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Genetic Variability and Phylogenetic Relationship Among Proton-Beam-Irradiated Strains of Pleurotus ostreatus

  • Kwon, Hye-Jin;Park, Yong-Jin;Yoo, Young-Bok;Park, Soon-Young;Kong, Won-Sik
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.1041-1044
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    • 2007
  • To assess the effects of a proton beam on oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus), the genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships among strains induced by a proton beam were investigated based on a clustering analysis. According to an AFLP DNA polymorphism analysis, the induced strains were divided into four groups that coincided with the dose. When applying proton-beam radiation, the dissimilarity among the induced strains increased when increasing the dose. When using more than 400 Gy, the genetic dissimilarity of the irradiated strains was 46-58%. Thus, evaluating the induced strains using the AFLP technique was effective in revealing the mutation effect of the proton beam.

Taxonomic Study on Volvariella in Korea

  • Seok, Soon-Ja;Kim, Yang-Sup;Won, Hang-Yeon;Lee, Kang-Hyo;Park, Ki-Moon;Min, Kyong-Hee;Yoo, Kwan-Hee
    • Mycobiology
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.183-192
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    • 2002
  • Diversities of Korean species belonging to the genus Volvariella have been studied through forty five dried specimens collected throughout the Korean peninsula for 28 years, from 1972 to 2000, and preserved in NIAST's herbarium. We have found one unrecorded species of the genus Volvariella in Korea: V. villosavolva(Lloyd) Sing, Stirp Taylori Korean common names were designated. Ten species of the genus Volvariella including the recorded Korean species of Volvariella have been identified and the keys to the species were constructed.

Interspecific Distinguishability of Veiled Lady Mushrooms (Dictyophora spp.) Based on rDNA-ITS Analysis (rDNA-ITS 분석에 의한 망태버섯속균(Dictyophora spp.)의 종간 구분 가능성)

  • Cheong, Jong-Chun;Lee, Myung-Chul;Kim, Bum-Gi;Park, Dong-Seok;Hong, Sung-Beom;Park, Jeong-Sik
    • The Korean Journal of Mycology
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2004
  • To establish the phylogenetic relationships of Dictyophora spp., rDNA-ITS regions of 11 strains of veiled lady mushroom collected from various countries were amplified and sequenced. It was observed that the 11 strains were divided into four groups based on PCR band patterns of each ITS region cleaved by eight different restriction enzymes in cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence analysis (CAPS). The phylogenic relationship of each group by cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) analysis matches well with previously reported morphological phylogeny, such as 5 strains of D. indusiata, 4 strains of D. echinovolvata, and a strain of Phallus rugulosus. Sequence analysis using the cluster V methods showed more detail classification than CAPS analysis. The 5.8S region showed two point nucleotide base exchanges from G to A according to four groups, and four groups were subdivided by sequence variation of ITS I and ITS II regions. But sequence variation of Phallus rugulosus was not showed in full ITS region. This study further delineates the taxonomic level at which ITS sequences, in comparison to ribosomal gene sequence, are most useful in systematics and other mushroom study.

A Case Study on Qualitative Efficiency of National R&D Projects: Focused on Agricultural Research Area (국가연구개발사업의 질적 효율성 분석에 관한 사례연구: 농림축산 분야를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Kyungsoo;Cho, Namwook
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.115-125
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    • 2018
  • In order to examine the ways to improve the efficiency of R&D investment, this paper presents analysis on both quantitative and qualitative efficiency of R&D projects. As Korea's R&D investment has significantly increased in recent years, the efficiency of R&D investment has attracted attention. In this paper, a Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) method is used to construct models for quantitative efficiency and qualitative efficiency analysis. Based on a cases of agricultural R&D projects of Korea, the efficiency of national R&D projects were analyzed and their quantitative and qualitative efficiencies are compared. As a result, statistically significant difference between quantitative and qualitative efficiency was found. Also, characteristics of Decision Making Units(DMUs) which can influence both quantitative and qualitative efficiency were identified. In particular, the stage of a R&D project has significant impact on R&D efficiency. This study suggests that in order to enhance R&D efficiency both quantitative and qualitative nature of outputs should be considered when measuring R&D efficiency.