• 제목/요약/키워드: Environmental collage

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Status and future perspective for soil contamination of arable land in China

  • Lee, Kyo Suk;Lee, Dong-Sung;Hong, Beong-Deuk;Seo, Il-Hwan;Lim, Chul-Soon;Jung, Hyun-Kyu;Chung, Doug Young
    • 농업과학연구
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    • 제46권4호
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    • pp.869-883
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    • 2019
  • China is currently facing great challenges in protecting its arable soil from contamination by heavy metals, especially Cd in paddy soil. China enacted the first soil environmental quality standards (SEQS) for ten pollutants in 1995, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment released the results of the first nationwide soil survey in 2014. The soil survey showed that as much as 16% of China's soil and 19% of the agricultural soils were contaminated mainly with heavy metals and metalloids beyond the environmental quality limits. The exceeded rate of the contaminant limits in food crops was widespread in China, and the most severe regions were East and Southwest China. Heavy metals and metalloids accounted for 82.4% of the contaminants in soils while organic pollutants accounted for 17% of the contaminants in the soil. Among the heavy metals and metalloids exceeding the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) limit, cadmium (Cd) was highest at 7.0%, followed by nickel (4.8%), arsenic (2.7%), cobalt (2.1%), mercury (1.6%) and lead (1.5%). However, all the average concentrations of the pollutants were lower than the recommended values for the contaminants except for Cd for three levels of pH (< 6.5, 6.5 - 7.5, and > 7.5). According to the Action Plan on Prevention and Control of Soil Pollution released by the State Council in 2016, 90% of contaminated farmland will be made safe by 2020 with an increase to 95% by 2030. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the soil quality to meet the environmental quality standard for soils and heavy metal standards for food safety.

갈파래 (Ulva lactuca) 추출물의 항균 및 항산화 효과 (Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of Seaweed, Ulva lactuca)

  • 김인혜;이희현;장정수;이상현;하종명;하배진;이재화
    • 한국환경성돌연변이발암원학회지
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    • 제26권2호
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    • pp.48-52
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    • 2006
  • Our investigation of the seaweed extracts, Ulva lactuca. The biological activities antioxidant, antimicrobial activity, antifungal and haemolytic activity of ethy-ether and ethyl-acetate extracts from the seaweed, Ulva lactuca were investigated. They were separately extracted using ethyl-ether and ethyl-acetate from dried samples at room temperature and freeze dried. Seaweed extracts were found to cause significant free radical scavenging effects on DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl). Seaweed extracts had not significant haemolytic activity against human erythrocyte. This extracts exhibited in vitro broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity of gram-negative, gram-positive bacteria and without antifungal activity.

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Assessing the Limits of Agricultural Situation for the Food Security in North Korea

  • Rhie, Ja-Hyun;Lee, Kyo-Suk;Seo, Il-Hwan;Min, Se-Won;Chung, Doug-Young
    • 한국토양비료학회지
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    • 제50권4호
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    • pp.275-284
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    • 2017
  • The food situation in North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK) has been in difficulty situation because of a shortage of energy, and of raw materials such as fertilizer and agricultural chemicals. The international agricultural aid programs can alleviate some difficulties in the agricultural areas, but the policies and measures in North Korea can not help difficulties in the agriculture due to the institutional obstacles enforced by DPRK. The arable area of DPRK is approximately $20,000km^2$, of which $14,000km^2$ is well for cereal cultivation. Fertilizer supplies in recent years between 700,000 and 750,000 tons annually were less than 50% of the normal requirement. Also, North Korea strongly needed to inject phosphorus fertilizer and lime to increase the fertility. Soil degradation in DPRK was characterized by physical and chemical changes caused by rapid loss of clay particles and organic matter. Intensive ploughing and tilling to grow crops may lead to massive soil degradation and declining yields. Although farmers in the DPRK have faced numerous challenges, not least of which are soil erosion, scarce inputs and extreme weather like drought, flooding and cold spells. Therefore farmers should be encouraged to adopt more environmentally sound cropping practices, to access quality seeds and planting materials and to reduce losses after the harvest.

Specification Scheme of Pig Liquid Manure as Organic Agricultural Substances Used for Organic Farming

  • Seo, Il-Hwan;Lee, Kyo-Suk;Rhie, Ja-Hyun;Min, Se-Won;Chung, Doug-Young
    • 한국토양비료학회지
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    • 제50권5호
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    • pp.462-471
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    • 2017
  • A more efficient use of nutrients from organic sources can benefit both farmers and water quality in agriculture. In this paper we reviewed information related to the regulations and guidelines of a swine liquid fertilizer to propose an establishment scheme for the official standards of swine manure slurry as a liquid fertilizer for organic farming. According to the law of establishment and designation of official standard of fertilizers, the liquid fertilizer made with pig liquid manure belongs to the byproduct fertilizer as of one of organic fertilizer. However, the official standards for byproduct fertilizers including the liquid fertilizer set by the Rural Development Administration (RDA), especially for a liquid swine manure fertilizer, should be revised to meet the goals of laws pursuing the environmentally sound agriculture, especially for organic farming because the terms and relevant standards need additional specific standards alike the standards such as impurities and parameter for declaration in EU. Therefore, it is suggested that official standards for byproduct fertilizers should be revised with respect to nutrient, salt content as of SAR and Na content instead of NaCl. Also we need to develop the maximum limit of heavy metals in soil to which the liquid fertilizer can be applied, as well as application rate depending on EC of the liquid fertilizer.

갈파래(Ulva Lactuca)의 용매별 추출물의 면역 증강 효과 (Immunological Stimulating Effects of the Marine Macroalgae Ulva lactuca with Different Solvents)

  • 김인혜;현진원;이상현;하종명;하배진;이재화
    • 한국환경성돌연변이발암원학회지
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    • 제26권3호
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    • pp.89-92
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    • 2006
  • To enhance our understanding of immunological stimulating effects through the pathway by which nitric oxide (NO) activity and alkaline phosphatase(ALP) enzyme activity from the marine algae, Ulva lactuca, we have investigated NO activity by using mouse RAW264.7 cell line. And ALP enzyme activity performed by spleen of ICR mouse. The results showed that NO activity of the $H_2O$ fraction is the most effective than activities of other solvent fractions.

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Involvement of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase in H-ras-induced invasive phenotype and motility

  • Lee, Eun-Jung;Kim, Mi-Sung;Aree Moon
    • 한국독성학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국독성학회 2001년도 International Symposium on Signal transduction in Toxicology
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    • pp.156-156
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    • 2001
  • One of the most frequent defects in human cancer is the uncontroled activation of the ras-signaling pathway. We have previously shown that H-rasm but not N-ras, induces an invasiveness. Here, we show that cell motility was greatly increased by H-ras, but not by N-ras, suggesting that H-ras-induced invasive phnotype involves enhanced cell motility.(omitted)

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PREVENTIVE EFFECT OF MUSHROOM PHELLINUS LINTEUS ON THE INHIBITION OF GAP JUNCTIONAL INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION BY $H_2O_2$ IS INVOLVED IN THE UP-REGULATION OF ERK2 AND p38

  • Kang, Kyung-Sun;Cho, Jong-Ho;Cho, Sung-Dae;Kim, Kyung-Bae;Lee, Ji-Hae;Ahn, Nam-Shik;Jung, Ji-Won;Yang, Se-Ran;Park, Joon-Suk;Yoon, Byung-Su;Kim, Sung-Hoon;Lee, Yong-Soon
    • 한국독성학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국독성학회 2001년도 International Symposium on Dietary and Medicinal Antimutgens and Anticarcinogens
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    • pp.159-160
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    • 2001
  • Gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) is a cellular event underlying the tumor promotion process and that treatment to prevent the down-regulation or to up-regulate GJIC is important in preventing tumor promotion. We evaluated the potential preventive effect of Mushroom Phellinus Linteus (PL) against the promoting action of hydrogen peroxide ($H_2O$$_2$) in WB-F344 rat liver epithelial cells.(omitted)

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상황버섯 (Phellinus linteus)으로부터 항산화 및 항균 효과 (Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of Cambodian Mushroom, Phellinus linteus)

  • 김인혜;진은정;이재화
    • 한국환경성돌연변이발암원학회지
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    • 제26권2호
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    • pp.41-44
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    • 2006
  • This study was peformed to determine the antioxidant, antimicrobial activity and antifungal of the cambodian mushroom, Phellinus linteus, in various concentrations from the mushroom extracts. It's extracts were found to cause significant free radical scavenging effects on DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl). This extracts exhibited in vitro broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity of Gram-negative, Gram-positive bacteria and without antifungal activity. On the other hand, the extracts had not significant hemolytic activity against human red blood cells. These results indicate cambodian mushroom, Phellinus inteus having antioxidant and antimicrobial activity without hemolytic activity maybe useful as therapeutic agents.

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