| National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences Patent applications |
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| 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 |
| 20110093984 | Gene Capable of Being Expressed Specifically in Endosperm of Plant, Promoter for the Gene, and Use of the Gene and the Promoter - The present inventors identified a novel rice glutelin gene, GluD-1, which is expressed specifically in seeds. The promoter of the GluD-1 gene was confirmed to induce seed-specific gene expression, and to induce expression of downstream genes specifically in the endosperm during the early stage of seed maturation process. More specifically, the GluD-1 promoter can induce strong expression of an exogenous gene in sites including the endosperm. | 04-21-2011 |
| 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 |
