In accordance with the 1996 London Protocol, the marine dumping of wastewater generated from food was totally banned from 2013. Therefore, establishing a food wastewater bio-gasification facility for stable and continuous food wastewater treatment is necessary. The biogas produced from the wastewater can be used as fuel for electricity generation or for heating in power plants and can be sold as gas in cities as well as fuel for vehicles after undergoing a refining process. Thus, the South Korean government is trying to expand the bio-gasification facility of wastewater generated from food. In this study, we try to obtain information about the public value of such an expansion. For this purpose, the household willingness to pay (WTP) for the expansion is determined by applying the contingent valuation (CV) approach. A total of 1,000 South Korean households were involved in the CV survey, which had questions with dichotomous choices. The mean yearly public value WTP for expansion is estimated at 2,564 KRW per household. If this WTP is extrapolated from the sample to the nation’s population, the expansion in the national value is worth 50.1 billion KRW per year. These results indicate that the expansion of food wastewater bio-gasification facility is supported by Korean households.

The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) promotes an effective system of plant variety protection and encourages the development of new varieties of plants. This international convention was initiated to standardize the system efforts and strengthen policy. The establishment of cultivar discrimination system is very important to distinguish varieties between domestic and foreign agricultural products. It is necessary for the protection of breeders’rights. In addition, it will help for more efficient and quality management of plant breeding. This study was conducted to identify and group rice varieties based on agro-morphological characteristics such as plant height, panicle length, number of tillers, culm length, leaf length, leaf width, leaf pigments and flag leaf angles. Using these parameters, statistical analysis classified a total of 243 rice varieties bred in Korea into four groups. Most rice varieties did not exhibit anthocyanin pigments on the leaves particularly on the first leaf, leaf blade, leaf sheath and auricle, except for varieties classified as black rice. Results of phylogenetic and principal component analysis (PCA) indicated that these varieties formed three largely distinct clusters according to their ecotype and morphological differentiation. This result would be useful in rice varietal identification for the protection of breeders’variety rights.

Low-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (LMW-GS) play a crucial role in the processing quality of wheat flour. They are encoded multi gene family located at the Glu-A3, Glu-B3 and Glu-D3 on the short arm of chromosome 1A, 1B and 1D respectively. Typical LMW-GSs are composed of three parts including a short N-terminal domain, a relatively short repetitive domain and a C-terminal domain. Further, typical LMW-GS sequences are divided into LMW-s, LMW-m and LMW-i types, on the basis of the first amino acid of the mature proteins (serine, methionine and isoleucine, respectively). Although it is known that the allelic variation of LMW-GSs affect the properties of dough, it is still not clear which LMW-GSs confer better bread-making quality because of the larger number of expressed subunits and their overlapping mobility with abundant gliadin proteins. Therefore, it is important to characterize LMW-GS genes and develop functional markers to identify different LMW-GS alleles for application in wheat breeding. In this review, we discuss the various aspects of LMW-GS, including their structural characteristics, the development of marker, relationship between LMW-GSs and bread wheat quality, and genetic engineering of the LMW-GSs.

본 연구는 가리왕산 산림유전자원보호구역의 관속식물상을 밝히고 주요 식물들의 분포를 조사하였다. 2011년 5월부터 동년 10월까지 3회 조사, 그리고 2012년 2회 추가 조사로 총 5차례에 걸쳐 조사한 결과 관속식물은 89과 272속 458종 3아종 62변종 6품종의 총 529분류군으로 조사되었다. 이 중 한국 특산식물은 총 22분류군이 확인되었으며, 산림청 지정 한국 희귀식물은 30분류군이 조사되었다. 환경부 지정 특정 식물은 V등급 7종류, IV등급 17종류, III등급 35종류, II등급 39종류, I등급에는 46종류 등 총 144종류가 분포하고 있었다. 귀화식물은 15분류군으로 확인되었으며, 귀화율은 2.83%로 나타났다. 가리왕산 산림유전자원보호구역 내 자생하는 529분류군의 식물에 대한 유용식물분류에 따르면, 식용 178분류군(33.6%), 약용 144분류군(27.2%), 목초용 163분류군(30.8%), 관상용 68분류군(12.8%), 목재용 20분류군(3.8%), 섬유용 8분류군(1.5%) 등으로 나타났다.

In this paper, we propose a digital image stabilization technique using edge detection and Lucas-Kanade optical flow in order to minimize the motion of the shaken image. The accuracy of motion estimation based on block matching technique depends on the size of search window, which results in long calculation time. Therefore it is not applicable to real-time system. In addition, since the size of vector depends on that of block, it is difficult to estimate the motion which is bigger than the block size. The proposed method extracts the trust region using edge detection, to estimate the motion of some critical points in trust region based on Lucas-Kanade optical flow algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed method stabilizes the shaking of motion image effectively in real time.

검정콩 종피에 함유된 안토시아닌의 항산화 및 항염증 효과를 분석하였다. 메탄올로 추출된 검정콩의 안토시아닌 조추출물은 0.01%에서 0.5% 범위에서 농도 의존적으로 SOD활성을 증가시켰으며 0.5%에서 superoxide radical을 100% 소거시키는 결과를 관찰할 수 있었다. 또한 RAW 264.7 세포를 배양한 후, 세포 배양액에 LPS와 농도별 안토시아닌 추출물을 가한 결과, 안토시아닌 추출물을 0.001%, 0.01%, 0.02% 농도로 각각 처리했을 때 LPS에 의해 증가된 NO의 생산이 농도 의존적으로 감소하는 결과를 보였다. 따라서 검정콩 안토시아닌 추출물의 항산화능 및 항염증효과를 가늠할 수 있었다. 그러나 안토시아닌 조추출물은 DDT 시험에 의해서는 S. aureus, E. coli, C. albicans, A. niger에 대해서 10%의 농도에서도 항균력을 보이지 않았다.

춘천 지역에 대한 관속식물의 분포와 식생을 파악하기 위하여 2006년 3월부터 2008년 9월까지 총 94회에 걸쳐 조사하였다. 그 결과 확인된 관속식물은 총 118과 496속 894종 2아종 132변종 38품종 등 총 1,066분류군이었다. 조사된 1,066분류군 중에는 한국특산식물 42분류군, 희귀 및 멸종위기식물 33분류군, 환경부지정 멸종위기야생식물 5분류군이 포함되어있다. 식물구계학적 특정식물종은 총 191분류군으로 나타났으며, 귀화식물은 71분류군으로 귀화율은 6.66%, 도시화지지수는 24.83으로 산출되었다. 식생은 신갈나무 군집, 소나무-신갈나무 군집, 신갈나무-고로쇠나무 군집, 신갈나무-굴참나무 군집, 신갈나무-물박달나무 군집 등 5개의 군집으로 구분되었으며, 신갈나무림이 춘천지역을 대표하는 식생으로 나타났다.

심장질환 및 암치료에 약제로 사용되어지는 D. purpurea의 잎 절편으로부터 신초의 재분화와 증식을 시도하였다. MS 배지에 2 mg/l BA와 0.1 mg/l IAA를 조합하여 처리하였을 때 잎절편으로부터 부정아가 형성되었다. 유기된 부정아로부터 신초의 증식은 식물생장조절물질이 첨가된 B5 배지에서 배양 5주 후 약 21개의 신초가 분화되었으며, 신초의 길이 신장과 생육은 WPM 배지와 MS 배지에서 가장 양호한 것으로 나타났다. 한편 기내 증식된 신초로 부터의 발근은 1 mg/l IBA를 첨가된 MS 배지에서 신초당 21.5개가 형성 되었다.