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20100016166 | Plant Growth Regulator and use Thereof - A plant growth regulator containing glutathione allows increasing harvest index. This provides a technique for specifying a control factor for a plant, thereby effectively controlling germination, growth, anthesis etc. of the plant. | 01-21-2010 |
20100083404 | Plant Having Increased Yield of Seeds - It is found that a transformed plant into which a γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase gene has been introduced is increased in at least one of the number of flowers and the number of seeds in comparison with a wild-type plant, and is therefore increased in seed yield. Based on this finding, the present invention elucidates the function of a product of a plant-derived γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase gene and provides a technique for producing a plant having an increased seed yield. | 04-01-2010 |
20100242141 | COMPOSITION FOR PRODUCTION OF PLANT BODY HAVING IMPROVED SUGAR CONTENT, AND USE THEREOF - The composition, in accordance with the present invention, for producing a plant body having an improved sugar content includes glutathione, a polynucleotide encoding γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase, or a polynucleotide encoding glutathione-binding plastid type fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase. The composition preferably includes oxidized glutathione. This allows provision of a composition for easily producing a plant body having an improved sugar content. | 09-23-2010 |
20110065583 | METHOD FOR INCREASING THE PRODUCTION OF PLANT BIOMASS AND/OR SEEDS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PLANT CAPABLE OF PRODUCING INCREASED AMOUNT OF BIOMASS AND/OR SEEDS - The production of biomass and/or seeds is further increased. The production of biomass and/or seeds by a plant can be further increased by supplying glutathione to a plant into which a gene encoding protein phosphatase 2C having characteristic consensus sequences has been introduced. | 03-17-2011 |
20110078818 | GENE FOR INCREASING THE PRODUCTION OF PLANT BIOMASS AND/OR SEEDS AND METHOD FOR USE THEREOF - A technique by which the production of plant biomass can be significantly increased is provided. A protein phosphatase 2C gene having 3 consensus sequences comprising the amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NOS: 1-3 from the N-terminal side in such order is over-expressed. | 03-31-2011 |
20110225677 | GENE FOR INCREASING THE PRODUCTION OF PLANT BIOMASS AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF - A technique by which the production of plant biomass can be significantly increased is provided. The AT3G05660 gene encoding a receptor-like protein having a leucine-rich repeat structure or a gene functionally equivalent to such a gene is introduced, or an expression control region of an endogenous gene corresponding to the gene is modified. | 09-15-2011 |
20110239330 | GENE CAPABLE OF INCREASING THE PRODUCTION OF PLANT BIOMASS AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME - According to the present invention, a technique with which the production of plant biomass can be drastically increased and salt stress resistance can be imparted to a plant is provided. | 09-29-2011 |
20120005787 | GENE FOR INCREASING THE PRODUCTION OF PLANT BIOMASS AND/OR SEEDS AND METHOD FOR USE THEREOF - A technique by which the production of plant biomass can be significantly increased is provided. A gene encoding protein phosphatase 2C having 3 consensus sequences comprising the amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NOS: 1-3 from the N-terminal side in such order and a gene encoding glutathione-binding plastid-type fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase is introduced, or an expression control region of endogenous genes corresponding to the genes are modified. | 01-05-2012 |
20120216314 | GENE CAPABLE OF IMPARTING ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS RESISTANCE TO PLANTS AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING THE SAME - According to the present invention, environmental stress resistance is imparted to a plant or the environmental stress resistance of a plant is improved. At least one gene selected from the group consisting of an LRR-RLP gene selected from a 1st group (including At2g33080), an LRR-RLK gene selected from a 2nd group (including At1g69990), and an LRR-RLK gene selected from a 3rd group (including At5g39390) is introduced into a plant, or an expression control region of an endogenous gene is altered in a plant. | 08-23-2012 |
20120240462 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CLONE SEEDLINGS - A shoot of a plant is cultivated under the presence of glutathione, so that the shoot is rooted. It is possible to cultivate the shoot under the presence of glutathione by use of a rooting medium including glutathione or by contacting a solution including glutathione with the shoot. Oxidized glutathione is preferably used as glutathione. By promoting rooting of the shoot of the plant, a rooting rate of the shoot of the plant is improved. This improves productivity of a clone seedling. | 09-27-2012 |
20120324601 | COMPOSITION FOR PRODUCTION OF PLANT BODY HAVING IMPROVED SUGAR CONTENT, AND USE THEREOF - The composition, in accordance with the present invention, for producing a plant body having an improved sugar content includes glutathione, a polynucleotide encoding γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase, or a polynucleotide encoding glutathione-binding plastid type fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase. The composition preferably includes oxidized glutathione. This allows provision of a composition for easily producing a plant body having an improved sugar content. | 12-20-2012 |
20130143260 | ALGA IN WHICH PRODUCTION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC PRODUCTS IS IMPROVED, AND USE FOR SAID ALGA - Provided are an alga in which productivity of a photosynthate is increased, and use of the alga. The alga of the present invention has an increased glutathione concentration in its chloroplast. A method of the present invention for producing biomass is a method for producing biomass with the use of the alga of the present invention or an alga produced by a method of the present invention for producing an alga. | 06-06-2013 |
20140366440 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CLONE SEEDLINGS - A shoot of a plant is cultivated under the presence of glutathione, so that the shoot is rooted. It is possible to cultivate the shoot under the presence of glutathione by use of a rooting medium including glutathione or by contacting a solution including glutathione with the shoot. Oxidized glutathione is preferably used as glutathione. By promoting rooting of the shoot of the plant, a rooting rate of the shoot of the plant is improved. This improves productivity of a clone seedling. | 12-18-2014 |
20150143586 | GENE FOR INCREASING THE PRODUCTION OF PLANT BIOMASS AND/OR SEEDS AND METHOD FOR USE THEREOF - A technique by which the production of plant biomass can be significantly increased is provided. A protein phosphatase 2C gene having 3 consensus sequences comprising the amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NOS: 1-3 from the N-terminal side in such order is over-expressed. | 05-21-2015 |
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20080241660 | NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY - A non-aqueous electrolyte battery has a cathode, an anode, an electrolyte, and a separator. The separator is a microporous resin film of a single layer made of a resin material in which at least one kind of insulating and flame-retarding fiber is dispersed in a polyolefin resin. | 10-02-2008 |
20100255362 | SEPARATOR AND BATTERY - A battery in which a cathode and an anode are arranged so as to face each other an having a separator in between is provided. The separator is formed from a plurality of laminated microporous membranes and has a film thickness of 10x μm and a piercing strength of 150x gf or more, where 1≦x≦2. The air permeability of one layer among the plurality of microporous membranes is equal to or larger than 10% of the air permeability of the whole separator. | 10-07-2010 |
20120231347 | BATTERY - A battery capable of improving the energy density and improving the cycle characteristics is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode arranged opposite of the cathode and an electrolyte in between the cathode and the anode. The amount of cathode active material and the amount of anode active material is such that the open circuit battery voltage is within the range from 4.25 volts to 6.00 volts, the electrolyte contains an electrolytic solution and a polymer containing vinylidene fluoride, and the cathode contains lithium complex oxides. | 09-13-2012 |
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20100135706 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a rotatable member; a heater contactable to a surface of the rotatable member to heat the rotatable member; and a back-up member cooperative with the rotatable member to form a nip for nipping and feeding a recording material carrying an image, wherein a position of a peak in a pressure distribution with respect to a rotational direction of the rotatable member is in an upstream, with respect to the rotational direction, of a central portion of a contact region between the rotatable member and the heater with respect to the rotational direction. | 06-03-2010 |
20110236084 | FIXING DEVICE - A fixing device for fixing on a recording material a toner image formed on the recording material includes a fixing roller; a heating member for heating the fixing roller in contact with a surface of the fixing roller; and a pressing member for forming a fixing nip between itself and the fixing roller, wherein the recording material on which the toner image is formed is subjected to fixing by being nipped and conveyed in the fixing nip. When the recording material which has been jammed is removed by pulling a trailing end of the recording material in a winding jam state in which a leading end of the recording material has passed through the fixing nip to reach a contact portion between the heating member and the fixing roller, a drawing force F | 09-29-2011 |
20110268481 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is capable of setting a cleaning mode in which a fixing portion is cleaned by a cleaning sheet while nip-conveying the cleaning sheet in a fixing nip. When the cleaning mode is set, an image forming apparatus provides a period in which a first rotatable member and a second rotatable member are rotated in a state in which a heater is controlled so that a surface temperature Th of the first rotatable member immediately after passing through the fixing nip is kept within a temperature range of Th≦Tf | 11-03-2011 |
20110268482 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion for forming an unfixed toner image on a recording material; and a fixing portion for heat-fixing the unfixed toner image on the recording material while nip-conveying the recording material in a fixing nip, the fixing portion includes a first rotatable member contactable to the unfixed toner image, and a second rotatable member contacted to the first rotatable member to form the fixing nip between itself and the first rotatable member. The image forming apparatus is capable of setting a cleaning mode in which the fixing portion is cleaned by a cleaning sheet while nip-conveying the cleaning sheet in the fixing nip. When the cleaning mode is set, the image forming apparatus executes a plurality of types of cleaning operations in a period in which a single cleaning sheet passes through the fixing nip. | 11-03-2011 |
20120155938 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus for heating a toner image formed on a recording material includes a first rotatable member contactable to the toner image; and a heating unit, including a second rotatable member rotating while contacting a surface of the first rotatable member, for heating the first rotatable member. The toner image on the recording material is heated by receiving heat from the first rotatable member heated by the heating unit. The image heating apparatus further includes a potential controller for maintaining a polarity of a surface potential of the second rotatable member so as to be opposite to a charge polarity of the toner. | 06-21-2012 |
20140161496 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member adapted to bear a toner image, a transfer belt configured to be movable, a transfer device placed across the transfer belt from the image bearing member and adapted to transfer the toner image from the image bearing member to the transfer belt, the transfer device including a brush member equipped with a plurality of conductive filaments to be put into contact with the belt, wherein the plurality of conductive filaments located at an upstream end in a moving direction of the transfer belt is cut along an orthogonal direction intersecting the moving direction of the transfer belt at right angles or the conductive filaments located at an upstream end of the brush member along the moving direction of the transfer belt are bonded together. | 06-12-2014 |
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20080240803 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus has a heat member for heating an unfixed image and is configured so that a longitudinal center of the heat member becomes a conveyance center of the recording material, the image forming apparatus including a central portion temperature detection part adjacent to the conveyance center, an end portion temperature detection part for detecting an end portion temperature of the heat member, and a width detection part for detecting a lateral width of the recording material, wherein the width detection part is disposed at a side opposite to a side at which the end portion temperature detection part is disposed with respect to the conveyance center position of the recording material. The image forming apparatus achieves the control for error setting of the recording material based on the width detection part and the end portion temperature detection part. | 10-02-2008 |
20090196664 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a contact-sliding member parallel to a generatrix of a heating roller and brought into contact with the heating roller configured to heat a toner image on a recording material. An inlet space and an outlet space are formed at the upstream and downstream ends, respectively, of a contact area. A cleaning member, provided on the downstream side of the contact area, cleans the surface of the heating roller to remove toner and paper dust from the surface of the heating roller. | 08-06-2009 |
20100080599 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus has a heat member for heating an unfixed image and is configured so that a longitudinal center of the heat member becomes a conveyance center of the recording material, the image forming apparatus including a central portion temperature detection part adjacent to the conveyance center, an end portion temperature detection part for detecting an end portion temperature of the heat member, and a width detection part for detecting a lateral width of the recording material, wherein the width detection part is disposed at a side opposite to a side at which the end portion temperature detection part is disposed with respect to the conveyance center position of the recording material. The image forming apparatus achieves the control for error setting of the recording material based on the width detection part and the end portion temperature detection part. | 04-01-2010 |
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20110244639 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PATTERN FORMED BODY, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A FUNCTIONAL ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT - A main object of the present invention is to disclose a manufacturing method of the pattern formed body capable of attaining patterning efficiently with a high precision. To attain the object, the present invention provides a method comprising: a photoresist pattern formation step of forming a photoresist pattern on a hydrophobic layer formed on a substrate and having a surface exhibiting hydrophobicity; a hydrophilicity imparting step of radiating an energy onto the surface of the hydrophobic layer on which the photoresist pattern is formed, thereby making the surface hydrophilic to form hydrophilic areas; and a photoresist pattern peeling step of peeling the photoresist pattern and forming a hydrophilic/hydrophobic pattern on the hydrophobic layer surface, in which the hydrophilic area and hydrophobic area covered previously with the photoresist pattern in the hydrophilicity imparting step are formed in a pattern form. | 10-06-2011 |
20120267044 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TWIST BALL TYPE ELECTRONIC PAPER - A method for manufacturing a twist ball type electronic paper capable of preferably displaying an image and enabling easily taking out of a wiring, and a manufacturing method for a twist ball type electronic paper for manufacturing a reusable twist ball type electronic paper. | 10-25-2012 |
20120275014 | TWIST BALL TYPE ELECTRONIC PAPER - A twist ball type electronic paper having a transparent electrode side base material having a first base material including a film having transparency, and a transparent electrode formed on one side surface of the first base material; a counter electrode side base material having a second base material including a film with an insulation property, and a counter electrode formed on one side surface of the second base material; and a twist ball layer comprising a twist ball and a low polarity solvent layer including a low polarity solvent, wherein the twist ball layer is sealed with the first base material and the second base material, and that the counter electrode side base material is disposed in such a way that the counter electrode is disposed on an opposite side with respect to the twist ball layer. | 11-01-2012 |