For effective control of insect pest which can outbreak in a field during crop cultivation, various control agents such as eco-friendly agricultural materials (EFAM) including microbial control agents and chemical pesticides have been applied at fields and these control agents may be treated simultaneous or sequential in the same field to suppress diverse pests and diseases. The agents may influence each other and control efficacy may also differ from interactions. Therefore we need to test compatibility of microbial control agents with other agricultural agents. In this study, we investigated influence of pre-treated EFAMs, which are registered for whitefly control in greenhouse, on germination, mycelial growth and control efficacy of Isaria javanica isolate against sweet potato whitefly. The results showed that a mixture of paraffin oil+cinnamon oil among 4 EFAMs highly reduced germination (8.9±1.3%~24.5±0.9%) and mycelial growth (0.81±0.01cm~0cm) of I. javanica. To investigate the effects of the treatment interval between EFAMs and I. javanica on sweet potato whitefly control, four different EFAMs were pre-treated 0, 1, 4, and 7 days before applying I. javanica. Pre-treatment of four EFAMs inhibited insecticidal activity of I. javanica against sweet potato whitefly. Therefore when EFAMs and a mycopesticide using I. javanica spray simultaneous or sequential, application of EFAMs need more than 7 days interval after treatment of mycopesticide at field.

To date, chemical managements of plant bacterial diseases are complicated by limitations on use of antibiotics in agriculture, antibiotic resistance development, and limited efficacy of alternative control agents. In this study, thus, we performed screening of eco-friendly farming material (notice no. 2-4-064) containing tannic acid as new antibacterial-activity against 7 plant bacterial pathogens: Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum (Pcc), Ralstonia solanacearum (Rs), Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli (Aac), Xanthomonas cirti pv. citri (Xcc), Erwinia pyrifoliae (Ep), Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm), and Streptomycesscabies (Sc), Initial screening of antibacterial effects of eco-friendly farming material was performed using the paper disk diffusion method and co-cultivation in broth culture. Tannic acid based eco-friendly farming material showed inhibitory effect against Pcc, Rs, Aac, Xcc, Cmm, and Ss, whereas it did not show inhibition zone against Ep. However, when it tested by co-cultivation in broth culture, it showed strong inhibition effect against all pathogens that declined growth curve compared to bacterial pathogen only. Interestingly, when we observed morphological changes on those pathogens by SEM, cell morphologies of 7 pathogens were slightly changed that seem to be malfunction in their cell envelope.

The SS (Bacillus subtilis 10%), WS (Microbial extract 70%), and DS (Sulfur 78%) agents were selected by mycelial growth inhibitory effect test against kiwifruit soft rot pathogen (B. dothidea) with 11 kinds of environment-friendly agricultural materials on PDA medium for 10 days. They showed at 94.2%, 65.2%, 58.9%, respectively. The control value of WS and SS agents were better than DS in storage experiment. It was effective SS and WS single application, DS-WS and WS-SS alternate application in the field trial.

서양금혼초의 군락 형성에 따른 경쟁적 우세원인을 규명하고 친환경농자재 개발을 위한 기초자료로 제공하고자 생육특성과 Allelopathy 효과를 알아보았다. 서양금혼초의 생육특성은 예초지역과 비예초지역간의 묘조(苗條) 수, 지상부 직경과 화주 수를 비교한 결과 예초지역의 묘조(苗條) 수, 지상부의 직경과 화주수가 비예초지역보다 높은 것으로 조사되었고, 서양금혼초의 수용성 추출액에 대한 레드클로버(Trifolium pratense), 들묵새(Festuca myuros), 도깨비바늘(Bidens bipinnata) 등 실험식물 14종 대해 발아와 생장 실험 결과 일반적으로 수용성 추출액의 농도가 증가함에 따라 검정식물의 발아율, 유식물의 뿌리털, shoot, root의 생장이 억제되었고 검정식물의 종류와 부위에 따라 억제정도에 있어서 차이를 보였다. 또한 서양금혼초의 수용성 추출액에 대한 실험곰팡이의 생장에 있어서는 Pythium속, Phytophthora속은 수용성 추출액의 농도가 높아짐에 따라 성장이 억제되는 경향을 보인 반면, Rhizoctonia속인 경우에는 농도가 높아짐에 따라 생장억제 현상이 뚜렷하지 않았다. 이와 같은 결과를 종합하여 보면 서양금혼초의 예초는 서양금혼초의 Split현상을 유도하여 더 많은 영양번식과 종자번식을 일으켜 군락을 형성하고, 서양금혼초에 함유된 allelochemicals에 의해 타 식물체의 발아와 생장, 미생물의 생장 등에 관여하기 때문에 제주도내 생태계에서 경쟁적 우위를 점하고 있으며, 친환경농자재로서의 활용 가능성이 있는 것으로 판단되었다.

Coming with the well-being era, consumer’s demand for safe agricultural products is increasing. It is urgent to develop an environment-friendly pear production system. Accordingly, this study was conducted to develop an environment-friendly pear production system by using several environment-friendly agricultural materials which is known to be effective in agricultural production. In the effects of environment-friendly agricultural materials on the soil chemical characteristics in pear orchard, the content of total carbon, organic matter, Ca and Mg increased a little respectively compared with those of 2008, and 2nd treatment showed the highest EC and Mg content in the soil among treatments. The content of leaf N, P and Ca in 2009 decreased compared with those of 2008, while Mg content showed no difference between 2008 and 2009 years. Average pear weight in 2009 was 31g higher than that of 2008 (682g) and 2nd treatment showed the highest pear weight (738g) among treatments. The average sugar content was higher in 2009 (12.6°Bx) compared with that of 2008 (12.2°Bx) and the plot of 2nd treatment highest sugar content (12.6°Bx) among treatments. There were no difference in hunter value of L among treatments, but hunter value of a showed higher 1.62 in 2009 than that of 2008 (3.73). The highest of gumminess and cohesiveness of fruits were obtained from 1st treatment and adhesiveness and chewiness of fruits were obtained from 3rd and 1st treatment respectively. Firmness of fruit increased a little in 2009 compared with that of 2008, while the highest firmness was obtained from 3rd treatment with 1.63㎏/5㎜∮ among treatments. Phosphate content in the peel of ‘Niitaka’ pear of fruit skin in 2009 (0.97g/㎏) showed 0.06g/㎏ more content than that of 2008 (0.91g/㎏), while the highest content was obtained from 3rd treatment (1.15g/㎏). Potassium content in the peel of ‘Niitaka’ pear in 2009 was 8.20g/㎏, which is 0.06g/㎏ more content than that of 2008 (7.82g/㎏) and the highest content was obtained from 1st treatment (8.34g/㎏) among treatments. The highest nitrogen content in the flesh of ‘Niitaka’ pear was obtained from 3rd treatment (4.32㎎/g), while it was the lowest in control plot (3.10㎎/g). Phosphate content in the flesh of ‘Niitaka’ pear in 2009 (8.20g/㎏) showed 0.06g/㎏ more content than that of 2008 (7.82g/㎏), while the highest content was obtained from 1st treatment (8.34g/㎏). There were no difference of the potassium content in the fruit peel of ‘Niitaka’ pear between years, but 1st treatment showed the highest content (11.81g/㎏) among treatments, while the lowest was obtained from the control plot (10.83g/㎏).