Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) is an essential crop in the Paraguayan diet. It plays a crucial role in food security. It is a source of income for family agriculture. It has a significant potential to adapt to various climatic and soil conditions in Paraguay, making it a promising crop for improving productivity. However, Paraguay faces a deficit in the development of sweet potato cultivation technology, resulting in a low productivity of 5.3 ton/ha. Efforts have been made to collect and characterize sweet potato genotypes, covering a diversity of native varieties. These efforts have laid the groundwork for future sweet potato research and development. Still, ongoing research and development of strategies are needed to address existing challenges of improving genetic resource traits and developing cultivation technology and to fully exploit growth opportunities in this sector. This review summarizes sweet potato cultivation in Paraguay, focusing on several key technical aspects. It analyzes current market situation and production conditions as well as the availability of genetic materials adapted to different ecoregions. Additionally, it explores prospects for the development of advanced sweet potato crops, including the production of high-quality, virus-free sweet potato plants with improved productivity.

The alternative food market has attracted much attention due to concerns about climate change, increasing consumer awareness of value consumption, and the development of the Food-Tech industry. This study aimed to analyze the factors that drive consumers to purchase alternative food products and identify the mechanisms that can induce consumers to continue buying. We surveyed 1,200 consumers and estimated data using a logit model. The results showed that the presence of vegetarians in the household, environmental concerns, a vegetable-oriented diet, and a mixed diet of meat and vegetables were positively associated with purchasing plant-based alternatives. Of particular interest was the non-linear relationship between respondents’ age and their purchasing experience with plant-based options, with the likelihood of purchasing alternatives increasing with age from the mid-50s onward. These findings suggest that in addition to the growing number of consumers who share the environmental value, which leads to increased interest in and purchase of plant-based alternatives, alternative foods are also health-oriented and meet the needs of older consumers, who are becoming an increasingly important segment of the super-aged society, suggesting the potential for continued growth in the alternative food market.

우리는 솔수염하늘소(Monochamus alternatus) 장에 존재하는 공생미생물들을 분리하였다. 그중 다양한 식물 들을 대상으로 성장 촉진 효과가 보고된 세균을 단일배양 분리하였다. 이 세균은 16S rRNA sequencing을 통하여 Enterobacter roggenkampii로 동정되었다. 우리는 분리된 E. roggenkampii에 대하여 genomic sequencing을 수행하 였고 유전학적 특성을 확인하였다. 우리는 E. roggenkampii가 식물의 성장을 촉진할 수 있는 다양한 유전자들을 가지고 있는 것을 확인하였고 그 중 IAA-Asp hydrolase 유전자를 가지고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 동시에, 분리된 E. roggenkampii와 같은 속의 세균을 대상으로 다양한 API kit와 기질 첨가 배지를 이용하여 생화학적 특성을 비교하였다. 향후 IAA-Asp 가수분해효소를 생산하는 잠재적인 식물 생장 촉진 비료 미생물로 등록하여 다양한 작물을 대상으로 생장 촉진 효과를 확인할 것이다.

This study was carried out to evaluate the growth characteristics and forage yield potential for warm season grass as emergency forages. The experimental design was a randomized block design (RBD) with three replications. Two barnyard millet (Echinochloa species cv. Shirohie and Jeju native), a pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum cv Feed milk 2) a proso millet (Panicum miliaceum cv Native), a teffgrass (Eragrostis tef cv. Tiffany) and a kleingrass (Panicum coloratum cv. Selection 75) were compared for forage production and quality at the Mid regions of Korea. Warm season forage crops were sown on May 21 and June 23 respectively, and in 2021, it was sown twice on May 21 and June 21 The number of days to seedling emergence for barnyard millet and teffgrass was observed approximately 10 and 3 days after seeding, respectively. The cultivation period from seeding to harvest was within 60 days for all entry spices except for the late-heading type barnyard millet (within 84 days). As for the dry matter yield by seeding date, the dry matter yield of the late-heading type barnyard millet in May seeding was the highest at 23,872 kg/ha, and the kleingrass was the lowest at 3,888 kg/ha. For the June seeding, the dry matter yield of the late-heading type barnyard millet was 17,032 kg/ha, the highest, and the proso millet, teffgrass and kleingrass showed the lowest at 5,468, 5,442, and 5,197 kg/ha, respectively. The crude protein (CP) content was varied by warm season grass species, but the early-heading type barnyard millet, teffgrass, and kleingrass showed the highest tendency, and the late-heading type barnyard millet showed the lowest at 5.7~5.9%. Neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and acid detergent fiber (ADF) content did not show a significant difference between the seeding in May, but kleingrass in June sowed lower than the others.

절화장미 삽목묘 대량생산 효율을 높이기 위해 국내 육성 절화장미 ‘엔틱컬’(Rosa hybrida ‘Antique Curl’)을 대상으로 생장 활력이 높은 단경삽목묘 주요 절위를 분석하였다. 화경으로부터 순서대로 5매엽 이상을 가진 마디 6개를 삽목(6 절위, Level 1~6)하여 온실과 생장환경조절실에서 각각 30일간 관리 하였다. 그 결과, 삽목 절위가 기부 쪽으로 내려갈수록 발근율과 액아 생장이 억제되었고, 삽수 잎의 황화 및 낙엽 현상이 조기에 나타났다. 잎의 탄수화물 함량은 발근과 신초발아율에 영향을 주지 않았다. 온실환경에서 1~3 절위, 생장환경조절실 에서 1~2 절위의 생장이 가장 우수하였고, 모두 4절위까지는 정상적인 생장을 보였다. 결과적으로 상업용 장미 시설 생산에서 대량삽목번식을 할 때 화경으로부터 5매엽을 가진 네번 째 마디(level 4)까지 가능할 것으로 확인되었다.

본 연구에서는 수입되는 바이오매스를 대체하고 증가하는 국내 RPS의무비율을 보다 효과적으로 대응하기 위해 우드펠릿으로 사용가능한 국내 산림바이오매스 부존자원을 파악하기 위하여 선행연구 방법과 매년 추가로 성장하는 임목생장률을 기준으로 미이용 산림바이오매스의 양을 산정하였다. 그 결과, 임목가공 중 발생하는 부산물 중 20%를 우드펠릿 원료로 사용한다고 가정했을 경우 두 가지 추정 방법으로 도출된 평균값을 기준으로 우드펠릿 생산 가능량을 예측 하였다. 그 결과 미이용 부산물은 2016년 199만 톤, 2020년 228만 톤, 2030년 308만 톤이 발생되고 원목가공 과정에서 발생되는 임목부 산물(피죽, 톱밥 등) 중 20%가 우드펠릿 원료로 활용될 경우 2016년 258만 톤/년, 2020년 295만 톤/ 년 2030년 398만 톤/년의 원재료가 추가되어 미이용 부산물과 원목가공 과정 중 발생되는 부산물로 생산 가능한 우드펠릿 양은 2016년에 274만 톤/년, 2020년 314만 톤/년 2030년 423만 톤/년의 우드펠릿이 생산 가능하다는 결과를 도출 하였다.

Sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) lam] plant is known to have the relatively tolerance soil moisture deficit compared to other upland crops. However, recently, it has been causing plant growth inhibition and decrease storage quality due to the drought during the growing season of sweetpotato in Korea. The response of root elongation, leaf and shoot growth of sweet potato plantlets, cultivated under different water potential conditions were observed. Six varieties, such as yellow fleshed (Jinhongmi), dark-yellow fleshed (Daeyumi), dark-orange fleshed (Juhwangmi), light-orange fleshed (Dahomi, Pungwonmi), and purple fleshed (Sinjami) were used in this experiment. Using the follow water osmotic potential (WOP) levels were 0 (control), -0.05, -0.1, -0.2, -0.3, -0.4, -0.5 MPa by polyethylene glycol (PEG). In in vitro culture condition, ‘Jinhongmi’ has been inhibited rooting number and number of leaves less than 2, although slightly low WOP of–0.05 and –0.1 MPa, and at –0.2 MPa. shoot was not growing. ‘Daeyumi’, Dahomi, and Juwhangmi’ produced 2 roots as a low WOP of –0.3 MPa. and at –0.2 MPa., it appeared 2 or 3 leaves. ‘Pungwonmi’ produced similar to root number 3.9 at –0.1 MPa compared to control, but root weight decreased 75% at - 0.1 MPa more than control. Root did not grow at – 0.2 MPa for ‘Sinjami’. In nursery bed culture condition, roots fresh weight, number of leaves, and shoot length were inhibited according to the decreases of water osmotic potential. In the case of leaf area, ‘Jinhongmi’ and ‘Daeyumi’ was a significantly difference to 8.4, 22.6 cm3 at –0.2 MPa compared to control, respectively. No difference were obsered for ‘Dahomi’ at -0.1 and –0.2 MPa. ‘Pungwonmi’ was decreased 86% at -0.1 MPa compared to the control. ‘Juhwangmi’ and ‘Sinjami’ was a significantly difference to 15.5, 3.6 cm3 at –0.1 MPa compared to control of 22.9, 16.8 cm3, respectively.

Secondary metabolites isolated from Actinomycete have been studied to find potent pest control agents as their insecticidal and growth inhibitory activities. In order to investigate novel insecticidal compounds, second metabolites from 363 Actinomycete isolates were evaluated for their insect growth regulatory activities. Among them, ethyl acetate extracts from ten Streptomyces spp. showed high level of Juvenile hormone antagonist activity. In addition, their insecticidal activities were tested against larvae of Aedes albopictus, Plutella xylostella and Laodelphax striatellus. These results suggested that secondary metabolites from Streptomyces spp. could be used for development of novel IGR-based insecticides.

Euiam and Paldang Reservoirs have often been facing water quality problems, such as eutrophication, algal blooms and off-flavors by treated wastewater effluent (TWE) in the North-Han and the Han River basins, but little is examined on the direct biological effect of TWE. This study tested algal growth potential (AGP) of four TWEs discharged into Euiam and Paldang Reservoirs to evaluate water fertility in September 2014 and March and September 2015. Test alga was used Anabaena circinalis isolated from Paldang Reservoir. Mean concentration of T-N and T-P in TWEs was 3,956.7 μg N L-1 and 50.8 μg P L-1, and the proportion of NO3-N and PO4-P to the total fraction was 72.1% and 40.8%, respectively. Both N and P were high in TWEs, but much higher N than P concentration indicates strong P-limitation. As a consequence, the maximum AGP was determined by PO4-P concentration (r=0.998, p<0.01). Mean AGP value was 15.4 mg dw L-1 among four effluents indicating its eutrophic condition. Due to the establishment of tertiary (advanced T-P) treatment method in the studied plants recently, P concentration was significantly decreased in TWEs compared to the years prior to 2012. However, P concentration seems to be still high enough to cause eutrophication and algal blooms. Therefore, wastewater treatment to P-free level needs to be considered if effluents are directly discharged into the drinking water resources.

This experiment was conducted to establish proper irrigation method for water spinach, subtropical vegetable in plastic film house soils to prepare to future global warming of the Korean peninsula. The evaluation of irrigation with 4 different levels as −20, −40, −50 kPa as a starting point(water potential) were compared to –33 kPa as control. All treatments were ended when water potential reached at –10 kPa respectively. The amount of irrigated water, N content, plant growth and fresh yield were investigated. As a result, water potential was correlated positively with irrigation starting point in cultivation period and irrigation times, but the amount water irrigated per time, N content of harvested plant, fresh and dry yield showed negative correlation. The contents of crude protein, P, K, Ca, Fe of harvested part were most high in –50 kPa treatment. We concluded that –50 kPa was optimal irrigation starting point for water spinach cultivation in unheating plastic film house.

September 2014 and March 2015 at the three sites (PD-1, PD-2 and PD-3) of Lake Paldang. Nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations were higher at PD-2 than at PD-1 and PD-3. TSI (TN) values at the three field sites were in the range of 65~85, which were the level of eutrophic or hypereutrophic state. TSI (TP) also showed high values (49~68), which were the level of mesotrophic or eutrophic state. Akinete germination potential was higher at PD-2 with increased nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus), and algal growth potential also increased with nutrient enrichment.

Exostosis is a phenomenon of exophytic growth of compact bone, and the oral exostosis, so called a torus is usually found in the lingual or labial areas of mandible and maxilla, and the hard palatal area. It is not a pathological nor tumoral formation but a localized bony protuberance relevant to developmental and environmental origins. However, the pathogenesis of exostosis has not been clearly elucidated so far. In the present study total 51 cases of oral exostosis were examined by radiological, histological, and immunohistochemical methods to observe the osteogenetic potential existed in the sclerosed bony tissue of exostosis. Particularly, the unilateral mandibular exostoses occurred in the vicinity of mandibular primary growth centers which were more prominent than the contralateral ones in the radiological observation. Histologically the peripheral area of exostosis was composed of lamellated bone and covered with periosteal tissue which showed sparse osteoblastic activity, while the central area of exostosis was composed of thickened and anastomosed trabecular bones with small amount of marrow connective tissue. The latter stained blue in Masson trichrome method, while the former stained red. The immunohistochemical reactions of BMP-2, bFGF, CMG2, and TGF-β1 were clearly positive in the central trabecular bones, while almost negative in the peripheral cortical bones of exostosis. These findings may indicate that the central area of exostosis is less mineralized than the peripheral area of exostosis, and the former expresses different osteogenetic proteins to produce bony tissue contrary to the latter. Therefore, it is suggested that the strong osteogenetic potential in the central area of exostosis be relevant to the growth potential of mandibular and maxillary primary growth centers and play an important role for the latent expansile growth of exostosis in adult life.

본 연구는 울산 지역에서 성장 잠재력이 높은 농작물을 선정하고자 농작물의 재배면적 및 농업생산액에 대한 2000, 2005 및 2007년의 공식통계자료와 행정자료를 사용하여 특화계수분석과 지역성장률시차 분석을 하였다. 재배면적과 농업생산액에 의한 특화계수분석에 따르면, 쌀, 배, 감 등은 모든 분석시점에서 특화작목으로 분류되고 있다. 이들 작목들은 지역 내에서 차지하는 비중이 상대적으로 높아서 중요하기 때문에 지역농업인들의 영농활동지원 차원에서 단기적인 정책에 반영하는 것이 유용할 것이다. 2000~2007년의 농업생산액을 기준으로 한 지역성장률시차분석결과에 의하면, 딸기, 감, 감자, 옥수수, 고구마 등이 성장작목으로, 배가 경쟁우위작목으로 분류되고 있다. 재배면적 기준에서는, 딸기, 감자, 옥수수 등이 성장작목으로, 고구마가 경쟁우위작목으로 분류되었다. 이들 작목은 시장의 선호도와 생산자의 의지를 반영한 전국적인 추세와 지역의 생산 활동을 고려한 시계열 분석이라는 차원에서 지방자치단체는 중장기 농업정책 수립에 활용하는 것이 유익할 것이다.

This study was to evaluate the growth potential of E. coli O157:H7 in lettuce leaf extracts and on lettuce leaf surface at various temperatures. The pathogen can survive and multiply in the extracts and leaf surface of lettuce. The population of E. coli O157:H7 in the lettuce extracts reached to 4.79 log CFU/mL at 37℃. The multiplication of pathogen in lettuce extracts initiated within 10 hours of inoculation over 15℃ conditions. And it can survive in the lettuce leaf extracts at 4℃ for 100 hours at least. And this pathogen can multiply on lettuce leaf surface and the population of pathogen on the lettuce leaf surface increased to 1.82 log CFU/g at 25℃. At 37℃, the pathogen density increased to 1.53 CFU/g within 3 days after inoculation. At all temperature, irrespective of the inoculation level, similar trends in growth of E. coli O157:H7 were observed. These results emphasize the growth potential of E. coli O157:H7 in lettuce leaf extract and on lettuce leaf surface. To reduce the risk of outbreak, it is important to maintain the cold chain system during storage before the consumption.

Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is an efficient technique which has been successfully applied to developmental biology, and resulted in the production of offspring from various species. It offers many opportunities in basic and medical research as well as endangered species preservation. On the other hand, embryonic stem (ES) cells are useful research tools for genetic engineering and developing disease models. In previous study, we established bovine IVF embryo derived ES cell line which can be grow indefinitely as undifferentiated cell state. In this study, we compared the effect of two different age cells (bovine ES cell; JNU-ibES-05 or adult ear fibroblast cell) on in vitro developmental potential of bovine SCNT embryo. To produce SCNT embryos, the ES cells or somatic cells were dissociated and transferred into enucleated MⅡ oocytes, and cleaved reconstructed embryos were cultured in CR1aa medium containing 10% FBS, 1 ug/ml epidermal growth factor (EGF) and 1 ug/ml insulin growth factor (IGF) for 8 days. In the result, blastocyst development rate was similar between ES cell treatment group and somatic cell treatment group, 27.7% (10/36) and 28.9% (11/ 38), respectively. However, there was particular difference in development speed from day 5 post SCNT, blastocyst expanding was 1 day faster in ES cell group than in somatic cell group. This difference was analyzed by semi-quantitative RT-PCR using pluripotency, growth and cell cycle gene markers. These results demonstrated that SCNT embryo using ES cell as a donor cell has better growth potential than somatic cell, and it will be a useful tool for a transgenic animal production.

目前IT产业已逐渐成为中国的中心产业。通过近几年的急速增长，已经成为颇具规模的产业。产业技术的进步以及激烈的市场竞争导致IT产业的价格下降，因此实现了各部门以更低的成本来实现信息化，普通消费者也可以更低的价钱来购买IT产品。 但是在全球产业价值链中，中国的电子信息产业总体上处于中低端，而且中国生产的很多电子产品都是附加值较低的产品，因此经济效益没有出现其规模的扩大相匹配的增长。因此，电子信息产业的健全的发展和质的增长、以及提高经济效益成为中国电子信息产业面临的最迫切的问题。为此，中国政府也在“十一五规划”期间，努力做好电子信息产业的质的增长。 尽管如此，总体上来看中国的电子信息产业实现产业结构升级和提高竞争优势还需要一段时间。外资企业在中国电子信息产业中所占主导地位以及电子信息产业实现的大量就业人口，提高了中国电子产品在世界市场中所占的份额以及促进了出口产品的产业升级。另一方面，也使中国成为劳动密集型的加工基地，不利于中国国内企业培育长期的发展潜力。 中国人民大学的刘瑞教授曾经指出，中国今后为了实现年均7%以上的经济发展速度，就必须要解决落后的技术问题。并且强调，如果中国自身没有自己的技术积累，中国将永远不能逃脱生产技术部门的其他技术强国的控制。 但通过合并来引进国外先进技术、研发投资的急速增加、中国国内企业获得国内外专利申请的增加、培育理工专业的优秀人才等意味着中国的电子信息产业技术力量正在快速提高，因此，不能过低的评价中国电子信息产业。从这一点上，中国目前还不是我们的威胁，但也有可能会成为未来的威胁。

본 연구는 남해안 북만 해역을 대상으로 조류성장잠재력(AGP) 시험을 통하여 H. akashiwo의 성장제한요인을 평가하였다. 영양물질의 첨가 및 미생물과의 동시배양에 의하면 적조발생 단계별 H. akashiwo의 성장은 서로 다른 제한요인에 의하여 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다. 적조발생 전의 H. akashiwo 성장은 질산질소 50μM과 연산인 5μM을 복합첨가하면 크게 증가하였지만 인산인을 단독 첨가하거나 미생물과 동시 배양하여도 전혀 영향이 없었다. 적조발생 전의 H. akashiwo 성장제한요인은 질산질소로 나타났다. 적조발생시기의 H. akashiwo 성장은 질산질소 50μM 또는 인산인 5μM을 단독첨가하면 증가하였지만 미량영양물질이나 vitamin B12을 첨가해도 전혀 영향이 없었다. 적조발생 시기의 H. akashiwo 성장제한요인은 질산질소와 인산인이 동시에 작용하는 것으로 나타났다. 반면에 적조소멸시기의 H. akashiwo 성장은 질산질소와 인산인을 첨가하면 약간 증가하였지만 미생물과 동시 배양하면 현저히 감소하였다. 그러므로 적조 소멸시기의 H. akashiwo 성장제한은 미생물요인에 의한 것으로 평가되었다.