• Natural Product Sciences
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.31-42
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• 1995

One hundred plants in 43 families used in Malaysian traditional medicine were screened for tumour promoting activity using two methods, the technique of activation of latent Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) in Raji cells and the irritation test on mouse ear. Extracts of only eight plants belonging to the Euphorbiaceae were found to possess EBV activation factor and to give a positive irritation test in mouse ear. These plants included Euphorbia tirucalli L., E. splendes, Jatropha podagrica, J. gossypyfolia L., Pedilanihus tithymaloides (L.) Poitt., Croton argyratus Bl., Exocoecaria agallocha L. and Codiaeum variegatum (L.) Bl. Seven of these plants are used internally in Malaysian traditional medicine. As such, they pose potential danger in the promotion of initiated cells of the mucosal tissue towards disease. Further studies are required to assess the epidemiological impact of these plants in the development of disease.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.59-67
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• 1987

To verify allelopathic effect of tomato plants a number of labovatory experiments, seed germination and seedling growth with aqueous extracts and leachates form the tomato plants, have performed. Germination percentage of the tested species was decreased by treatment with leaf, stem and root extracts as extracting time elapses. The leaf extract more inhibits the germination of the seeds than both stem and root extracts. Leachate collected from the tomato plants decreases as much as 50% of the growths in elongation as well as dry weight of seedlings of lettuce and egg plant. It is observed that with a paired-plants grown in U tube pot the tomato roots have excreted allelochemicals to inhibit the growth of the tested species and volatile substances from the tomato plants have suppressed to dry weights of lettuce, to elongation and dry weights of grapevine planted near the tomato plants.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.243-249
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• 1998

Radicoid structure of herbaceous communities in Mt. Kumbyung, Chunchon, Kangwon-Do was clarified emphasizing on the dominance of clonal plants in relation to vegetation development. In the total vegetation, 46% species identified were rhizomatous, 26% were species with tap roots, and 13% were stoloniferous species. Thus, all clonal species, including plants with bulb, corm and tuber, covered 62.8% of the total species. in the understory of Quercus, Pinus and Larix forests, 68.2% were clonal, which means 5% more compare to total vegetaion. Dominance of clonal plants became more conspicuous as their importance value was calculated. That is, they covered average 86% for the following three communities: 85% in Quercus, 95% in Pinus, and 76% in Larix, Especially, the rhizomatous plants were remarkable. Overall, clonal species dominated over the other radicoid types in terms of not only the number of species, but also the importance value. Dominance of these species was more peculiar in understory of forests, indicating the occupancy of clonal plants was related to the vegetation development.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.201-207
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• 2003

Tissue culture techniques arguably are an important approach for ex situ conservation of rare and endangered plant species. However, there is utmost importance on maintaining the genetic integrity of the introduced plants especially in tree species. To examine the genetic integrity of the micropropagated plants, we randomly screened few hardened plants of Syzygium travancoricum, a critically endangered tree taxon, using Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers. Twenty-three random. primers were tried and twenty-five polymorphic loci were identified. The dendrogram based on the Unweighted Pair-Group Method Arithmetic Average and Nei's similarity index depicted about 97% homology between the mother plants and micropropagated plants. Further, an attempt was made to reintroduce the micropropagated plants in the wild. Over three hundred small trees could be successfully established.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.62-69
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• 1983

The result of the study on the classification of $C_3 and C_4$ type plans in Korea is as follows. Seven families and 92 species of $C_4$ type plants(Table 1) were contained among the the herbaceous plants naturally growin in Korea. Most of $C_4$ type plants were Gramineae of mononcotyledons, and the $C_4$ type plants of dicotyledons were weeds in cultivating area, tidal halophtes, and horticultural plants.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.149-153
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• 1982

To investigate the effect of light intensity on the growth of shoots and roots, water and chlorophyll contents in the ginseng leaf were determined at 5%, l0%, 20%, 30% light transmittance rate (LTR) with 1,2 and 4 year-old ginseng plants in the field. Stem length, size of the leaf, water and chlorophyll contents were decreased as the increase of the light intensity in all ages of ginseng plants. The degree of decrease was severe in the one year-old ginseng compared to that of 2, or 4 year-old ginseng, while there was no difference between the 2 and 4 year-old plants. Root weight per plant was highest at 5% LTR in the one year-old plants, while it was at 20% LTR in the 2 and 4 year-old plants. Generally, demand of light for the growth of one year-old ginseng was lower than those of 2 or 4 year-old plants there was no difference of it among the ginseng plants older than 2 years.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.1-214
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• 1989

There shoul be high possibility of preventive and immune eficacy aqainst cancer when the anti-cancer plants are properly utilized in human dietary life as it is evident that considerable part of wild plantd or both medicinal use and ood are growing naturally in the mountainous area in korea, some of which have ben proved to be anti-cancer plants. this study, at this initial stage, has been done to acquire the fundamentals of 235 kinds of ante-cancer plants growing naturally in korea. from the results o thisresearch, the anti-cancer plants have been sorted out by amily and its number. and also the status of regional distribution of those plants and the kinds of anti-cancer plants used for both medicine and food were studied and experimented to see the medical efficacy against anti-tumor. this experiments were conduced in accodance with the total packed cell volume method and cyto toxicity method.

• 한국약용작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.276-277
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• 2008

• 한국약용작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.79-80
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• 2008

• 한국약용작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.106-107
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• 2008