Background : Platycodon grandiflorum root(PGR) was one of the primary herbs used in a phlegm-relieving herb from the past. Purified platycoside compounds from the roots of PGR may exhibit neuroprotective, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-allergy, improved insulin resistance, and cholesterol-lowering properties. To evaluate preference and functionality of PGR extracts, PGR was fermented by several lactic acid bacteria. Lactic acid bacteria used were Leuc. mesenteroides N12-4 and N58-5, L. plantarum N76-10 and 56-12, L. brevis N70-9 and E3-8. Methods and Results : This study was performed in order to investigate the changes of platycosides, as well as the antimicrobial activities on bronchus diseases inducing bacteria(C. diphtheriae, K. pnneumoniae, S. aureus, S. pyogenes) of Platycodon grandiflorum root(PGR) fermented by using lactic acid bacteria(Leuc. mesenteroides N12-4, Leuc. mesenteroides N58-5, L. plantarum N76-10, L. plantarum N56-12, L. brevis N70-9, L. brevis E3-8). Growth of L. plantarum on PGR was the most active during lactic acid fermentation by some different strains. Total platycoside, platycoside E, platycodin A, polygalacin D2, polygalacin D and diapioplatycoside E contents of PGR fermented for 96 hours at 37℃ by Leuc. mesenteroides and L. plantarum were increased, while platycodin D and platycodin D3 were decreased. The antimicribial activity on PGR fermented by L. plantarum N56-12 exhibited a strong microbial proliferation in all four kinds of bronchus diseases inducing bacteria and was higher than non-fermented PGR extract. Conclusion : Thus, this results showed antimicrobial activities on bronchus diseases inducing bacteria and platycosides content of PGR by L. plantarum N56-12 were higher than non-fermented PGR extract.

본 연구는 된장 제조 시 자연발효 시킨 control과, B. subtilis KACC15935, B. subtilis HJ18-9균주를 starter로 접종하여 발효시킨 팽화미된장의 효소활성과 품질특성을 측정하였다. 환원당을 유리하는데 관여하는 α-amylase 효소활성의 경우 control과 HJ18-9를 접종한 시료에서 높게 나타났다. 또한 된장의 단백질을 분해하여 특유의 구수한 맛 성분을 유리하는 protease 활성의 경우도 control과 HJ18-9를 접종한 시료에서 높게 나타났으며, 이는 아미노태질소 함량에서도 같은 경향을 나타냈다. 또한 cellulose를 분해할 수 있는 능력을 가지고 있어 유용성분의 장내 이용성 증진을 위해 널리 사용되는 효소인 cellulase활성이 있는 HJ18-9균주를 처리한 접종구에서 115.45±30.05 unit/g로 control과 B. subtilis KACC15935 처리구에서 53.75±15.91, 43.75±13.51 unit/g 인 것에 비해 높게 나왔다. 이러한 결과로 본 연구를 통해 선별한 균주를 스타터로 접종하여 된장 제조에 알맞은 균주를 개발, 평가하여 가공품으로 개발의 기초연구가 되고자 하였다.

저온건조한 늦가을에 제조되는 한국식전통장류와는 달리 우즈베키스탄에서 한식장류는 보통 건조하고 높은 기온의 여름에 제조된다. 우즈베키스탄 시중 고려인에 의해 만들어진 된장 9종을 수집하여 품질특성을 분석하고자 protease활성, amylase활성, 아미노태 질소 함량, 환원당 함량 및 일반세균수를 조사하였다. 그 결과, 일반 세균 수는 7.24~8.79 Log CFU/g 범위의 값을 타나 내었다. Protease활성의 경우 3.98.28~832.57 unit/g 범위로 다양한 값을 나타내었고, CON에 비해 우즈베키스탄 시판 장류가 높은 protease활성을 나타내었다. Amylase 활성은 C(10.82 unit/g)를 제외한 나머지 장류가 CON에 비해 높은 활성도를 보였다. 그중에서도 UK-SP I(47.98 unit/g) 장류가 유의적으로 가장 높은 활성을 나타냈다. 아미노태 질소 함량을 측정한 결과 protease의 활성이 높았던 시료 B(832.57 unit/g), D(807.81 unit/g), H(630.67 unit/g) 에서는 아미노태 질소 함량 또한 높게 나타나는 경향을 보였다. 환원당 함량을 측정한 결과 0.95~3.43%/g 의 범위를 나타냈으며, D와 E가 3.39%/g 와 3.43%/g의 함량을 보여 환원당 함량이 가장 높게 측정되었다. 결론적으로, 우즈베키스탄 장류는 저온저습의 늦은 가을에 제조되는 한국의 장과 매우 다른 환경인 고온저습에서 자연발효로 제조되었음에도 불구하고, 비교적 한국식 장과 매우 유사한 품질특성을 가졌다. 한국에서 유래되어 고려인에 의해 계승되고 있는 장류의 미생물학적 관점 및 식문화적인 관점의 연구가 지속적으로 이루어 져야 되겠다.

청국장 제조 시 사용되는 균주인 Bacillus sp. HJ18-3과 B. subtilis KACC 15935균주를 청국장 제조 시 starter로 접종하여 발효시켜 품질특성과 isoflavone 비배당체 함량을 측정하였다. a-amylase와 cellulase활성은 control과 B. subtilis HJ18-3 균주를 접종한 청국장이 B. subtilis KACC 15935 균주를 접종한 청국장보다 각각 2.56, 2.59배 그리고 1.13, 1.23배 높은 결과를 보였다. 그러나 protease활성은 B. subtilis KACC 15935과B. subtilis HJ18-3의 활성이 높은 효소활성을 보였다. 아미노태질소 함량은 Control, B. subtilis KACC 15935, B. subtilis HJ18-3의 함량이 각각 88.20±13.86, 129.62±1.15, 118.40±48.65 mg%로 나타났으며 이는 protease 효소활성의 결과와 유사한 경향을 보였다. 환원당 함량은 control, KACC 15935, HJ18-3의 함량이 각각 1.95±0.72, 2.62±1.17, 2.59±0.76%로 전반적으로 control에 비해 처리구가 더 높은 경향을 나타냈다. 호기적 총균수와 미비한 차이로 B. subtilis HJ18-3의 균수가 적은 경향을 나타낸 것은B. cereus와Candida albicans에 대해 항균력이 우수하다고 보고된 영향으로 해석된다. control과B. subtilis KACC15935, B. subtilis HJ18-3의 isoflavone 비배당체 형태인 daidzein과 genistein, glycitein을 합한 함량은 각각 158.20±6.55, 131.60±4.00, 200.79±7.54 ug/g으로 나타났다. 이는 초기 raw soybean의 aglycone함량이 3.96 ug/g인 것에 비하여 39∼50배 전 환율을 보인다. 또한 β-glucosidase활성 이 있는 B. subtilis HJ18-3균을 접종하여 제조한 청국장이 control과 Kacc15935균을 접종하여 제조한 청국장보다 1.27, 1.53배 더 높은 aglycone 전 환율을 보였다. 따라서 본 연구에서 사용한 메밀 속성 장으로부터 분리된B. subtilis HJ18-3 균주는 amylase, protease, cellulase와 같은 세포의 효소분비능이 우수하며, 아미노태질소와 환원당 함량이 높고, isoflavone 비배당체 함량을 증가시키는 기능을 함유한 균주로 확인되었으며, 앞으로도 우리나라 전통 청국장의 세계화를 위해 유용 starter로 찾는 노력이 더 필요할 것이다.

The study was carried out to determine the gel pasting properties of barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv. Geoncheonheugbori) as affected by different proton beam irradiation. The λmax, blue value, and amylose content were significantly associated with increasing proton beam irradiation. The pasting time in barley flour irradiated with proton beam ranged 0.09 to 0.16 min shorter than nonirradiated barley flour. Gel pasting temperature ranged 57.4 to 60.5℃. Gel pasting temperature in barley flour decreased with increasing proton beam irradiation. Proton beam irradiation caused a significant decrease in the onset temperature (To), peak temperature (Tp), conclusion temperature (Tc) and enthalpy change (ΔH). Gelatinization range (R) in barley starch was more broaden than that of non-irradiated barley starch. Barley starches gave the strong diffraction peak at around 2θ values15°, 18°, 20°, and 23° 2θ. Peak intensity tended to increase with increased proton beam irradiation. The granule crystallinity is closely associated with decreased amylose and increased amylopectin component. The crystallinity degree of barley starch irradiated with proton beam was significantly increased and it ranged from 24.9 to 32.9% compared to the non-irradiated barley starches. It might be deduced that proton beam irradiation causes significant changes of properties of starch viscosity in rice, especially at high irradiation of proton beam.

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of ozonated water and ozonated water + hydrogen peroxide treatment of residual procymidone in perilla leaf containing 20 mg/L procymidone. Samples was treated with ozonated water containing 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 mg O3/L ozone and hydrogen peroxide water containing 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 mg H2O2/L hydrogen peroxide in pH 5, 7 and 9, respectively, at 15℃. Procymidone removal rate was 26.5% in 7 days at 15℃ and optimum condition of procymidone removal was the case of treating with ozonated water containing 2.0 mg O3/L and pH 9. As the result procymidone removal rate was about 96.5%. In this case of adding hydrogen peroxide, optimum condition of procymidone removal was 1 : 0.5～1(O3 : H2O2). However, procymidone was nearly removed with the treatment of hydrogen peroxide water only.

Two rice cultivars of the japonica type, ozone-resistant Ilpumbyeo (IL) and ozone-susceptible Keu-mobyeo#l (KM) were exposed to ozone (O3 ) at 0.15 ppm for 30 days. The available nutrient regimes were varied by doubling the supply of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) within a basic fertilizer status (N, P, K; 15, 12, 12 kg l0a-1 ). There was little difference on plant height between ozone-treated and nontreated plants. The most significant ozone stress on tiller number was shown on the 30th day of ozone exposure. Slight recovery from ozone stress was noted on the 60th day. On the 30th day, tiller number was greatly decreased by 40.8% in IL and 64.6% in KM, whereas at a high nitrogen supply regime (2N), it was decreased by 21.4% in IL and 42.7% in KM as compared to the control not treated with ozone at basic fertilizer status. The inhibition of tiller production caused by ozone exposure was alleviated on the 60th day. In both cultivars, number of spikelets per plant and weight of 100 grains were affected little by the ozone treatment irrespective of nutrient regime. However, the number of panicles per plant and yield were reduced significantly. In both cultivars, yield of ozone-treated plants with 2N status was 12.4-16.1 % higher than that of the ozone-treated plants with basic nutrient status. A significant yield decrease of 47.8% and 33.4% was observed for IL and KM, respectively, in ozone-treated plants with higher potassium (2K) status.

Ozone (O3 )-induced changes in chlorophyll content and specific activities of antioxidant enzymes, such as superoxide dismutase (SOD), ascorbate peroxidase (APX), guaiacol peroxidase (GPX), dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR) and glutathione reductase (GR) were investigated in two rice cultivars (Oryza sativa L.) grown under variable nutrient treatments. For this study, two rice cultivars of Ilpumbyeo (IL) and Keumobyeo#l (KM), which were known as resistant and susceptible to O3 , respectively, were exposed to O3 at 0.15ppm for 30 days and investigated with 10 days interval. The available nutrient regimes were varied by doubling the supply of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) Within a basic fertilizer status (N, P, K; 15, 12, 12kg/l0a-1 ). In both cultivars and at all nutrient status, chlorophyll content in O3 -treated plants decreased with prolonged treatment period, although higher N, P and K supply with O3 treatment alleviated the decrease in chlorophyll content. The activities of almost all enzymes investigated for this study were decreased during initial stages of O3 - exposure except GPX which maintained higher activity throughout the exposure period than the non-treated plant. However, the antioxidant enzymes in O3 -treated plants showed almost the same or higher activities on 30 days after O3 - exposure. The most significant changes in activities were observed in GR of the O3 -treated leaves. With the prolonged treatment period, the activity of GR at 30 days was increased by 3-8 times compared to those in 10 days. Most of the investigated enzymes showed very similar tendency to O3 treatment in all fertilizer status. There was no observed evidence for enhanced detoxification of O3 -derived activated oxygen species in plants grown under higher fertilizer status compared with that in plants grown under basic fertilizer status. The increase in the activities of SOD, APX and GR in rice leaves by relatively long-term treatment with O3 at low concentration is considered to indicate that the plant became adapted to the O3 stress and the protection system increased its capacity to scavenge toxic oxygen species. Our results in two rice cultivars indicated that there was little difference in the activities of antioxidant enzymes between IL and KM, which were known as resistant and susceptible cultivar to O3