Cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT) catalyzes the acylation of cholesterol to cholesteryl ester with long chain fatty acids and ACAT inhibition is a useful strategy for treating hypercholesterolemia or atherosclerosis. Inhibitory effects on ACAT of the MeOH extracts prepared from 163 edible plants were evaluated. 15 species out of 163 species exhibited higher than 50% of inhibition on the hACAT-1 and 9 species exhibited higher than 50% of inhibition on the hACAT-2 activity at their concentration of 100 μg/mL.

The antibacterial activity of clove (Eugenia caryophyllata Thumb) in culture troth against S. aureus was tested at 35, 5, -20, 50, 55 and 60. Tryptic soy broth(TSB) containing 0∼0.5%(w/v) of clove was inoculated with 105∼107 CFU/ml of S. aureus and incubated at each temperature. The growth of S. aureus occured at 0.1% clove after a prolonged lag period while viable cells of S. aureus decreased more than 2 log cycles at 0.3 and 0.4% clove during 12 hours storage at 35. During 32 days of refrigerated storage at 5, survivors of S. aureus were decreased with the progress of time and increasing clove concentration. At the presence of 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4% clove, bacterial cells were dead after 32, 20 and 16 days of refrigerated storage, respectively. During 32 days of frozen storage at -20, survivors of S. aureus were decreased less than 0.5 log cycle at 0% clove. At the presence of 0.1∼0.4% clove, survivors were decreased 2.5∼3.0 log cycles after 1 day and then decreased 0.4∼0.8 log cycles through the frozen storage. There were small changes in populations of S. aureus in TSB between different concentrations of clove during frozen storage. The D-values of S. aureus at clove 0, 0,2, 0.4% were 28.53, 15.14, 8.9 min at 50, 18.43, 10.32, 6.74 min at 55 and 12.78, 9.88, 5.72 min at 60, respectively. The D-values for S. aureus were decreased with the increasing temperature and clove concentration.

우리나라의 자원식물 중 식용으로 이용할 수 있는 식물종에 대한 연구로서 식용자원의 발생 이황에 대한 연구와 유전자원 수집을 통해 얻어진 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 우리나라에 발생하는 식용 자원식물 중 74 개과에 속하는 609종의 발생이 확인되었다. 2. 식용 자원식물의 수에 다른 과별 순위는 국화과＞백합과＞십자화과＞콩과＞장미과＞산형과＞화본과＞석죽과 순으로 나타났다. 3. 국화과, 십자화과, 백합과에 속하는 대부분의 식용식물은 경엽부를 채소로서 이용하고 있었으며, 장미과의 식물과 콩과 식물 중 일부는 과실이나 종자를 식용 자원으로 이용할 수 있었다. 4. 재배하는 작물종과 식물분류학적으로 근연관계에 있는 종의 수가 많은 화본과 식물은 직접 식용으로 이용할 수 있는 종의 수가 극히 적었다. 5. 수집된 종자들의 발아률은 종마다 다양하여 자원식물의 식용을 위해서는 발아율의 낮은 종의 발아율 개선에 대한 연구가 선행되어야 한다.