본 실험은 CAM 식물인 칼랑코에(Kalanchoe blossfeldiana) 에 이산화탄소 시비 및 다양한 일장처리를 통한 생육반응을 조사하여 탄소자원화 기술 도입 방안을 모색하고 고품질 분화 묘 생산을 하고자 수행되었다. 실험은 서울여자대학교 ICT스마트형 유리온실에서 실시하였으며, 공시 재료는 칼랑코에 Kalanchoe blossfeldiana ‘Lion’, ‘Fikalrudak’ 두 품종이다. 일장은 8시간, 12시간, 16시간으로 처리하였으며 이산화탄소는 22:00~04:00에 평균 400㎛ol･mol-1(대조구)와 800㎛ol･mol-1로 처리했다. 엽수는 칼랑코에 ‘Lion’ 품종의 경우, 8시간과 12시간 일장에서, 칼랑코에 ‘Fikalrudak’ 품종의 경우, 8시간 일장에서 이산화탄소 농도 상승에 따라 증가하였다. 초장은 품종에 관계없이 일장 8시간에서 이산화탄소 농도를 400㎛ol･mol-1에서 800㎛ol･mol-1로 증가시킬 때 감소하였다. 칼랑코에 ‘Lion’ 품종에서, 미성숙엽의 엽장과 엽폭은 이산화탄소 농도 상승에 따라 일장 8시간과 12시간에서 증가하였다. 하지만, 칼랑코에 ‘Fikalrudak’ 품종의 미성숙엽 엽장과 엽폭은 이산화탄소 농도에 영향을 받지 않아 품종에 따른 반응 차이가 있는 것으로 판단된다. 마디수는 품종과 일장에 관계없이 이산화탄소 농도를 800㎛ol･mol-1로 증가시켰더니 증가하였으며, 개화소요일 수는 이산화탄소 농도에 영향을 받지 않았다. 개화는 품종에 따라 차이가 있었으며 칼랑코에 ‘Lion’ 품종에서는 8시간과 12시간 일장에서, 칼랑코에 ‘Fikalrudak’ 품종에서는 8시간 일장에서 나타났다. 이상의 결과로 칼랑코에는 이산화탄소 농도에 관계없이 단일 조건에서만 효과적으로 개화하며, 이산화탄소 시비는 칼랑코에 잎의 생산과 마디 생산을 촉진시킬 수 있었 다. 그러나 이산화탄소 고농도 시비는 칼랑코에 개화 품질에 부정적인 영향을 줄 수 있으므로 시비 단계, 품종 등에 따른 적합한 시비 방법이 다르게 적용되어야 한다.

This study evaluated the antimicrobial efficacy of different concentrations of ozonated water with organic matter, fetal bovine serum, at different concentrations and incubation times with bacteria. In the absence of organic matter, total eradication of up to 5 log of Escherichia (E.) coli was achieved, however, interference by organic matter led to inefficiency of ozonated water as a disinfecting agent. In addition, diminishing antimicrobial effects at higher temperatures, even in the absence of organic matter, were also demonstrated. These findings indicate that ozonated water will be a safe and effective disinfectant agent that could be useful in meat processing, especially an intestine processing, in Korean slaughter houses.

The purpose of this study is to develop a growth prediction model that can predict growth and development information influencing the production of citrus fruits: the growth model algorithm that can predict floral leaf ratio, number of fruit sets, fruit width, and overweight depending on the main period of growth and development with consideration of the applied weather factors. Every year, large scale of manpower was mobilized to investigate the production of outdoor-grown citrus fruits, but it was limited to recycling the data without an observation supporting system to systemize the database. This study intends to create a systematical database based on the basic data obtained through the observation supporting system in application of an algorithm according to the accumulated long term data and prepare a base for its continuous improvement and development. The importance of the observed data is increasingly recognized every year, and the citrus fruit observation supporting system is important for utilizing an effective policy and decision making according to various applications and analysis results through an interconnection and an integration of the investigated statistical data. The citrus fruit is a representative crop having a great ripple effect in Jeju agriculture. An early prediction of the growth and development information influencing the production of citrus fruits may be helpful for decision making in supply and demand control of agricultural products.

Oct4 and Nanog are well-known transcription factors related with self renewal of embryonic stem cell. In low-dose of Nanog, transcription of oct4 is increased; however, oct4 is down-regulated upon high-dose of Nanog. There is a negative feedback loop between oct4 and Nanog. To identify this regulation, we generated 4 nested sets for mouse oct4 promoter. Luciferase activities of oct4 were declined upon high-dose Nanog in all constructs. The declined effects of oct4 upon high-dose Nanog were moderated with DNMT and HDAC inhibitors (5-AZA-cytidine and trichostatin A) in 3 constructs (1867, 1346, 754). But, one construct (2179) was only sensitive to TSA. Taken together, these effects were also represented in semi-quantitative RT-PCR and Western blotting data. These data suggest that negative regulation of oct4 gene upon high-dose Nanog would be accomplished by DNMT and HDAC. Further, it will be studied whether these constraining molecules bind to CR1-4 region of oct4 promoter upon low- and high-dose of Nanog.

There is a growing number of plant genomes that are being sequenced, but most of these available assemblies do not cover the entire genome mainly due to the highly repetitive sequences found in most plant genomes. Nevertheless, these repeats, although a challenge in assembly algorithms, provide relevant information about a genome’s history that could help explain its structure and complexity. Here, we cytogenetically mapped previously and presently characterized major repeats of Panax ginseng genome, including several LTR retrotransposons (PgDel2, PgDel3, PgTat1, PgTat2, PgTork) and one tandem repeat, PgTR Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) results showed differential accumulation of Ty3/gypsy LTR retrotransposons into different chromosomal regions or subgenomes, suggesting a non-random preferential amplification of retrotransposons in these regions and an allopolyploid origin of P. ginseng. In silico analysis based on 1x whole genome sequence reads suggests that PgTR is the most abundant tandem repeat in ginseng, which was further corroborated by FISH analysis. More importantly, its unique distribution pattern among the 24 ginseng chromosomes, coupled with the non-random distribution of LTR retrotransposons and rDNA arrays, allowed us to discriminate and characterize each individual ginseng chromosome. These different newly characterized cytogenetic markers allowed reorganization of previously reported ginseng karyotype with better resolution, demonstrating the irutility in ginseng chromosome identification. These information give us insight about the genomic structure of P. ginseng, and should be useful for future comparative cytogenetics studies among closely related species to unravel its genomic history. This work was supported by the Next-Generation BioGreen21 Program (No. PJ008202), Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea.

Genome duplication is an abundance phenomenon and in plant kingdom and consequently formed paralogous region. Korean ginseng (Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer) has a possibility of tetraploid by comparing chromosome numbers of relative species. During development of EST-SSR markers in Korean ginseng, most of primer sets have produced multiple bands in gel electrophoresis. In this study, for identifying origin of multiple bands, five EST-SSR markers showing multi-band were selected and two bands around expected size were sequenced. Sequence comparison classified the multiple bands into individual loci. Two bands can be identified by SNP or InDel variation with number of SSR units. Sequencing result represented that paralogous loci with high similarity were existence caused by recent duplication. One clear band were amplified with newly designed locus specific primer picked from SNP variation. SNP and InDel polymorphism between paralgous loci were useful for identifying each locus. This study will provide better understanding of ginseng genome and will be helpful for development of DNA markers.

Next generation sequencing (NGS) approaches can also be useful tool for characterization of organelle genomes. We generated chloroplast (CP) genome sequences of two Korean ginseng cultivars, Chunpoong and Yunpoong, based on reference-guided assembly using whole genome NGS data. We used 0.5x of P. ginseng genome NGS reads to assemble CP genome. Of the NGS reads used, about 6% were mapped to the reference CP genome with mean coverage of 94x due to high copy number of CP genome in plant cell. CP genomes of the two cultivars were predicted to be 156,248 bp and 156,355 bp in length and showed about 0.1% differences at nucleotide level, compared to reference CP genome sequenced from P. ginseng (Acc.no. NC_006290), whereas difference between CP genomes of the two cultivars is very rare. In this study, we developed the molecular marker to perform taxon identification and also to elucidate phylogenetic relationship among Korean ginseng cultivars. Now, we are analyzing the CP genomes of other P. ginseng cultivars together with other Panax species including American ginseng and Panax related species.

A new standard rose cultivar ‘Pink Stone’ was bred from the cross between red standard cultivar ‘Red Queen’ and pink standard cultivar ‘Vivaldi’ at the National Horticulture Research Institute. The cross was made in 2001 and ‘Pink Stone’ was finally selected in 2006 after investigating characteristics for three years from 2003 to 2006. ‘Pink Stone’, a deep pink standard cultivar grows vigorously and has powder mildew resistant. The major characteristics of this cultivar are 115.1 stems/m2/year in yield, 77.7 cm in length of cut flower, 10.5 cm in flower diameter, 67.0 in petal number, and 12.0 days in vase life. This cultivar can be propagated by both cutting and grafting. The consumer’s preference of this cultivar is relatively higher than that of control cultivar, ‘Noblesse’.