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A LysM Domain-Containing Protein LtLysM1 Is Important for Vegetative Growth and Pathogenesis in Woody Plant Pathogen Lasiodiplodia theobromae

  • Harishchandra, Dulanjalee Lakmali;Zhang, Wei;Li, Xinghong;Chethana, Kandawatte Wedaralalage Thilini;Hyde, Kevin David;Brooks, Siraprapa;Yan, Jiye;Peng, Junbo
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.323-334
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    • 2020
  • Lysin motif (LysM) proteins are reported to be necessary for the virulence and immune response suppression in many herbaceous plant pathogens, while far less is documented in woody plant pathogens. In this study, we preliminarily characterized the molecular function of a LysM protein LtLysM1 in woody plant pathogen Lasiodiplodia theobromae. Transcriptional profiles revealed that LtLysM1 is highly expressed at infectious stages, especially at 36 and 48 hours post inoculation. Amino acid sequence analyses revealed that LtLysM1 was a putative glycoprotein with 10 predicted N-glycosylation sites and one LysM domain. Pathogenicity tests showed that overexpressed transformants of LtLysM1 displayed increased virulence on grapevine shoots in comparison with that of wild type CSS-01s, and RNAi transformants of LtLysM1 exhibited significantly decreased lesion length when compared with that of wild type CSS-01s. Moreover, LtLysM1 was confirmed to be a secreted protein by a yeast signal peptide trap assay. Transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana together with protein immunoblotting confirmed that LtLysM1 was an N-glycosylated protein. In contrast to previously reported LysM protein Slp1 and OsCEBiP, LtLysM1 molecule did not interact with itself based on yeast two hybrid and co-immunoprecipitation assays. These results indicate that LtLysM1 is a secreted protein and functions as a critical virulence factor during the disease symptom development in woody plants.

Survey on Pest Management Practice and Scheme of Increasing Income in Sweet Persimmon Farms in Korea (단감원의 병해충 관리 실태와 소득 증대 방안에 대한 농가 의식조사)

  • Lee, Dong-Woon;Lee, Seong-Wook;Park, Chung-Gyoo;Choo, Ho-Yul;Shin, Chang-Hoon;Lee, Gyoo-Chul
    • The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.45-49
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    • 2001
  • As a series of studies to develop pest management system for sweet persimmon production matched with the quarantine criterion of sweet persimmon-imported county, a survey was conducted by questionnaire on pest management practice and scheme of increasing income in sweet persimmon farms in Korea. Above 80% of sweet persimmon farmers was over fifties in age. The greatest limiting factor for sweet persimmon production was thought to be disease by the farmers. Percentage of farmers who answered that the most important pest is anthracnose cause by Gloeosporium kaki, and stink bugs was 64.6% and 73.5%, respectively. In particular, the farmers did not consider Dichocrocis punctiferalis, a main targer insect for quarantine in USA, as serious problem. Obtaining information on pest management practice or decision-making on both selection of pesticide and time of pesticide application depended highly on their own experience with the highest proportion. Eight to nine times of pesticide applications a year was highest among farms with 56.6%. More than 80% of farmers recorded the diary of pesticide application. farmers considered increasing cost for pest management as the greatest problem with 35.4% in proportion, and 34.5% of farmers pointed out that increase in export is essential for increasing farm income with highest proportion.

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Farm Household Income Increase by Means of Leisure Farm Development (관광농업(觀光農業)에 의한 농가소득(農家所得)의 증진방안(增進方案))

  • Shin, Yong-in
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.201-210
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    • 1993
  • The political and technological countermeasures to cope with the UR problems are under studying at present or some of them are already applied to increas farm household income. It is evident that the leisture farm development is considered the best alternative among the countermeasures. On account of mitigating labour shortage, a most difficult problem encountered by agriculture, and of promoting consumption of farm products, the leisure farm development could increase farm household incomes accoringly. This study is ultimately aimed at identifing the countermeasures to increase farm household incomes by suggestion of the improvement of leisure farm management thorough survey of the present leisure farm management status. The leisure farm. management survey was carried out based on the seven leisure farms such as Songnam, Cheongrock, Yusung, Duryong, Hwachun, Maesan and Sinhuck which are saperately located in Chungnam Province.

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A Case Study on Management Situations of Environment-friendly Farming of a Producers' Organization (생산자조직 단위 친환경농업 경영실태에 대한 분석)

  • Kim, Ho
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.241-254
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    • 2014
  • This case study surveyed management situations of environmentally friendly farming(EFF) producers' organization and their main activities. Farmers are aging as an average age of 55-year old and producing fruit-bearing vegetables. The EFF did not increase farmer's income, however, price and income was stabilized more than that of conventional farming because of contract farming. Farm household liabilities are caused by purchasing agricultural machinery, materials and so on. Farmers of EFF have been also cultivating conventional farming, but they don't plan much conversion intention of conventional farming into EFF owing to lack of differentiated and stable market for their EFF products. And they are guessing that EFF income will increase a little. For increasing of EFF income, they think that it is necessary to reduce production cost, produce high quality production, develop processing foods, enlarge contract farming and so on.

DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPLANT PRODUCTION IN CLOSED SYSTEM (PART II) - Irrigation Scheduling based on Evapotranspiration Rate-

  • Tateishi, M.;Murase, H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 2000.11c
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    • pp.764-769
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    • 2000
  • A new transplant production system that produces high quality plug seedlings of specific crop has been studied. It is a plant factory designed to produce massive amount of virus free seedlings. The design concept for building this plant factory is to realize maximum energy efficiency and minimum initial investment and running cost. The basic production strategy is the sitespecific management. In this case, the management of the growth of individual plantlet is considered. This requires highly automated and information intensive production system in a closed aseptic environment the sterilized specific crops. One of the key components of this sophisticated system is the irrigation system. The conditions that this irrigation system has to satisfy are: 1. to perform the site specific crop management in irrigation and 2. to meet the no waste standard. The objective of this study is to develop an irrigation scheduling that can implement the no waste standard.

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A Study on the Strategic Management Characteristics of Family-owner Firms and Family Farms : the Similarities and the Application for Farm Household Studies (가족기업과 가족농의 전략적 특성에 관한 연구 : 그 유사성과 농가연구 적용가능성을 중심으로)

  • Ko, Kyung-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.749-756
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    • 2015
  • This study aims at identifying the characteristics of family-owner firms from the business studies and searching for the usefulness of the concept for the farming research. From the 1980s, there have been a lot of studies on family business which found out its different features in term of management characteristics. Exploring the concept of the family business, this tries to figure out any kind of similarities of the family farm concept which could be applied for the studies on identifying novel characteristics of contemporary family farms in capitalised societies.

A Fundamental Study on the Expert System for the Operations Management in Wood Furniture Industry (목가구(木家具) 생산관리(生産管理)를 위한 전문가(專門家) 시스템의 기초(基礎) 연구(硏究))

  • Kim, Il-Sook;Lee, Hyoung-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 1993
  • As the demand of wood furniture becomes diverse and large-sized, artificial intelligence technique is required to design the expert system which can promote the efficiency of the operations management in wood furniture industry. This study was carried out to develop the expert scheduler, which was applied to the scheduling in chair-manufacturing process to evaluate its validity. The expert scheduler could show the results of scheduling must faster than Gantt chart method with ease. Maximum tardiness in the current chair-manufacturing process could be reduced from 29 seconds to 5 seconds by the addition of a spindle sander, a 12 spindle universal boring machine, and a moulding sander to sanding, boring, and moulding process, respectively.

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Efficiency Analysis of Organic Farm Management (유기농업 실천농가의 경영효율성 분석)

  • Kim, Chang-Gil;Lee, Sang-Gun;Kim, Tae-Young
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.19-33
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    • 2009
  • This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of organic farm management practices and studies its main determinants in Hongdongmyeon of Hongsung county, Chungnam province. The analysis is performed in two stages. First, the efficiency is measured via the nonparametric "Data Envelopment Analysis" (DEA) technique. The DEA models are constructed not only to assess the overall technical efficiency of organic fanning practices but also to evaluate the management efficiencies. In a second stage critical determinants of efficiency are determined using a Tobit model. In this analysis the focus is on technical and socio-economic variables. The analytical results show that technically efficient farms is about 13 percent and the mean technical efficiency is found to be 0.73 indicating that many farms are not operating at an efficient scale.

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Assessment of Estuary Reservoir Water Quality According to Upstream Pollutant Management Using Watershed-Reservoir Linkage Model (유역-호소 연계모형을 이용한 상류 오염원 관리에 따른 담수호 수질영향평가)

  • Kim, Seokhyeon;Hwang, Soonho;Kim, Sinae;Lee, Hyunji;Jun, Sang Min;Kang, Moon Seong
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.64 no.6
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2022
  • Estuary reservoirs were artificial reservoir with seawalls built at the exit points of rivers. Although many water resources can be saved, it is difficult to manage due to the large influx of pollutants. To manage this, it is necessary to analyze watersheds and reservoirs through accurate modeling. Therefore, in this study, we linked the Hydrological Simulation Program-FORTRAN (HSPF), Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC), and Water quality Analysis Simulation Program (WASP) models to simulate the hydrology and water quality of the watershed and the water level and quality of estuary lakes. As a result of applying the linked model in stream, R2 0.7 or more was satisfied for the watershed runoff except for one point. In addition, the water quality satisfies all within 15% of PBIAS. In reservoir, R2 0.72 was satisfied for water level and the water quality was within 15% of T-N and T-P. Through the modeling system, We applied upstream pollutant management scenarios to analyze changes in water quality in estuary reservoirs. Three pollution source management were applied as scenarios, the improvement of effluent water quality from the sewage treatment plant and the livestock waste treatment plant was effective in improving the quality of the reservoir water, while the artificial wetland had little effect. Water quality improvement was confirmed as a measure against upstream pollutants, but it was insufficient to achieve agricultural water quality, so additional reservoir management is required.

무리행동과 인지적 유용성이 e-learning 컨텐츠 구매에 미치는 영향;구매 경험자와 잠재 구매자 그룹간의 차이 비교

  • Park, Eun-Ho;Yu, Cheol-U;Kim, Yong-Jin;Mun, Jeong-Hun;Choe, Yeong-Chan
    • 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.435-440
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    • 2007
  • 본 연구는 무리행동과 인지적 유용성을 중심으로, e-learning 컨텐츠 구매에 미치는 영향을 e-learning 수강경험자 집단과 경험하지 못한 잠재구매자 집단의 차이점을 경험적인 측면에서 밝히고자 시도하였다. 전체 528명의 표본을 경험자(395명)와 비경험자(133명)로 나누어 PLS(Partial Least Square)를 통하여 분석한 결과 e-learning 구매 경험자는 인지적 유용성이 구매의도에 주는 영향이 무리행동의 영향보다 큰 것으로 나타났고, 잠재 구매자는 무리행동이 구매의도에 주는 영향이 더 큰 것으로 나타났다.

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