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Wheat Blast: A New Fungal Inhabitant to Bangladesh Threatening World Wheat Production

  • Sadat, Md. Abu;Choi, Jaehyuk
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.103-108
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    • 2017
  • World wheat production is now under threat due to the wheat blast outbreak in Bangladesh in early March 2016. This is a new disease in this area, indicating the higher possibility of this pathogen spreading throughout the Asia, the world's largest wheat producing area. Occurrence of this disease caused ~3.5% reduction of the total wheat fields in Bangladesh. Its economic effect on the Bangladesh wheat market was little because wheat contributes to 3% of total cereal consumption, among which ~70% have been imported from other countries. However, as a long-term perspective, much greater losses will occur once this disease spreads to other major wheat producing areas of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan due to the existing favorable condition for the blast pathogen. The wheat blast pathogen belongs to the Magnaporthe oryzae species complex causing blast disease on multiple hosts in the Poaceae family. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the Bangladesh outbreak strains and the Brazil outbreak strains were the same phylogenetic lineage, suggesting that they might be migrated from Brazil to Bangladesh during the seed import. To protect wheat production of Bangladesh and its neighbors, several measures including rigorous testing of seed health, use of chemicals, crop rotation, reinforcement of quarantine procedures, and increased field monitoring should be implemented. Development of blast resistant wheat varieties should be a long-term solution and combination of different methods with partial resistant lines may suppress this disease for some time.

Puritan Values as 'Force Behind' in Mourning Becomes Electra

  • Yang, Seung-Joo
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.79-96
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    • 2005
  • Eugene O'Neill portrays Puritan values of the Mannon family inherited from their family past. Since Puritan values of the Mannons suppress the normal way of life and love, they retain only rigidity, without the charity which is the core element of the teaching of Christianity. With Puritan repression and its dissociation from the vital spring of life, the Puritan Mannons live in a world drained of life and in a world of hypocrisy between outer beauty and inner ugliness. Ironically, they think more of death itself, neglecting to feel the vitality of life. Working as a fate, Puritan values of the Mannon as 'Force Behind' in O'Neill's own term are the cause of suffering and destruction of the Mannons throughout the whole play. The mask-like house and faces are effectively used as a dramatic technique to express the distorted Puritan values.

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Home Ecology, Everyday Life, and Life-World: Beyond the Scholarship of Colonial Modernity (생활과학, 일상생활, 그리고 일상성: 식민지적 근대화와 '일상'을 지운 학문을 넘어서기)

  • Cho, Hae-Joang
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.44 no.8
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    • pp.143-150
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    • 2006
  • Life Science or Home Economics has its own history of scholarship. In South Korea, the School of Home Economics was regarded as the best school of 'producing best brides' in the early stage of its academic history. Since the 1980s when South Korean society went through a speedy economic growth with development of culture and service industry, the school was transformed to educating highly professional career women in the field of industry which deals with everyday lives. As an applied science in nature, the school of Home Economics has had a heavy emphasis on engineering the familial and social life. It also has heavily depended on imported theories and statistical researches. In the crisis of familial and social disintergration, the role of School of Home Economics needs to be redefined. Reexamination of the premises of Home Economics and methodology is necessary. Decolonializaton of the scholarship in the changed condition of global capitalism is particularly urgent in the late modern era of reflexion.

Selection of Lactic Acid Bacteria with Antibacterial Activity for Extension of Kimchi Shelf-life (김치의 저장성 향상을 위한 항균활성 우수 유산균 선발)

  • Choi, Hak-Jong;Kim, Yu Jin;Lee, Na Ra;Park, Hae Woong;Jang, Ja Young;Park, Sung-Hee;Kang, Miran;Kim, Hyun Ju;Lee, Jong-Hee;Lee, Jong-Hoon;Pyun, Yu-Ryang;Kim, Tae-Woon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.328-332
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    • 2014
  • A survey was conducted on the isolation of lactic acid bacteria with antibacterial activity to extend kimchi shelf-life. Antibacterial activity was tested against bacteria associated with acidification of kimchi, including Lactobacillus plantarum, Pediococcus pentosaceus, and Lactobacillus sakei, using agar-well diffusion assay. Two isolates from kimchi were identified as Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis and Lactobacillus brevis by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and API 50 CHL assay, and they showed antibacterial effects against indicator strains. The isolates displayed acid tolerance at pH 3.5, salt tolerance in 5% NaCl, and growth at $4^{\circ}C$. These result imply that the selected strains might be used to extend kimchi shelf-life as a potential starter.