Patents Assigned to Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
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Patent number: 10792588Abstract: An organic material production system includes: a pretreatment device (12) that pulverizes a biomass material (11); a hydrothermal decomposition apparatus (14) that hydrothermally decomposes a pulverized biomass (13) by causing it to countercurrently contact with hot compressed water (15), elutes lignin components and hemicellulose components into the hot compressed water (15), and separates the lignin components and the hemicellulose components from a biomass solid residue; a first enzymatic hydrolysis device (19-1) that treats cellulose in a biomass solid residue (17), discharged from the hydrothermal decomposition apparatus, with an enzyme (18) to enzymatically hydrolyze it to a sugar solution containing hexose; a fermenter (21) that produces ethanol by fermentation using a sugar solution (20) obtained by the first enzymatic hydrolysis device (19-1); and a refiner 25 that refines an alcohol fermentation liquid (22), so as to separate it into ethanol (23) and a residue (24).Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignees: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, INCORPORATED ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Minoru Genta, Ryosuke Uehara, Kinya Fujita, Tsuyoshi Sakaki, Noriyuki Yamada, Katsuichi Saito, Naoto Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Hasa
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Patent number: 9593343Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2012Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, INCORPORATED ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCESInventors: Madoka Yonekura, Naohiro Aoki, Ryu Ohsugi, Masaki Okamura, Tatsuro Hirose, Chikara Ohto, Akio Miyao
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Patent number: 9566361Abstract: A method for catalyzing a Fenton reaction, including adding hydrogen peroxide to a Fenton reaction catalyst, the Fenton reaction catalyst including a reaction product, wherein the reaction product is obtained by using roasted and ground coffee beans and/or tea leaves as a feedstock for supplying a component having a reduction effect, and mixing the feedstock for supplying the component having a reduction effect with an iron-supplying source containing divalent or trivalent iron in the presence of water.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: INCORPORATED ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY, NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Claudio Kendi Morikawa, Makoto Shinohara
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Patent number: 9566360Abstract: A Fenton reaction catalyst including a reaction product as an active component, in which the reaction product is obtained by using roasted and ground coffee beans (in particular, coffee grounds) or tea leaves (in particular, tea dregs) as feedstocks for supplying a component having a reduction effect, and mixing the feedstocks for supplying the component having a reduction effect with an iron-supplying source containing divalent or trivalent iron in the presence of water. The Fenton reaction catalyst can be used to generate hydroxy radicals from hydrogen peroxide. The Fenton reaction catalyst can maintain iron in a divalent state for a long period of time.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2010Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: INCORPORATED ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Claudio Kendi Morikawa, Makoto Shinohara
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Publication number: 20160138032Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, INCORPORATED ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Takeshi IZAWA, Ryo OKADA, Naokuni ENDO, Yasue NEMOTO, Tadashi TAKAMIZO, Shoko TSUZUKI, Satoru NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 9162219Abstract: To develop a Fenton reaction catalyst that can maintain divalent iron stably for a long period of time, can utilize trivalent iron or metallic iron, which is an inexpensive iron-supplying source, by converting into divalent iron, and is harmless to the human body and the environment, provided is a Fenton reaction catalyst, including, as an active component, a reaction product obtained by mixing a specific reducing organic substance (e.g., ascorbic acid, a polyphenol-containing plant component, or a plant dry distillation liquid component) with an iron-supplying source at a predetermined ratio in the presence of water. Also provided are a sterilization method, a pollutant degradation method, and a luminescence method based on chemiluminescence, which involve using the Fenton reaction catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: INCORPORATED ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY, NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Claudio Kendi Morikawa, Makoto Shinohara
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Publication number: 20150226720Abstract: This invention provides a means for measuring a cholesterol content of a chicken egg by a non-destructive means. This invention relates to a method for measuring a cholesterol content of a chicken egg comprising: a step of light irradiation of irradiating the chicken egg with light in the visible to near-infrared wavelength range; a step of light detection of detecting light radiated from the chicken egg caused by that the light irradiated in the step of light irradiation is transmitted through the chicken egg or reflected inside the chicken egg; a step of spectrum acquisition of acquiring a near-infrared spectrum of the light detected in the step of light detection; and a step of cholesterol content determination of determining a cholesterol content of the chicken egg on the basis of the near-infrared spectrum acquired in the step of spectrum acquisition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2013Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicant: Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Masahiro Amari
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Patent number: 9049869Abstract: This invention provides a method for improving bread-making properties of bread dough using rice flour as the main material. The invention relates to a dough improving agent for rice flour breads, wherein said agent comprises glutathione and a method for making rice flour breads using the same.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2010Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventor: Hiroyuki Yano
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Patent number: 8722397Abstract: A circular DNA is provided comprising endogenous DNA common to both genetically modified wheat and non-genetically modified wheat along with one or more pieces of DNA each having a sequence present specifically in a strain of genetically modified wheat. Also provided is a method for determining a mix rate of genetically modified wheat in a test sample.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignees: Nisshin Seifun Group Inc., Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Akihiro Hino, Takashi Kodama, Mayu Iida, Hirohito Yamakawa, Satomi Nozaki, Katsuyuki Hayakawa
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Patent number: 8652783Abstract: A circular DNA is provided comprising endogenous DNA common to both genetically modified wheat and non-genetically modified wheat along with one or more pieces of DNA each having a sequence present specifically in a strain of genetically modified wheat. Also provided is a method for determining a mix rate of genetically modified wheat in a test sample.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignees: Nisshin Seifun Group Inc., Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Akihiro Hino, Takashi Kodama, Mayu Iida, Hirohito Yamakawa, Satomi Nozaki, Katsuyuki Hayakawa
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Patent number: 8647845Abstract: Provided is a method for efficiently producing sugar and simultaneously efficiently producing ethanol. A method for producing sugar characterized by comprising a pretreatment step in which a plant-origin sugar solution is fermented by a microorganism having no sucrose-degrading enzyme and a step for producing sugar from the fermented sugar solution. A method for producing sugar characterized by comprising a pretreatment step in which a plant-origin sugar solution is fermented by a microorganism in the presence of a sucrose-degrading enzyme inhibitor and a step for producing sugar from the fermented sugar solution.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignees: Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd., Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Satoshi Ohara, Yoshifumi Terajima, Akira Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20130254929Abstract: Successfully produced are cruciferous plants resistant to clubroot by introducing the clubroot resistance gene (Crr1) isolated by map-based cloning into cruciferous plants and expressing the gene.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Satoru Matsumoto, Katsunori Hatakeyama, Nobuko Fukino
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Publication number: 20130183724Abstract: Provided is a method for efficiently producing sugar and simultaneously efficiently producing ethanol. A method for producing sugar characterized by comprising a pretreatment step in which a plant-origin sugar solution is fermented by a microorganism having no sucrose-degrading enzyme and a step for producing sugar from the fermented sugar solution. A method for producing sugar characterized by comprising a pretreatment step in which a plant-origin sugar solution is fermented by a microorganism in the presence of a sucrose-degrading enzyme inhibitor and a step for producing sugar from the fermented sugar solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2013Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicants: INCORPORATED ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, ASAHI GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.Inventors: ASAHI GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD., Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
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Patent number: 8460725Abstract: Provided is a method for efficiently producing sugar and simultaneously efficiently producing ethanol. A method for producing sugar characterized by comprising a pretreatment step in which a plant-origin sugar solution is fermented by a microorganism having no sucrose-degrading enzyme and a step for producing sugar from the fermented sugar solution. A method for producing sugar characterized by comprising a pretreatment step in which a plant-origin sugar solution is fermented by a microorganism in the presence of a sucrose-degrading enzyme inhibitor and a step for producing sugar from the fermented sugar solution.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2009Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignees: Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd., Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Satoshi Ohara, Akira Sugimoto, Yoshifumi Terajima
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Patent number: 8431548Abstract: A composition for placental exfoliation and a method for placental exfoliation. The composition for placental exfoliation contains an arachidonic acid derivative or the like, and the method for placental exfoliation comprises the step of administering an arachidonic acid derivative or the like to a mammal after the fetal delivery.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2011Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventor: Hachiro Kamada
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Publication number: 20130052219Abstract: A method for producing an ?-Gal-expressing virus having enhanced immune response to viruses, without requiring the use of any enzyme; an influenza virus vaccine having a high effect (antigenicity), which is produced using an ?-Gal-expressing virus produced by the method; and others. Specifically disclosed are: a method for producing an ?-galactose epitope (Gal?1-3Gal?1-4GlcNAc-R: ?-Gal hereinafter)-expressing virus, which comprises the steps of: (1) introducing an ?1,3- galactosyltransferase gene in an expressible condition into a cell line that does not express ?-Gal to obtain a cell line capable of expressing ?-Gal; (2) inoculating a virus into the cell line capable of expressing ?-Gal to obtain a cell line infected with a virus; and (3) culturing the cell line infected with the virus to obtain a virus expressing ?-Gal from the culture medium..Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2010Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicants: INCORPORATED ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINEInventors: Haruko Ogawa, Kunitoshi Imai, Takahiro Tagami
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Publication number: 20130008215Abstract: A water-soluble iron-supplying agent including a reaction product as an active ingredient, in which the reaction product is obtained by using roasted and ground coffee beans and/or tea leaves as feedstocks for supplying a metal ion-solubilizing component, and mixing the feedstocks for supplying the metal ion-solubilizing component with an iron-supplying source containing trivalent iron in the presence of water; specifically, a water-soluble iron-supplying agent which can reduce trivalent iron into a divalent iron ion and maintain the divalent iron ion to supply a water-soluble iron ion (divalent iron ion) stably for a long period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2010Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: INCORPORATED ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY, NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Claudio Kendi Morikawa, Makoto Shinohara
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Patent number: 8343724Abstract: A circular DNA is provided comprising endogenous DNA common to both genetically modified wheat and non-genetically modified wheat along with one or more pieces of DNA each having a sequence present specifically in a strain of genetically modified wheat. Also provided is a method for determining a mix rate of genetically modified wheat in a test sample.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignees: Nisshin Seifun Group Inc., Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Akihiro Hino, Takashi Kodama, Mayu Iida, Hirohito Yamakawa, Satomi Nozaki, Katsuyuki Hayakawa
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Patent number: 8344117Abstract: A circular DNA is provided comprising endogenous DNA common to both genetically modified wheat and non-genetically modified wheat along with one or more pieces of DNA each having a sequence present specifically in a strain of genetically modified wheat. Also provided is a method for determining a mix rate of genetically modified wheat in a test sample.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignees: Nisshin Seifun Group Inc., Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Akihiro Hino, Takashi Kodama, Mayu Iida, Hirohito Yamakawa, Satomi Nozaki, Katsuyuki Hayakawa
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Publication number: 20120230660Abstract: Provided are a method and device for generating a steam heating medium, the method involving generating, from a nozzle, Aqua-gas or low-temperature superheated steam that is a steam heating medium by operating an electrothermal-type generator or a steam-type generator. The method comprises the step of generating Aqua-gas by increasing a water supply amount in such a manner that an internal nozzle pressure takes on a constant value exceeding a saturated water vapor pressure of water at each internal nozzle pressure set temperature; or generating low-temperature superheated steam by reducing the water supply amount in such a manner that the internal nozzle pressure does not exceed the saturated water vapor pressure of water at each internal nozzle pressure set temperature, in a relational expression relating to a flow rate of water vapor sprayed from the nozzle, and given by Expression 1 or Expression 2, as prescribed in the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2010Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicants: Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Umeda Jimusho Ltd., Taiyo Seisakusho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Itaru Sotome, Seiichiro Isobe, Yukio Ogasawara, Yositaka Nadachi