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Occurrence of Damping-off Caused by Pythium spinosum on Cucumis melo in Korea

  • Park, Mi-Jeong;Back, Chang-Gi;Han, Kyung-Sook;Park, Jong-Han
    • Research in Plant Disease
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.190-193
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    • 2016
  • In 2010 and 2012, damping-off symptoms were found on melon seedlings grown in Yeongam and Suncheon, Korea. Water-soaked and discolored lesions appeared on the lower stems of the infected plants. The diseased plants became wilted and stunted, and eventually collapsed. On the basis of morphological characteristics and molecular analyses of internal transcribed spacer (ITS) rDNA and cytochrome oxidase II (cox2) sequences, the causal organism was identified as Pythium spinosum. The isolates were pathogenic to melon under pot conditions. To our knowledge, this is the first report of P. spinosum causing damping-off on melon in Korea.

First Report of Fusarium subglutinans Causing Leaf Spot Disease on Cymbidium Orchids in Korea

  • Han, Kyung-Sook;Park, Jong-Han;Back, Chang-Gi;Park, Mi-Jeong
    • Mycobiology
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.343-346
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    • 2015
  • In 2006~2010, leaf spot symptoms, that is, small, yellow spots that turned into dark brown-to-black lesions surrounded by a yellow halo, were observed on Cymbidium spp. in Gongju, Taean, and Gapyeong in Korea. A Fusarium species was continuously isolated from symptomatic leaves; in pathogenicity testing, isolates caused leaf spot symptoms consisting of sunken, dark brown lesions similar to the original ones. The causal pathogen was identified as Fusarium subglutinans based on morphological and translation elongation factor 1-alpha sequence analyses. This is the first report of F. subglutinans as the cause of leaf spot disease in Cymbidium spp. in Korea.

Intergenerational Horticultural Program

  • Kim, H.D.;Yoo, E.H.;Cho, J.G.;Kim, K.J.;Jeong, S.J.
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.19 no.spc
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    • pp.63-66
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    • 2011
  • An Intergenerational Horticultural Program in a rural community in Korea was tried out to enhance social interaction between elderly citizens and children, to promote the positive self-esteem of the elderly in a rural community, to change the attitude of children towards the elderly, and to create a rural community full of vitality. The clients were 20 elderly (60-80 years old) and 40 preschool children (6-7 years old). The activities in this program included seed of hope, round autumn garden, dish garden, in the vegetable patch, flower decoration for the Chuseok Festival, rainbow flower basket, heart card, fragrance of love, and a kimchi party. The results were a decrease in depression among the elderly from 44.0% to 33.7%. General satisfaction among the elderly was 100%. The desire to rejoin among the elderly was 100%. General satisfaction among the children was 100%. The desire to rejoin among the children was 93.5%.

A New Gerbera Cultivar "Pink Swan"; High-yielding Cultivar with Pink and Semi-double for Cut-flower

  • Park, Sang Kun;Lim, Jin Hee;Kim, Mi Seon;Joung, Hyang Young;Shin, Hak Ki;Cho, Hae Ryong;Rhee, Hye Kyung
    • Korean Journal of Breeding Science
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.539-542
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    • 2009
  • A new gerbera variety "Pink Swan" was released by the National Horticultural Research Institute (NHRI) in 2007. A cross was made between "Royal" with orange and single and 'Himalaya' with white and semi-double in 2004. After investigation of the characteristics for 4 years (from 2004 to 2007), it was selected specially for the use of cut-flower. "Pink Swan" is a vigorous medium-sized cultivar with pink (RHS R48D), yellow green center and semi-double. The average flower diameter is 10.6 cm. And inner ray floret and disc diameter is 5.99cm and 1.83cm, respectively. It produces a large yield with continuous supply of flowers and has adequate peduncle height. We believe that "Pink Swan" has a great potential for expanding cultivated area of domestic gerbera cultivar and increasing farmers-income.