• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제28권11호
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• pp.1573-1582
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• 2015

This study was to investigate the effect of soyabean isoflavones (SIF) on onset of puberty, serum hormone concentration, and gene expression in hypothalamus, pituitary and ovary of female Bama miniature pigs. Fifty five, 35-days old pigs were randomly assigned into 5 treatment groups consisting of 11 pigs per treatment. Results showed that dietary supplementation of varying dosage (0, 250, 500, and 1,250 mg/kg) of SIF induced puberty delay of the pigs with the age of puberty of pigs fed basal diet supplemented with 1,250 mg/kg SIF was significantly higher (p<0.05) compared to control. Supplementation of SIF or estradiol valerate (EV) reduced (p<0.05) serum gonadotrophin releasing hormone and luteinizing hormone concentration, but increased follicle-stimulating hormone concentration in pigs at 4 months of age. The expression of KiSS-1 metastasis-suppressor (KISS1), steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) and 3-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/delta-5-delta-4 isomerase ($3{\beta}-HSD$) was reduced (p<0.01) in SIF-supplemented groups. Expression of gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor in the pituitary of miniature pigs was reduced (p<0.05) compared to the control when exposed to 250, 1,250 mg/kg SIF and EV. Pigs on 250 mg/kg SIF and EV also showed reduced (p<0.05) expression of cytochrome P450 19A1 compared to the control. Our results indicated that dietary supplementation of SIF induced puberty delay, which may be due to down-regulation of key genes that play vital roles in the synthesis of steroid hormones.

• 농약과학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.121-130
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• 2012

농약의 잔류분석은 일반적으로 기존의 액액분배 추출법(liquid liquid extraction, LLE)이 적용되어 왔으나, 시료 전처리에 많은 유기용매와 분석기구가 사용되고, 분석시간이 길며, 복잡한 분석단계로 인하여 보다 신속하고 효율적인 방법의 개발이 요구되고 있다. 이에 따라 경제적이고 간편한 농약 잔류 분석법을 확립하고자, 기존 분석법과 고체상 분말을 시료에 직접 주입하여 농약성분을 추출, 정제하는 QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe)시료 전처리법을 비교 실험하였다. 엽채소류 중 상추, 참나물 및 취나물을 대상으로 농가에서 많이 사용하고, LC로 분석 가능한 대표적인 농약 6종(boscalid, cyazofamid, dimethomorph, fludioxonil, imidacloprid, pyraclostrobin)을 선정하였다. 두 분석법 모두 검량선의 상관계수($R_2$)는 0.99 이상으로 양호하였고, 검출한계는 imidacloprid는 0.02 mg/kg, 나머지 농약성분들은 0.05 mg/kg 수준이었다. 실험 결과, 액액분배법의 회수율은 92.8-100.9%, RSD는 2.5%이하였고, QuEChERS법의 회수율은 92.2-101.6%, RSD는 1.9%이하였다. Paired t-test를 이용하여 두 분석법 간의 시간에 따른 농약 잔류량을 비교한 결과, p-value는 0.3148-0.9890으로 두 분석법 간의 유의한 차이가 발견되지 않았다. 이 결과들을 볼 때 QuEChERS법은 기존의 액액분배법를 이용한 분석과 비교하여 동등한 회수율 결과를 보였으며, 분석 시간은 기존보다 약 1/4 정도 단축되었다. 또한 추출 과정 중 dichloromethane 등의 유해 유기용매 사용을 배제하여 실험자의 건강보호 및 폐용매의 양을 현저하게 줄일수 있어 친환경적이면서 경제적인 분석법으로 판단되었다.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제42권Spc호
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• pp.20-28
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• 2009

생물비료는 아직도 한국에서는 생소한 용어다. 한국에서 생물비료라 함은 식물추출액, 퇴비류-다양한 형태의 미생물 혼합제 등으로 인식되고 있다. 그러나 최근에는 식물영양요소의 흡수나 이용도를 증진시키는 토양미생물 사용으로 언급하기도 한다. 본 개관은 식물성장을 증진시키는 것으로 알려진 PGPR 서로 다른 기작과 실질적 역할에 대하여 검토하였다.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.350-358
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• 2015

본 연구는 표고의 열처리 방법과 냉동 저장 기간에 따른 이화학적 및 영양학적 특성을 분석하였다. 열수 침지 및 과열 증기로 열처리된 시료를 IQF 처리한 후 함기 및 진공 포장으로 24주 동안 서로 다른 온도에서 냉동 저장하면서 시간에 따른 이화학적 특성을 분석하였다. 색도 분석에서는 열수 침지법이 색변화를 감소시켰고, 함기 포장한 시료와 낮은 온도에서 저장한 시료일수록 밝은 색을 유지하였다. 경도와 pH 측정에서는 과열 증기법이 열수 침지법보다 버섯 특성의 변화가 적게 발생하였으며, 영양학적 측면에서도 과열 증기법이 효율적인 방법이라 판단된다.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.955-961
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 비타민 C 분석법을 검증하고 국내산 고구마 22품종과 조리방법에 따른 고구마의 비타민 C 함량을 분석하였다. 비타민 C 분석법을 검증하기 위해 직선성, 검출한계, 정량한계, 정밀성 및 정확성을 확인하였다. 그 결과 직선성의 상관계수 값이 0.9999이었으며, 검출한계는 $0.03{\mu}g/mL$, 정량한계는 $0.10{\mu}g/mL$, 정밀성의 상대표준편차는 5%이하, 정확성인 회수율은 95% 이상으로 우수하였다. 고구마 품종별 AA, DHA 및 TA 함량은 각각 37.76(신율미)~89.25(주황미), 23.37(신자미)~63.94(신율미) 및 68.52(신자미)~115.95(주황미) mg/100 g 범위로 품종에 따라 큰 차이를 보였다. 고구마의 평균 AA, DHA 및 TA 함량은 각각 $56.98{\pm}12.53$, $36.46{\pm}9.03$ 및 $93.44{\pm}12.00mg/100g$이었으며, 대부분 품종의 AA 함량은 40~70 mg/100 g 범위에, DHA 함량은 20~40 mg/100 g 범위에, TA 함량은 70~90 mg/100 g 범위에 존재하였다. 그리고 육질색 종류에 따른 평균TA 함량은 일반고구마와 주황색고구마가 자색고구마에 비해 유의적으로 높은 것으로 나타났다. Steaming, baking 및 frying 처리에 따른 AA, DHA 및 TA 함량은 조리 처리 후 10.61~58.41, 2.57~52.81 및 14.54~49.92% 범위로 유의적으로 감소하였고, baking 처리가 steaming 및 frying 처리에 비해 함량 감소량이 큰 것으로 나타났다. 고구마의 비타민 C 함량은 품종 및 조리방법에 따라 변이가 큰 것으로 나타났으며, 추후 연구의 기초자료로 활용이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.142-159
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• 1996

Engineering of automated tools for the agro-food industries and the rural world activities have to pick up two challenges : to answer the immediate important problems related to the situation of these industries, and to imaging the tools that their professional will need next century. Creating or modifying automated tools in the next few will be made taking into account parameters either technical (environmental protection, health and safety), or social and economical (investment , employment). There will be a strong interaction with disciplines like ecology, medicine, ergonomy, psycho-sociology , etc. , The partners for such a research, tools manufactures and users, should have an early involvement in its content, in order to find rapidly the solution to the drastic problems they are meeting. On a longer term , during the next 20 years , there will be an important evolution of the rural space management and of the food processes. This will imply the emergence of new types of activities and know-how's , with lines of automated tools to be invented and developed , like : micro-system for organic localized tasks -mobile and adaptive equipments highly autonomous for natural space actions - device for perception , decision and control reproducing automatically the expert behaviors of human operators. Design of such automated tools need to overcome technological difficulties like the automation of the expert-decision process, or the management of complex design.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.390-396
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• 2018

This study investigated the transformation of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in a free-water surface flow constructed wetland. Pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) coupled with preparative high-performance liquid chromatography (prep-HPLC) was used to analyze the compositions of biopolymers (polysaccharides, amino sugars, proteins, polyhydroxy aromatics, lipids and lignin) in DOM according to the molecular size at three sampling points of the water flow: inflow, midflow, and outflow. The prep-HPLC results verified the decomposition of DOM through the decrease in the number of peaks from three to one in the chromatograms of the sampling points. The Py-GC/MS results for the degradable peaks indicated that biopolymers relating to polysaccharides and proteins gradually biodegraded with the water flow. On the other hand, the recalcitrant organic fraction (the remaining peak) in the outflow showed a relatively high concentration of aromatic compounds. Therefore, the ecological processes in the constructed wetland caused DOM to become more aromatic and homogeneous. This indicated that the constructed wetland can be an effective buffer area for releasing biochemically stable DOM, which has less influence on biological water quality indicators, e.g., biochemical oxygen demand, into an aquatic ecosystem.

• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.222-233
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• 2012

The nocturnal low-level jet makes a significant impact on carbon and water exchanges and turbulent mixing processes in the atmospheric boundary layer. This study reports a case study of nocturnal surface fluxes such as $CO_2$ and water vapor in the surface layer observed at a flat and homogeneous site in the presence of low-level jets (LLJs). In particular, it documents the temporal evolution of the overlying jets and the coincident response of surface fluxes. The present study highlights several factors linking the evolution of low-level jets to surface fluxes: 1) wavelet analysis shows that turbulent fluxes have similar time scales with temporal scale of LLJ evolution; 2) turbulent mixing is enhanced during the transition period of low-level jets; and 3) $CO_2$, water vapor and heat show dissimilarity from momentum during the period. We also found that LLJ activity is related not only to turbulent motions but also to the divergence of mean flow. An examination of scalar profiles and turbulence data reveal that LLJs transport $CO_2$ and water vapor by advection in the stable boundary layer, suggesting that surface fluxes obtained from the micrometeorological method such as nocturnal boundary layer budget technique should carefully interpreted in the presence of LLJs.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2021

BACKGROUND: G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are widely distributed in various organisms. Insect GPCRs shown as in vertebrate GPCRs are membrane receptors that coordinate or involve in various physiological processes such as learning/memory, development, locomotion, circadian rhythm, reproduction, etc. This study aimed to identify GPCRs expressed in fat body and compare the expression pattern of GPCRs in different temperature conditions. METHODS AND RESULTS: To identify GPCRs genes and compare their expression in different temperature conditions, total RNAs of fat body in Plutella xylostella larva were extracted and the transcriptomes have been analyzed via next generation sequencing method. From the fat body transcriptomes, genes that belong to GPCR Family A, B, and F were identified such as opsin, gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor, neuropeptide F (NPF) receptor, muthuselah (Mth), diuretic hormone receptor, frizzled, etc. Under low temperature, expressions of GPCRs such as C-C chemokine receptor (CCR), opsin, prolactin-releasing peptide receptor, substance K receptor, Mth-like receptor, diuretic hormone receptor, frizzled and stan were higher than those at 25℃. They are involved in immunity, feeding, movement, odorant recognition, diuresis, and development. In contrast to the control (25℃), at high temperature GPCRs including CCR, gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor, moody, NPF receptor, neuropeptide B1 receptor, frizzled and stan revealed higher expression whose biological functions are related to immunity, blood-brain barrier formation, feeding, learning, and reproduction. CONCLUSION: Transcriptome of fat body can provide understanding the pools of GPCRs. Identifications of fat body GPCRs may contribute to develop new targets for the control of insect pests.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2020

Driving on irregular and inclined roads using agricultural machinery such as spraying machines or trucks in orchards causes farmer casualties associated with the overturning of agricultural machinery. In addition, the harm to agricultural workers caused by the excessive inhalation of the scattered pesticide frequently occurs during pest control processes. To address these problems, we introduced precision agricultural technology that could selectively spray pesticides only where the fruit is present by recognizing the presence or shape of the fruit in the orchard. In this paper, a 16-channel LIDAR (VLP-16) made of Velodyne was used to identify the shape of fruit trees. Solenoid valves were attached to the end parts of 12 nozzles of the orchard spraying machine for on/off control. The smart spraying machine implemented in this way was mounted on a vehicle capable of autonomous travel and performed selective control depending upon the shape of the fruit trees while traveling in the orchards. This is expected to significantly reduce the amounts of pesticides used in orchards and production costs.