• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• v.52 no.2
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• pp.174-178
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• 2002

Primary pulmonary amyloidosis is a rare condition that can be classified into the tracheobronchial, diffuse alveolar septal, and nodular parenchymal type. Tracheobronchial amyloidosis is characterized by deposition of fibrilar proteins in the tracheobronchial tree, and it can be subdivided into diffuse and focal varieties. In this report, a case of diffuse tracheobronchial amyloidosis confirmed by flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopic biopsy is presented. The patient was a 43-year old male with a chief complaint of cough and sputum for 20 days and dyspnea for one day. The chest CT scan showed diffusely thickened walls of both the main and lobar bronchi with calcification. The bronchoscopic findings showed nodular lesions of the trachea, a diffuse bronchial stenosis of both the main bronchi and a pinpoint narrowing of the left upper and right middle lobar bronchus. The biopsy showed submucosal deposits of homogenous eosinophilic amyloid materials and an apple-green birefringence under polarizing microscopy following the Congo-red stain.

• Research in Plant Disease
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.89-92
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• 2005

In 2004, average temperature was higher, and rainfall was less than those of previous year, The diseases of rice, barley, pepper, chinese melon, apple and oriental pear were surveyed. Seedling diseases, leaf blast, sheath blight and bacterial blight of rice, phytophthova blight, virus diseases and anthracnose of pepper, and sudden wilt syndrome and powdery mildew of chinese melon grown in plastic greenhouse were severe. Especially, sheath blight and bacterial blight of rice occurred two times higher than those of previous year, Panicle blight of rice decreased about 4 times, compared with the previous year, presumed that the lower rainy days, rainfall and RH suppressed spread of the fungal pathogens to panicles of rice. Lower rainfall during mid- and late Aug caused three-times less occurrence of phytophtora blight of red-pepper than that of the previous year, Another diseases surveyed occurred similar or less than those of the previous year.

• Research in Plant Disease
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2002

Climate in the year of 2001 could be summarized as severe drought from March to May, unusually high temperature in whole plant growth periods and clear weather condition especially in harvesting time of September and October without any typoons. In rice, major diseases such as leaf and panicle blast, bacterial blight, sheath blight and bacterial grain rot developed little due to unfavorable weather conditions, however, brown spot occurred severely due partly to the reduced use of N-fertilizer, Rice stripe virus infection was unusually high mainly in the west coast areas with four times more diseaseD area campared to the previous year, In pepper phytophthora blight was extremely severe in Cheonnam and Cheonbuk provinces, where had frequent rainfalls during growing period. Incidence of major diseases of tomato and cucumber in 2001 was relatively mild. In watermelon, penicillium fruit rot, one of the peculiar disease, spread over major production areas, whereas CGMMV, usually severe in every years was much reduced. Watermelon plants growing in open-fields were more severely diseased than those in plastic houses. Major diseases of chinese melon and strawberry occurred slightly and in particular, sudden wilt syndrome of chinese melon which was severe in 2000 showed mild infections in 2001. Incidence of white rot of garlic and onion was much lower unlike other years due mainly to spring drought and high temperature in the growing period. Infected area of potato bacterial wilt tended to increase in 2001 while fusarium wilt of sweetpotato was decreased. Apple diseases were generally mild, but powdery mildew of pear increased sharply. Barley scab was not severe as seen in other years.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Plant Pathology Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.134.1-134
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• 2003

Aecial host ranges of four Gymnosporangium species causing cedar-apple rust diseases, G. asiaticum, G. cornutum, 5. japonicum and G. yamadae, were investigated through artificial inoculation. Thirteen species of nine genera among Rosaceous plants, which have been reported as social hosts in Korea, were inoculated with fresh teliospores spores in early days of May of 2000 and of 2001, respectively. In the results, we re-confirmed that there was highly specific relationship between the rust species and aecial hosts and report new aecial hosts of four Gymnosporangium species. Teliospores of G. cornutum collected from Juniperus rigida successively produced spermogonia and aecia only on Sorbus alntifolia, the first report on host alteration of G. cornutum in Korea. Positive responses by teliospores of G. japonicum from J. chinenis of Suwon and from J. chinenis var. horizontalis of Jeju island were obtained only on P. villosa. Crataegus pinnatifida was confirmed as a new aecial host of G. viatium. Until this time, G. ymadae was believed to have Malus as the aecial host. However, teliospores of G. yamadae collected from J. chinensis var. kaizuka successively formed spermogonia and aecia on the leaves of Chaenomeles lagenaria, C. sinensis, Pyrus pyrtifolia var, culta, P. ussuriensis, Malus pumila and M. sileboldii. The date for maturation of spermogonia and aecia, and symptom development varied according to the rust fungi and aecial host plants, respectively.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.97-102
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• 2007

A total of 39 essential oils were tested for antifungal activities as volatile compounds against five phytopathogenic fungi at a dose of 1 ${\mu}l$ per plate. Five essential oils showed inhibitory activities against mycelial growth of at least one phytopathogenic fungus. Origanum vulgare essential oil inhibited mycelial growth of all of the five fungi tested. Both Cuminum cyminum and Eucalyptus citriodora oils displayed in vitro antifungal activities against four phytopathogenic fungi except for Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. The essential oil of Thymus vulgaris suppressed the mycelial growth of C. gloeosporioides, Fusarium oxysporum and Rhizoctonia solani and that of Cymbopogon citratus was active to only F. oxysporum. The chemical compositions of the five active essential oils were determined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. This study suggests that both E. citriodora and C. cyminum oils have a potential as antifungal preservatives for the control of storage diseases of various crops.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.233-238
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• 2017

Automatic identification of disease in plants from their leaves is one of the most challenging task to researchers. Diseases among plants degrade their performance and results into a huge reduction of agricultural products. Therefore, early and accurate diagnosis of such disease is of the utmost importance. The advancement in deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has change the way of processing images as compared to traditional image processing techniques. Deep learning architectures are composed of multiple processing layers that learn the representations of data with multiple levels of abstraction. Therefore, proved highly effective in comparison to many state-of-the-art works. In this paper, we present a plant disease identification methodology from their leaves using deep CNNs. For this, we have adopted GoogLeNet that is considered a powerful architecture of deep learning to identify the disease types. Transfer learning has been used to fine tune the pre-trained model. An accuracy of 85.04% has been recorded in the identification of four disease class in Apple plant leaves. Finally, a comparison with other models has been performed to show the effectiveness of the approach.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.235-255
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• 1996

Natural substances, exploited in our daily life, have been applied to drugs to treat diseases and developed to functional foods by appropriate preparations, and these foods give beneficial effects on physical activities. In this paper, the utilization of traditional functional foods was studied with refer ring to old ancient writings published in the front-end of Chosun dynasty. The utilized vegetables were march mallow, turnip, radish, Chinese cabbage, lettuce, spinach, cucumber winter buds, flesh of a cabbage, eggplant, taro, burdock, Parsley, watershield plant, crown daisy, bamboo shoots, garlic, scallion, onion, acorn, bark of a tree, white goosefoot leaf, leaf of bean, pine mushroom, bracken. yam, mugwort, tea, ginseng, peppermint, fruit of the Maximowiczia chinensis, smartweed and pepper. The utilized fruits were chestnut, Chinese date, pine nuts, walnut, gingko nut, citrus. crab apple, pear, peach, grape, pomegranate, plum, Chinese quince, fig and watermelon. The utilized cereal were rice, barley, bean, buckweat and Job's-tears. The utilized sweetenings and seasonings were honey, wheat-gluten, sugar, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar. Our ancestors had a balanced diet using the various foods, and especially had a fundamental concept of "Foods have the efficacy of a remedy".edy".uot;.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.280-285
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• 2010

In the course of a searching natural antifungal compounds from plant sources, we found that the methanol extract ($3,000\;{\mu}g/ml$) of Malus domestica fruits had potential of control against rice blast (Magnaporthe grisea) and tomato late blight (Phytophthora infestans). Under bioassay-guided purification, we isolated phloretin, a phenolic compound, with in vivo antifungal activity against M. grisea. By 1-day protective application of phloretin ($500\;{\mu}g/ml$), the compound strongly inhibited the disease development of M. grisea and P. infestans on rice and tomato seedlings, respectively. And red pepper anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum coccodes also was moderately suppressed. However, rice sheath blight (Rhizoctonia solani AG1), and barley powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei) were hardly controlled. In addition, the compound showed in vitro antifungal activity against some plant pathogenic fungi including Phytophthora capsici, Alternaria panax, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, R. solani AG4, and M. grisea. This is the first report on the antifungal activity of phloretin against plant pathogenic fungi.

• Research in Plant Disease
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2004

The year of 2003 was characterized as a cool humid year. Low temperature and frequent rains were continued during March to July, resulting in 1.6 times higher rainfalls and 32％ less sunshine period compared to the average yean Due to 2003's climatic condition, rice blast, and bacterial leaf blight occurred severely. Higher rainfalls caused severe epidemic of phytophthora disease and, in case of red-pepper, 55％ of cultivation acreage was devastated by the disease over the country. Besides, crop diseases which become severe under cool-humid conditions, such as gray mold, sclerotinia rot, downy mildew, increased significantly compared to the previous year. In fruit trees, brown spot of apple, and pear scab occurred severely causing much yield loss.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.118-124
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• 2019

There is a strong connection between the diet rich in antioxidants and the decreased incidence of cardiovascular and cancerous diseases. Diets that are rich in anti-oxidants particularly include fruits and vegetables containing the high amounts of vitamin A-E, carotenoids, and minerals. Different processing conditions applied for vegetables and plants results in the alteration of the nutrients present in them. Therefore the rationale of our study was to compare the antioxidant effects of different processed vegetables and plants and to see that which one of them showed best anti-oxidant activity. For this purpose, we have used acetaminophen induced oxidative stress model in mice to check the effects of processed apple, pear, carrot, cabbage, broccoli and radish. Our results have shown that the administration of these samples effectively decreased the expression of parameters related with oxidative stress like ALT, AST, catalase, superoxide dismutase, GPx and 8-OHdG. Moreover they also significantly protected the mice livers from APAP induced damage as shown by histological changes. Therefore our results have demonstrated the effects of processed fruits and vegetables in mice model of oxidative stress.