고품질의 아가콩 음료개발을 위해 반응표면분석법에 의한 추출조건을 최적화 하였다. 아가콩 의 최적 볶음조건은 250 ℃, 30분으로 설정하였다. 추출시간, 추출온도에 따른 아가콩의 품질지표인 pH, 색도 및 이소플라본 함량은 1% 이내에서의 유의적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 추출온도와 추출시간이 길어질수록 이소플라본 함량은 높은 것으로 나타났다. 반응표면분석의 이소플라본 추출 공정 최적화 결과 추출온도는 99.5 ℃, 추출시간은 1.7 h으로 나타났으며, 이 조건에서 이소플라본의 최적 수 율은 10.63 μg/mL로 예측되었다.

Riptortus pedestris (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Alydidae) causes losses in several crops in Korea. Release of non-viable refrigerated eggs of R. pedestris is known to enhance natural parasitism by Ooencyrtus nezarae Ishii (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) and Gryon japonicum (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) in soybean fields. In this study, we conducted an experiment of cage-exclusion design to verify the former results in more manipulative approach in a soybean field. Agakong field (45×26 m2) located at Songcheon, Andong was divided into 15 plots (10×6 m2) with each experimental arena of 3×2 m2 in the center. There were three treatments: (1) release of refrigerated eggs of R. pedestris, (2) release of refrigerated eggs with one time spray of thiamethoxam, and (3) untreated control. A fine mesh cloth with iron poles was used to encircle the arenas. Refrigerated eggs of R. pedestris were released (100/arena) twice before sampling. One-day old eggs of R. pedestris were released (60/arena) in all the experimental arenas at an interval of 6 days, and 30 eggs from each were collected to record parasitism. We found no significant difference in the eggs and nymphs population of R. pedestris among the treatments. However, adult density was significantly reduced in the treated plots during final two sampling days compared to the control. We found significantly higher parasitism by G. japonicum on the eggs collected from treated plots (9-25%) compared to the control plots (1-9%). It is verified that releasing non-viable eggs of R. pedestris help to enhance natural parasitism in soybean field.

The study was conducted to evaluate the performance of the popular isoflavone-rich soybean 'agakong' in upland and in drained-paddy fields. Analysis revealed no significant variation in terms of plant height, number of seeds per pod, number of nodes, and 100-seed weight between the two cropping system. Number of pods was significantly higher in paddy field(234.2kg 10a-1) compared to those harvested in the upland field, which was later manifested on the yield where paddy soybeans obtained 278.1kg 10a-1 whereas upland only obtained 179.3kg 10a-1. This observed difference in yield was attributed to the observed higher amount of N in the paddy soil (0.907%) as compared to the upland soil (0.458%). In terms of nutritional content, protein and phytic acid contents were the only parameters that showed significant differences while oil, sugar, reducing power and fatty acids were all comparable in paddy and filed condition. Protein content was higher in upland soil (47.4%) than that of the paddy (44.9%) soil. On the opposite, phytic acid was higher in paddy (2.90%) than in upland (1.09%). This study showed that the yield of soybean is generally a factor of soil N, drained-paddy field production of soybean is comparable to upland-filed production with the benefit of increasing phytic acid content while maintaining its nutritional value.