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Detection of Cellulolytic Activity in Ophiostoma and Leptographium species by Chromogenic Reaction

  • Hyun, Min-Woo;Yoon, Ji-Hwan;Park, Wook-Ha;Kim, Seong-Hwan
    • Mycobiology
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.108-110
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    • 2006
  • To understand the ability of producing cellulolytic enzyme activity in the sapstaining fungi, four species of Ophiostoma and two species of Leptographium were investigated in the culture media containing each of cellulose substrates such as CM-cellulose, Avicel and D-cellobiose and each of chromogenic dyes such as Congo-Red, Phenol Red, Remazol Brilliant Blue and Tryphan Blue. When the fungi were grown for $5{\sim}7$ days at $25^{\circ}C$, the formation of clear zone by chromogenic reaction around the margin of the fungal colony was demonstrated in all the culture media Congo-Red containing CM-cellulose. There was difference in the formation of clear zone among the dyes. Only Ophiostoma setosum and Leptographium spp. showed cellulolytic activity to the three substrates. Overall, the results of this study show that ophiostomatoid sapstaining fungi can produce cellulolytic enzymes.

Inheritance of Diterpenes in Nicotiana tabacum L. (연초(Nicotiana tabacum L.)의 Diterpene류의 유전)

  • 금완수;정윤화;조명조
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.40 no.5
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    • pp.644-648
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    • 1995
  • This study was conducted to determine the inheritance of duvatrienediol(DVTs) and cis-abienol concentration from flesh tobacco leaves. NC744, which has a very low levels of DVTs and no cis-abienol was used as a parent in cross to TI 1068 producing a normal amount of DVTs and cis-abienol. Presence of DVTs and cis-abienol on the leaf surface was determined using thin layer chromatography(TLC). Segregation pattern from F$_2$ and BC$_2$[ (TI 1068 $\times$ NC744) $\times$ NC744J generations revealed that TI 1068 have a single dominant gene controlling DVTs and cis-abienol production. And DVTs production was inherited independently of the ability to produce cis-abienol.

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Engineering Students' Everyday Creativity and Directions of Creativity Education (공과대학생의 일상적 창의성과 창의성 교육의 방향)

  • Hwang, Soonhee;Yun, Kyung-Mi
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.40-50
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to explore characteristics of engineering students' everyday creativity compared with those of undergraduate students. For this, we investigated whether there were differences in undergraduates' everyday creativity according to majors, gender and grade. Everyday creativity can be defined as thinking and activities producing useful and suitable personal products, and to solve problems in a new and unique ways. Thus everyday creativity is reported to be universal ability creative people can express in their everyday life. Eight hundred and fifty seven students from three universities in three Korean regions responded to Everyday Creativity Scale. Our findings show that firstly, there were significant differences in undergraduates' everyday creativity by majors and gender. Whereas there were no differences in the same survey by grade. Engineering students obtained significantly lower score of everyday creativity as well as its sub-scales. Also, there were significant differences in everyday creativity's sub-factors by gender. Based on these findings, practical implications for creativity education are discussed with particular attention to learner's individual variables.

Extracellular Enzyme Activities of the Monokaryotic Strains Generated from Basidiospores of Shiitake Mushroom

  • Kwon, Hyuk-Woo;Back, In-Joung;Ko, Han-Gyu;You, Chang-Hyun;Kim, Seong-Hwan
    • Mycobiology
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.74-76
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    • 2008
  • To obtain basic information on the biochemical property of basidiospores of shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes), the ability of producing extracellular enzyme was assessed using a chromogenic plate-based assay. For the aim, amylase, avicelase, $\beta$-glucosidase, CM-cellulase, pectinase, proteinase, and xylanase were tested against monokaryotic strains generated from forty basidiospores of two different parental dikaryotic strains of shiitake mushroom, Sanjo-101Ho and Sanjo-108Ho. These two parental strains showed different degree of extracellular enzyme activity. No identical patterns of the degree of enzyme activity were observed between monokaryotic strains and parental strains of the two shiitake cultivars. The degree of extracellular enzyme activity also varied among monokaryotic strains of the two shiitake cultivars. Our results showed that dikaryotic parental strains of shiitake mushroom produce monokaryotic basidiospores having very diverse biochemical properties.

Studies on the Production of Enzymes by Thermophilic Actinomycetes Part I. Isolation and Culture Conditions of Thermostable $\alpha$-Amylase Producing Actinomycete (고온성 방선균에 의한 효소생산에 관한 연구 제 1보 $\alpha$-Amylase생산균의 분이 및 효소생산 조건)

  • 양한철;금범환;최용진
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.73-82
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    • 1975
  • In the course of studies on the production of thermostable amylases by thermophilic actinomycetes isolated from soils the investigation was carried out on the production of $\alpha$-amylase by G-1011 strain which had presented the most remarkable $\alpha$-amylase formation ability among 128 amylolytic isolates. The results were as follows : 1. Characteristics of G-1011 strain were compared with those descriptions of thermophilic actinomycetes given in Bergey's Manual. The strain was identical to these species of actinomycetes. The details of physiological properties of the strain luould he published in near future. 2. The optimum temperature for incubation of the cell growth of G-1011 strain and $\alpha$-amylase production by the strain was revealed to 5$0^{\circ}C$. 3. The effective medium for $\alpha$-amylase formation by the strain was consisted of 3.0%, soluble starch, 1.0%, peptone, 0.5%, yeast extract, 0.5%, NaCl, 0.1%, MgSO$_4$ㆍ7$H_2O$ 0.02%, $K_2$MPO$_4$and 0.002% FeSO$_4$ㆍ7$H_2O$. The pH of the medium was ajusted to 7.0 with phosphate buffer solution. 4. The maximum production of $\alpha$-amylase (3420 D. U/ml) by G-1011 strain resulted when it was grown for 16 hours with the culture of reciprocal shaking.

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Mechanism Used by White-Rot Fungus to Degrade Lignin and Toxic Chemicals

  • Chung, Nam-Hyun;Lee, Il-Seok;Song, Hee-Sang;Bang, Won-Gi
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.737-752
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    • 2000
  • Wood-rotting basidiomycetous fungi are the most efficient degraders of lignin on earth. The white-rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium has been used as a model microorganism in the study of enzymology and its application. Because of the ability of the white-rot fungus to degrade lignin, which has an irregular structure and large molecular mass, this fungus has also been studied in relation to degrading and mineralizing many environmental pollutants. The fungus includes an array of enzymes, such as lignin peroxidase (LiP), manganese-dependent peroxidase (MnP), cellobiose:quinone oxidoreductase, and $H_2O_2$-producing enzymes and also produces many other components of the ligninolytic system, such as veratryl alcohol (VA) and oxalate. In addition, the fungus has mechanisms for the reduction of degradation intermediates. The ligninolytic systems have been proved to provide reductive reactions as well as oxidative reactions, both of which are essential for the degradation of lignin and organopollutants. Further study on the white-rot fungus may provide many tools to both utilize lignin, the most abundant aromatic polymer, and bioremediate many recalcitrant organopollutants.

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Biodegradation of 2,4,5-Trichlorophenol Using Cell-Free Culture Broths of Phanerochaete chrysosporium

  • Choi, Sueh-Yung;Moon, Seung-Hyeon;Lee, Jae-Suk;Gu, Man-Bock
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.759-763
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    • 2000
  • Cell-free culture broth of Phanerochaete chrysosporium has been adopted to biologically degrade 2,4,5-trichlorophenol. Two different medium compositions of nitrogen-sufficient and nitrogen-limited were compared for their distribution of isozymes, activity of lignin peroxidase, and production of oxalate. The two different culture broths were tested for their ability to degrade 2,4,5-trichlorophenol, and the biodegradation efficiency was estimated in terms of the disappearance of 2,4,5-trichlorophenol. The degradation efficiency for the nitrogen-limited culture broth was higher than that of the nitrogen-sufficient culture broth, since the nitrogen-limited culture broth induced lignin peroxidases (LiPs) and manganese peroxidases (MnPs), and contained sufficient oxalate for producing necessary radicals. Finally, the possible mechanism of 2,4,5-CP degradation using the nitrogen-limited culture broth was proposed.

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Korean Speaker's Edge Tone Patterns of English Conjunctive Utterances (한국인 학습자의 영어 접속사 발화에 나타난 가장자리성조 패턴)

  • Lee, Joo-Kyeong
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.141-152
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    • 2005
  • This paper shows the tonal patterns of English conjunctive utterances produced by Korean speakers of English, presenting that Korean speakers realize either the H - phrase tone or the H% boundary tone at the phrase-final part of the conjunctive utterances. Based on Pierrehumbert & Hirschberg's (1990) claim that either H- or H% tone indicates that a phrase is related to the following one, Korean speakers seem to produce the satisfactory patterns of edge tones in conjunctive sentences. In the experiment, we made up conjunctive sentences including both coordinate conjunctions such as and, but, or, and so and subordinate conjunctions like if, when and though. We varied the stimuli according to the existence of a comma and the lengths of connecting words and phrases. We also divided the subjects into two levels of English proficiency based on their English written test scores to see if Korean speakers' performance ability of edge tones is related with their general competence of English. Results show that Korean speakers produced 84% of the H- phrase tone in intermediate phrases and H-L% and L-H% boundary tones in intonational phrases. Also, coordinate and subordinate conjunctions show little difference in their tonal contours, and the existence of a comma or the lengths of connecting words and phrases do not affect Korean speakers' production of the H- phrasal tone and the H% boundary tone. This may suggest that pitch accents, rather than edge tones, should be put more focus on in teaching English intonation in Korea as much work has already shown that Korean speakers have serious problem with producing pitch accents in speaking English.

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Plant Growth Promotion and Antagonistic Activities Against Anthracnose of Burkholderia sp. LPN-2 Strain

  • Kim, WonChan;Seo, SangHyun;Lee, ChangHee;Park, JunHong;Kang, SangJae
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.251-258
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    • 2016
  • A rhizobacterium LPN-2, which showed strong antifungal activity and auxin producing ability, was isolated from a farmland in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Based on analysis of the 16S rDNA sequence, strain LPN-2 was identified as a novel strain of Burkholderia and was designated as Burkholderia sp. LPN-2. In vitro experiments showed that the isolated stain LPN-2 significantly produced auxin within 48 hr incubation. In order to check for PGPR function we performed in vivo growth promoting test in different crops, including mung bean, pea and cabbage. Application of Burkholderia sp. LPN-2 showed dramatic growth promoting effect on all the tested plants. We also confirmed siderophore and cellulase productions by Burkholderia sp. LPN-2 using CAS blue agar and CMC plate test. Further treatment with LPN-2 and the crude culture broth was effective in suppressing anthracnose in vitro test and also reduced incidence and severity of anthracnose in apple and pepper. Taken together, we conclude that Burkholderia sp. LPN-2 might be used as organic fertilizer for effective crop production in organic farming.

An Analysis Study on Desuperheater valve attachment on Multi Water Spray Nozzles (다중 물 분사 노즐이 장착된 감온밸브의 해석 연구)

  • Lee, Deok-Gu;Cho, Haeng-Hoon;Cho, Nam-Cheol;Lee, Chae-Moon
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.74-79
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    • 2009
  • The generation of electric power and plant facilities have been attempting to improve energy efficiency with many efforts as those being basis of our country's economy. In particular, the CHP(Combined Heat Power plant) system, is producing the electricity and process steam, has generally been using for the cogeneration plants. When CHP system operates, the steam has to maintain the high temperature and high pressure in order to have high efficiency of electric power production as much as possible. In addition, the exhausted steam from the turbine has to reform proper temperature to use the needed process. The major purpose of desuperheater is that the superheated steam changes into the saturated steam because it is more efficient and suitable for using the process, furthermore, it is more convenient and stable regarding the process temperature control. The design of the desuperheater obtained through the experiment and preceding analysis. This paper is verified by analysis that water spray nozzle(${\Phi}$=28mm) shows the best ability under the real power plant condition.

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