• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.140-151
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• 2022

Background: Essential oils are of great interest for their analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. We aimed to study the content of the essential oil of the Origanum vulgare of the Armenian highlands (OVA) in different periods of vegetation and to investigate its antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory effects in mice (in vivo) and cytotoxic action in cultured cells (in vitro). OVA essential oil was extracted from fresh plant material by hydro-distillation. Methods: For OVA essential oil contents determination the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method was used. Formalin and hot plate tests and analysis of cell viability using the methyl-thiazolyl-tetrazolium (MTT) assay were used. Results: The maximal content of β-caryophyllene and β-caryophyllene oxide in OVA essential oil was revealed in the period of blossoming (8.18% and 13.36%, correspondently). In the formalin test, 4% OVA essential oil solution (3.5 mg/mouse) exerts significant antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory effects (P = 0.003). MTT assay shows approximately 60% cytotoxicity in HeLa and Vero cells for 2.0 µL/mL OVA essential oil in media. Conclusions: The wild oregano herb of Armenian highlands, harvested in the blossoming period, may be considered as a valuable source for developing pain-relieving preparations.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.15-19
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• 2004

The expression of a chimeric transgene (nos-npt II) has been examined in 9 years old transgenic poplars (Populus koreana x P. nigra) growing in a nursery. The expression of the gene in twenty six independentely transformed plants were examined by 1) enzyme (NPT II) assay, 2) RT-PCR, and 3) resistance to kanamycin. High NPT II activities in young leaves of all the transformed plants were found even without a selection pressure for antibiotics for 9 years. However, the activity varied with the positions of leaves in the stem in that young leaves showed higher activity than did mature tissues. When leaf segments were cultured in the presence of 150 mg/l kanamycin, only those from young leaves produced vigorously growing callus. However, as in the case of NPTII assay, the leaf segments from mature leaves did not form callus well on the media. RT-PCR with nptII specific primers also showed that amplification products were observed only when RNAs from young tissues were used. The total RNA gel showed that while RNA in young leaves are relatively stable and in a large quantity, those in old leaves were mostly degraded. All the above results suggest that the gene is transcriptionally active only in young tissue even though it is attached to a constituitive promoter. Therefore, the expression of foreign gene in poplar plants seemed to be affected by the metabolic state of the cells and thus vary greatly with the developmental stages and the age of tissue.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.95-100
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• 2017

Fungicide-resistant Alternaria alternata impede the practical control of the Alternaria diseases in crop fields. This study aimed to investigate cytological fungicide resistance mechanisms of A. alternata against dicarboximide fungicide iprodione. A. alternata isolated from cactus brown spot was cultured on potato-dextrose agar (PDA) with or without iprodione, and the fungal cultures with different growth characteristics from no, initial and full growth were observed by light and electron microscopy. Mycelia began to grow from one day after incubation (DAI) and continued to be in full growth (control-growth, Con-G) on PDA without fungicide, while on PDA with iprodione, no fungal growth (iprodione-no growth, Ipr-N) occurred for the first 3 DAI, but once the initial growth (iprodione-initial growth, Ipr-I) began at 4-5 DAI, the colonies grew and expanded continuously to be in full growth (iprodione-growth, Ipr-G), suggesting Ipr-I may be a turning moment of the morphogenetic changes resisting fungicidal toxicity. Con-G formed multicellular conidia with cell walls and septa and intact dense cytoplasm. In Ipr-N, fungal sporulation was inhibited by forming mostly undeveloped unicellular conidia with degraded and necrotic cytoplasm. However, in Ipr-I, conspicuous cellular changes occurred during sporulation by forming multicellular conidia with double layered (thickened) cell walls and accumulation of proliferated lipid bodies in the conidial cytoplasm, which may inhibit the penetration of the fungicide into conidial cells, reducing fungicide-associated toxicity, and may be utilized as energy and nutritional sources, respectively, for the further fungal growth to form mature colonies as in Ipr-G that formed multicellular conidia with cell walls and intact cytoplasm with lipid bodies as in Con-G.

• 한국잡초학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.96-106
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• 1984

Changes in weed floras and development of plant resistance to herbicides seemed to be closely related with increased and repeated use of herbicides. Herbicide use increased from 5% of the total consumption of pesticide in 1950 to 45% in 1976 in world basis. About 200 herbicides have been introduced to agriculture so as to control about 206 weed species which have been recorded important to human beings. In Korea, there was about 351 times in increased use of herbicides from 1966 to 1982. Interspecific selection by herbicide is mainly responsible for changes in weed floras and resulted in varying tolerance or susceptibility to herbicides, together with the changes of agricultural practices. The present trend toward continuous cereal cultivation throughout world will lead to type of changes in weed floras favorable to therophyte which can survive under unfavorable conditions as seeds rather than the types of geophyte which can survive unfavorable seasons as buds placed below soil surface. However, geophyte such as Sagitaria pygmaea, and Scirpus jurtcoides, and Cyperus rotundus and Cynodon dactylon in temperate warm climate become severe paddy weeds, presumably because of the removal of annual weeds by herbicides. Since differential tolerance to 2,4-D was firstly reported in Agrostis stolofera, about 30 species of weeds in 18 genera are presently known to have developed resistance to triazine herbicides. Resistance of weed biotypes to triazine herbicide is not mainly due to limited absorption and translocation or to the difference in metabolism, but is the result of biochemical changes at the site of metabolic activity, such as a loss of herbicide affinity for triazine binding site in the photosystem II complex of the chloroplast membrane. Genetical study showed that plastid resistance to triazine was wholly inherited through cytoplasmic DNA in the case of Brassica campestris. Plant tissue culture method can be utilized as an alternate mean of herbicide screening and development of resistance variants to herbicides as suggested by Chaleff and Parsons. In this purpose, one should be certain that the primary target process is operational in cell culture. Further, there are a variety of obstacles in doing this type of research, particularly development of resistance source and it's regeneration because cultured cells and whole plants represent different developmental state.

• 식물병연구
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.94-96
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• 2010

In May of 2004 through 2007, Leptosphaerulina leaf blight caused by Leptosphaerulina trifolii occurred on Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis) at golf courses in Gangwon Province, Korea. Symptoms on the turfgrass caused by L. trifolii were leaf blights, dying from the leaf tip downwards to the crown, which appeared patches in the field because of local pockets of severely infected (blighted) grass. Perithecia were produced on old or weak leaves, including club-shaped asci, each of which contained 8 pale brown muriform ascospores with cross and longitudinal septa. Ascospores of the fungus isolated from the diseased leaf tissue and cultured on potato-dextrose agar (PDA) were muriform multicellular (composed of 3-6 cells) and $23.4-40.5{\times}7.8-15.6{\mu}m$ in size with 3-4 transverse and 0-3 longitudinal septa, which were morphologically identical to L. trifolii reported previously. DNA sequences of ribosomal RNA gene (internal transcribed spacer) of the fungus were homologous with similarity of 99% to those of L. trifolii isolates in GenBank database, confirming the identity of the causal agent of the disease. Pathogenicity of the fungus was also confirmed on the creeping bentgrass by Koch's postulates. This is first report of Leptosphaerulina leaf blight on turfgrass caused by L. trifolii in Korea.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.137-142
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• 1995

생리적인 pH에서 음전하를 띄우고 있는 산성 아미노산인 aspartate와 glutamate는 다른 중성 아미노산과 경쟁방해 실험을 행한 연구결과에 의하면 이들도 중성 아미노산이 갖는 능동운반계와 동일한 운반자를 소유한다. 중성 아미노산을 아미노산 한 분자 당 한개의 수소이온과 동반수송되고 전하에 보상을 위해서 한 분자 당 한개의 칼륨 이온을 배출한다. 그러나 산성 아미노산은 한 분자 당 2개의 수소이온과 동반수송되고, 한 분자 당 칼륨 한 분자를 배출한다. 중성 아미노산과 같은 운반계를 소유하고, 2개의 수소이온과 동반수송되는 능동운반계는 본 실험에서 처음으로 보고된다. 이 결과로부터 두개의 동반수송된 수소이온 중 한 개는 산성 아미노산에 있는 pK$_3$카르복실기를 먼저 중화시킨 후에 중성화된 형태로 수소이온 한 분자와 동반수송된다고 사료된다. 그러므로 유채는 20개의 아미노산에 대해서 다만 2개의 운반계, 즉 일반- 과 알카리성 아미노산 운반계를 가진 것으로 확인되었다. 다른 식물에서 이미 보고된 결과들을 참고하여 아미노산 운반계의 진화적인 의미를 고찰하였다.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.109-113
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• 2003

고구마 품종 '율미'를 이용해 2,4-D 1.0 mg/L가 첨가된 MS 배지에 정단분열조직배양을 통하여 발생된 배발생 캘러스를 실험재료로 여러 가지 동결보호제를 처리하여 2-step method 에 의해 동결보존을 실시하였다. ABA 10m/L가 포함된 배지에서 전처리된 배발생 캘러스는 ABA 1.0mg/L 처리구보다 액체질소에 저장 후 생존율이 더 높게 나타났다. TTC방법과 FDA 염색법을 통해 초저온 보존 후에 생존을 확인한 결과 10mg/L의 ABA를 전처리 한 0.4M sucrose가 포함된 1.28M DMSO 처리구에서 46.8%의 가장 높은 생존율을 나타냈다. 캘러스를 1.0mg/L 2,4-D가 포함된 MS 고체배지에서 암배양한 결과 배양 4주일 후부터 1.28 M DMSO 단독처리구에서 캘러스가 생장하는 것을 육안 관찰할 수 있었으며 배양 8주일 후에는 배가 발생하였고, 0.1 mg/L 2,4-D＋0.1 mg/L kinetin 혼용구에 2주일간 계대배양한 다음 MS기본배지에서 완전한 식물체로 재생되었다.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.149-156
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• 1999

도라지 약배양에 있어서 저온처리가 화분 2형현상과 배형성에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위해 1핵성 소포자기의 도라지 약을 0.5 mg/L NAA와 1.0mg/L BA가 첨가된 MS배지에 배양하였다. 저온전처리는 이상화분과 균등분열에 의한 B형 화분, 다핵 및 다세포 화분수를 현저하게 증가시켰는데 특히 8$^{\circ}C$에서 5일간 저온전처리는 배양 전 이상화분이 20.6%가 증가되었고 배양 중에는 54.9%의 캘러스와 9.9%의 배형성율을 나타내 가장 효과적이었다. 배양 중 소포자로부터 배는 첫째. 주로 영양세포가 분열하거나 둘째, 영양세포와 생식세포가 각각 분열하거나 셋째, 균등분열에 의한 영양핵과 동일한 크기의 두 낭세포 모두가 분열하여 배를 형성하는 3가지 경로가 관찰되었다.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.287-291
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• 1994

땅두릅에 있어서 이상체세포배의 형성에 미치는 ABA의 영향을 구명하기위하여 체세포배는 1.0 mg/L 2,4-D가 첨가된 M 기본배지상에서 자엽유래 배발생 세포괴로부터 유도되었다. 배발생세포괴에 0.2 mg/L의 ABA를 처리하여 3주간 배양한 후 ABA가 첨가되지않은 기본배지에 2주간 계속 배양한 경우에 2개의 정상적인 자엽수를 갖는 배는 68%. 생장조절물질이 첨가되지않은 MS 기본배지에 5주간 배양한 대조구에(59.4%) 비하여 높게 나타났다. 그러나 0.2mg/L의 ABA를 처리하여 3주간 배양한 후 ABA의 농도를 0.1 mg/L로 반감한 배지에서 2주간 배양한 경우에는 정상의 자엽을 갖는 배는 28.6%로 감소된 반면에 3개 이상의 자엽을 갖는 다자엽배의 형성률이 높게 나타났다. 구형배에 ABA를 농도별(0.01-1.0 mg/L)로 처리한 경우에 정상의 자엽을 갖는 배의 형성률은 농도에 비례하여 감소되었으며, 다자엽배의 형성률은 높게 나타났다. 또한 심장형, 어뢰형 및 자엽시기 등 배발생 단계별로 배에 ABA를 각각 상기와 같이 단기간 처리하거나 계속처리한 경우에도 다자엽배의 형성률은 높게 나타났다.

• 한국어병학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.151-158
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• 2012

양식 동남아산 뱀장어 Anguilla bicolor에 아가미의 출혈 및 간장의 충혈을 특징으로 하는 질병의 원인을 조사한 결과 Anguillid herpesvirus (AngHV-1) 의 감염이 확인되었다. 병어는 병리조직학적으로 아가미의 상피세포의 증생과 모세혈관의 출혈, 간장의 공포변성 및 중심정맥의 충혈이 관찰되었다. 병어를 $35^{\circ}C$에 10일간 승온 사육한 결과 아가미의 형태가 건강어의 아가미와 유사한 형태로 회복되었으며, 폐사율도 10%로 승온 처리가 폐사율 감소에 효과적인 것으로 나타났다.