주름버섯목(Agricales), 소똥버섯과(Bolbitiaceae), 볏짚 버섯속(Agrocybe)에 속하는 버들송이버섯은 국내에서 대부분 병 재배용 품종으로 육성되어 있어 수량 증대를 위한 봉지재배용 품종을 개발하고자 본 연구를 수행하였다. 버들송이버섯 33개 유전자원을 수집하고 유전자원의 봉지재배 특성과 수량을 조사한 후 재배일수와 자실체 모양을 고려하여 5개 모본을 선발하고 3개의 교배조합을 작성 하여 7계통을 선발하였다. 선발된 7계통과 대조품종인‘참’을 봉지재배한 결과 재배일수는 ‘JBAC15-1’이 49일, ‘JBAC15-6’이 50일로 대조품종의 재배일수인 53일 대비 각각 4일과 3일이 단축되었으며, 그 외의 계통은 대조품 종보다 긴 재배일수를 나타내었다. 선발계통의 발이율은 ‘JBAC15-1’이 96.1%로 가장 우수하였으며 다음으로 ‘JBAC15-6’이 94.5%를 나타내어 대조품종의 발이율인 93% 대비 각각 3.1%, 1.5% 우수한 결과를 나타내었다. 봉지 당 수량은 ‘JBAC15-1’이 176.8 g으로 가장 우수하였고 ‘JBAC15-6’이 168.7 g으로 대조품종인 '참'의 160.7 g 대비 각각 10%, 5% 증수되었다. 이러한 결과를 토대로 대조품종인 ‘참’대비 재배일수가 짧고 수량이 우수한 ‘JBAC15-1’과 ‘JBAC15-6’을 최종 선발하였다. 선발계통 인 ‘JBAC15-1’, ‘JBAC15-6’의 균사생장 최적 배지는 PDA, 최적 온도는 27.5 o C, 최적 pH는 ‘JBAC15-1’이 pH 5, ‘JBAC15-6’이 pH 6으로 나타났다. 자실체 갓의 색은 ‘JBAC15-1’과 ‘참’이 진갈색을 나타냈으며 ‘JBAC15-6’ 은 연갈색을 나타내었다. 갓 형태는 반구형으로 모두 동일하였으나, 대의 색은 ‘JBAC15-1’이 연갈색을 나타냈으며 ‘JBAC15-6’은 흰색을 나타냈고 대조 품종인 ‘참’은 상아색으로 각각 서로 다른 특성을 나타내었다.

Agrocybe cylindracea was cultured in a bag, in which sawdust culture medium (1 kg) is put in a plastic bag (PE), with poplar sawdust, rice bran, wheat bran, and dried bean curd refuse in the ratio of 70:10:10:10 (v/v). 2% of the culture medium was inoculated with the liquid starter of Agrocybe cylindracea, and this was incubated at 25oC. After incubation, the A. cylindracea was further cultured by cutting the top vinyl portion of the bag down to the level of the culture medium surface of the first inoculation part. The cut culture medium was placed in a growth room at 25oC, and pin-heading was induced under light irradiation at 99% humidity and 1,000 ppm CO2 level for 3days. When the grow the environment was controlled at 95% humidity and 21oC, the bending of the stem was less as compared to that when the cap of the bag had been removed. The number of effective fruiting bodies per bag increased by 140% (28.8), the quantity per bag increased by 29.5%, and 148.5 g A. cylindracea could be potentially harvested.

Over 2,000 ha of rice fields in the western and southern coastal region of Korea were flooded with sea water during the spring tide, on August 19-21, 1997, and the rice plant at heading stage was injured. The field surveys were undertaken at the sea water flooded paddy fields in Chonbuk Province, to identify the injury symptoms and rice yield damage subjected to different flooding condition and desalinization methods. Five days after sea water flooding at heading stage, the flag leaves of rice plants flooded with 30 ㎝ deep sea water withered from the tip, the withering progressed to the lower leaves in deeper flooding. The spikelets were spotted black and discolored from the tip at 50 ㎝ deep flooded rice, and some panicles changed to white at 80 ㎝ deep flooded rice. Most of the rice leaves submerged completely for an hour were withered and most of panicles changed to white. The milled rice yield, percentage of ripened grain, and 1000 grain weight of flooded rice decreased with deeper flooding water, higher water salinity and longer flooding time. Even under the same flooding conditions, the damage of rice yield varied with the growth stage: heading stage>dough stage>booting stage. Rice yield damage was less in the fields on the upper riverside than those of the fields on the estuary and seaside, because of lower water salinity. In a flooded field, the rice yield damages were reduced as the distance increased from the levees where the sea water inflowed and increased as the distance increased from the fresh water irrigation gate. The desalinization treatments consisting of frequent exchange of irrigation water and spraying with fresh water soon after flooding effectively reduced the rice yield damage.