Current trends of analytical chemistry for environmental protection in Korea were briefly reviewed. Additionally, overview of the policies and efforts of the Ministry of Environment (MOE) of the Korean Government for environmental conservation and for improvements of water and air qualities is also discussed. Particularly, this review focuses on the current standing and central trends of analytical chemistry for air quality protection.

All kinds of crops including foods, feeds and turf grasses are damaged frequently by various environmental stresses such as drought, salt, cold, and high temperature, which cause the loss of agronomic productivity. Plants cannot escape from environmental stresses. Thus, plants were evolving in the direction of overcoming environmental stresses. Some genes such as ARF, AB13, NAC, HSF, WRKY respond to environmental stresses have been reported in plants. The genes play a role in stress responses pathway of plants, the transcription factor in response to environmental stress. Typically OsWRKY76 increased the low temperature resistance, AtWRKY28 been reported to be related to the environmental stress. Zoysiagrass (Zoysia japonica Steud.) is used primarily useful for the garden or the golf course. But WRKY, environmental stress-related gene, is unknown in zoysiagrass. Here, we report the analyzing of WRKY genes and response by cold, dehydration and senescence stresses in zoysiagrass. Three WRKY gene (ZjWRKY3, ZjWRKY5, ZjWRKY7) cloning from zoysiagrass. It was transformed in arabidopsis and zoysiagrass. It will be a function analysis.

국내산 곶감과 수입산 시판 곶감에 대한 이화학적 품질 특성 조사를 실시하였다. 수분함량은 22.78~61.64%이었으며, 중국산 곶감 2종의 수분함량은 각각 22.78, 28.20%로 국내산 보다 낮은 함량을 보였다. 지역별 곶감의 pH는 5.09∼5.99이었으며, 함안곶감이 5.99로 가장 높게 나타났다. 곶감의 당도는 종류별로 25.07∼42.93 °Brix이었으며, 지역별 곶감의 무게는 29.77∼77.95 g, 영동곶감이 29.77 g으로 무게가 가장 작았으며 산청 곶감은 77.95 g으로 가장 높게 나타났다. 시판 곶감제품 9종에 대한 색도 측정 결과, L값은 표면 부분이 곶감 종류별로 18.27∼66.20이었으며, a값은 -1.26∼10.70, 산청 덕산곶감은 10.70으로 가장 높게 나타났다. b값은 2.81∼25.25로 나타났으며, 청도 반건시와 산청 곶감이 각각 25.25와 21.98의 값으로 다소 높게 나타났다. 관능검사 결과 지역별 곶감의 외관은 청도 반건시가 3.77로 가장 높은 점수를 나타내었으며 완주 흑곶감이 1.39로 가장 낮게 나타났다. 전체적인 기호도는 중국산 No.2 곶감이 가장 높게 나타났으며, 다음으로 영동곶감, 하동곶감, 상주곶감이 각각 높게 나타났다. 이산화황 함량 분석 결과 국내산 지역별 곶감 7종과 중국산 곶감 2종 모두 10 mg/kg미만으로 불검출인 것으로 나타났다.

This study was done in order to investigate the bioconversion of ginsenoside, as well as the quality characteristics of fermented ginseng, by using lactic acid bacteria. Quality characteristics such as the thin layer chromatography(TLC) pattern, ginsenosides, total phenolic content, electron donating ability, and total sugar of fermenting ginseng and red ginseng were analyzed. The ginsenoside Rg2r, Rh2s and Rh2r of the fermented ginseng and red ginseng for 65 hours at a temperature of 37℃ were not detected. The ginsenoside Rg1 and Re contents have decreased, while the Rh1, Rg2s, Rd, Rg3r, and Rg3s have increased due to fermentation. The ginsenoside Rg3 of the fermented red ginseng has increased and the contents were 114.83∼131.68 μg/mL (control 104.56 μg/mL). The total phenolic content and electron donating ability of the red ginseng have totally decreased after 7 days of fermentation. The total phenolic contents of the fermented ginseng and red ginseng with different lactic acid bacteria did not show any tendency as different strains. The electron donating ability of the fermented ginseng has increased; however, the electron donating ability of the red ginseng has decreased. The total sugars of the fermented ginseng and red ginseng with different lactic acid bacteria have also decreased.

This study was conducted to investigate the change in quality attributes of fresh-cut potatoes with heat and browning inhibitor treatment (CW: dip in the cold water for 30 sec at 4℃, HW: dip in the water for 60 sec at 55℃, AA: dip in the 0.1% solution of ascorbic acid for 60 sec at 4℃, HA: dip in the 0.1% solution of ascorbic acid for 60 sec at 55℃) during storage at 5℃. During storage, fresh-cut potatoes treated with HA showed the lowest value in surface color. PPO and PAL activities of fresh-cut potatoes treated with HA were gradually increased during storage. Hardness, weight loss, soluble solids content and moisture content had no significant difference between the treatments. In sensory acceptance, fresh-cut potatoes treated for HA marked the best quality. Conclusively, heat and browning inhibitor treatment showed the positive effect on browning inhibition while maintaining the quality of fresh-cut potatoes.

In this study, we isolated microorganisms from dried persimmon in Sangju and obtained 15 strains of microorganisms as the basic research to prevent the quality changes during drying and storage of dried persimmon. Contaminated microorganisms were separated using seven species of medium. Viable cell counts of dried persimmon from Sangju was 5.18×102∼1.68×107 CFU/g. Green mold K2-1 accounted for the highest percentage in the contaminated dried persimmons and identified as a major causative microorganism. Light violet and creamy yeasts were the second largest contaminated microorganisms. Green mold K2-1 strain was identified as Penicillium sp. and fungus K-1 and K-3 were identified as Caldosporium sp. and Aspergillus sp.