• Title/Summary/Keyword: Agricultural bioresource

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Torrefaction Properties of Unused Agricultural Residues As Biomass Fuel (바이오매스 연료로서 미활용 농업부산물의 반탄화 특성)

  • Yoon, Yeo Seong;Kang, ku;Park, Seong Jik;Hong, Seong Gu
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.59 no.5
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    • pp.17-23
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    • 2017
  • In South Korea, 25 % of annual agricultural residues (11.64 million tons) are unused. The hydrophilicity, low lower heating value (LHV), and low energy density of agricultural residues can be obstacles for efficient usage. Torrefaction, a low temperature pyrolysis process, can be a solution to overcome these disadvantage of agricultural residues. In this study, agricultural residues such as bean stem, pepper stem, perilla stem, sorghum stem, acorn shell, and ginkgo shell are torrefied at 200, 230, and $250^{\circ}C$ and evaluated energy properties, respectively. The torrefaction can increase the LHV and energy density rate of agricultural residues from 3,331~4,444 kcal/kg to 4,166~5,830 kcal/kg and 20~30 %, respectively.

Microcomputer FEM Analysis of Soil Cutting Process

  • Shen, J.;Kushwaha, R.L.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 1993.10a
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    • pp.1063-1072
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    • 1993
  • Current finite element analysis programs for soil cutting process with tillage tools require mainframe computers. Several special treatments in developing a microcomputer FEM program were introduced to increase the capacity for solving large problems and reducing the total time cost. The program was evaluated by solving one 3-D example on a 489 microcomputer. The results showed a close agreement with the laboratory soil bin test.

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Breeding of Tetraploid in Codonopsis lanceolata (Sieb. et Zucc.) Trautvetter by Colchicine Treatment

  • Kim, Ik-Hwan;Kim, Hag-Hyun;Hong, Eui-Yon;Yun, Jong-Sun;Yun, Tae;Hwang, Ju-Kwang;Lee, Cheol-Hee
    • Plant Resources
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.227-232
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    • 2003
  • Present studies were carried out to produce tetraploid plants by colchicine treatment using seeds, seedlings and shoot tips of Codonopsis lanceolata. Three tetraploid plants of C. lanceolata were produced from seeds which absorbed 0.1 % colchicine solution for 12 hours, and 0.5% colchicine solution for 1 and 6 hours from seedlings, respectively. But tetraploid was not produced from shoot tips treated by colchicine solution. Compared to diploid, tetraploid plants had larger stomata, but less number of stomata. Fresh weight of tetraploid plants was 1.4∼3.6 times heavier than diploid plants.

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Breeding of Tetraploid in Platycodon grandiflorum (Jacq.)A. DC. by Colchicine treatment

  • Kim, Ik-Hwan;Kim, Hag-Hyun;Hong, Eui-Yon;Yun, Jong-Sun;Yun, Tae;Hwang, Ju-Kwang;Lee, Cheol-Hee
    • Plant Resources
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.188-194
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    • 2003
  • Present studies were carried out to produce tetraploid plants by colchicine treatment using seeds, seedlings and shoot tips of Platycodon grandiflorum in Campanulaceae. The most successful colchicine treatment for tetraploid production in P. grandiflorum was soaking treatment using 0.01 and 0.5% colchicine solution for 1 hour and 12 hours, respectively. Morphological characteristics of both diploid and tetraploid were similar, but tetraploid plants had more leaves. Compared to diploid, tetraploid had the larger stomata, but less number of stomata. Fresh weight of tetraploids was 20∼40% heavier than that of diploid.

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Control Efficacy of Streptomyces sp. A501 against Ginseng Damping-off and Its Antifungal Substance

  • Minh, Nguyen Van;Woo, E-Eum;Lee, Gang-Seon;Ki, Dae-Won;Lee, In-Kyoung;Lee, Sang-Yeob;Park, Kyeonghun;Song, Jaekyeong;Choi, Jae Eul;Yun, Bong-Sik
    • Mycobiology
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.44-47
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    • 2017
  • Ginseng damping-off, caused by the fungal pathogens Rhizoctonia solani and Pythium sp., is a critical disease in ginseng seedling. In a continuing effort to find microorganisms with the potential of acting as a biocontrol agent against Rhizoctonia damping-off, we found that a Streptomyces sp. A501 showed significant antifungal activity against Rhizoctonia solani. In field experiment to test the efficacy of Streptomyces sp. A501 in controlling ginseng damping-off, the incidence of damping-off disease was meaningfully reduced when ginseng seeds were soaked in the culture broth of Streptomyces sp. A501 before sowing. To perform characterization of the antifungal compound, we isolated it from the culture broth of strain A501 through Diaion HP-20 and silica gel column chromatographies and preparative high-performance liquid chromatography. The structure of the antifungal compound was assigned as fungichromin by spectroscopic methods, mainly nuclear magnetic resonance and electrospray ionization-mass analysis.