• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.305-314
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• 2006

Precision farming has been known as an environment friendly farming technology. This study was conducted to develop a variable-rate granule fertilizer applicator as an attempt for introducing the precision farming technologies to rice cultivation in Korea. In this paper, concept design process and manufacturing of prototype variable rate granule applicator was reported. For concept design, some design guide lines were selected. Based on the design guide line and some engineering knowledge, concept design was conducted. The designed prototype granule applicator was mounted at the rear of riding type cultivator for paddy field and had a 10m wide boom structure with pneumatic conveying and application system as well as 1GPS receiver, 1 granule hopper, 12 blow heads, 2 metering devices and 1 controller. The fertilizer applicator had 942 ka of weight, 740m of ground clearance and 1,117mm of center of gravity from the ground. The applicator was designed to be able to $34{\sim}428kg/ha$ of granule at $0.2{\sim}0.8m/s$ of fertilizer working speed.

• 한국자원식물학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.650-657
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• 2016

Research has found that the management of the host plant is essential to mistletoe cultivation. A Trunk injection test on the host plant that contained a mixture of indole-3-butryc acid (IBA) and liquid fertilizer was conducted with respect to the improvement of the one year survival rate of mistletoe. As a result, the trunk injection experiments showed the effect of the IBA and liquid fertilizer mixture in all treatments. This mixture was effective to increase the survival rate of mistletoe by 20% with the IBA at 100 mg/L and Hyponex at 100 mg/L. The examination proved that the host plant fertilizer effect was the most effective treatment for organic fertilizer with 60% added NPK (4-2-1). Its effects were higher compared to the control at the length and diameter of one-years-old branches in the host plant, even when the parasitic mistletoe improved its growth in length, diameter, and number of branches. Comparing the control and host plant fertilizer, the latter was the most effective way to process 20 kg per a treatment effect in the experimental site and to process at any time after the inoculation. This treatment is effective to improve the growth of mistletoe by watering the host plant three times per week. Therefore, the management of the host plant is an essential element in the successful cultivation of mistletoe, not only to supply fertilizer and plant hormones to the host plant in the initial inoculation time but also to provide organic fertilizer and irrigation for the host plant.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제34권7호
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• pp.1464-1474
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• 2024

Soil extracellular enzyme plays a vital role in changing soil nitrogen (N) mineralization of rice field. However, the effects of soil extracellular enzyme activities (EEA) and microbial community composition response to N mineralization of rice field under short-term tillage treatment needed to be further explored. In this study, we investigated the impact of short-term (8-year) tillage practices on rhizosphere soil N transformation rate, soil enzyme activities, soil microbial community structure, and the N mineralization function gene abundances in double-cropping rice field in southern China. The experiment consisted of four tillage treatments: rotary tillage with crop straw input (RT), conventional tillage with crop straw input (CT), no-tillage with crop straw retention (NT), and rotary tillage with all crop straw removed as a control (RTO). The results indicated that the rhizosphere soil N transformation rate in paddy field under the NT and RTO treatments was significantly decreased compared to RT and CT treatments. In comparison to the NT and RTO treatments, soil protease, urease, β-glucosaminidase, and arginase activities were significantly improved by the CT treatment, as were abundances of soil sub, npr, and chiA with CT and RT treatments. Moreover, the overall diversity of soil bacterial communities in NT and RTO treatments was significantly lower than that in RT and CT treatments. Soil chitinolytic and bacterial ureolytic communities were also obviously changed under a combination of tillage and crop straw input practices.

• Weed & Turfgrass Science
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.240-245
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• 2014

This study was carried out to determine the possible use of volcano eruption sand at Merapi mountain area compared with clayey soil, alfisol as turfgrass growing media. Indonesia has abundant source of eruption sand and clayey soil. Native zoysiagrass (Z. matrella) was collected from Sleman district and seashore paspalum (P. vaginatum) from Solo region. The experimental plots were treated with both organic and inorganic fertilizers. Zoysiagrass and seashore paspalum can grow on the mixture of eruption volcano sand and alfisol soil. Fertilizers application increased turf color, surface coverage rate and recovery rate of turfgrass. While fertilizer treated alfisol have no effect on the length and dry weight of zoysiagrass root. Mixing of volcano eruption sand on growing media resulted in longer root length, higher shoot dry weight of zoysiagrass than in alfisol soil. Type of fertilizer affected the pH, soil organic matter, total N, available P, available K and electrical conductivity of sand and alfisol after cultivation. Similarly to zoysiagrass, the recovery of seashore paspalum was increased by application of fertilizer, even the inorganic fertilizer showed faster recovery than organic fertilizer. Surface coverage of seashore paspalum was faster than that of zoysiagrass with or without fertilizer.

• 한국연초학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.66-70
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• 1991

A field experiment was conducted to study the effects of fertilizer application rate and number of harvested leaves per plant on selected agronomic, chemical and physical characteristics of burley tobacco(Nicotiana tabacum L. cv Burley 21) in 1988, 1989 and 1990 at Chonju Experiment Station, Korea Ginseng SE Tobacco Research Institute. 175.0 or 227.5 kilogram per 10a of compound fertilizer(N-P2O5-K2O= 10-10-20) were applied as main plot, and 2 or 4 of upper leaves was topped off with 0, 2 or 4 of the lower leaves removed as sub plot. Yield, total alkaloid and total nitrogen content of cured leaves were high in the higher level of compound fertilizer plot, and increasing the level of compound fertilizer had an adverse effect on physical characteristics. Reducing the number of harvested leaves had a negative effect on yield regardless of whether the leaf number was reduced by lower topping or removing the bottom leaves, but increased the rate of higher grades leaves. Differences in total alkaloid, total nitrogen and some physical properties among number of harvested leaf per plant were smaller than expected.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.128-133
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• 2000

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of forms and levels of nitrogen fertilizer on plant growth and essential oil production of Agastache rugosa. Calcium nitrate had more influenced on length and width of leaves and lateral branch length than did urea. When nitrogen fertilizer level was increased from 12 kgN/I0a to 24kgN/I0a, plant growth was stimulated and dry matter of leaf and inflorescence were increased. Top dry matter of plant with calcium nitrate treatment (38.4 g) was heavier than that of urea treatment (32.8 g). Interactions among accession and nitrogen form and nitrogen rate were not significantly different for top dry matter. The forms and rate of nitrogen fertilizer did not affect estragole content. The estragole contents was higher in leaf (91.8%) than that of inflorescence (81.3%). While the essential oil content was not affected by different nitrogen forms, nitrogen level affected the essential oil contents positively by increasing dry matter. Essential oil yield was not affected by accession or nitrogen form, but by nitrogen rate. With increasing N application from 12kgN/I0a to 24 kgN/I0a, essential oil yield was increased by 95.8 %.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제58권2호
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• pp.128-135
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• 2013

The use of agricultural by-products as alternative nutrient sources in crop production had gained popularity in order to reducing the rate of chemical fertilizer application in the field. This study was conducted to determine whether the application of rice milling by-products treated with yeast inoculants could substitute, or reduce the rate of chemical fertilizer application. The results of agronomic measurements showed that the effect of incorporated materials was not immediate, as compared to 100% chemical fertilizer application. However, grain yield and quality was either the same or greater than 100% chemical fertilizer application. It was found out that expanded rice hull (treated with yeast or not) could reduce the rate of applying chemical fertilizers by half. Also, yeast treatment was only favorable only to expanded rice hull and not with rice bran, and was already found to be a potential material in reducing chemical fertilizer application in rice production.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제58권1호
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• pp.8-14
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• 2013

벼 재배시 본답의 기비와 분얼비를 대체하여 묘판에 1회 시비하는 용출제어형 입상배합(Bulk Blending) 피복비료를 시용 후 벼 생육과 수량, 품질, 경제성 등 완효성비료의 처리효과를 검토한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 개발된 육묘상비료의 T-N용출량은 온도가 높을수록 빨라졌고 온도에 관계 없이 분얼비 시용 시점인 14일경부터 높아져 21일경 최고에 달했다. 2. 이앙 후 60일에서 질소흡수이용율은 표준시비 28.6%에 비하여 개발된 육묘상 비료가 높았으며 200 g시비구에서 73.1%, 300 g시비구에서 66.1%로 나타났다. 3. 생육단계별(최고분얼기, 유슈형성기 등) 초장, 경수, SPAD값 생육상황은 개발된 육묘상비료 300 g/상자 시비에서 표준과 대등하였다. 4. 성숙기에도 간장, 수장, 단위면적당 수수는 개발된 육묘상비료 300 g/상자 이상 시비구에서 표준과 같거나 많았다. 5. 10a당 백미수량은 개발된 육묘상비료 시용량이 많을수록 증가하였다. 시비량별로 보면 표준시비 528 kg 대비 개발된 육묘상 비료 300 g/상자 이상 시비구에서 525~552 kg으로 대등하거나 많았다. 6. 백미 품질은 개발된 육묘상비료 시용량이 많을 수록 단백질함량은 증가하였으며 완전미율, 아밀로스함량, 백도, 투명도는 비료량이 적을수록 증가하는 경향이었다. 7. 따라서 표준시비량 이상의 수량과 품질 및 경제적인 측면을 고려한 개발된 육묘상 비료의 적정 시비량은 300 g/상자(실비. 9 kg/10 a)이었다. 8. 시비량은 육묘상비료가 표준시비에 비해 49.3% 절감되었고, 시비노동력도 49.2% 절감되었다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.108-114
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• 2006

This study was conducted to design and fabricate a controller for variable-rate application of granular fertilizer based on physical and chemical information, to analyze the performance of the controller and characteristics of a discharger. The result of the study are summarized as follows: 1. The charge ratios of discharger by accumulation heights of fertilizer in hopper were examined, and the variations in charge ratio were $72.58{\sim}93.33%$ and $63.14{\sim}94.42%$ for the fertilizers Super 21 and Sinsedae, respectively. The charge ratio also decreased as the rotational speed of discharger increased. 2. The coefficient of variation of discharge amount by rotational speed and discharge time of discharger were in the range of $2.94{\sim}11.23%$ and $2.82{\sim}10.80%$ for the fertilizer of Super 21 and Sinsedae. Except the rotational speed of 12 rpm, the coefficient of variation for discharge amount were relatively small with 4% more or less 3. In order to evaluate the rotational speed of discharger, the control signal in the range of $0{\sim}5V$ was subdivided into the 50 steps by 0.1V. The regression equation for the rotational speed of discharger was Y=55.984X-79.174(X: input voltage, V, Y: discharger speed, RPM) and the $R^2$ was 0.99. 4. In order to evaluate the performance of the controller for variable-rate application of granular fertilizer, settling time to unit step input was examined. The settling time varied from 0.8sec to 1.4 sec.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.201-207
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• 1985

감자용(用) 시제복비(試製複肥)의 비효(肥效)를 황산가리(黃酸加里) 및 염화가리(鹽化加里)와 비교(比較)하기 위(爲)하여 감자품종(品種) "수미(秀美)"를 공시(供試)하여 시험(試驗)을 실시(實施)하였으며 그 결과(結果)는 다음과 같다. 1. 감자복비(複肥), 황산가리배량(黃酸加里倍量), 황산가리(黃酸加里)는 염화가리구(鹽化加里區)에 비(比)하여 각각(各各) 44.7 및 6%를 증수(增收)하였다. 감자복비(複肥)는 황산가리(黃酸加里) 배량(倍量)보다도 현저(顯著)한 증수(增收)를 가져 왔으나 황산가리배양구(黃酸加里倍量區)의 수량(收量)과 무가리구(無加里區)의 수량간(收量間)에는 유의차(有意差)가 없었다. 2. 감자복비(複肥)는 6월(月) 25일(日)에 벌써 수확기(收穫期) 수량(收量)의 80% 이상(以上)에 다달아서 조기(早期) 수확(收穫)을 가능(可能)케 할 수 있었다. 3. 입상(粒狀)이고 요소함량(尿素含量)이 적은 감자복비(複肥)는 인산(燐酸) 2암모니아, 유안(硫安), 황산가리(黃酸加里)를 주원료(主原料)로 하여 만든 비료(肥料)로서 감자의 출아율(出芽率)을 높이고 초기생육(初期生育)을 촉진(促進)했으며 수확기(收穫期)에도 타비료(他肥料)에 비(比)하여 경엽(莖葉)을 건전(健全)하게 유지(維持)하였다.