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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160138032 | POACEAE PLANT WHOSE FLOWERING TIME IS CONTROLLABLE - It has been found that introducing into a Poaceae plant an Hd3a gene, which is a flower-bud-formation inducing gene, positioned downstream of a promoter whose expression is induced by a plant activator treatment makes it possible to control the flowering time of the Poaceae plant in accordance with a plant activator treatment timing. It has been found that further introducing a Ghd7 gene, which functions to suppress flower bud formation, into the plant makes it possible to suppress the expression of an endogenous Hd3a gene and increase the efficiency of controlling the flowering time. | 05-19-2016 |
20160135946 | PATCH-TYPE ARTIFICIAL SKIN PREPARATION - The present invention addresses the problem of providing an artificial skin preparation which requires no suturing or the like when treating a wound area with a dried collagen vitrigel membrane material as an artificial skin, and also is less likely to cause contamination or the like with an exudate, and is free from the risk of secondary damage by replacement thereof. The artificial skin preparation for solving the problem includes at least an adhesive film, an adhesion-preventing sheet, and a dried collagen vitrigel membrane material in this order, and is characterized in that the adhesion-preventing sheet has a sufficient size for preventing the adhesion of the collagen vitrigel membrane to an adhesive layer of the adhesive film and is attached to the adhesive layer of the adhesive film at a position corresponding to the position of the dried collagen vitrigel membrane material, and the dried collagen vitrigel membrane material is made easily detachable from the adhesion-preventing sheet when the adhesive film is peeled off while fixing and holding the dried collagen vitrigel membrane material on the surface of the adhesion-preventing sheet during attachment. | 05-19-2016 |
20150101081 | PLANT TRANSFORMANT, TRANSFORMATION METHOD FOR PLANT, AND VECTOR USED IN SAID METHOD - The present invention provides a method for transforming organelles having an own genomic DNA, the method enabling efficient production of highly homoplasmic plant cells, in which most of the organelles are transformed, and so forth. The method comprises the steps of: expressing in plant cells a fusion protein containing a function inhibiting factor of the organelles and a transit signal peptide to the organelles; introducing into the genomic DNA of the organelles of the plant cells an expression cassette comprising DNAs encoding a restoring factor of the organelles and a factor desired to be expressed in the organelles; and allowing the function inhibiting factor to destroy the organelles, in which the expression cassette is not introduced, in the plant cells. | 04-09-2015 |
20150094262 | SUSTAINED RELEASE CARRIER FOR DRUGS - The present invention can provide a controlled drug release carrier formed by using a silk fibroin porous material, which has high drug controlled release rate, controllability of the drug controlled release speed, high strength, easy handleability, skin care properties from high biocompatibility, high water retentivity, and capability of efficiently retaining a drug. | 04-02-2015 |
20140283209 | Complex Disease Resistant Monocot Having Optimized Agronomic Characteristics - The present inventors isolated many promoters having various expression characteristics from monocots, connected the OsWRKY45 gene downstream of these promoters, and then re-introduced them into a monocot (rice plant), and thereby strived to produce a rice line having both complex disease resistance and excellent agronomic traits. As a result, the present inventors succeeded in producing transgenic plants having both disease resistance and good agronomic traits by expressing OsWRKY45 using upstream sequences of the EF1α or OsUbi7 gene as promoters. | 09-18-2014 |
20140234849 | OLIGONUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES THAT IDENTIFY SPECIES OF ANIMAL - The present invention provides a method for identifying animal species, said method comprises a step of amplifying a DNA fragment by PCR using a DNA in a sample as a template and animal-specific DNA sequences as a primer pair, wherein the animal-specific DNA sequences are derived from a ATP synthase subunit 8 gene or a region proximal thereto of a mitochondrial genome; and a step of detecting the amplified DNA fragment. | 08-21-2014 |
20140208458 | Plant Having Complex Disease Resistance - The present invention relates to plants that have been transformed so as to have both disease resistance and acceptable agronomic traits. More specifically, the present invention relates to transgenic plants that have acquired disease resistance through expression in the plants of a polynucleotide encoding the transcription factor WRKY45 in an infection-responsive manner, and methods for generating the transgenic plants. | 07-24-2014 |
20140090107 | PLANT VARIANT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PLANT VARIANT, AND METHOD FOR ACCUMULATING SOLUBLE SUGAR - This invention is intended to allow accumulation of large quantities of soluble sugars in tissue other than plant seeds. A plant is modified so as to suppress a gene encoding a subunit exhibiting the highest sequence similarity with the subunit encoded by the AGPL1 gene of rice among subunits constituting. | 03-27-2014 |
20130172189 | PLANT ACTIVATOR - A compound useful as a plant activator for activating an endogenous defense system of a plant to control disease damage is provided. A compound represented by the formula: (R | 07-04-2013 |
20130074220 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANT CELL - It has been found that the use of a plant cell in which a function of a protein involved in repair by nonhomologous end joining is artificially suppressed dramatically increases the efficiency of introductions of non-silent mutations in a repairing process by nonhomologous end joining which occurs after induction of a DNA double-strand break with a zinc finger nuclease. | 03-21-2013 |
20120328561 | METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATORY GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS - Providing a new method of treating inflammatory gastrointestinal disorders and a food product for the prevention or improvement of inflammatory gastrointestinal disorders. Prevention or treatment of inflammatory gastrointestinal disorders is possible by oral administration of recombinant IL-10 expressed in rice plant seeds. | 12-27-2012 |
20120317678 | Gene Dro1 Controlling Deep-Rooted Characteristics of Plant and Utilization of Same - To provide a gene that controls the deep rooting of a plant, a transgenic plant introduced with the gene, a method for controlling the deep rooting of a plant using the gene, and such, high-resolution linkage analysis was performed for a genetic locus (Dro1 locus) capable of controlling the deep rooting of a plant, which was detected between a shallow-rooted rice cultivar IR64 and a deep-rooted rice cultivar Kinandang Patong in a large-scale segregating population. As a result, it was revealed that the gene region of Dro1 is located in a region of 6.0 kbp sandwiched between Dro1-INDEL09, which is an InDel marker, and Dro1-CAPS05, which is a CAPS marker. Furthermore, it was confirmed that a transgenic plant transformed with the Kinandang Patong-type Dro1 gene shows a significantly high ratio of deep rooting. It was also confirmed that a plant having the Kinandang Patong-type Dro1 gene is resistant to drought. | 12-13-2012 |
20120270223 | OLIGONUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES THAT IDENTIFY SPECIES OF ANIMAL - The present invention provides a method for identifying animal species, said method comprises a step of amplifying a DNA fragment by PCR using a DNA in a sample as a template and animal-specific DNA sequences as a primer pair, wherein the animal-specific DNA sequences are derived from a ATP synthase subunit 8 gene or a region proximal thereto of a mitochondrial genome; and a step of detecting the amplified DNA fragment. | 10-25-2012 |
20120266269 | GENE CONTROLLING CHASMOGAMY/CLEISTOGAMY OF PLANT AND USE THEREOF - A novel gene controlling chasmogamy/cleistogamy of barley was successfully identified, and the mechanism of development of chasmogamy/cleistogamy of barley was successfully elucidated by positional cloning approach. In addition, it has been found that the use of the identified gene makes it possible to specifically and efficiently determine chasmogamy/cleistogamy of a plant and impart a cleistogamous trait to a plant. | 10-18-2012 |
20120244176 | PROTEIN HAVING IMMUNOGENICITY OF CEDAR POLLEN, POLYNUCLEOTIDE ENCODING THE PROTEIN, AND USE THEREOF - It is an object of the present invention to provide a protein that can successfully treats almost all patients with cedar pollinosis and can be ingested as a food. That is, the present invention provides a protein comprising an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1 or comprising an amino acid sequence having a mutation(s) in said amino acid sequence, and having an immunogenicity of a cedar pollen; a polynucleotide encoding said protein; a vector comprising said polynucleotide; a transformant comprising said polynucleotide or said vector; and intended uses of said protein, said polynucleotide, and said transformant. | 09-27-2012 |
20120202197 | EFFICIENT PROLIFERATION METHOD FOR A KUPFFER CELL AND USE THEREOF - The present invention has successfully established a mixed culture system capable of actively proliferating a Kupffer cell in a primary culture of a cell population derived from a liver. Additionally, the present invention has successfully established a novel production method for efficiently producing a large amount of highly purified Kupffer cells using this mixed culture system. | 08-09-2012 |
20120148639 | SUBSTRATE FOR FEEDING CELLS AND/OR TISSUES, CELL/TISSUE-FEEDER AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THE SAME, METHOD FOR THE REGENERATION OF TISSUES, AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POROUS BODIES - A substrate for feeding cells and/or tissues which is composed of a porous body having a thin film surface and a porous surface and which can be used in the regenerative medical techniques. A cell/tissue feeder is produced by cultivating tissues on the porous surface of the porous body. Cells are seeded on the porous surface of the body, followed by the cultivation of the cells to thus form and/or regenerate tissues. An aqueous solution of silk proteins, to which a water-soluble organic solvent is added, is introduced into a mold whose bottom or top surface is surface-roughened, followed by freezing the aqueous solution and then thawing the frozen aqueous solution to form a porous body having a thin film surface and a porous surface. | 06-14-2012 |
20120083595 | RICE BLAST SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE Pi21, RESISTANCE GENE pi21, AND USES THEREOF - The present inventors succeeded in isolating the rice field resistance gene pi21 by linkage analysis, and found that field resistance to blast in plants could be modified by introducing or controlling the expression of the gene. Thus, it became possible to efficiently confer plants with field resistance. It also became possible to select, at an early stage, rice plants having field resistance to blast. Moreover, by changing the tissue specificity of expression and the expression level of the gene involved in field resistance, varieties having resistance as well as high practical use can be grown. | 04-05-2012 |
20120023616 | METHODS FOR PREVENTING OR INHIBITING MICROBIAL INFECTION OF PLANTS AND PLANT EXHIBITING RESISTANCE TO MICROBIAL INFECTION - This invention provides a method for preventing or inhibiting infection with a plant-infecting microorganism and imparting resistivity to plants, a method for preparing plants having resistance to diseases caused by microorganisms such as plant pathogenic filamentous fungi, and a microbial pesticide formulation. The method for preventing or inhibiting infection of a host plant with plant-infecting microorganisms comprises degrading α-1,3-glucan on cell walls of the microorganisms by α-1,3-glucanase. | 01-26-2012 |
20110281349 | Insect Desiccation Resistance Genes and Uses Thereof - An objective of the present invention is to provide polynucleotides encoding insect desiccation resistance proteins, and uses thereof cDNA libraries were produced from | 11-17-2011 |
20110265225 | TRANSGENIC PLANT HAVING INCREASED SEED SIZE - The present invention relates to a transgenic plant having increased seed size prepared via introduction of DNA encoding a protein consisting of a specific amino acid sequence derived from a plant, such as rice, and a method for producing the same. | 10-27-2011 |
20110258737 | RICE GENE CAPABLE OF IMPARTING WIDE-SPECTRUM DISEASE RESISTANCE - A three-step screening of selection for resistance against pathogenic bacteria infection, selection for resistance against pathogenic fungi infection, and selection for sensitivity to salicylic acid was carried out on | 10-20-2011 |
20110239313 | METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF TRACP5b - Silkworms which have (i) a DNA encoding a transcriptional regulator operably linked downstream of a promoter of a DNA encoding a protein specifically expressed in the silk gland and (ii) a DNA encoding TRACP5 operably linked downstream of a target promoter of the transcriptional regulator were produced. The result showed that active TRACP5b was produced from the silkworms. This means that TRACP5 produced from the silk gland of the silkworms undergoes processing in the silk gland that is similar to the processing taking place at bone resorption sites. | 09-29-2011 |
20110203016 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING PLANT STORAGE ORGAN WITH HIGH PRODUCTION OF RECOMBINANT PROTEIN AND NOVEL RECOMBINANT PROTEIN - The present invention provides a method for highly producing a recombinant protein in a plant storage organ and a GLP-1 derivative. The plant storage organ in which the recombinant protein is highly produced is obtained by transformation with the use of a vector which comprises a recombinant protein gene, a cytokinin-related gene, a drug-resistant gene and a removable DNA element, in which the cytokinin-related gene and the drug-resistant gene exist in the positions so that they can behave together with the DNA element, while the recombinant protein to be expressed in the plant storage organ exists in the position so that it would not behave together with the DNA element. The GLP-1 is produced by using the method, and a derivative having been stabilized against enzymatic digestion is further provided. | 08-18-2011 |
20110083233 | RICE BLAST SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE Pi21, RESISTANCE GENE pi21 AND USES THEREOF - The present inventors succeeded in isolating the rice field resistance gene pi21 by linkage analysis, and found that field resistance to blast in plants could be modified by introducing or controlling the expression of the gene. Thus, it became possible to efficiently confer plants with field resistance. It also became possible to select, at an early stage, rice plants having field resistance to blast. Moreover, by changing the tissue specificity of expression and the expression level of the gene involved in field resistance, varieties having resistance as well as high practical use can be grown. | 04-07-2011 |
20110023189 | TRANSFORMED PLANT WITH PROMOTED GROWTH - The present invention is directed to identify genes involved in the growth of a plant and provide a transformed plant the growth of which is promoted utilizing the genes. | 01-27-2011 |
20110021757 | TRANSGENIC SILKWORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ANTIBODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - The present inventors produced transgenic silkworms which comprise a promoter of a DNA encoding a protein specifically expressed in the silk gland and a DNA encoding a recombinant antibody whose expression is regulated directly or indirectly by the promoter, and which secrete the recombinant antibody into the silk gland. The recombinant antibodies produced from the silk gland of the transgenic silkworms were confirmed to be active. | 01-27-2011 |
20110008543 | BIODEGRADABLE BIOPOLYMERS, METHOD FOR THEIR PREPARATION AND FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS CONSTITUTED BY THESE BIOPOLYMERS - A biodegradable biopolymer material consists of silk fibroin from domesticated silkworm; silk fibroin from wild silkworm; a composite material comprising silk fibroin from domesticated silkworm and silk fibroin from wild silkworm; or a composite material comprising either silk fibroin from domesticated silkworm or silk fibroin from wild silkworm and at least one secondary substance selected from the group consisting of cellulose, chitin, chitosan, chitosan derivatives, keratin from wool and polyvinyl alcohol. The material may be prepared by, for instance, casting an aqueous solution of domesticated silkworm silk fibroin on the surface of a substrate and then cast drying the applied solution. The biodegradable biopolymer material is effectively used as, for instance, a metal ion-adsorbing material, a sustained release substrate for a useful substance such as a medicine, a biological cell-growth substrate and a biodegradable water-absorbing material. | 01-13-2011 |
20110004616 | BASE SEQUENCE DETERMINATION PROGRAM, BASE SEQUENCE DETERMINATION DEVICE, AND BASE SEQUENCE DETERMINATION METHOD - It is intended to provide a base sequence determination program, a base sequence determination device, and a base sequence determination method capable of constructing the whole genome sequence from an enormous amount of short base sequences of approximately several tens-base-long without referring to existing base sequences. In the invention, base sequences of two kinds of parent lineages carrying a genetic mutation and base sequences of a plurality of descending progenies of the generation after segregation are each analyzed, and segregation at a polymorphic site is referred to as an index of connection of the base sequences, and fragments of the base sequences are connected while verifying the validity of the segregation. | 01-06-2011 |
20100285043 | MITE ANTIGENIC RICE - An objective of the present invention is to provide methods for accumulating in rice seeds a partial peptide of a mite antigen protein comprising several T cell epitopes, or a mite antigen peptide that has been modified to not form a conformation to be recognized as an antigen, and plants which have accumulated these peptides. | 11-11-2010 |
20100184078 | OLIGONUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES THAT IDENTIFY SPECIES OF ANIMAL - The present invention provides a method for identifying animal species, said method comprises a step of amplifying a DNA fragment by PCR using a DNA in a sample as a template and animal-specific DNA sequences as a primer pair, wherein the animal-specific DNA sequences are derived from a ATP synthase subunit 8 gene or a region proximal thereto of a mitochondrial genome; and a step of detecting the amplified DNA fragment. | 07-22-2010 |
20100088780 | Convenient Method for Inhibition of Gene Expression Using RSIS - The present inventors identified RSIS, and succeeded in suppressing the expression of a target gene by linking RSIS between the region from the promoter to mRNA 5′ end sequence of a target gene and a terminator sequence including the 3′UTR after the stop codon. Furthermore, the inventors demonstrated that the expression of two different genes could be suppressed at the same time in cells where a promoter was active, by using the promoter and terminator derived from different genes, and a portion of the mRNA of each gene. | 04-08-2010 |
20090210966 | rice blast susceptibility gene pi21, resistance gene pi21 and uses thereof - The present inventors succeeded in isolating the rice field resistance gene pi21 by linkage analysis, and found that field resistance to blast in plants could be modified by introducing or controlling the expression of the gene. Thus, it became possible to efficiently confer plants with field resistance. It also became possible to select, at an early stage, rice plants having field resistance to blast. Moreover, by changing the tissue specificity of expression and the expression level of the gene involved in field resistance, varieties having resistance as well as high practical use can be grown. | 08-20-2009 |
20090124004 | Insect desiccation resistance genes and uses thereof - An objective of the present invention is to provide polynucleotides encoding insect desiccation resistance proteins, and uses thereof. cDNA libraries were produced from | 05-14-2009 |
20090051071 | DIELECTRIC SUBSTANCE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - This invention provides a method for producing a dielectric substance having excellent dielectric properties and being biodegradable, such method comprising subjecting silk protein to molding. | 02-26-2009 |
20080313771 | SEED-SPECIFIC GENE PROMOTERS AND USES THEREOF - An objective of the present invention is to provide promoters having seed-specific promoter activity, and methods of expressing foreign proteins in seeds. The present inventors isolated the promoters of a number of genes that are expressed in rice seeds, constructed binary vectors in which each promoter is inserted upstream of the GUS reporter gene, and transformed rice using the | 12-18-2008 |
20080299579 | NOVEL CANCER MARKER AND USE THEREOF - This invention provides a method for cancer diagnosis comprising measuring an endogenous antisense RNA whose relative expression to a sense RNA changes cancer-specifically in RNA-containing samples collected from a mammal. Also provided are endogenous antisense RNAs useful as cancer markers, and cancer diagnostic reagents containing the same. | 12-04-2008 |