• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.196-202
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• 2014

Depression is one of the most common neuropsychiatric disorders and has been associated with the neuroendocrine system and alterations in behavior. Schisandra chinensis Baillon is one of major medicinal plants used as a Korea medicine and food sources, and has been processed in the fields of various food products and medicinal herbs. The chronic mild stress (CMS) protocol is widely used to evoke depressive-like behaviors in laboratory mice or rat. The CMS procedure induced some behavioral changes that are compatible with the common expectations, i.e. 'anhedonic' behavior and can affect corticosterone level. The present study, Schisandra chinensis extract administration by daily gavage from the 3 weeks exhibited an antidepressant-like effect on CMS-induced depression in mice. Schisandra chinensis extract administration at dose of 200mg/kg significantly increased the sucrose consumption, and decreased the immobility durations in forced swim test and tail suspension test. Furthermore the corticosterone level decreased than control group. In conclusion, Schisandra chinensis extract showed antidepressant-like effects on sucrose preference test, forced swimming test and tail suspension test based on CMS model.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.458-468
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• 2007

To tolerate environmentally adverse conditions such as cold, drought, and salinity, plants often synthesize and accumulate proline in cells as compatible osmolytes. ${\Delta}^1$-Pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase(P5CS) catalyzes the rate-limiting step of proline biosynthesis from glutamate. Two complete genes, MtP5CS1 and MtP5CS2, were isolated from the model legume Medicago truncatula by cDNA cloning and bacterial artificial chromosome library screening. Nucleotide sequence analysis showed that both genes consisted of 20 exons and 19 introns. Alignment of the predicted amino acid sequences revealed high similarities with P5CS proteins from other plant species. The two MtP5CS genes were expressed in response to high salt and low temperature treatments. Semi-quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction showed that MtP5CS1 was expressed earlier than MtP5CS2, indicating differential regulation of the two genes. To evaluate the reverse genetic effects of nucleotide changes on MtP5CS function, a Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes approach was taken. Three mutants each were isolated for MtP5CS1 and MtP5CS2, of which a P5CS2 nonsense mutant carrying a codon change from arginine to stop was expected to bring translation to premature termination. These provide a valuable genetic resource with which to determine the function of the P5CS genes in environmental stress responses of legume crops.

• 원예과학기술지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.911-922
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• 2015

본 연구는 고랭지배추의 생산성에 관여하는 주요 요인을 분석하고, 실시간 계측한 생육 및 기상자료를 기반으로 고랭지배추의 수량을 예측하기 위한 모델을 개발하기 위하여 수행되었다. 먼저 수확 시의 전생육량변수에 의한 구중 추정식과 비파괴 측정 생육량 변수에 의한 추정식에 의한 설명력의 차이를 비교한 다음, 이를 보완하기 위하여 비파괴측정 생육량 변수에 생육도일(growing degree days, GDD)을 포함한 구중추정 회귀모형을 작성하고, 이 구중추정식을 GDD에 의한 엽생장량과 실측 생장량의 비, 토양수분에 따른 생육속도, 그리고 생장단계 및 기간에 따른 상대생장률을 적용하여 보정하였다. 비파괴 생육량과 GDD에 의한 구중 추정식은 y = 6897.5 - 3.57 ${\times}$ GDD - 136 ${\times}$ 엽폭 + 116 ${\times}$ 초고 + 155 ${\times}$ 구고 - 423 ${\times}$ 구폭 + 0.28 ${\times}$ 구고 ${\times}$ 구폭${\times}$ 구폭($r^2=0.989$)로 나타났다. 수량 산정을 위한 엑셀스프레드시트모형을 작성하였으며, 이 모형은 고랭지배추 실시간 생육data 시트, GDD 계산을 위한 일별 온도data 시트, 재배지 토양수분data 시트, 그리고 도출된 모형방정식에 병해충 및 재배관리에 의한 수시변동 변량과 보정값을 입력하여 단수를 산정하는 시트로 구성되어 있다. 작성된 엑셀스프레드시트 모형을 이용하여 재배면적 ${\times}$ 단위당 재식주수 ${\times}$ GDD와 비파괴 생육량에 근거한 예측구중 ${\times}$ GDD도입 보정값 ${\times}$ 토양수분 및 건조기간에 따른 보정값 ${\times}$ 상품률을 적용하여 권역별 수량을 산정하고 이들을 합산하여 고랭지배추의 총 생산량을 예측할 수 있을 것으로 판단되었다.

• 사물인터넷융복합논문지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.83-95
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• 2020

실제 복잡다난한 농작물 밭 환경에서 잡초를 정밀하게 검출하는 것은 이전의 접근방법들로는 이미지 프레임을 정확하게 처리하는 속도 면에서 부족했다. 식물의 질병 분류 문제가 중요시 되는 상황에서 특히 작물의 잡초 문제는 큰 화제가 되고 있다. 이전의 접근방식들은 빠른 알고리즘을 사용하지만 추론 시간이 실시간에 가깝지 않아 통제되지 않은 조건에서 비현실적인 해결책이 된다. 따라서, 복잡한 벼 잡초 검출 과제에 대한 탐지 모델을 제안한다. 실험 결과에 따르면, 우리의 접근 방식의 추론 시간은 잡초 검출 과제에서 상당한 시간절약을 보여준다. 실제 조건에서 실제로 적용할 수 있는 것으로 나타난다. 주어진 예시들은 쌀의 두 가지 성장 단계에서 수집되었고 직접 주석을 달았다.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.341-350
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• 2016

Background: Prenatal exposure to infectious and/or inflammatory insults can increase the risk of developing neuropsychiatric disorder such as bipolar disorder, autism, and schizophrenia later in life. We investigated whether Valeriana fauriei (VF) treatment alleviates prepulse inhibition (PPI) deficits and social interaction impairment induced by maternal immune activation (MIA). Methods and Results: Pregnant mice were exposed to polyriboinosinic-polyribocytidilic acid (5 mg/kg, viral infection mimic) on gestational day 9. The adolescent offspring received daily oral treatment with VF (100 mg/kg) and injections of clozapine (5 mg/kg) for 30 days starting on the postnatal day 35. The effects of VF extract treatment on behavioral activity impairment and protein expression were investigated using the PPI analysis, forced swim test (FST), open field test (OFT), social interaction test (SIT), and immunohistochemistry. The MIA-induced offspring showed deficits in the PPI, FST, OFT, and SIT compared to their non MIA-induced counterparts. Treatment with the VF extract significantly recovered the sensorimotor gating deficits and partially recovered the aggressive behavior observed in the SIT. The VF extract also reversed the downregulation of protein expression induced by MIA in the medial prefrontal cortex. Conclusions: Our results provide initial evidence of the fact that the VF extract could reverse MIA-induced behavioral impairment and prevent neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.353-359
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• 1988

두께가 서로 다른 $C_3$ 식물의 잎은 단위엽면적당 광합성 능력에 있어서도 차이가 나는 바 잎의 내부구조와 기체교환 사이의 관계를 바탕으로 그 원인을 구명하였다. 광합성의 2대 제한요인으로 기체확산과 생화학적 과정의 상대적인 중요도를 결정하기 위해 중엽세포의 표면은 기체확산 저항의, 그리고 세포의 체적은 탄소고정 능력의 지표로 가정하였다. 즉 세포의 표면적이 증가하면 이산화탄소의 액상확산 저항이 감소하며 체적이 증대되면 carboxylation, oxygenation, 그리고 dark respiration 반응속도가 증가한다고 간주하였다. 이러한 개념을 함축하는 광합성 모형을 작성하고 이 가설의 검증을 위해 대두 품종 Amsoy잎을 이용한 실험을 수행하였다. 생장조절실내에서 200, 400, 600$\mu$mol photons m$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ PAR을 공급하여 서로 다른 두께의 잎을 준비하였으며 제3 및 4본엽에 대해 1,000 $\mu$mol photons m$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ PAR 및 28 기온 환경하에서 이산화탄소 흡수속도를 측정한 결과 세포의 체적과 표면적의 영향을 동시에 고려한 광합성 모형이 세포 표면적만을 고려한 경우 보다 실측치에 가까운 예측치를 산출하였다. 이로 미루어 세포의 표면적과 체적은 잎의 두께 및 그에 따른 광합성 능력의 예측에 적절한 변수로 간주된다.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2017년도 9th Asian Crop Science Association conference
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• pp.8-9
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• 2017

Soybean yield has been low and unstable in Japan and other areas in East Asia, despite long history of cultivation. This is contrasting with consistent increase of yield in North and South America. This presentation tries to describe perspective of breaking stagnation of soybean yield in East Asia, considering the factors of the different yields between regions. Large amount of rainfall with occasional dry-spell in the summer is a nature of monsoon climate and as frequently stated excess water is the factor of low and unstable soybean yield. For example, there exists a great deal of field-to-field variation in yield of 'Tanbaguro' soybean, which is reputed for high market value and thus cultivated intensively and this results in low average yield. According to our field survey, a major portion of yield variation occurs in early growth period. Soybean production on drained paddy fields is also vulnerable to drought stress after flowering. An analysis at the above study site demonstrated a substantial field-to-field variation of canopy transpiration activity in the mid-summer, but the variation of pod-set was not as large as that of early growth. As frequently mentioned by the contest winners of good practice farming, avoidance of excess water problem in the early growth period is of greatest importance. A series of technological development took place in Japan in crop management for stable crop establishment and growth, that includes seed-bed preparation with ridge and/or chisel ploughing, adjustment of seed moisture content, seed treatment with mancozeb+metalaxyl and the water table control system, FOEAS. A unique success is seen in the tidal swamp area in South Sumatra with the Saturated Soil Culture (SSC), which is for managing acidity problem of pyrite soils. In 2016, an average yield of $2.4tha^{-1}$ was recorded for a 450 ha area with SSC (Ghulamahdi 2017, personal communication). This is a sort of raised bed culture and thus the moisture condition is kept markedly stable during growth period. For genetic control, too, many attempts are on-going for better emergence and plant growth after emergence under excess water. There seems to exist two aspects of excess water resistance, one related to phytophthora resistance and the other with better growth under excess water. The improvement for the latter is particularly challenging and genomic approach is expected to be effectively utilized. The crop model simulation would estimate/evaluate the impact of environmental and genetic factors. But comprehensive crop models for soybean are mainly for cultivations on upland fields and crop response to excess water is not fully accounted for. A soybean model for production on drained paddy fields under monsoon climate is demanded to coordinate technological development under changing climate. We recently recognized that the yield potential of recent US cultivars is greater than that of Japanese cultivars and this also may be responsible for different yield trends. Cultivar comparisons proved that higher yields are associated with greater biomass production specifically during early seed filling, in which high and well sustained activity of leaf gas exchange is related. In fact, the leaf stomatal conductance is considered to have been improved during last a couple of decades in the USA through selections for high yield in several crop species. It is suspected that priority to product quality of soybean as food crop, especially large seed size in Japan, did not allow efficient improvement of productivity. We also recently found a substantial variation of yielding performance under an environment of Indonesia among divergent cultivars from tropical and temperate regions through in a part biomass productivity. Gas exchange activity again seems to be involved. Unlike in North America where transpiration adjustment is considered necessary to avoid terminal drought, under the monsoon climate with wet summer plants with higher activity of gas exchange than current level might be advantageous. In order to explore higher or better-adjusted canopy function, the methodological development is demanded for canopy-level evaluation of transpiration activity. The stagnation of soybean yield would be broken through controlling variable water environment and breeding efforts to improve the quality-oriented cultivars for stable and high yield.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.341-354
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• 2019

Urban agriculture, which promotes communication in vulnerable classes and the formation of social networks has been gaining attention with an emphasis on healthy city, elderly-friendly city, safe city and happy city as future keywords about urban life. There is a growing interest in public awareness in many areas such as health, society, economy, and ecology. As an attempt to improve the diversity of urban gardens, this study begins with collecting suitable crops for urban gardens from "Imwongyeongjeji (林園經濟志)," an encyclopedia written by Yoo-Ku Seo, a scholar in the 18-19th century. Out of those recorded in "Gwanhyuji (灌畦志)," 128 kinds of crops with linkage of the historical achievements of the realists who gave their priority to public welfare were selected and 53 crops which had traditionality, historicality, health functionality and popularity were finally selected. The properties (cold, warm, clam) of the selected crops were evenly distributed, and there was no crop that was hot and cool. In addition, the number of crops that have a sweet taste was the highest, followed by spicy and bitter, but there was no salty vegetable, which can be attributed to the fact that 12 namuls (wild vegetables) that grow in seas were excluded in this study since they were not suitable for urban gardens. Urban gardens can be transformed from those that focus on primary production and secondary consumption activities into a new resource that offers educational and traditional values by applying humanities to urban agriculture as a content resource in the era of cultural consilience and convergence. It is expected to satisfy urban residents' intellectual and participatory needs and to enhance the diversity and utility of urban gardens by applying traditional knowledge to a new model of urban agriculture. We hope that further research will be conducted to develop new types and models of urban agriculture going forward.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.582-589
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• 2015

Several theories emphasize that aging is closely related to oxidative stress and disease. The formation of excess ROS can lead to DNA damage and the acceleration of aging. Vigna angularis is one of the important medicinal plants in Korea. We isolated vitexin from V. angularis and elucidated the lifespan-extending effect of vitexin using the Caenorhabditis elegans model system. Vitexin showed potent lifespan extensive activity and it elevated the survival rates of nematodes against the stressful environments including heat and oxidative conditions. In addition, our results showed that vitexin was able to elevate antioxidant enzyme activities of worms and reduce intracellular ROS accumulation in a dose-dependent manner. These studies demonstrated that the increased stress tolerance of vitexin-mediated nematode could be attributed to increased expressions of stress resistance proteins such as superoxide dismutase (SOD-3) and heat shock protein (HSP-16.2). In this work, we also studied whether vitexin-mediated longevity activity was associated with aging-related factors such as progeny, food intake, growth and movement. The data revealed that these factors were not affected by vitexin treatment except movement. Vitexin treatment improved the body movement of aged nematode, suggesting vitexin affects healthspan as well as lifespan of nematode. These results suggest that vitexin might be a probable candidate which could extend the human lifespan.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.7-11
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• 1996

쥐오줌풀의 재배법 구명을 위한 기초자료를 얻고자 광도 및 온도가 쥐오줌풀의 생육 및 근수량에 미치는 영향을 조사하였던 바 그결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 온도 및 광도와 쥐오줌풀 잎의 광합성간에는 고도로 유의한 2차곡선회귀가 인정되었으며, 이 회귀식에 의해 산출된 최대광합성을 위한 광도는 40,000Lux, 온도는 $17.7^{\circ}C$이었다. 2. 쥐오줌풀의 뿌리수량은 고냉지인 진부에서는 차광구에 비해 무차광구에서 증가하였으나 평야지인 음성에서는 오히려 차광구에서 증가되었다. 또한 지역간의 뿌리수량은 음성에서 보다는 진부에서 많았다. 3. 온도와 쥐오줌풀의 엽폭 및 근중간에는 각각 고도로 유의한 2차곡선회귀가 인정되었으며 이 회귀식에 의해 산출한 근생장(根生長)의 최적온도는 약 $20.3^{\circ}C$이었다.