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Study of Ecological Niche and Indicator Species by Landforms and Altitude of Forest Vegetation in Mt. Myeonbong (면봉산 일대 산림식생의 지형과 고도에 따른 생태적 지위 및 지표종에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Byeong Joo;Byeon, Jun Gi;Cheon, Kwang Il
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.325-337
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    • 2019
  • This study was conducted to analyze character of distribution of plants by landforms and altitude in Mt. myeonbong. The chemical properties of soil in this study sites were as follows; pH 4.86, organic 52.53 g/kg, $P_2O_5$ 7.57 mg/kg, potassium $0.18cmol^+/kg$, calcium $2.45cmol^+/kg$ and magnesium $0.49cmol^+/kg$. Generalists in the upper layer were analyzed as follows; Quercus mongolica, Pinus densiflora, Quercus variabilis, and specialists; Carpinus cordata, Tilia amurensis, Morus bombycis etc. In the middle layer, generalists were Betula schmidtii, Quercus mongolica, Sorbus alnifolia and specialists; Lindera erythrocarpa, Quercus serrata, Staphylea bumalda etc. Generalist of shrubs; Lindera obtusiloba, Rhododendron mucronulatum, Sorbus alnifolia, and specialists; Morus bombycis, Pinus densiflora, Deutzia glabrata etc. Generalists of herbaceous layer; Rhus tricocarpa, Lespedeza maximowiczii, Polygonatum odoratum var. pluriflorum and specialists; Liparis kumokiri, Davallia mariesii and Chrysosplenium flagelliferum etc.

Floristic study of Jogyesan Mt. (조계산의 식물상)

  • SUN, Eun-Mi;CHOI, Seung-Man;KIM, Byeol-Ah;SON, Hyun-Deok;HONG, Hang-Hwa;IM, Hyoung-Tak
    • Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.331-356
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    • 2018
  • We investigated the flora of Jogyesan Mt. and discussed important vascular plants found on this mountain. In total, 16 separate field trips (20 days overall) were completed from 2013 to 2017. There are 577 taxa on Mt. Jogyesan, consisting of 115 families, 333 genera, 520 species, 8 subspecies, 45 varieties, and 4 forms. Eighteen endemic plants of Korea were found on Jogyesan Mt., including Carex okamotoi Ohwi, Coreanomecon hylomeconoides Nakai, and Stewartia koreana Nakai ex Rehder. There are 80 taxa of floristic regional indicator plants in total, including level V such as Adenophora palustris Kom. and level IV such as Dryopteris championii (Benth.) C. Chr. ex Ching, Gastrodia elata Blume, Lindera sericea (Siebold & Zucc.) Blume and Corylopsis glabrescens var. gotoana (Makino) T. Yamanaka. There also are 24 taxa of naturalized plants, including Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.

A study on the priorities through weight analysis for each index of performance evaluation of public sewage operation agency (공공하수도 관리대행 성과평가 지표별 가중치분석을 통한 우선순위에 대한 연구)

  • Wi, Mikyung;Park, Chulhwi
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.495-502
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    • 2020
  • The 37 indicators for performance evaluation of public sewage management agencies are divided into four major categories (agency manpower management ability, wastewater treatment plant operation and management, sludge and water reuse, service quality) in the first stage, and the necessity and score acquisition for the detailed indicators by each major category in the second stages. Priority was investigated through the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) analysis technique for ease and relevance of company efforts. Also, based on the results of this analysis, integrated type weighting and relative importance were analyzed. As a result of the analysis, the weight and relative importance of the first stage classification were in the order of wastewater treatment plant operation and maintenance, operation agency manpower management ability, sludge and water reuse, and service quality. As a result of analyzing the weights and priorities of the detailed performance indicators in the second stage, it was found that operator's career years, the percentage of certification holding rate in operators, compliance with the effluent water quality standards, training times for operators, and efforts to manage hazardous chemicals were important. Some of the indicators of operation agency performance evaluation may include indicators in which the performance of the company's efforts is underestimated or overestimated. In order to improve this, it is necessary to give weights in consideration of the necessity of the indicator, the relevance of the company's efforts, and the ease of obtaining scores.

Plant diversity of the pads of electric towers along the deltaic Mediterranean coast of Egypt

  • Kamal Shaltout;Hani Beshara;Yassin Al-Sodany;Ahmed Sharaf, El-Din;Ragab El-Fahar
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.63-74
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    • 2023
  • Background: Comparing with the several types of infrastructures, linear infrastructures are known to facilitate the spread of undesirable species in ecosystems. Recently, some new man-made habitats (e.g., gravel pads of the high-voltage towers, solid wastes and sewage habitats) were established along the Deltaic Mediterranean coast of Egypt as a result of the construction of the E-W coastal international highway. The current study evaluates the floristic composition associated with the pads of high-voltage towers that had been constructed for stabilizing the power line towers in the North Nile Delta. Plant cover was measured for 22 randomly stand. Results: Eighty-four species were recorded, of which 35 are perennials (41.6%), 2 biennials (2.3%) and 47 annuals (56.0%) belonging to 23 families. The largest families were Asteraceae (16 species), Poaceae (15 species), Chenopodiaceae (12 species), and Fabaceae (7 species). Ten aliens (10.7%) out of the 84 species were recorded. Therophytes have the highest percentage (58%), followed by hemicryptophytes (14%), chamaephytes (11%). Six vegetation groups were recognized in the study area after the application of two way indicator species analysis (TWINSPAN), Arthrocnemum macrostachyum, Phragmites australis, and Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum have the highest presence percentage. Both of Salsola cyclophylla and Solanum villosum were recorded for the first time in North Nile Delta. Natural habitat had the highest α-diversity, but the lowest β-diversity (4.9, 15.4), while gravel pads had the reverse (2.7, 30.8). Some species which are native to the desert habitats (e.g., Rumex pictus, Salsola kali, and Carthamus tenuis) were able to invade the North Nile Delta. Conclusions: Habitat of gravel pads is an expressing form about the intense of disturbance in Deltaic Mediterranean coast of Egypt. More of efforts should be carried out to avoid more human disturbances that creating as ruderal habitats which open the gate to invasive species in the flora of North Nile Delta.

Identification of Alfalfa Mosaic Virus from Soybean (대두에서 발생한 알파파 모자이크 바이러스의 분류동정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee S. H.;Choi Y. M.;Kim J. S.;Chung B. J.
    • Korean Journal Plant Pathology
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.33-37
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    • 1985
  • A yellow stripe and bud benting disease of soybean was commonly observed on the field at Suweon area. The causal agent was identified as alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) by indicator plant reactions, physical properties, serological test and electron microscopy. AMV produced vein clearing, top necrosis, top bent and mottling on the parts of soybean plants. Local lesions were produced on the inoculated leaves of Vigna sesquipedialis, Vicia faba and Tetragonia expansa, while Chenopodium am, anticolor, C. quinoa, Pisum satvium, Petunia hybrida and Nicotiana tabacum 'Bright yellow' were systemically infected. The thermal inactivation point was $60^{\circ}C$, dilution end point was $10^{-3}$, and longevity in vitro was 2 days at room temperature. AMV from soybean was reacted with AMV - antiserum in agar gel diffusion test. Electron microscopy of AMV from soybean exhibited bacilliform particles of 60nm in length.

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Occurrence and Symptoms of Tomato spotted wilt virus on Egg Plant, Whole Radish and Sugar Loaf in Korea (채소(가지, 알타리무, 슈가로프)에 발생한 토마토반점위조바이러스 (Tomato spotted wilt virus) 발생과 병징 특성)

  • Cho, Jeom-Deog;Kim, Jin-Young;Kim, Jeong-Soo;Choi, Hong-Soo;Choi, Gug-Seoun
    • Research in Plant Disease
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.232-237
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    • 2010
  • Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) was occurred on the three vegetables of egg plant (Solanum melongena), whole radish (Raphanus acanthiformis) and sugar loaf (Cichorium intybus) at Anyang area infested with TSWV. Whole radish was produced the symptoms of necrotic spots on the leaves, and necrosis and malformation on the roots by TSWV. Egg plant was induced the symptoms of typical multiple ring spots on the leaves and necrotic rings on the fruits. Sugar loaf was infected severely with the typical symptoms of ring spots on the leaves and stunt. The three isolates of TSWV could infect locally on the indicator plants of Chenopodium amaranticolor, C. quinoa and Nicotiana debney, and systemically on N. glutinosa, N. benthamiana and Datura stramonium. Two TSWV isolates from egg plant and sugar loaf were very similar in virulence. However, the virulence of TSWV from whole radish was very different as local infection on 5 Nicotiana species including N. tabacum 'Xanthi NC'.

Wisteria Vein Mosaic Virus Detected for the First Time in Iran from an Unknown Host by Analysis of Aphid Vectors

  • Valouzi, Hajar;Hashemi, Seyedeh-Shahrzad;Wylie, Stephen J.;Ahadiyat, Ali;Golnaraghi, Alireza
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.87-97
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    • 2020
  • The development of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction using degenerate primers against conserved regions of most potyviral genomes enabled sampling of the potyvirome. However, these assays usually involve sampling potential host plants, but identifying infected plants when they are asymptomatic is challenging, and many plants, especially wild ones, contain inhibitors to DNA amplification. We used an alternative approach which utilized aphid vectors and indicator plants to identify potyviruses capable of infecting common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Aphids were collected from a range of asymptomatic leguminous weeds and trees in Iran, and transferred to bean seedlings under controlled conditions. Bean plants were tested serologically for potyvirus infections four-weeks postinoculation. The serological assay and symptomatology together indicated the presence of one potyvirus, and symptomology alone implied the presence of an unidentified virus. The partial genome of the potyvirus, encompassing the complete coat protein gene, was amplified using generic potyvirus primers. Sequence analysis of the amplicon confirmed the presence of an isolate of Wisteria vein mosaic virus (WVMV), a virus species not previously identified from Western Asia. Phylogenetic analyses of available WVMV sequences categorized them into five groups: East Asian-1 to 3, North American and World. The Iranian isolate clustered with those in the World group. Multiple sequence alignment indicated the presence of some genogroup-specific amino acid substitutions among the isolates studied. Chinese isolates were sister groups of other isolates and showed higher nucleotide distances as compared with the others, suggesting a possible Eastern-Asian origin of WVMV, the main region where Wisteria might have originated.

Galactinol is Involved in Induced Systemic Resistance against Bacterial Infection and Environmental Stresses

  • Cho, Song-Mi;Kim, Su-Hyun;Kim, Young-Cheol;Yang, Kwang-Yeol;Kim, Kwang-Sang;Choi, Yong-Soo;Cho, Baik-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.248-255
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    • 2010
  • We previously demonstrated that root colonization of the rhizobacterium, Pseudomonas chlororaphis O6, induced expression of a galactinol synthase gene (CsGolS1), and resulting galactinol conferred induced systemic resistance (ISR) against fungal and bacterial pathogens in cucumber leaves. To examine the role of galactinol on ISR, drought or high salt stress, we obtained T-DNA insertion Arabidopsis mutants at the AtGolS1 gene, an ortholog of the CsGolS1 gene. The T-DNA insertion mutant compromised resistance induced by the O6 colonization against Erwinia carotovora. Pharmaceutical application of 0.5 - 5 mM galactinol on roots was sufficient to elicit ISR in wild-type Arabidopsis against infection with E. carotovora. The involvement of jasmonic acid (JA) signaling on the ISR was validated to detect increased expression of the indicator gene PDF1.2. The T-DNA insertion mutant also compromised tolerance by increasing galactinol content in the O6-colonized plant against drought or high salt stresses. Taken together, our results indicate that primed expression of the galactinol synthase gene AtGolS1in the O6-colonized plants can play a critical role in the ISR against infection with E. carotovora, and in the tolerance to drought or high salt stresses.

Development of Performance Evaluation System for Plant Management Appling BSC Concept (BSC를 이용한 설비관리 업무의 성과평가시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Kwang-Man
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.231-239
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    • 2012
  • A company's reliance on plants is growing in the area of production and service. Therefore, the importance of the work on plants in order to manage them efficiently is growing. Effective plant management increases the durability and efficiency of the plant. An organized BSC also increases the workers' will to work harder which is to bring the higher quality of plant management. In this way, however, it has studied with variety ways to assess plant management task for performance evaluation, there is a little deficiency that the study of methodical performance evaluation that based on the some strategies. The BSC, the very way, and it has been utilized in balanced and methodical performance evaluation means in widespread fields with strategy as the center to get visions. In this study, I have developed the performance evaluation system for plant management, appling BSC concept.

An Exploratory Study on Block chain based IoT Edge Devices for Plant Operations & Maintenance(O&M) (플랜트 O&M을 위한 블록체인 기반 IoT Edge 장치의 적용에 관한 탐색적 연구)

  • Ryu, Yangsun;Park, Changwoo;Lim, Yongtaek
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.34-42
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    • 2019
  • Receiving great attention of IoT and 4th industrial revolution, the necessity comes to the fore of the plant system which aims making it smart and effective. Smart Factory is the key realm of IoT to apply with the concept to optimize the entire process and it presents a new and flexible production paradigm based on the collected data from numerous sensors installed in a plant. Especially, the wireless sensor network technology is receiving attention as the key technology of Smart Factory, researches to interface those technology is actively in progress. In addition, IoT devices for plant industry security and high reliable network protocols are under development to cope with high-risk plant facilities. In the meanwhile, Blockchain can support high security and reliability because of the hash and hash algorithm in its core structure and transaction as well as the shared ledger among all nodes and immutability of data. With the reason, this research presents Blockchain as a method to preserve security and reliability of the wireless communication technology. In regard to that, it establishes some of key concepts of the possibility on the blockchain based IoT Edge devices for Plant O&M (Operations and Maintenance), and fulfills performance verification with test devices to present key indicator data such as transaction elapsed time and CPU consumption rate.