Abstract: The present invention provides pyrazole derivatives useful as production intermediates for isoxazoline derivatives having an excellent herbicidal effect and selectivity between crops and weeds as well as processes for producing the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for inducing tissue-specific expression, which includes preparing an expression vector having a promoter. The promoter includes any one of the following DNAs (a) to (c): (a) a DNA, which includes the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; (b) a DNA, which includes the nucleotide sequence ranging from nucleotides 1344 to 2843 of SEQ ID NO: 1; and (c) a DNA, which is a DNA fragment that can hybridize under stringent conditions to a DNA fragment including a nucleotide sequence fully complementary to the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein (a), (b) or (c) can control the transcription of a coding sequence located downstream thereof; and wherein the stringent conditions are 5×SSC at 42° C.; The expression vector, also, includes a coding sequence located downstream of the promoter.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a uniformly spreadable granular agricultural chemical formulation and to establish a method of scattering (applying) the formulation under the assumption that the spreadability of the agrochemically active ingredient is satisfactory so that the expected treatment effect of the agricultural chemicals can be obtained by local application even when algae are drifted by the wind and cover the surface of the water of the paddy field. A uniformly spreadable granular agricultural chemicals formulation which contains an agrochemically active ingredient, has a particle-size distribution such that 80% or more of the granules have a particle diameter of 3 mm or more, and has floatability on the water surface, and breaks down on the water surface within 30 minutes is obtained, and a method of scattering (applying) the above formulation on 5% to 50% of the total area of the paddy field applied from a levee at a distance of 1 m or more.

Abstract: A plant disease control agent for agricultural or horticultural use and a pest control agent for agricultural or horticultural use, which contain a benzisothiazoline derivative or a salt thereof as an active ingredient and have the following marked effects. They are highly effective in controlling agricultural or horticultural plant diseases and are highly effective in controlling a wide range of pests. They are effective also in controlling pests having resistance. Furthermore, they are excellent in residual activity and rain resistance without causing chemical damage to crops. The benzisothiazoline derivative of the present invention is represented by the following general formula [I]. The symbols in the formula are defined in the Description.

Abstract: The invention provides a herbicide composition consisting of 2-[(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidin-2-yl)hydroxy-methyl]-6-methoxymethyl-N-difluoromethanesulfonylanilide as the component (A) and any compound selected from more than 20 kinds of specific compounds such as orbencarb and the like as the component (B), heretofore not combined with the component (A) compound. Dispensation of the herbicide composition to paddy fields, lawns, dry fields, or non-agricultural lands gives excellent weed-controlling effects on a variety of weeds and causes no or little phytotoxicities on valuable cultivated plants.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gene encoding ALS protein which shows a extremely high level of resistance to pyrimidinyl carboxy herbicides. The gene of the present invention encodes an acetolactate synthase protein, for instance, according to SEQ ID NO:1, where the acetolactate synthase protein has resistance to a pyrimidinyl carboxy herbicide and has acetolactate synthase activity.

Abstract: The present invention provides a completely novel molting hormone receptor, which is used for efficiently screening a substance that can be applied to a disinfestant or the like. An insect molting hormone receptor comprising the following polypeptide (a) and polypeptide (b) or (c): (a) a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; (b) a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2; and (c) a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 3.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel strain of Bacillus sp. D747 (deposited as FERM BP-8234) and methods for controlling plant diseases and insect pests, comprising administering cultures of Bacillus sp. D747 (including the viable bacteria) or viable bacteria isolated by culturing, on the plant parts such as roots, stems, leaves, seeds, and the like, or in the culture soil.

Abstract: 3-Arylphenyl sulfide derivatives represented by general formula (I): ? (wherein R is a C2-C6 alkyl group, a C2-C6 alkenyl group, a C2-C6 alkynyl group or the like, B0 to B2 and B3 are hydrogen atoms, halogen atoms, cyano groups, C1-C4 haloalkyl groups or the like, n is 0, 1 or 2, and Ar is a phenyl ring, a pyridine ring, a thiophene ring, a pyrazole ring or the like), and insecticides and miticides containing the 3-arylphenyl sulfide derivatives as an active ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention provides an in planta transformation method of kenaf plants, which is characterized in that wounds on the axillary buds of a kenaf plant are inoculated with Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

Abstract: Providing a technique regulating branching in ornamental plants or agricultural plants for elevating the branching and the like, to raise the value or elevate the yield. A gene regulating plant branching, the gene containing the rice MADS box gene or a gene homologous with the gene; a vector carrying the gene; and a microorganism transformed with the vector and a method for regulating plant branching, utilizing the microorganism.

Abstract: As a novel, agricultural or horticultural granular composition having a low foamability and comprising a granular wettable powder, that is, water-dispersible granules which can have an improved disintegrability in water, an improved dispersibility in water and an improved suspensibility in water, irrespective of the nature and the property of the agrochemically active ingredient as incorporated, there is provided an agricultural or horticultural granular composition comprising as the essential components, (a) at least one of an agrochemically active ingredient, (b) at least one of a surfactant selected from a sulfonate-type surfactant, a sulfate-type surfactant and a phosphate-type surfactant, and (c) at least one of a metal salt of a fatty acid of 6 to 28 carbon atoms. An aqueous dispersion which may be prepared by diluting the composition of the present invention with water has a low foamability.

Abstract: The present invention enables characteristic gene expression control and relates to a promoter, which comprises any one of the following DNAs (a) to (c): (a) a DNA, which comprises the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; (b) a DNA, which comprises a nucleotide sequence derived from the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 by deletion, substitution, insertion, or addition of 1 or a plurality of nucleotides, and which can control transcription of a gene located downstream thereof; and (c) a DNA, which is a DNA fragment that can hybridize under stringent conditions to a DNA fragment comprising a nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, and which can control the transcription of a gene located downstream thereof.

Abstract: 3-Arylphenyl sulfide derivatives represented by general formula (I): (wherein R is a C2-C6 alkyl group, a C2-C6 alkenyl group, a C2-C6 alkynyl group or the like, B0 to B2 and B3 are hydrogen atoms, halogen atoms, cyano groups, C1-C4 haloalkyl groups or the like, n is 0, 1 or 2, and Ar is a phenyl ring, a pyridine ring, a thiophene ring, a pyrazole ring or the like), and insecticides and miticides containing the 3-arylphenyl sulfide derivatives as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A method of controlling an inkjet printer containing at least two substantially closed ducts in which ink is present, which includes actuating an electro-mechanical transducer whereby the pressure in a first duct is increased, and a pressure change in another duct is also generated by said actuation, whereby an electro-mechanical transducer is deformed as a result of the pressure change, said electrical transducer generating an electrical signal, and measuring the electric signal.

Abstract: 3-Arylphenyl sulfide derivatives represented by general formula (I): (wherein R is a C2-C6 alkyl group, a C2-C6 alkenyl group, a C2-C6 alkynyl group or the like, B0 to B2 and B3 are hydrogen atoms, halogen atoms, cyano groups, C1-C4 haloalkyl groups or the like, n is 0, 1 or 2, and Ar is a phenyl ring, a pyridine ring, a thiophene ring, a pyrazole ring or the like), and insecticides and miticides containing the 3-arylphenyl sulfide derivatives as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A pyrimidinylbenzimidazole or triazinylbenzimidazole derivative represented by the general formula (I): wherein A is N or CR3, and R1, R2, R3, X, Y and n are as defined in the disclosure.

Abstract: 3-Arylphenyl sulfide derivatives represented by general formula (I): ? (wherein R is a C2-C6 alkyl group, a C2-C6 alkenyl group, a C2-C6 alkynyl group or the like, B0 to B2 and B3 are hydrogen atoms, halogen atoms, cyano groups, C1-C4 haloalkyl groups or the like, n is 0, 1 or 2, and Ar is a phenyl ring, a pyridine ring, a thiophene ring, a pyrazole ring or the like), and insecticides and miticides containing the 3-arylphenyl sulfide derivatives as an active ingredient.

Abstract: The isoxazoline derivative of the present invention is represented by the following general formula [I]: [wherein Q is a group represented by —S(O)n—(CR5R6)m- (wherein n is an integer of 0 to 2, m is an integer of 1 to 3, and R5 and R6 are a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, if an alkyl group or the like); R1 and R2 are a hydrogen atom, all optionally substituted alkyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an optionally substituted phenyl group or the like; R3 and R4 are a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or the like; Y is a hydrogen atom, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a carboxyl group, an alkenyl group, an optionally substituted alkyl group or an optionally substituted phenyl group]. The herbicide of the present invention contains the above isoxazoline derivative as the active ingredient.

Abstract: It is to provide a novel fungicide having high controlling effects on plant diseases particularly on wheat powdery mildew and cucumber gray mold, without ill effects on crops. A carbamate derivative represented by the general formula [I] {wherein X is a halogen atom, a C1-C6 alkyl group or the like, n is 0 or an integer of from 1 to 4, R1 is a C1-C6 alkyl group, R2 is a hydrogen atom, a C1-C6 alkyl group or the like, R3 is a hydrogen atom or a C1-C6 alkyl group, G is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or the like, Y is a hydrogen atom, a C1-C10 alkyl group, C2-C10 alkenyl group or the like, and Q is a hydrogen atom, a C1-C6 haloalkyl group, a phenyl group or the like} and an agricultural/horticultural fungicide containing the same as the active ingredient.