• Title/Summary/Keyword: Allelopathic potential

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Allelopathic Effects of Fir Tree (Abies holophylla)

  • Kim, Young-Sik;Kil, Bong-Seop
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.307-310
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    • 2004
  • It was found that seed germination and seedling growth of selected species were inhibited by phytotoxic substance released from fir trees. The aqueous extracts of leaves caused significant inhibition in the seed germination of the receptor plants, Whereas seed germination of some species was not inhibited in extracts of leaves, but seedling elongation of the receptor plants was also decreased by the aqueous extract. Dry weight growth was slightly increased in lower concentration of the extract, while that was proportionally inhibited by higher concentration of the extracts. Chemical substances of fir trees were shown the biological toxicity. The GC method was employed for analysis of phytotoxic chemicals and sixteen chemical substances were identified such as benzoic, phenylacetic, etc. Also 33 volatile substances were identified from the fir tree. These chemical compounds are assumed the substances related to allelopathic potential of Abies holophylla plant species.

Allelopathic Potential and Antioxidant Activity of Leaf Extracts from Several Wild Plant Species

  • Chon, Sang-Uk;Cha, Young-Ju
    • Plant Resources
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.47-53
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    • 2004
  • Several wild plant species are known to contain biologically active substances that are allelopathic to weed species as well as antioxidant to foods. Plant extracts or residues from leaves of 4 species, Achyranthes japonica (speedwell), Cucumis sativus (Cucumber), Trifolium repens (white clover), and Vicia angustifolia (narrowleaf vetch) were bioassayed against Medicago sativa (alfalfa) or Echinochloa crus-galli (barnyard grass) to determine their allelopathic effects, and used for measurement of antioxidant activities. The aqueous extracts applied on filter paper significantly inhibited root growth of alfalfa. Aqueous extracts or residues from V. angustifolia showed the most inhibitory effect on alfalfa or barnyard grass seedling growth and followed by A. japonica and T. repens. Oxidative stability by Rancimat method, antioxidant activity by TBA (2-thiobarbituric acid) method and DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl) radical scavenging activity for the ground samples or methanol extracts were the greatest in V. angustifolia, although were less than those of commonly used antioxidants, BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) and ascorbic acid. These results suggest that the wild plant species had potent allelopathic and antioxidant activities, and that their activities differed depending on plant species.

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An Assessment of Allelopathic Potential of Korean Black Soybean Plant Parts

  • Chon, Sang-Uk
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.345-350
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    • 2003
  • A series of aqueous extracts and residues from leaves, stems, roots, pods and seeds of Korean black soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) were assayed against alfalfa (Medicago sativa) and barnyard grass (Echinochloa crus-galli) to determine their allelopathic activities through petri-dish and greenhouse experiments, and the results showed highest inhibition in the extracts or residues from the seeds, and followed by pods. The extracts of 40g dry tissue $\textrm{L}^{-1}$ applied on filter paper in petri-dish bioassay significantly inhibited root growth of alfalfa, and especially extracts from seeds and pods reduced root length of alfalfa more than those from leaves, stems, or roots. Plant height, root length, shoot and root dry weights of barnyard grass were reduced significantly by residue incorporation of seeds and pods as the incorporated amount increased. These results suggest that black soybean plants had herbicidal potential, and their activities were exhibited differently depending on plant parts.

Phytotoxic Effects of Naturally Occurring Chemicals from Pinus koraiensis on Experimental Species (잣나무의 天然化學物質이 다른 植物에 미치는 毒性作用)

  • Kil, Bong-Seop;Kim, Doo-Young;Kim, Young-Sik;Lee, Seung-Yeob
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.149-157
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    • 1991
  • To find out allelopathic potential of naturally occurring substances emitted form pinus korairnsis, water extracts and volatile sudstances of the tree materials werw provided and used for tests such as seed germination and seedling growth test. In general, the more was the concentration of the extracts and essential oils, the worse was growth effects of the selected species. The germination an the growth were inversely proportional to the concentration of the extracts and the essential oils of p. koraiensis. in other words, the chemical substances had the biological toxic activity. gc and gc/ms methods were employed for analysis and identification of phytotoxic substances from the tree leaves. Sixteen chemical compounds were identified from water extracts and nineteen from essential oils of p. koraiensis leaves. Through the experiment on germination and seedling growth test, the chemical substances naturally occurring from p. koraiensis seemed to be responsible for the allelopathic potential in this study.

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Allelopathic Influence of Alfalfa and Vetch Extracts and Residues on Soybean and Corn (알팔파와 베치의 추출물 및 잔유물의 콩과 옥수수에 대한 타감작용)

  • Ki-June Kim;III-Min Chung;Kwang-Ho Kim;Joung-Kuk Ahn
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.295-305
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    • 1994
  • Greenhouse and laboratory studies were conducted to investigate the allelopathic potential of alfalfa and vetch residues on soybean and corn using various extract concentrations (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20%, w/v) and residue rates (0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1%, w/w). Aqueous extracts of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and vetch (Vicia spp.) exhibited an allelopathic effect on soybean and corn seed germination, seedling length and weight. The degree of inhibition significantly increased as the aqueous extract concentration increased. Alfalfa and vetch 20% extracts reduced soybean seed germination, seedling length and weight by 35%, 57%, 32% and 15%, 42%, 25% respectively, when compared to control. Corn germination, seedling length and weight was inhibited by 20%, 23%, 38% by alfalfa and 19%, 18%, 35% by 20% vetch extracts. Alfalfa and vetch extracts inhibited secondary root formation and branching as the extract concentration increased. Alfalfa and vetch 20% extracts inhibited by 41% and 32% secondary root numbers, respectively as compared to control. It was found that the aqueous extract of alfalfa resulted in greater reduction in germination, seedling length and weight of soybean than that of vetch. Alfalfa and vetch 1% residue rate inhibited soybean plant height by 30% and 10%, leaf area by 31% and 23%, and dry weight by 18% and 1%, nodule number by 27% and 20% also. Alfalfa and vetch residue significantly enhanced plant height, leaf area and dry weight of corn. The maximum stimulation occurred with 0.25% and 1% of alfalfa and vetch residue rates, respectively. Plant height, leaf area, and dry weight increased by 23%, 59%, 58% and 17%, 52%, 94% with alfalfa and vetch residues of 0.25% and 1%, respectively. This study demonstrates that there is an allelopathic potential resulting from alfalfa and vetch residues on soybean growth and yield. It also suggests that these residues may affect crop growth and development due to the inhibitory or stimulatory effects of allelochemicals existing in the residue.

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Analysis of 'QTL-seq' associated with allelopathic potential in rice

  • Cho, Gi-Won;Choi, Ji-Su;Oh, Young-Taek;Lee, Kyoung-Jin;Chung, Ill-Min
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Crop Science Conference
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    • 2017.06a
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    • pp.102-102
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    • 2017
  • In this study, QTL analysis of allelopathy was conducted. A total of 171 of F8 RILs developed from the cross between Nongan(low allelopathic cultivar) and Sathi(high allelopathic cultivar) were used . the performance of allelopathy were evaluated using 'ECAM(Equal Compartment Agar Method)', where the root length of lettuce cultivated with the RILs were measured. The distribution of the performance was followed as normal distribution. In order to identify the location of QTLs related to allelopathy, QTL-seq with BSA(Bulked-segregant analysis) was performed with 20 highest and 10 lowest RILs. As a result, Two Sliding window coordinate region of candidate QTLs were detected on Chr4 (5,050,001 - 14,800,000, 18,650,001 - 22,500,000), Chr8 (2,550,001 - 8,250,000, 21,150,001 - 26,800,000) and One region on Chr7 (1 - 3,300,000), Chr9 (1 - 13,300,000) respectively.

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Differentially Expressed Genes of Potentially Allelopathic Rice in Response against Barnyardgrass

  • Junaedi, Ahmad;Jung, Woo-Suk;Chung, Ill-Min;Kim, Kwang-Ho
    • Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.231-236
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    • 2007
  • Differentially expressed genes(DEG) were identified in a rice variety, Sathi, an indica type showing high allelopathic potential against barnyardgrass(Echinochloa crus-galli(L.) Beauv. var. frumentaceae). Rice plants were grown with and without barnyardgrass and total RNA was extracted from rice leaves at 45 days after seeding. DEG full-screening was performed by $GeneFishing^{TM}$ method. The differentially expressed bands were re-amplified and sequenced, then analyzed by Basic Local Alignment Search Tool(BLAST) searching for homology sequence identification. Gel electrophoresis showed nine possible genes associated with allelopathic potential in Sathi, six genes(namely DEG-1, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9) showed higher expression, and three genes(DEG-2, 3 and 6) showed lower expression as compared to the control. cDNA sequence analysis showed that DEG-7 and DEG-9 had the same sequence. From RT PCR results, DEG-6 and DEG-7 were considered as true DEG, whereas DEG-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8 were considered as putative DEG. Results from blast-n and blast-x search suggested that DEG-1 is homologous to a gene for S-adenosylmethionine synthetase, DEG-2 is homologous to a chloroplast gene for ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase large subunit, DEG-8 is homologous to oxysterol-binding protein with an 85.7% sequence similarity, DEG-5 is homologous to histone 2B protein with a 47.9% sequence similarity, DEG-6 is homologous to nicotineamine aminotransferase with a 33.1% sequence similarity, DEG-3 has 98.8% similarity with nucleotides sequence that has 33.1% similarity with oxygen evolving complex protein in photosystem II, DEG-7 is homologous to nucleotides sequence that may relate with putative serin/threonine protein kinase and putative transposable element, and DEG-4 has 98.8% similarity with nucleotides sequence for an unknown protein.

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