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Cestrum tomentosum L.f. Extracts against Colletotrichum scovillei by Altering Cell Membrane Permeability and Inducing ROS Accumulation

  • Guogeng Jia;Sun Ha Kim;Jiyoung Min;Nelson Villalobos Zamora;Silvia Soto Montero;Soo-Yong Kim;Sang-Keun Oh
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.40 no.5
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    • pp.475-485
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    • 2024
  • Chili pepper anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum spp., is a significant biotic stress affecting chili fruits globally. While fungicide application is commonly used for disease management due to its efficiency and cost-effectiveness, excessive use poses risks to human health and the environment. Botanical fungicides offer advantages such as rapid degradation and low toxicity to mammals, making them increasingly popular for sustainable plant disease control. This study investigated the antifungal properties of Cestrum tomentosum L.f. crude extracts (CTCE) against Colletotrichum scovillei. The results demonstrated that CTCE effectively inhibited conidia germination and germ tube elongation at 40 ㎍/ml concentrations. Moreover, CTCE exhibited strong antifungal activity against C. scovillei mycelial growth, with an EC50 value of 18.81 ㎍/ml. In vivo experiments confirmed the protective and curative effects of CTCE on chili pepper fruits infected with C. scovillei. XTT analysis showed that the CTCE could significantly inhibit the cell viability of C. scovillei. Mechanistic studies revealed that CTCE disrupted the plasma membrane integrity of C. scovillei and induced the accumulation of reactive oxygen species in hyphal cells. These findings highlight CTCE as a promising eco-friendly botanical fungicide for managing C. scovillei infections in chili peppers.

A Structural Relationship among Consumers' Consumption Values, Purchase Attitudes, and Purchase Intentions toward Upcycled Food Products (업사이클링 푸드의 소비가치가 소비자의 구매태도와 구매의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Geum-Yeong Hwang;Ji-Bum Um
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.139-152
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    • 2024
  • This study aims to examine the structural relationship among consumers' consumption values, purchase attitudes, and purchase intentions toward upcycled food products. Survey data were collected from 400 consumers aged 20 and older between June 11 and June 20, 2024. The results revealed that functional value, ethical value, exploratory value, and situational value positively influenced purchase attitude, while social value, ethical value, exploratory value, and purchase attitude significantly influenced purchase intention. Purchase attitude, driven by ethical and exploratory values, was identified as a key factor explaining purchase intention. Based on these findings, the study suggests that developing innovative and original products is essential to attract consumer attention and stimulate the consumption of upcycled food. Additionally, marketing strategies that emphasize ethical responsibility and environmental benefits should be implemented. Furthermore, strengthening ESG management through sustainable business models, such as eco-friendly packaging and transparent information, can enhance positive consumer attitudes and lead to increased product purchases.

A Study on the Landscape adjective characteristics for the Major Landscape Elements in Organic farming (유기농업단지 주요경관요소의 경관형용사 특성에 관한 연구)

  • An, Phil-Gyun;Eom, Sung-Jun;Kim, Nam-Chun;Kim, Sang-Bum
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.69-84
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    • 2020
  • Up to date, the majority research on the major landscape elements in organic farming has been mainly focused on the practice of seeking efficiency. The problem is that this type of study contributes to polluting the agricultural environment and damaging the ecological circulation system. As an alternative, there is a growing body of research on organic farming, but it is not widely applied that research on how to manage the landscape considering the scenic characteristics of farming villages practicing organic farming. Hence, in this paper we utilized landscape adjectives as a way to enhance the objectivity of the organic agricultural complex landscape assessment. More specifically, not only this study used a landscape image of an organic agricultural complex to identify a landscape adjective suitable for the landscape elements but also this study confirmed the suitability of landscape adjectives comparing to the opinions of experts and the public. To carry out, this study performed the experts survey which is composed of 12 major landscape elements, including rice paddies and fields, monoculture and diverse crops, dirt roads, windbreak trees, accent planting, dum-bung(small pond), natural small river, natural waterways, plastic film houses, one-storied houses, and pavilion. As a result of deriving the landscape adjectives from the main landscape elements, there were nine landscape adjectives that were consistent with experts and the public, including "clear" and "Artless" for rice paddies and fields, while the mismatched landscape adjectives were 'traditional'. The accent planting was a combination of landscape adjectives such as 'natural' and 'clear', while the windbreak trees was a consensus of all landscape adjectives. Only two adjectives, 'friendly' and 'wild', agreed on the dirt load, nine dum-bung(small pond), ten natural small river, nine duckery, eight one-storied houses, 10 pavilion, eight monoculture and diverse crops, and three natural waterways. The most common landscape adjectives were windbreak trees, pavilions, and natural small river, all 10 landscape adjectives. However, it is considered that only three of the 10 landscape types on the dirt road and the natural number are matched. Thus, additional management measures will be needed. In addition, it was analyzed that the most common landscape adjectives were "Artless" and "friendly" 13 times. The landscape adjectives of the organic farming complex responded by experts were analyzed to be suitable for natural, clear, zingy, silent, traditional, artless, friendly, wild and Leisurely, and consistent with the general public's opinion.

The Effect of Food Choice Motive on Attitude and Intention of Purchasing Organic Food (식품의 선택 동기가 유기농 식품에 대한 태도 및 구매의도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dong-Ki;Kim, Sun-Joo;Lee, Kyung-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.506-512
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    • 2011
  • Due to an overall increase of income, the general standard of living has improved and people have begun to be interested in being more healthy in their lives. This tendency has affected the food market, especially in relation to organic and eco-friendly food. Thus, the overall market size for those products has grown to give more choices to consumers. To examine the effect of the motive for choosing certain food products on the actual attitude and intent to purchase the products, a survey was given to 330 people living in Seoul, which resulted in 235 usable responses. The content of the questionnaire consisted of 18 questions on food choice motives, 3 questions on the attitude toward organic foods and 3 questions on the intention of purchasing for organic foods. The SPSS 12.0 statistics program was used to analyze of following: frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, t-test, one way ANOVA and regression analysis. Five factors of food choice motives were obtained from the analysis: health, convenience, price, familiarity and environmental protection. The regression analysis showed that food choice motive, health and environmental protection factors have a positive relationship with organic food attitudes and organic food attitudes have a positive relationship with the intent to purchase organic food.

Analysis of significant factors for successful BIM technology application to Korean traditional house projects (한옥 건설 프로젝트에서의 BIM 도입 활성화를 위한 주요 요인 분석)

  • Jang, Ha-Ra;Lee, Joo-Sung;Seo, Hee-Chang;Oh, Jung-Keun;Kim, Jae-June
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.71-81
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    • 2013
  • Recently, Korean Traditional House is being reconsidered as a alternative and eco-friendly residential housing. With these flows, government and industry actively studies the modernization and industrialization of Korean Traditional House. Apply for BIM as a way of modernization and industrialization of Korean Traditional House, research has been actively conducted. Korean Traditional House is building that is assembled by individual Component Therefore it is very useful for modernization of the Korean Traditional House to design Korean Traditional House With BIM. Which is the management technology that produces and distributes information of the architecture. But compared with the effect, the use of BIM is sluggish in the construction. Therefore, In this study after surveying about lowly using BIM on point of AEC(Architect-Engineer-Contract), the result is analyzed with AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process). So the aim of this study is to offer the base to find the solution of the Affecting factors about lowly using BIM.

Study on Practical Evaluation for Sustainability in Textile and Fashion Companies (섬유·패션기업의 지속가능성 실천 평가 연구)

  • Syn, Hye-Young;Geum, Key-Sook
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.137-146
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    • 2014
  • The practice of sustainability is an important subject to integrate into the management, product planning, manufacturing by textile and fashion companies as well as consumption by end-users. This study shows an evaluation scale designed to assess the practical cases in order to suggest efficient and systematic methods to fulfill the practice of sustainability in textile and fashion companies. First, companies should practice environmental sustainability to use eco-friendly material and cleaner production, protect the environment, and save natural resources. Second, social sustainability is required to fulfill social responsibility and ethical needs. Third, companies should perform various innovative activities, transparency in management, fair competition and economic contribution in the local community in order to maintain economic sustainability to survive in industry. Finally, cultural sustainability should be fulfilled by textile and fashion companies as part of the intellectual-cultural industry in a way that increases the importance of ethnic and cultural diversity. Textile and fashion companies should fulfill four environmental, social, and economic cultural sustainable subjects in a balanced method to accomplish sustainability. The concerns and practices of environmental sustainability are comparatively highly rated due to the analysis of the evaluation scale. However, cultural sustainability (a need of the times) is poorly rated and needs more attention. Therefore, the evaluation scale can be used as a standard tool to fulfill the sustainability of companies and brands from the viewpoint of improving poor and insufficiently sustainable items as well as balancing sustainability management.

Design of a New IoT Management System for Efficient Recovery of Shared Electric Kickboards (공유형 전동킥보드의 효율적 회수를 위한 새로운 IoT 관리시스템 설계)

  • Jang, Eun-Jin;Shin, Seung-Jung
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.189-194
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    • 2021
  • With the recent increase in the proportion of single-person households, starting in 2016, the domestic shared personnel mobility market such as electric kickboards and electric wheels has grown rapidly. Personal transportation means such as electric kickboards are power devices using electricity and are eco-friendly, lightweight, and do not occupy a separate parking space. Above all, it has the advantage of being convenient to travel short and medium distances, so it has been able to obtain a lot of demand from younger users who pursue reasonable consumption, and accordingly, the related market has grown rapidly. However, as absence of the charging station for electric kickboards, electric kickboards are left everywhere on the road, and are emerging as a threat to safety as well as aesthetics. Therefore, this paper aims to research and propose a new IoT management system for efficient recovery of shared electric kickboards. Through this system, it is expected that the high recovery rate of the electric kickboard can be maintained, and in conclusion, the safety of the user and the surrounding environment can be improved.

Blockchain-based Sales and Purchase Record Management Systems for Agricultural Products (블록체인을 활용한 농산물 판매 및 소비이력 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Na, Wonshik
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.41-46
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    • 2022
  • This paper proposes a consumer-tailored solution to prevent the forgery and falsification of data by incorporating blockchain technology in the online and offline distribution of agricultural produce. The solution provides customized services to consumers based on an analysis of the data generated from the sales, distribution, and consumption of quality of the produce. It can also ensure the safety and credibility of the produce, and allow producers to identify consumption intent and the flow of distribution. Producers will be able to determine the flow of produce based on the data collected and thus tailor promotional efforts. This is expected to be the fourth industrial revolution in the agricultural produce distribution sector. Utilizing blockchain and big data technology to create integrated record management systems that combine multiple solutions will shape future technology trends. In addition, if eco-friendly certification is acknowledged as a valuable service and can be incorporated into the distribution process, this solution could become a one-stop distribution solution for agricultural produce.

Automatic Algorithms of Rebar Quantity Take-Off of Green Frame by Composite Precast Concrete Members (합성 PC부재에 의한 그린 프레임의 철근물량 산출 자동화 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Sung-Ho;Kim, Seon-Hyung;Lee, Goon-Jae;Kim, Sun-Kuk;Joo, Jin-Kyu
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.118-128
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    • 2012
  • As the bearing wall structure, which has been widely applied to domestic apartment buildings since the 1980s, cause many problems during remodeling of buildings, the government encourages constructors to adopt flat plate or rahmen structure through legal incentives. In line with such a trend, the green frame, an eco-friendly rahmen structure that has removed the shortcomings of previous structures, was developed to enhance structural safety, constructability, and eco-friendliness. The construction of green frame can reduce the labor cost and facilitate the composition of iron bars to reduce rebar loss through calculating the quality and establishing the bar bending schedule automatically on the precast concrete member data collected over the design phase. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to develop the algorithm to automate the calculation of iron bar volume for the green frame designed on composite precast concrete members. Automated algorithm to calculate concrete structural design information and design information. Practices through the application site should prove efficacy. The database established by the developed algorithm will automate the establishment of iron bar processing map and bar cutting list and the calculation of optimal composition and order volume to minimize the rebar loss. This will also reduce the expenses on management staff and overall construction cost through the minimization of rebar loss.

A Study of Potential Buyers' Consciousness of Single-Family Housing in Ulsan (단독주택에 대한 울산시 거주자의 주의식 연구)

  • Kim, Ji-Suk;Yang, Se-Hwa
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.35-46
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of the study was to identify the potential buyers' consciousness of single-family housing to provide useful data to help future single-family housing supplies in Ulsan. The study selected residents in Ulsan, who were over twenty and had an interest in living in a single-family housing. A survey was conducted from September 11, 2008 to September 25, 2008. The sample consisted of 364 persons who are currently live in Ulsan metropolitan area. The results are as following. About two thirds of the sample had the desire to live in a single-family housing. Moving into a single-family housing had financial preparation as the greatest issue. When moving into a single-family housing, the convenience of the residential district was the greatest consideration, whether or not it is a green environment, pollution level, etc. The potential buyers valued environment-friendly features and also had a very strong desire to own their own house. Many of them wanted to design and build their own single-family housing within a budget of 100-200 million KRW. In terms of the location, there was a higher preference for the riverside or lakeside rural areas outside the city. In terms of size, the preference was less than $330m^2$, which includes $99-132m^2$ for residential. When considering a single-family housing the direction was the most important feature, along with eco-friendly and safer materials and equipments. When building the single-family housing the potential buyers considered the community spaces first with a preference for having three bedrooms and two bathrooms. For the exterior, they wanted a unique shape of roof and there were high preferences for brown and beige colors. In terms of housing complexes, the potential buyers preferred individual unit types over complexes. If they preferred housing complexes, they wanted the cluster form complex with about 10-30 units. The complex also required a park-like setting with a guard system, which shows that convenience and safety were the most important features. In terms of complex management, they considered environmental management as the most important feature. The potential buyers were willing to pay belw 200,000 KRW, which showed their desire to minimize financial burdens.