• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.9-12
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• 2015

Nano-structured electrodes were fabricated to develop efficient photoelectrochemical conversion systems for the synthesis of hydrogen from water and hydrocarbon fuels from $CO_2$. In this work, we compared the photoactivity of rutile $TiO_2$ nanorods grown on FTO and SEED/FTO by a hydrothermal method. An analysis of the microstructures showed that the density of nanorod/SEED/FTO samples, which showed only the (002) peak in their x-ray diffraction patterns, was two times higher than that of a nanorod/FTO sample. The photocurrent density of nanorod/SEED/FTO samples was increased by as much as 40% of the photocurrent density of the nanorod/FTO sample due to the increased specific density of the nanorods. However, the transient time for a recombination of photogenerated electrons and holes was 20 times faster in the nanorod/SEED/FTO. The seed layers are discussed as possible recombination sites.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.253.1-253.1
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• 2014

Plasma technology has been widely used for decontamination, differentiation, and disease treatment. Recently, studies show that plasma has effects on increasing seed germination and plant growth. In spite of increasing number of studies about plasma effects, the interaction between plasma and plants has been rarely informed. In this study, we have analyzed the effects of nonthermal atmospheric pressure plasma on seed germination and growth of coriander (Coriandum sativum), a medicinal plant. We used to Ar, air, and N2 plasma on seed as feeding gases. Plasma was discharged at 0.62 kV, 200 mA, 9.2 W. Seed germination was increased over time when treated with N2 based DBD plasma for exposure times of 30 seconds and 1 minute, everyday. After 7 days, about 80~100% of seeds were germinated in the treatment with N2 based DBD plasma, compared to control (about 40%, only gas treated seeds). In order to elucidate the mechanism of increased germination, we have analyzed characteristics of changes in plant hormones and seed surface structure by SEM.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.328-331
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• 2000

The effect of the constituent elements and their composition of the seed layer on the properties of the evaporated Zn thin films was investigated. It was carried out by the analysis of the preferred orientation and the grain size, and the corrosion characteristics. Seed layers were prepared by evaporation of Al and AlCu respectively, and here the Cu content as additives of the source materials of seed layers were designed 5 a/o to 20 a/o. The values of full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the (002) x-ray diffraction peaks of Zn decreased by increasing the amount of the additives on Al seed layer, as a results, the grain sizes also decreased. In order to characteristics of Zn thin films evaporated on the various seed layers, electrical resistivity changes with a function of time at the temperature of 40$^{\circ}C$ and the relative humidity of 80%, as a result, the relative resistivity changes were increased by decreasing the grain size and the FWHM values of (002) peaks of Zn.

• 한국자원식물학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.227-235
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• 2009

Single seeds of common buckwheat cultivar Suwon No. 1 when subjected to SDS-PAGE revealed very high polymorphism. High variation existed for protein or protein subunits with molecular weight 54-47kDa, 45-25kDa and 16-11kDa. The electrophoregram showed variation for globulin as well as other protein fractions. About 300 proteins were separated by two-dimensional electrophoresis in common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench.) seed. Seed maturation is a dynamic and temporally regulated phase of seed development that determines the composition of storage proteins reserves in mature seeds. Buckwheat seeds from 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 days after pollination and matured stage were used for the analysis. This led to the establishment of high-resolution proteome reference maps, expression profiles of 48 spots. It was identified 48 proteins from MALDI-TOF/MS analysis of wild buckwheat seed storage proteins. The 48 proteins were found identical or similar to those of proteins reported in buckwheat and other plants; it is belonging to 9 major functional categories including seed storage proteins, stress/defense response, protein synthesis, photosynthesis, allergy proteins, amino acid, enzyme, metabolism, and miscellaneous. It appears that the major allergenic storage protein separated played the important role in buckwheat breeding and biochemical characterization.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.227-233
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• 2017

Purpose: Morphological properties of soybean roots are important indicators of the vigor of the seed, which determines the survival rate of the seedlings grown. The current vigor test for soybean seeds is manual measurement with the human eye. This study describes an application of a machine vision technique for rapid measurement of soybean seed vigor to replace the time-consuming and labor-intensive conventional method. Methods: A CCD camera was used to obtain color images of seeds during germination. Image processing techniques were used to obtain root segmentation. The various morphological parameters, such as primary root length, total root length, total surface area, average diameter, and branching points of roots were calculated from a root skeleton image using a customized pixel-based image processing algorithm. Results: The measurement accuracy of the machine vision system ranged from 92.6% to 98.8%, with accuracies of 96.2% for primary root length and 96.4% for total root length, compared to manual measurement. The correlation coefficient for each measurement was 0.999 with a standard error of prediction of 1.16 mm for primary root length and 0.97 mm for total root length. Conclusions: The developed machine vision system showed good performance for the morphological measurement of soybean roots. This image analysis algorithm, combined with a simple color camera, can be used as an alternative to the conventional seed vigor test method.

• 한국국제농업개발학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.552-559
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• 2011

China is a one of the largest agricultural countries in the world. China consumes around 12.5 billion kilograms of seeds each year. Suchhuge demand for seeds has made the Chinese seed market more and more attractive for investment. Through analysis on the present situation and existing problems of the seed industry in China and based on the current Chinese seed industry development, some future prospects for investments are indicated. This investigation was carried out to propose the appropriate strategies on the development of the Korea seed industry as it considers its entry into the China seed market as a new growth engine in the agricultural sector. The basic law regulating the Chinese seed industry is the PRC Seed Law that generally refers to the protection of germplasm resources, verification of varieties, seed quality issues, the import and export of seeds, seed administrative management, and various rights and obligations. The regulations were aimed at the protection of the rights concerning new varieties of plants. China has two main industry associations, the National Seed Association and the China Seed Industry IP Union, that are non-profit associations consisting of entities and people engaging in the seed scientific research, production, operation and management. The China National Seed Group Co., Ltd. ("Sino Seeds") is the market leader in China regarding the seed industry. The chinese government, however, encourages investment from multinational companies as well as importation of modern crop planting management technologies and equipment. It supports the entry of investors with proven experiences in breeding and germplasm resources expansion and R&D. There has never been a better time for multinational companies with proven seed industry experience to look at building relationships with the Chinese government and enterprises.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.281-288
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• 2009

Seed germination is the important stage to express many genes for regulation of energy metabolism, starch degradation and cell division from seed dormancy state. For the functional analysis of seed germination mechanisms, we were analyzed the rice cDNA clones (Oryzasativa cultivar Ilpum) obtained from seed imbibition during 48 hours. Total number of 18,101 Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) were clustered using SeqMan program. Among them, 8,836 clones were identified as unique clones. We identified the chitinase gene specifically expressed in seed germination and amylase gene involved to starch degradation from the full length cDNA analysis, and several genes were registered to NCBI GeneBank. To analyzed the commonly expressed genes between inmature seed and germinated seed, 25,66 inmature ESTs and 18,101 germinated ESTs were clustered using SeqMan program and identified 2,514 clones as commonly expressed unigene. Among them, alpha-glubulin and alcohol dehydrogenase I were supposed to LEA genes only expressed in the immature and germinated seed stages. For the clustering of orthologous group genes, we further analyzed the 8,836 EST clones from germinating seeds using NCBI clusters of orthologous groups database. Among the clones, 5,076 clones were categorized into information storage and processing, cellular processes and signaling, metabolism and poorly characterized genes, proportioning 783 (14.29%), 1,484 (27%), 1,363 (24.8%) and 1,869 (34%) clones to the previous four categories, respectively.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제102권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2013

본 연구는 국내 분포하는 마가목의 집단간 및 집단내 개체간 열매와 종자 형태에 대한 변이를 조사하였다. 6개 천연집단의 42개 개체목에서 열매를 채취하여 열매특성 6가지와 종자특성 4가지를 분석하였다. 모든 특성들에서 집단간 및 집단내 개체간에 유의적인 차이가 인정되었다. 특히, 결실지당 열매수와 열매당 종자수 특성은 전체 분산 가운데 집단이 차지하는 비율이 큰 것으로 나타났다. 변이계수 값은 결실지당 열매수와 종자무게 특성이 다른 특성들(11.9~32.1%)에 비해 높은 42.0~75.3%의 값을 나타냈다. 상관분석결과 결실지당 열매수 특성은 위도와는 정의 상관관계를 보였으며, 경도와는 부의 상관관계를 각각 나타냈다. 군집분석결과 지리적으로 가까운 집단들이 유전적으로 가깝게 묶이는 경향을 나타냈다. 주성분분석결과 집단간의 유연관계에 의미를 갖는 3개 주성분을 도출하였는데 전체 분산에 대한 설명력은 87%였다. 제1주성분은 종자길이와 종자무게, 제2주성분은 열매폭과 종자지수, 제3주성분은 열매길이와 결실지당 열매수 특성이 높은 기여도를 나타냈다.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제99권3호
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• pp.344-352
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• 2010

소나무 채종원내 클론 간 교배양식을 구명하기 위해서 4개의 nSSR 표지와 6개의 cpSSR 표지를 이용하여 소나무 채종원 내에서의 타가교배율, 기여 화분친 수, 화분오염율을 산출하였다. cpSSR haplotype에 근거한 타가교배율은 94~100%로, 평균 98.9%의 타가교배율이 산출되었다. nSSR genotype에 근거한 타가교배율은 90.3~100%로, 평균 95.9%의 타가교배율이 산출되었다. 별개의 DNA 표지분석에서 자가교배로 확인 되었던 종자들을 두 표지를 동시에 비교하여 확인한 결과 타가교배 종자로 최종 확인되었다(누적 타가교배율 100%). 화분오염율은 최소 43.6%(강원10)에서 최대 56.4%(강원12)로 평균 48.9%로 계산되었다. 종자의 cpSSR haplotype을 근거로 확인한 기여 화분친은 경북38에서 21개로 최대치가 확인되었으며, 강원10에서 13개로 최소치가 확인되어 평균 16.2개의 기여 화분친이 확인되었다. 결론적으로, 안면도 소나무 채종원 ’77단지내 클론간 높은 타가교배율이 확인됨으로써 채종원산 종자의 유전적 안정성을 기대할 수 있으며, 안면도 소나무 채종원 '77단지 내 교배양식 분석을 통해서 확인된 결과가 향후 전진세대 채종원 조성 및 관리에 유용한 정보를 제공할 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제60권1호
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• pp.29-32
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• 2015

Two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) was executed to separate the seed storage proteins from the buckwheat. The proteins extracted from the whole seed proteins were better separated and observed in the use of lysis buffer. Using this method, the highly reproducible isoelectric focusing (IEF) can be obtained from polyacrylamide gels, and IEF from the polyacrylamide gel at all the possible pH range (5.0-8.0) was more easily separated than IPG (immobilized pH gradient) gels. The polyacrylamide gels in the first dimension in 2-DE was used to separate and identify a number of whole seed proteins in the proteome analysis. In this new apparatus using 2-DE, 27cm in length of plate coated with polyacrylamide gel was used and the experiment was further investigated under the various conditions.