This study was conducted to assess the quality characteristics and antioxidant activity of Yanggaeng prepared with different concentrations of blackcurrant powder (0, 1.5, 3, and 4.5%). The moisture content ranged from 41.95% to 45.38%, exhibiting no significant differences between the groups. The pH gradually decreased with increasing levels of blackcurrant powder. The lightness (L) value decreased while redness (a) value increased with an increasing amount of blackcurrant powder. Hardness of the control group was lower than those of the treatment groups. Consumer acceptance test revealed no significant differences in surface color, smell, taste, and overall acceptability scores between the control and 3% added groups. The total polyphenol contents and total anthocyanin contents were 7.58~54.88 mg GAE/100 g and 0.00~4.20 mg C3G/100 g), respectively, which increased proportionally with increasing levels of blackcurrant powder. The antioxidant activity measured based on 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6- sulfonic acid) (ABTS) radical scavenging activity and ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) were significantly higher in treatment groups than the control and increased as the concentration of blackcurrant powder increased. From the above results, blackcurrant powder up to 3% can be incorporated into Yanggaeng to satisfy taste and functional needs for consumers.

Jeju Black Cattle (JBC) is an indigenous species of Korea and their mass production and industrialization are required for this high quality indigenous species. For production of elite JBC zygotes, selection of high quality sperm is necessary for in vitro fertilizatioin. In this study, we compared the sperm fertility and developmental capacity of IVF embryos using various JBC sperm (Bull A, B and C). The frozen semen was thawed and confirmed sperm viability and motility. In addition, frozen-thawed sperm was used for a chlorotetracycline(CTC) staining assay and in vitro fertilization. Sperm were classified into three staining patterns. The F pattern is indicative of uncapacitated sperm, the B pattern is indicative of capacitating and capacitated sperm and the AR pattern is indicative of acrosome-reacting sperm or acrosome-reacted sperm, respectively. Several kinds of JBC sperm was inseminated in 44 ㎕ IVF drop contained 10 oocytes with sperm concentration of 1 × 106 cells/ml, and then 2 ㎕ heparin and 2 ㎕ PHE (20 μM penicillamine, 10 μM hypotaurine, 2 μM epinephrine) were added. The sperm viability and motility were higher in sperm 3 species (n=8). When we confirmed sperm capacitation, F pattern and B pattern rate were higher than AR pattern in sperm A group. After IVF, the rates of cleavage and blastocyst development were higher in sperm C group compared to other sperm group. However, the cell number of blastocyst was higher in sperm E group. These results demonstrate that the use of sperm C was effective in production of elite JBC IVF embryos. Additional experimental data are required for more accurate analysis.

Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is a member of the phospholipid autacoid family and has growth factor and hormone-like activities on various animal cells. In this study, we investigated the effect of LPA on porcine embryo development. Porcine parthenogenetic embryos were treated into various concentrations of 0 (control), 0.1, 1 and 10 μM LPA (0 LPA, 0.1 LPA, 1 LPA and 10 LPA) during in vitro culture for 7 days or cultured in basic culture medium until day 4 and treated LPA from day 4 to day 7. In the LPA treatment for culturing from day 0 to day 7, there was no significant difference on cleavage and blastocyst formation rate. In addition, the blastocyst development proportion which was classified as expanded, hatching, or hatched blastocystshas was no significant difference among all groups. In the LPA treatment for culturing from day 4 to day 7, 0.1 and 1 LPA groups were presented increased blastocyst formation compared to other groups, but cleavage rate and over-expanded blastocyst formation rate were not significantly different among all LPA treated groups. The total cell number was not different but apoptosis was reduced when 1 LPA treated from day 4 to day 7. The relative mRNA expression level of anti-apoptosis gene, BCL2L1 was higher and pro-apoptosis gene, BAK was lower in the 1 LPA treated group than the control. In comparison with the control and the 1 LPA treated group using time-lapse monitoring system, 1 LPA treated embryo was accelerated developmental speed via morula compaction and expanded blastocyst. The 1 LPA treated group significantly increased the relative expression levels of gap junction and tight junction related genes, GJD1, CDH1 and ZO-1 compared to the control. These results indicated that 1 μM LPA supplementation for culturing from day 4 to day 7 post activation is efficient in blastocyst formation and LPA may be helpful for embryo developmental capacity.

본 연구는 효율적인 자원보존과 유전자원의 작물육종 활용 성 제고를 위한 기초정보제공을 목적으로, 29개 SSR marker 를 이용하여 아시아지역의 10개 국가에서 수집된 벼 유전자원 에 대해 유전적 다양성 및 집단 구조 분석을 수행하였다. 1. 총 85점의 벼 유전자원이 수집되었으며, 29개 SSR 마커 에 의해 증폭된 allele 수는 총 342개 였다. Allele 수는 2 개에서 28개 범위로 나타났으며, 마커당 평균 allele 수는 11.8 개 였다. 유전적 다양성을 나타내는 genetic diversity와 PIC 값의 범위는 각각 0.12-0.93과 0.11-0.93으로 나타났고, 평균은 각각 0.73과 0.71로 나타났다. 2. 국가별 벼 자원의 유전적 거리를 기초로 유연관계를 분 석한 결과 2개 그룹으로 구분되었다. BⅠ 그룹에는 남아시아 지역에 속하는 스리랑카, 인도, 방글라데시, 파키스탄이 포함 되었고, BII 그룹에는 라오스를 제외한 동남아시아 지역인 미 얀마, 부탄, 베트남, 필리핀, 태국이 포함되었다. 3. 수집 국가별 마커당 평균 allele 수는 미얀마가 1.28개로 가장 낮았고, 필리핀이 7.03개로 가장 높았으며, PIC 값 역시 필리핀이 0.64로 가장 높은 값을 보였고, 미얀마는 가장 낮은 0.15로 관찰됐다. 4. 유전적 거리와 Structure ver2.2를 이용하여 집단의 구조 를 분석한 결과, 75%의 확률에서 85개 자원 중 80개 자원 (64.1%)는 3개의 subpopulation으로 나눌 수 있었으며, 5개 자원(5.9%)은 유전적으로 혼입된 형태를 나타냈다. 5. 각각의 subpopulation은 수집 국가의 특성과 일치하지 않 았으며, 대부분 자원은 각각의 subpopulation에 불규칙적으로 분포되었다.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming a mainstream issue as more organizations seek to define their roles in society and integrate social and environmental concerns into their businesses (Lichtenstein et al, 2004). At the same time, consumers are switching towards more socially and environmentally responsible products and services (Freestone & McGoldrik, 2008). The purpose of the study is to understand socially conscious apparel shoppers based on their unique shopping attributes in comparison with traditional apparel shopping attributes such as price and quality. Investigating shopping attributes and behaviors for different shopper segments along with behavioral and demographic characteristics enables to classify socially conscious shopper groups. Segmenting consumer groups and developing consumer typologies have been viewed as an effective tool for understanding consumer behavior (Barnes et al., 2007). The socially conscious shopping typologies and classification schemes will provide the basis for understanding and targeting different types of consumers and will enable marketers and retailers to effectively tailor their strategies to each consumer type.

In rice (Oryza sativa L.), there is a diversity in flowering time that is strictly genetically regulated by plenty of genes. The floral transition from vegetative to reproductive development is a very important step in the life cycle of a flowering plant. Orthologous genes, which are homologous genes that diverged after a speciation event, generally maintain a similar function in different species. with a McDonald-Kreitman Test (MKT), we examined more than 10,000 orthologous genes between rice (Oryza sativa) and Brachypodium (outgroup), based on different phenotypic groups, to find some fast evolutionary genes of rice flowering time. Three groups with early flowering time (group 1), midium flowering time (group 2) and late flowering time (group 3) were separated and each group was examined for McDonald-Kreitman Test (MKT). Total 70 fast evolutionary genes under a positive selection were found in the three groups, and 14, 42 and 14 genes were specific existed in group 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Annotation of these genes were conducted and the predicted functions were also surveyed. In addition, network analysis of these characterized genes were also investigated to infer related pathways. And also, the association study between the one early flowering factor and the flowering time phenotype was performed and indicated that this gene is significantly correlated with flowering time in rice. These results suggest that using this orthologous based method, we could find some important candidate genes underlying flowering time regulations.

In rice (Oryza sativa L.), there is a diversity in flowering time that is strictly genetically regulated. The floral transition from vegetative to reproductive development is a very important step in the life cycle of a flowering plant. Although the genetic pathway for short-day flowering in rice is relatively well understood, the naturally occurring molecular mechanisms underlying flowering time diversity of the cultivated rice are still not clear. Resequencing of 295 rice accessions including 137 HS and 158 KB rice accessions, was recently finished with an average of approximately 10x depth and > 90% coverage. A wide range of variation in flowering time was observed within a diversity research set of 295 accessions ranging from 28 to 72 days. GWAS was performed using the resequencing data to investigate the candidate genes associated with flowering time in rice. Our GWAS result suggests that two SNPs in the promoter or 3’ UTR of the ‘Arabidopsis CO’ homolog FBH1 are potentially associated with early flowering. The new SNPs found in the FBH1 locus would be useful in developing markers to screen the varieties with early flowering time in the future molecular breeding.

The purpose of this study was to develop the best mushroom cultivation conditions and the combination of mushroom culture media in order for mushroom producers and consumers. To reach this target, we first investigated the genetic relationship and developed suitable conditions of mycelial growth in Hypsizygus marmoreus strains. One superior strain of H. marmoreus was selected from 124 strains using bag culture. One hundred and twenty four strains were genetically classified into four main groups using two Universal Rice primers, URP2R and URP17R. The studies on the effects of different temperature (17, 21, 25, 29, 33℃) showed that 25℃ is the best temperature for mycelial growth for almost all strains while at 33℃ most of mycelium stop growth. Finally, ten strains were selected according to the groups identified by their temperature requirements. The length of mycelial growth in PDA, MCM, GPYM, MEA and MYP were longer than those in Czapek Dox. The selected ten strains of H. marmoreus showed heavier dry weight of mycelia at pH 3.0∼7.0 than any other pH. Although it was not show distinct requirement of carbon and nitrogen sources for vegetative growth according to strains, mainly the mycelial growth of the ten selected strains were observed at media including xylan and yeast extract, peptone, tryptone, respectively. Moreover, higher C/N ratio was observed in higher dry weight of mycelia.

For the development of SSR marker system in Vicia villosa Roth, an enriched library was constructed by using a modified biotin-streptavidin capture method and the selected clones were sequenced with GS-FLX(454). Of 37,794 sequenced reads, we found that 8,474 reads (22.4%) were redundant, leaving 29,320 unique ones (77.6%). Among the unique clones, 17,174 reads (58.6%) were having microsatellite repeating motifs. Sequence analysis of all SSR-containing reads revealed a predominance of the di-nucleotide SSRs (62.5%). The tri-nucleotide and the tetra-nucleotide SSRs were 5.7% and 22.5%, respectively. As the di-nucleotide type, the AG/GA class of repeat motif was most frequently identified (55.0% of the total di-nucleotide SSRs), followed by the CT/TC class (19.5%), and the TA/AT class (12.1%). Among the tri-nucleotide SSRs, the AGT/GTA/TAG class of repeat motifs was predominant (22.2%), followed by the ACT/CTA/TAC class (17.8%). Among the tetra-nucleotide SSRs, the CTTT/TTTC/TTCT/TCTT class of repeat motifs was predominant (31.2%), followed by the AAAG/AAGA/AGAA/ GAAA class (19.9%). Finally, we designed 779 primer pairs from the flanking sequences of SSR containing reads. We are undertaking the analysis of polymorphisms using the diverse collected accessions of Vicia villosa Roth now. This newly developed SSR marker set shall provide a very useful tool for implementing molecular diversity assessment and population structure studies of Vicia villosa Roth onward.