals, R & D and policy support is being promoted actively. The foxtail millet growing season is so short from 90 to 130 days, and it is large variations for a growth temperature. The main results are as follows. When it comes to foxtail millet transplantation, seedling quality of 406 holes, 200 holes and 162 holes of raising seeding pot type were not all significant, and field rooting percentage is accounted for all 94 to 95%. Yield of a foxtail millet was exposed in 406holes 305 kg/10a>162holes 303 kg> 200holes 302 kg order, and it was no significance between test processing. When it's the raising seeding transplanting culture, in case of pot culture, 406holes pot culture were reduced the bed soil cost 63%, pot 50%, working hours 18% for 200holes pot. Transplanting seedling quality per a foxtail millet transplanting culture method, dry weight was high inclination as transplanting number of plant is less, and field rooting percentage displayed more than all 95%. Yield appeared to 2 plants seedling transplanting 315kg/10a> 3 plants seedling transplanting 304kg>1 plant seedling transplanting 256kg order. The projected cost per the pot-sort on the raising seeding transplanting culture of foxtail millet, the seedling transplanting culture of 406holes was reduced 40% percentages compared to 200holes as 76,230won/10a. As a result, 406holes pot and 2plants seedling transplanting culture, labor-saving culture was possible.

Establishment of a New Breeding Scheme for Rapid Release of Variety Using bar Gene Transformed Rice (형질전환 벼 이용 품종 조기개발 체계 확립)

  • Won, Yong-Jae;Yi, Gi-Hwan;Cho, Jun-Hyeon;Ko, Jong-Min;Park, Hyang-Mi;Han, Chang-Deok;Yang, Sae-Jun;Kim, Soon-Chul;Nam, Min-Hee
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.7-11
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    • 2004
  • This study was carried out to establish a new breeding scheme which is connected with conventional breeding method and anther culture method. To develop a herbicide resistant and direct seeding rice, $F_1$ plants were subjected to anther culture and regenerated plants from 5 crosses were studied to confirm the introduction of bar gene. After PCR analysis, we selected 227 plants which were carrying herbicide resistance gene (bar) out of 1,508 regenerated plants from anther culture. Among 169 $A_2$ lines carrying herbicide resistant gene from 5 crosses including YR23235 (Dongjin Ds3(Ba $r^{R}$)/ Milyang165), 42 lines that had superior agronomic characters were selected for further research. Among them, YR23235Acp79 which showed herbicide resistance, direct seeding adaptability and superiority in major agronomic characters was named Milyang 204. This breeding scheme proved that the anther culture of $F_1$ plants crossed between transformant and cultivar or transform ant alone could be utilized in breeding programs for a rapid progeny fixation and development of a variety.y.

Efficient Fertile Plant Regeneration from Protoplasts of Javanica Rice and Their Ploidy Determination by Flow Cytometry (Javanica 벼 원형질체로 부터 효율적인 식물체 재분화와 flow cytometry에 의한 ploidy 검정)

  • LEE, Sung-Ho;Lee, Soo In;SHON, Young Goel;GAL, Sang Wan;CHOI, Young Ju;CHO, Moo Je
    • Korean Journal of Plant Tissue Culture
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.81-88
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    • 1998
  • The Southeast Asian javanica rice variety Tinawen was investigated for efficient protoplast culture and plant regeneration from cell suspension-derived protoplasts using a feeder cell culture method. Feeder cells of both Lolium multiflorum and Oryza ridleyi, either alone, or in combination, were employed and plants were regenerated from protoplast-derived colonies on several plant regeneration media. Dehydration of protoplast-derived colonies was also investigated as a means of enhancing plant regeneration. In the presence of L. multiflorum or O. ridleyi feeder cells, the protoplast plating efficiency ranged from 0.09% to 1.48%, depending on the feeder cell type and the age of the cell suspension. L. multiflorum feeder cells induced approximately 6-fold higher plating efficiency compared with those of O. ridleyi. The plant regeneration frequencies were 19.3-31.7% with L. multiflorum, 13.0-18.0% with O. ridleyi and 18.0-22.0% with a mixture of both in various plant regeneration media when protoplast-derived colonies were dehydrated, while for the non-dehydrated colonies, the values were 2.0-7.0%, 3.0-5.0% and 0-4.0%, respectively. Flow cytometric analysis of 34 protoplast-derived plants showed that the majority of plants were diploids and only 2 plants were tetraploids. The plants which were transferred to glasshouse were fertile.

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Production of Azadirachtin from Plant Tissue Culture: State of the Art and Future Prospects

  • Prakash, Gunjan;Bhojwani, Sant S.;Srivastava, Ashok K.
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.185-193
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    • 2002
  • With Increasing awareness towards environment-friendly and non-toxic pesticide azadirachtin obtained from neon tree (Azadirachta indica) is gaining more and more importance. Its broad-spectrum activity, Peculiar mode of action. eco-friendly and non-toxic action towards beneficial organisms has offered many advantages over chemical pesticides. All currently use commercial formulations based on azadirachtin contains azadirachtin extracted from seeds of naturally grown whole plants which is labour intensive process depending upon many uncontrollable geographical and climatic factors. Plant tissue culture can be a potential process for the pro-duction, offering consistent, stable and controlled supply of this bioactive compound, However the research on tissue culture aspects of production are in preliminary stage and requires culture and process optimization for the development of a commercially viable process. This review states the present status and future challenges of plant tissue culture for azadirachtin production.