약용식물로부터 항균활성소재를 ethanol로 추출하고, 각 추출물의 시설원예산물에 대한 선도유지제로서의 기능과 효능을 입증하기 위하여, 변패된 시설원예산물에서 분리된 Bacillus cereus, Corynebacterium xerosis, Pseudomonas syringae 및 Enterobacter aerogenes를 공시균주로 사용하여 항균성을 실험한 결과, 호장, 정향, 치자, 황금, 적작약, 결명자 등에서 항균성을 확인하였고, 여기에서

Korean medicinal herb extracts(KMHE) were applied to the preservation of greenhouse produce in order to prove their effectiveness. KMHE showed remarkable antimicrobial effects against Bacillus cereus, Peudomonas syringae, and Corynebacterium xerosis causing the postharvest decay of greenhouse produce. Among KMHE the extracts of Rheum palmatum L. and Coptis chinensis Franch most obviously inhibited the growth of microorganims causing the Postharvest decay of greenhouse produce, which destroyed to undetectable levels when treated with more than 500ppm of KMHE. The activities of KMHE were stable in the wide spectrum of pH and temperature. Direct visualization of microbial cells by using both transmission electron microscope and scanning electron microscope showed microbial cell membrane the function of which was destroyed by treating with the dilute solutions of KMHE. This change of cellular membrane permeability could be identified in the experiment that O-nitrophenyl--D-galactopyranoside(ONPG), the artificial substrate of -galactosidase, was hydrolyzed in the presence of KMHE, indicating that the membrane was perturbed by KMHE.