A recombinant inbred lines (RILs) consisting of 231 lines, derived from a japonica (Suweon365) and a japonica (Chu-cheongbyeo) rice, was used to investigate the genetic factors affecting cooking and eating quality of rice. Alkali digestion valueloci (QTLs

A new sprout-soybean cultivar, Sokang was developed from the cross between Namhaekong and Camp by the soy-i-als for evaluation and selection were carried out from 2000 to 2004. Sokang had a determinate growth habit with white flower,grayish brown pubescen

This paper demonstrates the numerical simulation of three dimensional flow pattern for vehicular exhaust dispersion in the street canyons. The wind flow around buildings in urban is computed by the SIMPLEST method. The convection-diffusion equation was used to compute the NOx concentration level near buildings. Details are given of important boundary conditions and turbulence quantities variations. The simple turbulence model was used for unisotropic viscous effect. A control-volume based finite-difference method with the upwind scheme is employed for discretization equation. The simple turbulence model applied in this study has been verified through comparison between predicted and measured data near buildings. By the predictive results, the updraft induced by the presence of high-rise buildings is important in the transport of street level pollutant out from the street canyons. Our suggestion for reducing ground level pollution is to have high-rise buildings constructed or to reduce the channelling effect of street canyons.

This study is to identify the physiological traits of submergence-tolerant varieties of rice plants (Oryza sativa L.) in Yeongnam area, southeastern part of Korea, where the reduction of rice yield due to submergence is remarkably severe. In the present study, two tolerant varieties of rice plants were selected from over 30 rice varieties grown in under a 10-day period. The tolerant varieties selected from a submerged paddy field. As a control, one intolerant variety of rice plant was chosen. Of the tolerant variety Samgangbyeo, rather than Haepyungbyeo, had a lower dissolved oxygen consumption and maintained a higher dry weight than the intolerant variety. The leaf photosynthetic rates (LPS) of the two tolerant varieties were significantly higher than that of the intolerant-variety after four days of submergence treatment. These results indicate that lower dissolved oxygen consumption in a limited pool is prevented by ethylene formation in the tolerant varieties, which may be a mechanism of submergence tolerance.

Genetic diversity of 94 japonica rice was assessed using 81 simple sequence repeat (SSR). All 81 SSR markers generated a total of 351 alleles. The number of alleles ranged from 1 to 16 with a mean of 4.3 alleles per SSR marker. Six of 81 SSR markers showe

Diversity and relatedness of 64 rice accessions were evaluated using 85 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) markers. These64 accessions represent a set of international and Korean blast diferential cultivars, a set of blast monogenic lines, donors of blastresi

Through earlier breeding efforts, portions of the genome of the wild species Oryza grandiglumis (2n=48) have been introgressed into the rice cultivar, Hwaseongbyeo (Oryza sativa spp. japonica). Hwaseongbyeo was used as recurrent parent and O. grandiglumis

The effect of UV on the mortality rate of toxic dinoflagellate Amphidinium carterae causing a red tide in the coastal area of south Korea was investigated in the batch and continuous-scale reactor equipped with ultraviolet irradiation-apparatus. Degussa P25 titanium oxide, a photocatalyst proved to be effective for the mortality of Amphidinium carterae supplied with photocatalyst and UV radiation were greater than 95% in 2 minutes of UV radiation and the rate were higher than that by UV-radiation without titanium dioxide in the batch and continuous-flow scale reactor. The mortality time of Amphidinium carterae increased with the cell density under UV-illumination in the batch scale reactor. The mortality rate in the density of 5.0×104 cells/mL at the same experimental condition was more than 90% in 4 minutes in the continuous flow scale reactor. The percentage of 99.9±0.1% of Amphidinium carterae in the density of 5.0×104 cells/mL was died in 20 minutes when the phytoplankton was illuminated with UV-radiation without photocatalyst.

Laboratory experiments were performed to investigate the effects of various factors on the phosphorus removal by electrolysis with aluminium electrodes. The efficiency of phosphorus removal increased with increasing of voltage applied, surface area of electrodes and electrolyte concentration, and decreasing of electrode distance. The phosphorus removal was not affected by the connection number of an electric circuit. The amount of aluminium ion eluted from electrodes according to Faraday's law was 4.47 ㎎ and the Al/P mole ratio was 2.14 at the electric current value of 20 ㎃.

The fundamental experiments on the phosphorus removal from water were carried out by the batch and continuous reactors which used aluminium and copper plate. In this systems, the phosphorus was removed by aluminium ion generated with the electrochemical interaction (pitting corrosion) of aluminium and copper. In the batch experiments, the efficiencies of phosphorus removal increased when the surfaces of aluminium and copper plate were brushed. The phosphorus removal by aluminium ion was affected the copper plate and NaCl in this system. The optimal pH values were 5 and 6 for the phosphorus removal. The efficiency of phosphorus removal increased with increasing NaCl concentration, surface area of aluminium and copper plate. The CuSO4·5H2O instead of copper plate could be used as Cu source. The effluent PO4-P concentration as low as 2㎎/ℓ could have been obtained during the continuous experiment at HRT of 48 hrs.

The photocatalytic decolorization and photodegradation of wastewater contamininated with dyes such as methyleneblue tetrahydrate(MBT), methyl orange(MO), phenol red(PR) and the mixed dyes have been studied using a batch reactor in the presence of aerotropic and titania. Degussa P25 titanium oxide was used as the photocatalyst and proved to be effective for the dyes-degradation when irradiated with UV-light source emitting the wavelength of 253.7 nm in the presence of air. In addition to removing the color from the wastewater, the photocatalytic reaction simultaneously reduced the COD and optical density which suggests that the dissolved organic compounds have been photooxidized. The reaction rate of disappearance of the dyes were measured as a function of the irradiation times. The photooxidative procedure of the aquatic solution have the first order reaction-kinetics. The rate constants were increased in the order of PR < MBT < <MO < mixing dyes, and all of these dyes have been mostly photodegraded within 240-minutes, when the aquatic sample solution containing 0.5 gL-1-TiO2 powder were irradiated with the UV-light source.

Industrial waste water which was highly loaded by halogenide phenols was photooxidized by laboratory-scale photooxidation of these organic impurities in the presence of aerotropic and titaniumdioxide as photocatalyst. The disappearance of organic compounds was determined as a function of the irradiation time. Some contaminants such as 2-chlorophenol, 2-bromophenol, 3-bromophenol, 4-bromophenol, 2,4-dibromophenol and 2,6-dibromophenol were photodegraded separately to obtain information on the reaction rates, reactivities, and reaction mechanisms of the photooxidation, and on the stoichiometric correlation between organic reactant and inorganic products concentration in the course of the photocatalytic photoreaction.

New two macrocyclic compounds using as carriers of liquid emulsion menbrame, have been synthesized. These reuslts provide evidance for the usefulness of the theory in designing the systems. The efficiency of selective transport for heavy metal ions have been discussed from the membrane systems that make use of SCN^- I^- , CN^- and Cl^- ion as co-anions in source phase and make use of S_2O_3^2- and P_2O_7^4- ion as receiving phase, respectively. The transport, rate of M(Ⅱ) was highest when a maximum amount of the M(Ⅱ) in the source phase was present as Cd(SCN)_2([SCN^-]=0.40M, Hg(SCN)_2([SCN^-]=0.40M) and Pb(CN)_2([CN^-]=0.40M). The Cd(Ⅱ) and Pb(Ⅱ) over each competitive cations were well transprted with 0.3M-S_2O_3^2- and 0.3M-P20_7^4 , respectively in the receiving phase. Results of this study indicate that two criteria must be met in order to have effective macrocycle-mediated transport in these emulsion system. First one must effective extraction of the M^n+ into the toluene systems. The effectiveness of this extraction is the greatest if logK for M^n+-macrocycle interaction is large and if the macrocycle is very insoluble in the aqueous phase. Second, the ratio of the logK values for M^n+-receiving phase (S_2O_3^2- or P_2O_7^4-) to M^n+-macrocycle (L_1 or L_2) interaction must be large enough to ensure quantitative stripping of M^n+(Cd^2+, Hg^2+ or Pb^2+) at the toluene receiving phase interface. L_1(3.5-benzo-10,13,18,21-tetraoxa-1,7,diazabicyclo(8,5,5) eicosan) forms a stable Cd^2+ and Pb^2+ complexes and L_1 is very insoluble in water and its Cd2^+ and Pb^2+ complex is considerably less stable than Cd^2+-(S_2O_3)_2^2- and Pb^2+-P_2O_7^4- complexe is On the other hand, the stability of the Hg^2+-L_1 complex exceed that of the Hg^2+-(S_2O_3)_2^2- and Hg^2+-P_2O_7^4- , and the distribution coefficient of L_2(5,8,15,18,23,26-hexaoxa-1,12- diazabicyclo-(10,8,8) octacosane) is much smaller than that of L_1. Therefore, the partitioning of L_2 is favored by the aqueous receiving phase, and little heavy metal ions transport is seen despite the large logK for Hg^2+-L_1 and M^n+(Cd^2+, Pb^2+ and Hg^2+)-L_2 interactions.