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Differential Symbiotic Response of Phage-typed Strains of Bradyrhizobium japonicum with Soybean Cultivars

  • Appunu Chinnaswamy;Dhar Banshi
    • Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.363-368
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    • 2006
  • In this study, native Byadyrhizobium strains were isolated from the host plant, Glycine max, harvested from fields in Madhya Pradesh, India, and were typed by Iytic rhizobiophages. Eight indigenous (Soy2, ASR011, ASR031, ASR032, MSR091, ISR050, ISR076 and ISR078) and two exotic strains (USDA123 and CB1809), all of which evidenced a distinct reaction with six phages, were employed in this study. The symbiotic interaction of these strains was studied initially using soybean cultivar JS335 in a sand culture in a controlled environment, and the efficiency was assessed based on the nodule number, nodule dry weight, plant dry weight, nitrogenase activity, and total accumulation of N per plant. Symbiotic effectiveness was found to be highest with the native phage-sensitive isolate ASR011, whereas it was at a minimum with the phage-resistant isolates, ISR050 and ISR078. Additionally, the effectiveness of these strains was evaluated using six soybean cultivars belonging to different maturity groups; namely, Brags, Lee, Pusa20, PK416, JS33S and NRC37. Analysis of variance data evidenced significant differences due to both symbionts, for the majority of the tested parameters. The CB1809, USDA123, and ASR011 strains evidenced relatively superior symbiotic effectiveness with soybean cultivars Brags, Lee and JS335. Strain ISR078 evidenced no significant responses with any of the cultivars. The ASR031 strain performed moderately well with all tested cultivars. The symbiotic response of all the strains was quite poor with cultivar PK416. Our studies showed that a significant relationship existed between the phage sensitivity and symbiotic efficiency of the bacterial strains with the host-cultivars.

The Influence of Light Reduction on the Growth of Microcystis aeruginosa and Variation of Environmental and Chemical Parameters in Large-scale Cultivation System

  • Yang, Taehui;Cho, Ja-young;Kang, Ha-jin;Lee, Chang Soo;Kim, Eui-jin
    • Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.53 no.4
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    • pp.336-343
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    • 2020
  • Large-scale cultivation of Microcystis aeruginosa in different light conditions was conducted for verifying the cell growth in a greenhouse system. Environmental and chemical parameters of the large-scale culture medium were measured for analyzing the interaction between M. aeruginosa and its symbiotic bacteria. During cultivation, a difference in cell growth pattern was observed between control (natural light) and light-limited groups (reduction of blue, green, and blue/green light, respectively). Comparing the control group, the light reduced groups showed slow and delayed cell growth through the cultivation period. Also, there is differences in the consuming pattern of total nitrogen and total phosphorus which indicated that the possibility of interaction between M. aeruginosa and symbiotic bacteria.

A Human Robot Interactive System 'RoJi '

  • Yoon, Joongsun
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.1900-1908
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    • 2004
  • A human-friendly interactive system that is based on the harmonious symbiotic coexistence of human and robots is explored. Based on interactive technology paradigm, a robotic cane is proposed for blind or visually impaired travelers to navigate safely and quickly through obstacles and other hazards faced by blind pedestrians. Robotic aids, such as robotic canes, require cooperation between human and robots. Various methods for implementing the appropriate cooperative recognition, planning, and acting, have been investigated. The issues discussed include the interaction between humans and robots, design issues of an interactive robotic cane, and behavior arbitration methodologies for navigation planning.

Explicit matrix elements for Raman scattering blueward of H gamma

  • Lee, Hee-Won
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.50.2-50.2
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    • 2010
  • We present the explicit expressions for the matrix elements associated with the interaction of photons with atomic hydrogen. These expressions are applied to compute the scattering cross section for the Raman scattering operating blueward of Lyman epsilon and H gamma. A brief discussion that re relevant to some symbiotic stars and young planetary nebulae is also presented.

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Platform Interaction and Strategy from the Perspective of Organizational Ecology (조직 생태학 관점에서 본 플랫폼 이해관계자들간의 상호 작용 및 전략)

  • Lee, Sungho;Bae, Sung Joo
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.220-241
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    • 2019
  • In order to provide theoretical guidance to research in platform strategy, we build the conceptual framework based on the organizational ecology and analyze symbiotic/competitive relationship between platform entities. Platform owner and service provider (i.e. complementors) make symbiotic relationship, where platform owner provide service provider user-base and platform resources such as marketing tools and platform technology, and service provider provide platform owner services which users utilize. In addition to symbiotic relationships, platform owner has competitive relationship with other platform owners, and service provider builds competitive relationship with other service providers. In these relationships, the strategy of platform owner affects service provider and service provider builds a strategy for their own survival and success. This type of interaction makes competitive dynamics in platform. However, previous platform literature focuses on strategies to enhance network effect from the perspective of platform owner. Thus, there is little attention on interaction among the service providers. Using the framework based on community ecology of organizational ecology, we analyze interaction and strategy between platform owner and service provider in the viewpoint of platform openness strategy and platform pricing strategy. This research contributes to the literature of platform strategy by providing a theoretical framework based on organizational ecology to deeply understand the dynamics of platform.

Hardware Solutions for Interactive Robotic Cane (인터액티브 로봇 지팡이)

  • 심인보;윤중선
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.05a
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    • pp.338-341
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    • 2002
  • A human-friendly interactive system, based on the harmonious symbiotic coexistence of humans and robots, is explored. Based on this interactive technology paradigm, a robotic cane is designed to help blind or visually impaired travelers to navigate safely and quickly among obstacles and other hazards faced by blind pedestrians. We outline a set of the hardware solutions and working methodologies that can be used for successfully implementing and extending the interactive technology to complex environments, robots, and humans. The issues discussed include the interaction of human and robot, design issue of robotic cane, hardware requirements for efficient human-robot interaction.

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KVN MONITORING OBSERVATIONS TOWARD THE RECENT OUTBURST SYMBIOTIC STAR V407 CYGNI

  • CHO, SE-HYUNG;KIM, JAEHEON;YUN, YOUNGJOO
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.48 no.5
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    • pp.267-275
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    • 2015
  • Simultaneous time monitoring observations of H2O and SiO maser lines were performed toward the D-type symbiotic binary system V407 Cyg with the Korean VLBI Network single dish radio telescope. These monitoring observations were carried out from March 2, 2010 (optical phase ϕ = 0.0), 8 days before the nova outburst on March 10, 2010 to June 5, 2014 (ϕ = 2.13). Eight days before the nova outburst, we detected the SiO v = 1, 2, J = 1–0 maser lines which exhibited values of 0.51 K (∼ 6.70 Jy) and 0.71 K (∼ 9.30 Jy), respectively, while after the outburst we could not detect them on April 2 (ϕ = 0.04), May 5 (ϕ = 0.09), May 8 (ϕ = 0.09), or on June 5, 2010 (ϕ = 0.13) within the upper limits of our KVN observations. After restarting our monitoring observations, we detected SiO v = 2, J = 1–0 masers starting on October 20, 2011 (ϕ = 0.83) and detected SiO v = 1, J = 1–0 masers starting on December 22, 2011 (ϕ = 0.92). These results provide clear evidence of the interaction between the shock from the nova outburst and the SiO maser regions of the Mira envelope. The peak emission of SiO v = 1, 2, J = 1–0 masers always occurred at blueshifted velocities with respect to the stellar velocity except for that of SiO v = 1 at one epoch. These phenomena may be related to the redistribution of SiO maser regions after the outburst. The peak velocity variations of SiO masers associated with stellar pulsation phases show an increasing blueshifted trend during our monitoring interval after the outburst.

Studies on Thermostable Tryptophanase from a Symbiotic Thermophile

  • Chung, Yong-Joon;Beppu, Teruhiko
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Applied Microbiology Conference
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    • 1986.12a
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    • pp.515.1-515
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    • 1986
  • Thermostable tryptophanase was extracted from a thermophilie bacterium, strain T which was absolutely symbiotic with strain 5. The enzyme was purified 14.7 fold with 5.8% yield by chromatographies using ion exchange, gel filtration, and hydrophobic interaction columns, followed by high performance liquid chromatography on hydroxyapatite column. The purified enzyme has a molecular weight of approximately 210,000 estimated by gel filtration column chromatography, and the molecular weight of subunit was determined by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to be 46,000, which indicates that the native enzyme is made of four homologous subunits. The tryptophanase was stable at 65o0 and the optimum temperature for the enzyme activity for 20 min reaction was 70$^{\circ}C$. The purified enzyme activity for 20 min ieaction was 70$^{\circ}C$. The purified enzyme catalyzed the degradation of L-tryptophan into indole, pyruvate and ammonia in the presence of pyridoxal phosphate. 5-Hydroxy-Ltryptophan, 5-methyl-DL-tryptophan, L-cysteine, S-methyl-L-cysteine, 5-methyl-DL-tryptophan, L-cysteine, S-methyl-Lcysteine, and L-serine were also used as substrates to form pyruvate. The amino acid composition of the tryptophanase was determined, and found to contain a high percentage of hydrophobic amino acids, especially in the proline content, which was much higher than that of Escherichia coli tryptophanase. In addition, the 35N-terminal amino acid sequence of the tryptophanase was completely different from that of E. coli tryptophanase.

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