본 연구는 전국 임의의 산양삼 재배지를 선정하여 재배 지 내의 토양 특성 및 토양세균군집을 분석하고, 토양이 화학적 특성, 토양세균군집 및 산양삼 생육특성 간의 상관 관계를 구명하기 위하여 수행되었다. 토양세균군집 분석은 pyrosequencing analysis (Illumina platform)를 이용하였고, 토양세균군집과 생육특성 간의 상관관계는 Spearman’s rank correlation을 이용하여 분석하였다. 8개 산양삼 재배 지로부터 분리한 토양세균군집은 2개의 군집으로 군집화를 이루는 것을 확인하였다. 모든 토양샘플에서 Proteobacteria와 Alphaproteobacteria가 각각 35.4%, 24.4%로 가장 높은 상대적 빈도수를 보였다. 산양삼의 생육은 토양 pH가 낮고 Acidobacteria의 상대적 빈도수가 높은 토양에서 증가 하였으며, Acidobacteriia (class)와 Koribacteraceae (family)의 상대적 빈도수는 산양삼의 생육과 유의적인 정의 상관관계를 보이는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구 결과는 토양세균군 집과 산양삼 생육 간의 상관관계를 구명하는 중요한 자료가 될 것으로 생각되고, 나아가 산양삼 재배 이전에 산양삼의 생육에 유용한 토양세균군집을 확인할 수 있다면 산양삼 재배적지를 선정하는데 도움을 줄 수 있을 것이다. 또한 토양이화학성과 더불어 임상 및 주변식생에 따른 토양 세균군집과 산양삼 생육특성에 대한 상관관계 연구를 추 가로 수행한다면 보다 명확한 정보를 대한 제공할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

Background : Wild-simulated ginseng (WSG, Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer) in Korea which depends on an artificial forest growth method. Methods and Results : WSG samples were collected from 8 different regions in Korea in October, 2017, and these were analyzed by ultraperformance liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-QTOF MS) using optimized analytical methods to compare the metabolite patterns to cultivated regions. Furthermore, their metabolite compositions differed according to individual plant samples. The metabolite profiling data were processed by multi-variate statistical analyses such as PCA and PLS-DA to determine the differences among geographical origins. To identify significant metabolites according to regional variances of WSG, more sophisticated multi-variate statistical analyses such as metabolite selection should be performed. Conclusion : This metabolomics approach can also be applied to evaluate the overall quality of WSG, as well as to discriminate the cultivars for the medicinal plant industry.

Background : A major medicinal plant, Angelica gigas Nakai, have using root parts and mainly cultivated the cool temperature region of high alpine as wild type in the northeast of China, Japan and Korea. The roots of grow it’s rapidly form August, and harvested from October to November. This study performed that the growth characteristics on soil mulching vegetation cultivation field of 300 m altitude of under Larix leptolepis (S. et Z.) Gordon in Bonghwa-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do. Methods and Results : After one-year seeding of the same size (7 - 8 ㎜) were transplanted in three types soil mulching of cultivation (plastic, straw and non-mulching) overground growth surveyed in three times (May to August), To confirm of soil condition compared the average. Soil condition of plot were observed to pH 5.56, OM 3.22%, T-N 017%, and growth increment were higher observed to that straw and non-mulching then plastic mulching of such as plant length 46.8 ㎝, stem diameter 5.9 ㎜, leaf length 24.4 ㎝ and width 28.9 ㎝, number of radical leaf 3.1. But from August, when the average temperature was high, the growth characteristics such as plant length, petiole Length, leaf length and width were reversed compared to those of plastic and non-mulching. Conclusion : In case of cultivation of A. gigas in the environmental conditions of mountainous area, considering the growth from August to October when the roots growth bigger, It suggested that strew mulching is better than plastic and non-mulching, would be done through further research on underground growth characteristics of A. gigas according to harvesting time confirmed the relationship to the growth characteristics of A. gigas according to environmental conditions and soil mulching mountainous plantations.

A new chestnut cultivar, “Mipung” was released from Korean native chestnut trees by chestnut laboratory of the Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI) in 2006. This cultivar was selected first from a natural population in 1984, and the preliminary, advanced, and regional yield trials for evaluation were carried out from 1985 to 2005. “Mipung” is a late-ripening cultivar, and its optimal ripening date is late September. It has good nut quality for eating raw and processing. Its average nut weight is 27.3 g, much heavier than that of the check cultivar, “Arima”. It had also been identified to have resistance to chestnut blight disease and chestnut gall wasp threatening to chestnut trees. The average yield of 8 year-old “Mipung” was 8.8kg per tree, which was superior to that of “Arima”.