Abstract: A method for mass-producing plants includes a step of accommodating a liquid cultivation medium and a plant material into each of a plurality of culture bags that are configured so as to be capable of standing up without assistance by being opened up from a folded state, sealing openings of the culture bags, and arranging the sealed culture bags in a row in a predetermined cultivation space, and a step of cultivating the plant material within each of the plurality of culture bags with an interior of each of the plurality of culture bags arranged in a row in the cultivation space being maintained at an environment appropriate for cultivation of the plant material.

Abstract: Provided are a composition and a food or drink, having the effect of enhancing an immune response to an antigen, which is administered by another route such as subcutaneous injection, by orally administering to a subject, lactic acid bacteria, a culture thereof, a treated product thereof, or a composition comprising the same. An oral ingestion composition, which comprises a lactic acid bacterium strain that is Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis enhancing the proliferation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and the generation of antibodies, or a culture or treated product thereof, and is used in combination with an antigen as a vaccine, wherein the oral ingestion composition is for use in enhancing the proliferation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) specific to the antigen and the generation of antibodies specific to the antigen.

Abstract: A lactic acid bacterium having increased immunopotentiating activity with being mixed with no ester compound of polyol and a fatty acid is provided. A method for producing a lactic acid bacterium whose immunopotentiating activity is increased without coexisting with ester compound of polyol and a fatty acid, comprising: contacting a lactic acid bacterial immunopotentiating activity-increasing composition comprising an ester compound of a polyol and a fatty acid as an active ingredient with a lactic acid bacterium having immunopotentiating activity and then washing the lactic acid bacterium to remove the lactic acid bacterial immunopotentiating activity-increasing composition.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a gas barrier plastic molded body which is excellent in gas barrier properties and transparency and a method for producing the same. A gas barrier plastic molded body 90 according to the present disclosure includes a plastic molded body 91 and a gas barrier thin film 92 provided on a surface of the plastic molded body 91, and in the gas barrier plastic molded body, the gas barrier thin film 92 contains silicon (Si), carbon (C), and oxygen (O) as constituent elements and has a region, in a which a main peak is observed, at a peak appearance position of binding energy of Si—C when the gas barrier thin film is subjected to an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis under Condition (1). Condition (1): a measurement range is set to 95 to 105 eV.

Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to provide a heat generation element having high durability and a method of manufacturing the same. A heat generation element 1 according to the disclosure includes a first layer 2 having a metallic tantalum phase, and a second layer 3 which covers a periphery of the first layer 2 and has a tantalum carbide phase, wherein a concentration of silicon in an interface portion 4 between the first layer 2 and the second layer 3 is higher than a concentration of silicon in a portion other than the interface portion 4.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a lactic acid bacterial immunopotentiating activity-increasing composition that increases the immunopotentiating activity of lactic acid bacteria having immunopotentiating activity; and a method for increasing the immunopotentiating activity of lactic acid bacteria using the composition; and a composition comprising both of lactic acid bacteria having an immunopotentiating activity and a lactic acid bacterial immunopotentiating activity-increasing composition, wherein the immunopotentiating activity of the lactic acid bacteria is increased. The present invention relates to a composition comprising lactic acid bacteria having an immunopotentiating activity and a lactic acid bacterial immunopotentiating activity-increasing composition comprising an ester compound of a polyol and a saturated fatty acid as an active ingredient.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a coated polypropylene-based molded article having an excellent gas barrier property. A coated polypropylene-based molded article according to the present invention includes a molded article formed of a polypropylene-based resin composition and a thin film formed on a surface of the molded article, the polypropylene-based resin composition includes a polypropylene-based resin (D) and a nucleating agent (C), the content of the nucleating agent (C) is from 0.05 to 0.5 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the polypropylene-based resin (D).

Abstract: This invention provides a plant belonging to the family Solanaceae that does not produce glycoalkaloids. This invention concerns a protein having activity of an enzyme that oxidizes position 16 of the steroid skeleton of a plant belonging to the family Solanaceae, a novel plant in which a gene encoding such protein is suppressed, and a method for producing and testing such plant.