This study was conducted to obtain basic information for varietal difference of leaf breakdown in field of flue-cured tobacco at Taegu Experiment Station, Korea Ginseng & Tobacco Research Institute in 1987. The experiment was designed in randomized block with 3 replications, data ware analysed as Split split-plot design. Main plots were varieties, sub-plots were leaf positions, 4, 5 and 6th from bottom, and each sub-plot was divided into 3 parts with distance of midrib, 7 10 and 13em from stalk. Four varieties, NC 95, NC 2326, NC 82 and BY 4 were transplanted in 15 April, and measured the weight of leaf breakdown by artificially weighted in 5 June. The results obtained are as follows : 1. Weights of leaf breakdown according to leaf position, NC 95 were lower as 358-5799 than those of other varieties as 555-597g, were not significantly different regardless of varieties. 2. Weights of leaf breakdown in relation to distance of midrib from stack, NC 95 were lower as 309-419g than those of other varieties as 472-710g. 3. Weights of leaf breakdown were significantly different according to distance of midrib from stalk, and not significantly different according to leaf position under the same distance of midrib from stalk regardless of varieties.

Pot experiment was conducted to find out the effect of lime application on yield and chemical composition of burley tobacco in 1986, Lime increased exchangeable calcium and pH of soil, but decreased Al, Fe and Mn concentrations. Yield was increased by lime application, however lime could not be caused to yield increasing in the soil with high calcium contents. Cored leaves of limed Plot contained higher Mg. K, total nitrogen, NO3-nitrogen, water soluble and insoluble ash, alkalinity number of water soluble and insoluble ash, citric and malic acid, but lower Fe, Mn, protein-nitrogen, NH3-nitrogen, nicotine petroleum ether extract, palmitic and linolenic acid concentrations than those of unlined plot. The linoleic acid and volatile neutral constituents of cured leaves were not affected by liming. Lime increased yield, however it did not affect leaf duality in respect to chemical characteristics, suggesting that liming should be necessary for tobacco cultivation.

Oriental tobacco (KA 101) was transplanted from Mar. 25 to May 5 with 10 days interval in 1984 and 1985, and its agronomic characteristics, chemical properties ware compared to determine the Proper transplanting time of aromatic tobacco In Korea. As the transplanting was delayed, days to flowering of plant was shortened, length and width of largest leaf, leaf area index tended to decrease. Yield was highest for the Apr. 5th transplanting followed by Mar. 25th planting, then decreased as the planting date was delayed. Quality by price decreased as the transplanting was delayed later than Apr. 25. Delaying transplanting increased nicotine, total nitrogen and ash content, but decreased reducing sugar and petroleum ether extract of cured leaves, The content of volatile organic acids such as 3-methyl pentanoic acid was lower when it was transplanted later than Apr. 25th. Neophytadiene content increased as the transplanting was delayed, but there were no trends with the content of alcohols, aldehydes esters and ketones. Several quality indices including the ratio between the content of volatile organic acids plus petroleum ether extract and ash content plus pH was higher for the Apr. 5th transplanting.

This experiment was conducted to study the nature of gene effects for the leaf characters in flue-cured tobacco. The genetic populations were derived from crosses between NC 2326 and Mc Nair 373, and NC 628 and DG-72. The generation means experiment Included the Pl, P2. Fl, F2, Bl and B2, which were frown at Taegu Experiment Station, Korea Ginseng & Tobacco Research Institute in 1984. Seedlings were transplanted to the field in a randomized block design with 3 replications. In each block, parental and Fl Plots contained 15 plants in a single row, F2, Bl and B2 plots being composed of 75 plant, in 5 rows. Leaf characters were measured of largest (middle leaf) and 5th leaf(top leaf) from the top after topping. Measurements of the length and width of leaf were obtained from the fresh the middle and top leaves, and weight of leaf, weight and width of midrib were from the satrap leaf after curing. Estimates of additive and dominance genetic variance were analyzed according to Gamble's biometrical model. The results obtained are as follows: 1. The additive gene effects were significant and larger than the dominance gene effects for all leaf and midrib characters in both stalk positions. 2. The dominance gene effects were significant for the length and width of leaf, and weight of midrib in the middle leaves. 3. The digenic epistatic effects were significant for the length and width of leaf in both stalk positions. 4. The additive gene effects were larger in the top than in the middle leaves and midrib characters.

The volitile compounds Produced from the Maillard reaction of D-glucose and DL-alanine or DL-$\alpha$-aminobutyric acid using water or propylene glycol as a reaction amdeum were analysed by gas chromatofiraphy and mass spectrometry. From two kinds of reaction products in water 18 compounds were identified. The major compounds in a reaction product of glucose with alanine were 5-hydroxy methyl-2-furfural, 2-acetyl pyrrole and 2-formyl-5-methyl pyrrole, and those in a reaction product of glucose with $\alpha$-aminobutyric acid were 2-ethyl crotonaldehyde and 2-methyl-3, 5-dihydroxy-4H-pyran-4-one including the above 3 compounds. From two kinds of reaction products in propylene glycol solution, 35 compounds were identified. The major compounds in a reaction product of glucose with alanine were alkyl pyraainef, 2-methyl furfuryl alcohol and 2-acetyl pyrrole, and those in a reaction product of glucose with $\alpha$-aminobutyric acid were propionaldehyde PGA, 2-ehtyl crotonaldehyde, 2-acetyl pyrrole and 2-acetyl-5-ethyl furan.

The mutagenicity of pyrolyzates (at 30$0^{\circ}C$, $600^{\circ}C$ and 75$0^{\circ}C$) prepared from three kinds of Maillard reaction Products, KG-19, KG-24 and KG-32, and that of the tar of cigarettes added these products were determined by using Salmonella typhimurium TA 98. The pyrolyzates of Maillard reaction products showed linear increases of revertant colonies according to the increase of pyrolysis temperature and dose of pyrolyzates, respectively. However, there was no difference in revertant colonies between the tar of cigarettes containing these products and those containing imported Maillard reaction products, or not containing any reaction product. It seems due to a little amount of these products added to the cigarettes.

담배의 중요 향기성분인 솔라논에 관한 전체합성이 시도되었다. 출발물질인 4-시아노-2-이소프로필부탄알을 금속 주석, 알미늄 및 브롬산의 존재하에서 요오드화 메탈릴로 처리하고 포스포러스 옥시클로리드와 반응시킨 다음 메틸화 함으로써 좋은 수득률로 솔라논을 합성하였다.