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Transfer of Arsenic and Heavy Metals from Soils to Rice Plant under Different Drainage Conditions (논토양 배수조건에 따른 비소 및 중금속의 용출 및 벼 전이특성)

  • Koh, Il-Ha;Kim, Jungeun;Kim, Gi Suk;Ji, Won Hyun
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.12-21
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    • 2017
  • A pot experiment was conducted to investigate the transfer of As and cationic heavy metals (Fe, Mn, Zn, Cd and Pb) from soil to rice plant in soil condition with submerged and drained. During the ninety-day monitoring period for soil solution, solubility of reducible elements such as As, Fe and Mn in submerged condition were higher than that of Zn. On the contrary, concentration of Zn in drained condition was higher than that of reducible elements. The concentration of As, Cd, Pb and Zn in rice plant (root, stem, leaf and grain) showed similar pattern with soil solution. The As concentration in each part of rice plant, which cultivated in drained condition, measured 56%~94% lower than those in submerged condition. However, the contents of cationic heavy metals (Cd, Pb and Zn) were represented the opposite result with As. These results are due to mobility of As and cationic heavy metals under different soil drainage conditions which represent oxidation and reduction. Thus soil drainage control can be used as acceptable passive treatment methods to reduce transfer of inorganic contaminants from soil to rice plant. However more detailed examination on soil condition conversion is needed, because yield of rice was decreased when it cultivated in drained condition only. It also needed when soil is contaminated by As and cationic heavy metal because single drainage condition cannot reduce transfer of both kinds of contaminants all.

Development of An Expert System for Diagnosing Disease of Watermelon Cultivated in Greenhouse (시설 재배 수박 병해 진단을 위한 전문가 시스템의 개발)

  • 이강걸;조성인
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bio-Environment Control Conference
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    • 1993.10a
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    • pp.23-24
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    • 1993
  • 전문가 시스템이란 어떤 분야의 전문가가 가지고 있는 문제해결능력을 컴퓨터 프로그램화한 것이다. 수박에 관하여 풍부한 지식을 가지고 오랜 경험을 쌓은 전문가들은 수박병에 관해 신뢰성 있는 진단을 내리고 적절히 대응할 수 있다. 하지만 일반 농민들은 병해에 대하여 많은 지식을 가지고 있지 못할 뿐만 아니라 해당 지역에 잘 발생하지 않는 병이 발생했을 때 전문가의 도움을 필요로 하는 경우가 많을 것이다. 본 연구에서는 수박을 오랫동안 재배하여 경험과 지식이 풍부한 전문가로부터 수박병 진단을 위한 규칙을 알아내어 수박병 진단을 위한 전문가 시스템(그림 1)을 개발하였다. (중략)

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Proposal of Eco-M Business Model : Specialty Store of Eco-friendly Agricultural Products Joined with Suburban Agriculture

  • Kim, Jong-Baek;Lee, Hyen-Ho;Yang, Hoe-Chang
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.15-21
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    • 2014
  • The main purpose of the research is to suggest a new business model of direct distribution of organic agricultural products cultivated in suburban area. To secure competitiveness, logistics cost reduction is important through direct transaction of organic agricultural products cultivated on suburban area. The research addresses food safety, farmers' income and unemployment issues with Eco-M business model. The research methods include investigation on the followings: current domestic agriculture; related problems on the existing literature reviews; the current status of suburban agriculture; specialty store of eco-friendly agricultural products. Eco-M business model can solve various problems of suburban agriculture supply system, challenges of organic farming specialty stores, unemployment issues, and difficulties of processing verticalization. Future research should include followings. First, there should be comparative analysis between businesses of environment-friendly specialty stores through suburban agriculture and producer's agriculture connected with organic farming market. Second, it is required to develop strategy of environment-friendly specialty stores. Finally, analysis of the potential of Sextic industries is necessary throughout production-process-service process.

Factors Influencing the Adoption of Environment-Friendly Agriculture -With Emphasis on Greenhouse Vegetable Growers of Jeonnam- (친환경농업 채택에 영향을 미치는 요인 -전남지역 시설채소 재배농가를 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Seon-Ae;Lee, Ki-Woong
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.113-134
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of the study is to investigate factors influencing the adoption of environment-friendly agriculture in greenhouse vegetable production of Jeonnam province. An interview survey were conducted during 2008, including six counties: Gwansanku of Gwangju, Gwangyang, Goheung, Damyang, Boseong, and Suncheon. Major crops grown in surveyed area were green peppers, cucumbers, strawberries, cherry tomatoes, tomatoes, and watermelons. Logit model results show that adopters of environment-friendly agriculture are more likely to participate in extensional education programs, attend educational programs on environment-friendly agriculture, have greater cultivated acreage, and have larger agriculture-only-designated farmland. However the adopters are less likely to have greater number of family members participating in farming, and live Goheung county. Efforts should be made in extensional education programs to lead more vegetable growers to adopt environment-friendly agriculture. Policy makers' additional efforts should be followed to increase adoption rate of environment-friendly agriculture in lower adopted areas.

The Concentration of Heavy Metals in Some Agricultural Soils of Central Korea (중금속의 토양 오염: 한국중부지역의 농경지를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Ki-Hyun;Kim, Se-Hyun;Choi, Young-Cheon
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.725-732
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    • 1996
  • To assess soil distribution patterns of heavy metals in agricultural environments, we have measured the concentrations of six metals from surficial soils of three different groups divided on the basis of the surrounding environment: (1) soil group I-cultivated soils within the purely agricultural regions, (2) soil group II-both cultivated and uncultivated soils near various livelihood facilities, and (3) soil group III-mainly cultivated soils near major polluting sources. The mean concentrations for the three soil groups were found in the range as follows: 0.12~0.15 (Cd), 4.94~6.08 (Pb), 0.05~0.11 (Hg), 2.82~3.50 (Cu), 4.69~7.82 (Zn), and 0.36~0.78 (As) ppm. Examination of data distribution trends indicates that the concentrations determined from the relatively unpolluted soil environs (groups I and II) were comparable not only between each other but also with those reported previously in background soil environs of Korea. The concentration data for the soil group III were however found to be much higher than the rest two groups. Unlike the direct comparison of the magnitudes of concentrations, results of a regression analysis exhibited much different patterns: it was seen that the correlation patterns for soil group I were rather analogous to those of soil group III. The similarities in correlation patterns between groups I and III along with the lack of correlations in soil group II suggest that soil characteristics such as whether being cultivated or not are important factors affecting soil distributions of heavy metals.

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Effects of environmental factors on growth and morphology of mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mycoplasma pneumoniae의 성장과 형태에 미치는 환경요소적 영향)

  • Kim, Chi-Kyung
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.131-139
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    • 1978
  • Mycoplasma pneumoniae was examined for growth characteristics and morphology when cultivated in several media supplemented with a variety of sera and under different atmospheric conditions. different formula of the medium as well as different sources of lot numbers of the serum in the same medium exhibited varying effects on growth rate and adherence. When the organisms were cultivated in SSR-2 medium in a normal atmospheric environment or under a facultative anaerobic condition provided with carbon dioxide, they developed filamentous cells with heavy growth, whereas mainly round-shaped cells were produced under strict anaerobic conditions of hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Both morphologies of the organism were transformed by switching the incubation environments. An inverted phasecontrast microscopy using modified petri dishes was excellent to observe single cells and useful to follow the development of the cells. Growth, turbidity, and pneumoniae colonies developed on a solid medium and produced clear when overlaid with sheep blood agar.

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The Spatial-temporal Changes of the Land use/cover in the Dongting lake Area of Central China during the Last Decade

  • Rendong, Li;Hongzhi, Wang;Dafang, Zhuang
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.417-419
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    • 2003
  • Based on the Chinese resource and environment database, and using the Landsat TM and ETM data acquired in 1990 and 2000 respectively, the spatial-temporal characteristics of land use/cover changes in the Dongting lake area of central China was analyzed. The result showed that cultivated land decreased by 0.57% of total cultivated land. Built -up land and water area expanded, with an increase of 8.97% and 0.43% respectively. 94 percent of the cropland decreased was changed into water (mostly to fishpond) and built-up areas. Land-use changed most quickly in cities, and the slowest in the north and east of the study area.

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Occurrence of major diseases in pesticide-free cultivated tomato and cucurbit in Jeollabuk-do, South Korea (전북지역 토마토와 박과류 무농약재배지의 주요 병해 발생 현황)

  • Kim, Ju Hee;Choi, Min Kyung;Moon, Hyung Cheol;Chon, Hyong Gwon
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.486-495
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    • 2020
  • We surveyed disease outbreak status that has recently become a problem in organic tomatoes and cucurbit in plastic greenhouse that were grown without spraying pesticides during the plastic greenhouse growing season of 2015 to 2019. It was found that the incidence of leaf mold, tomato spotted wilt virus, and tomato chlorosis virus disease was severe in tomato, and disease incidence of powdery mildew and zucchini yellow mosaic virus were severe in Cucurbit. The disease outbreak was found to be faster and more severe in crops grown in pesticide-free cultivation plastic greenhouses than in plastic greenhouses that are cultivated in general using pesticides. In particular, the occurrence of viral diseases mediated by thrips and aphids was found to be severely damaged. Therefore, in order to produce good organic products, it is important to effectively control pests, and in order to minimize the damage caused by disease, sanitation and physical blocking, and comprehensively utilize organic materials or microorganisms to prevent them.

Correlations between Soil Environment and Bioactive Constituents of Namdo Garlic Harvested in the Non-volcanic Ash Soil Distributed Western Jeju (제주 서부지역 비화산회토양에서 수확한 남도마늘의 기능성 성분 함량 및 토양환경과의 상관관계 분석)

  • Kim, Ju Sung;Ra, Jong Hwan;Hyun, Hae Nam
    • Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.125-131
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    • 2015
  • In this study, we determined the ingredient analysis of harvested garlic bulb and soil analysis of four garlic-cultivated regions in Jeju, being one of the major areas of Namdo garlic production. Soil pH and electric conductivity were 7.02 and 1.03 dS/m, respectively. Soil organic matter was 4.31%. The mineral elements (potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron, manganese, copper and zinc) of Namdo garlic cultivated soil were analyzed by ICP, and calcium was the most highly contained mineral with $14.67cmol_+/kg$ and in the decreasing order of magnesium ($2.25cmol_+/kg$), potassium ($1.51cmol_+/kg$). Soluble solid and total acidity were 7.60 oBrix and 0.49%, respectively. The mineral contents of garlic bulb were in order of potassium (12,728 ppm) > sulfur (7,778 ppm) > phosphorus (4,916 ppm) > magnesium (691 ppm) > calcium (359 ppm). The content of total phenolic, total flavonoid and reducing sugar were 71.14 mg GAE/100 g, 17.64 mg QE/100 g and 26.53 mg GE/g, respectively. Alliin and allicin were 8.78 mg/g and 2.10 mg/g, respectively. The Pearson's correlation coefficients between mineral contents of soil and garlic bulb are analyzed. Macronutrients of soil is correlated with macronutrients of garlic (positive) and micronutrients of garlic (negative) contents.

Evaluation of Stabilization of Arsenic in Contaminated Soil Taken from Farmland Near Abandoned Metal Mine (폐금속광산 주변 오염 농경지에서 비소의 안정화 효율 평가)

  • Han, Su Ho;Jung, Myung Chae;Kim, Jeong Wook;Yoon, Kyung Wook;Min, Seon Ki;Park, So Yeon;Sim, Ki Tae
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.8-16
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    • 2021
  • This study has evaluated the stabilization of As contaminated paddy and cultivated soils by pot experiments for rice and lettuce. Various ratios of limestone (L) and steel slag (S) were mixed with the soils in each pot. The soils were taken from before and after pot experiments, and analyzed for As extracted by sequentially (Wenzel method) and totally (aqua regia method).. Paddy soils amended with L (0.5%) and L (1.0%) + S (1.0%) showed increasing fraction 2 (specifically bound As) compared with control soil. Arsenic concentrations in rice grain grown on the amended soils decreased 14% and 12% compared with those on the control soil, respectively. According to sequential extraction of As in cultivated soils, the fractions 1~3 were decreased due to stabilization of As by the soil amendment, especially for S (1.0%), S (3.0%) and L (1.0%) + S (1.0%). In addition, relatively low As concentrations were found in lettuce grown on amended soils with L (0.5%) and L (1.0%) + S (1.0%). Therefore, it can be suggested that soil amendments with L (0.5%) or L (1.0%) + S (1.0%) were suitable for enhancing stabilization of As in the study area.