• 한국자원식물학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.214-235
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• 2011

본 연구는 소광리 일대의 관속식물상을 밝히고 주요 식물들의 분포를 조사하였다. 2009년 4월부터 2010년 9월까지 총 10회에 결쳐 조사를 수행하였다. 그 결과 관속식물은 89과 253속 367종 3아종 53변종 7품종의 430분류군이 확인되었다. 그 중 산림청 지정 희귀식물은 11분류군, 특산식물은 13분류군이 조사되었다. 또한 식물구계학적 특정식물종은 54분류군, 국외반출 승인대상 식물에는 19분류군이 조사되었다. 한편 귀화식물은 15분류군으로 확인되었으며, 귀화율은 3.4%로 나타났다. 조사된 430분류군의 유용도는 식용이 176분류군(40.9%), 약용 145분류군(33.7%), 목초용 114분류군(26.5%), 관상용 63분류군(14.6%), 목재용 15분류군(3.4%), 섬유용 11분류군(2.5%) 그리고 공업용이 4분류군(0.9%)으로 나타났다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제30권11호
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• pp.891-905
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• 2021

The aim of this study was to investigate the plants in Yongjibong Natural Recreation Forest before construction, to provide basic data that can be used for various purposes. The survey was conducted on the planned recreational forest sites from June to September 2020. The numbers of flora are summarized as follows: 348 taxa, 95 families, 234 genera, 308 species, three subspecies, 30 varieties, and seven forma. The Korean endemic plants were of nine taxa, including Fagus engleriana, Celtis choseniana, and Broussonetia x kazinoki. The rare plants were of six taxa, including Juniperus chinensis var. sargentii, Hylotelephium ussuriense, Thuja orientalis, and F. engleriana; however, Juniperus chinensis var. sargentii, H. ussuriense, T. orientalis, and Iris ensata var. spontanea were planted species. The floristic regional indicator plants (unique plants) found in this survey area were of 33 taxa, comprising three taxa of grade V, four taxa of grade IV, nine taxa of grade III, four taxa of grade II, and 13 taxa of grade I. The naturalized plants were of 26 taxa, including Rumex crispus, Phytolacca americana, and P. esculenta. Among the naturalized plants, it is necessary to prevent the spread of Ambrosia trifida, Bidens frondosa, and Tagetes minuta through continuous monitoring.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.1765-1771
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• 2007

A polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based method was developed to detect the DNA of Ralstonia solanacearum, the causal agent of bacterial wilt in various crop plants. One pair of primers (RALSF and RALSR), designed using cytochrome c1 signal peptide sequences specific to R. solanacearum, produced a PCR product of 932 bp from 13 isolates of R. solanacearum from several countries. The primer specificity was then tested using DNA from 21 isolates of Ralstonia, Pseudomonas, Burkholderia, Xanthomonas, and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. dianthi. The specificity of the cytochrome c1 signal peptide sequences in R. solanacearum was further confirmed by a DNA-dot blot analysis. Moreover, the primer pair was able to detect the pathogen in artificially inoculated soil and tomato plants. Therefore, the present results indicate that the primer pair can be effectively used for the detection of R. solanacearum in soil and host plants.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.77-83
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• 1993

Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) has been known to have peripheral actions as well as central actions. Recently physiological roles of 5-HT as a central neurotransmitter have been studied in detail and this is a subject of the present study. Plausible central actions mediated by 5-HT receptor seem to be a control of appetite, bring about psychiatric disorders such as anxiety or dementia, and migraine headache. In this study, thirty-five medicinal plants were tested for their antagonistic activities to 5-HT mediated actions. Through the preliminary screening, methanol extracts of three medicinal plants (Saussureae Radix, Sanguisorbae Radix and Xanthii Fructus) were shown to possess relatively specific antagonistic activities to 5-HT mediated ileal contraction over acetylcholine. To luther investigate the central antagonistic activities of the selected plant in vivo, m-chlorophenylpiperazine (mCPP) which is known to be a 5-H $T_{1c}$ receptor agonist was injected to mouse to induce an anxious and/or hypolocomotion states, and also social interaction test, which was based on the method described by File (S.E. File, 1980), was performed to see whether ethylacetate fraction of Sanguisorbae Radix methanol extract possessed a specific anxiolytic activity.y.

• 원예과학기술지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.323-332
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• 2017

Homology-specific transcriptional and post-transcriptional silencing, an intrinsic mechanism of gene regulation in most eukaryotes, can be induced by anti-sense, co-suppression, or hairpin-based double-stranded RNA. Hairpin-based RNA interference (RNAi) has been applied to analyze gene function and genetically modify crops. However, RNAi vector construction usually requires high-cost cloning steps and large amounts of time, or involves methods that are protected by intellectual property rights. We describe a more effective method for generating intron-spliced RNAi constructs. To produce intron-spliced hairpin RNA, an RNAi cassette was ligated with the first intron and splicing sequences of the Brassica rapa ssp. pekinensis histone deacetylase 1 gene. This method requires a single ligation of the PCR-amplified target gene to SpeI-NcoI and SacI-BglII enzyme sites to create a gene-specific silencing construct. We named the resulting binary vector system pKHi and verified its functionality by constructing a vector to silence DIHYDROFLAVONOL 4-REDUCTASE (DFR), transforming it into tobacco plants, and confirming DFR gene-silencing via PCR, RT-qPCR, and analysis of the accumulation of small interfering RNAs. Reduction of anthocyanin biosynthesis was also confirmed by analyzing flower color of the transgenic tobacco plants. This study demonstrates that small interfering RNAs generated through the pKHi vector system can efficiently silence target genes and could be used in developing genetically modified crops.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.338-343
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• 2013

A detection system based on a multiplex reverse transcription (RT) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was developed to simultaneously identify multiple viruses in the lily plant. The most common viruses infecting lily plants are the cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), lily mottle virus (LMoV), lily symptomless virus (LSV). Leaf samples were collected at lily-cultivation facilities located in the Kangwon province of Korea and used to evaluate the detection system. Simplex and multiplex RT-PCR were performed using virus-specific primers to detect single- or mixed viral infections in lily plants. Our results demonstrate the selective detection of 3 different viruses (CMV, LMoV and LSV) by using specific primers as well as the potential of simultaneously detecting 2 or 3 different viruses in lily plants with mixed infections. Three sets of primers for each target virus, and one set of internal control primers were used to evaluate the detection system for efficiency, reliability, and reproducibility.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.1.1-11
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• 1992

To find heavy metal-specific effects on the photosynthetic apparatus of higher plants, we investigated effects of $CuCl_2$, HgCl_2$ and $ZnCl_2$ on electron transport activity and chlorophyll fluorescence induction kinetics of chloroplasts isolated from barley seedlings. Effects on some related processes such as germination, growth and photosynthetic pigments of the test plants were also studied. Germination and growth rate were inhibited in a concentration-dependent manner by these metals. Mercury was shown to be the most potent inhibitor of germination, growth and biosynthesis of photosynthetic pigments of barley plants. In the inhibition of electron transport activity, quantum yield of PS II, and chlorophyll fluorescence induction kinetics of chloroplasts isolated from barley seedlings, mercury chloride showed more pronounced effects than other two metals. Contrary to the effects of other two metals, mercury chloride increased variable fluorescence significantly and abolished qE in the fluorescence induction kinetics from broken chloroplasts of barley seedlings. This increase in variable fluorescence is due to the inhibition of the electron transport chain after PS ll and the following dark reactions. The inhibition of qE could be attributed to the interruption of pH formation and do-epoxidation of violaxathin to zeaxanthin in thylakoids by mercury. This unique effect of mercury on chlorophyll fluorescence induction pattern could be used as a good indicator for testing the presence and/or the concentration of mercury in the samples contaminated with heavy metals.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.89-93
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• 1998

Tomato phenylalanine ammonia-lyase 5 (tPAL5) was identified that alternate initiation sites were utilized differentially in response to environmental stimuli (Lee et al, 1992b). In this study, we tried to look into tissue -or cell- specific expression pattern of tPAL5 gene by fusing with ${\beta}-glucuronidase$ (GUS) gene in transgenic tobacco plants. In transgenic plants, root and stem extracts contained 8~12 fold higher levels of GUS activity than petiole or leaf tissue while the highest levels of induction was observed from leaf tissue by mechanical wounding (5~11 fold). In trans-sections of stems and petioles, GUS activity was restricted to phloem cells(outer region) of developing vascular bundle and mainly at apical tip region in the root tissues. The levels of GUS activity was drastically reduced (10~12 fold reduction) when the 5'-upstream region of tPAL5 gene (-1151bp from ATG codon) was deleted up to -665. The levels of GUS expression, however, raised up by 6~8 fold when deleted up to -455. Therefore, we conclude that there are positive cis-elements at the region -1151 to -1008 and at -455 to -195 while the negative cis-element is at -1008 to -455.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.1003-1015
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• 2022

The new methodologies to derive discharge limits considering operational flexibility according to international safety standards were developed to help reduce the environmental releases of radioactive effluents from nuclear power plants (NPPs). To overcome the limitations of the two existing methods to set up discharge limits assuming a specific statistical distribution of the effluent discharge, two modified equations were newly proposed to directly derive a particular discharge limits corresponding to the target 'compliance probability' based on the actual annual discharge data for a specific NPP and radionuclide groups. By applying these to the actual yearly discharge data of 14 Korean NPPs for 7 radionuclide groups for the past 20 years, the applicability of two new methodologies to actual cases was demonstrated. The 'characteristic value' with approximately a 90% compliance probability for each Korean NPP and radionuclide group was proposed based on the results. The new approaches for setting up the discharge limits and the characteristic values developed in this study are expected to be effectively utilized to foster operator's efforts to progressively reduce the environmental releases of radioactive effluents of NPPs relative to the previous discharge data considering operational flexibilities.

• 원예과학기술지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.594-598
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• 2000

본 실험은 형질전환 담배내에서의 배유 특이 promoter에 의한 gus 유전자의 조직 특이적 발현 여부와 전이유전자의 후대로의 유전 양상을 확인하고자 수행하였다. 배유 특이 promoter에 의해 유도되는 gus 유전자(Z4pro-gus)와 kanamycin 저항성유전자를 운반하는 BV3 construct를 A. tumerfaciens을 이용하여 담배 형질전환체를 유기시켰다. 형질전환체 중에서 8개체를 선발하여 nptII primer를 이용하여 PCR을 실시한 결과 8개체 모두에서 700bp의 PCR 산물을 얻을 수 있었다. Promoter에 따른 유전자의 발현양상을 알아보기 위하여 Z4pro-gus가 전이된 형질전환체의 잎과 CaMV35S와 gus 유전자(35Spro-gus)로 구성된 pBI121 construct를 전이시킨 형질전환체의 잎으로부터의 발색정도를 비교하였다. 그 결과 Z4pro-gus가 전이된 형질전환체의 경우 잎에서 매우 부분적으로 극소량 발색되었으나 35Spro-gus가 전이된 형질전환체의 잎에서는 상대적으로 많은 양의 발색정도를 보여 promoter에 따른 발현정도의 차이를 보였다. 보다 명확한 Z4 promoter의 조직 특이 발현 양상을 확인하기 위하여 Z4pro-gus로 형질전환시킨 $T_0$ 식물체를 자가수분하여 얻은 $R_1$ 종자와 35Spro-gus를 형질전환시켜 같은 방법으로 얻은 $R_1$ 종자를 histochemical assay하였다. 그 결과 35Spro-gus로 형질전환된 담배 종자는 절단면 전체에서 gus 유전자가 발현되어 배유뿐만 아니라 종자 내 다른 조직에서도 발색되는 양상을 나타내었으나 Z4pro-gus를 형질전환 시켜 얻은 종자의 경우는 배유 부분만이 조직 특이적으로 파랗게 발색되었고 배 또는 그 이외의 조직에서는 gus 발색이 전혀 관찰되지 않았다. Kanamycin 저항성검정을 실시한 결과 모든 계통에서 전이유전자가 후대로 안정적으로 전이됨을 확인할 수 있었다.