In this study, sixty chemicals including 47 pesticides were screened for estrogenic activity using E-screen assay. MCF-7 cell, used in E-screen assay, is known to be proliferated by addition of estrogenic chemicals. Eight of the measured pesticides showed estrogenic activity at the concentration range of 100-10,000nM. Their relative proliferative effect (RPE) and the relative proliferative potency (RPP) were 20-65% and 0.01-1.0%, respectively, when compared with 1.0nM of β-Estradiol-17-acetate(E2). DDVP and diazinone showed most strong estrogenic potency(RPP; 1.0%) and effect(RPE; 65%) of the eight pesticides. These results are in agreement with estrogenic activity of bisphenol A is known as a positive endocrine disrupter. Also, in this study, paraquat, DDVP, 4- chloro-3-methylphenol, 2,4,6-trichlorophenol and diazinon of the measured pesticides are estimated to estrogenic chemical.

In order to understand the impact for decomposition of blue-green algae Microcystis on water quality, the algae were cultivated with collection of natural population during approximately one month, when water-bloom of Microcystis dominated at August 31, 1999 in the lower part of the Okchon Stream. The enrichment of inorganic N·P nutrients didn't in algal assay and the effect of Microcystis on water quality was assessed from the variation of nutrients by algal senescence. Microcystis population seemed to play a temporary role of sink for nutrients in the water body. Initial algal density of Microcystis was 2.3×106 cells/ml. When Microcystis population died out under light condition, algal N·P nutrients between 9∼12 days affected to increase of biomass after reuse by other algal growth as soon as release to the ambient water. However, cellular nutrients under dark condition were almost moved into the water during algal cultivation. NH4, NO3 and SRP concentration were highly increased with 160, 17 and 79 folds, respectively relatve to the early. As a result, the senescence of Microcystis population seemed to be an important biological factor in which cause more eutrophy and increase of explosive algal development by a lot of nutrients transfer to water body. There are significantly observed an effort of reduce for production of inner organic matters such a phytoplankton as well as load pollutants from watershed in side of the water quality management of reservoir.

제초제 bialaphos에 저항성인 phosphinothricin ace-tytransferase gene이 도입된 형질전환 감자 식물체에서 유전자의 간편한 확인방법을 확립하였다. 먼저 형질전환체와 대조식물체의 잎 disc를 취해 bialaphos 5mg/l를 처리한 액체배지에 치상하였을 때 배양 25일이면 대조식물체의 잎 disc는 완전히 고사되어 형질전환체와 구별이 가능하였다. 감자의 뿌리 생육 비교실험에서는 bialaphos 0.5mg/l의 농도에 agar를 0.6% 첨가한 선발배지에서 식물체의 정단부위를 치상하여 비교하였을 때 7-10일이면 뿌리의 생육차이를 이용하여 간편하게 형질전환여부를 판정할 수 있었다. 또한 감자의 잎 disc를 제초제 bialaphos 0.5mg/l를 처리한 액체배지에 치상하여 15일이 경과한 후 chlorophyll A의 함량을 측정하였을때 형질전환체는 대조식물체보다 2.5배 정도 많은 chlorophyll A를 가지고 있어 형질전환체의 조기 판별시 chlorophyll A함량에 의해 검증이 가능하였다. 한편, 이렇게 형질전환 여부가 확인된 감자 식물체를 이용하여 PAT효소의 활성을 측정한 결과 대조 식물체에서는 PAT효소의 활성을 보이지 않았으나 형질전환 식물체에서는 모두 효소의 활성이 높았다.

In spite of the development of highly sophisticated instrument, the precise quantitation of plant hormones still has many difficulties. Due to their high specificity, sensitivity and minimal sample purification steps, immunological assays have been widely applied for plant hormone assay. Enzme-linked immunosorbent assay technique for the determination of plant hormones was developed by Voller in 1978. Immunological assays are accomplished by competition of labeled tracer antigen and unlabeled antigen for a limited number of specific antibodies. The use of enzyme as replacement labels for radioisotopes enabled much of the sensitivity and specificity of radioimmunoassay (RIA) to be retained but without the inherent disadvantage of high capital cost, potential health hazard, and short shelf life of the labeled reactants.