Patents Assigned to National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
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Publication number: 20190069548Abstract: A thrips control agent in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is used for plants belonging to family Brassicaceae, family Solanaceae, family Rosaceae, family Cucurbitaceae, family Fabaceae, or family Asteraceae. The thrips control agent contains prohydrojasmon as an active ingredient, so that a negative impact of the thrips control agent on plant growth is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2017Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicants: RIKEN, NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, KANAGAWA PREFECTURE, HIROSHIMA PREFECTURE, ZEON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi ABE, Tamito SAKURAI, Yasuhiro TOMITAKA, Shinya TSUDA, Takeshi OYA, Aiko KAMINISHI, Yusuke KAWADA, Fumika MIYOHASHI, Hidetoshi UEKUSA, Shohei MATSUURA, Masaaki MITOMI, Masami KOSHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20190024138Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for measuring activity of HAO which comprises bringing HAO into contact with hydroxylamine in the presence of a tetrazolium salt. Further, the present invention also provides a method for culturing microorganisms which comprises culturing microorganisms in a storage container of a sample containing microorganisms installed separately in a liquid medium storage container, wherein the storage container of a sample containing microorganisms has pores.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2017Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Toshimasa YAMAZAKI, Yuki NISHIGAYA
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Publication number: 20180368300Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Citrus L. plant named ‘ASUKI’, characterized by being late-maturing, having high brix and excellent taste, being easy to eat because of its soft segment membrane, having no occurrence of fruit rind puffing, and having less dripping of fruit juice.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Terutaka Yoshioka, Toshio Yoshida, Hirohisa Nesumi, Satoshi Ota, Masayuki Kita, Takeshi Kuniga, Mutsuko Nonomura, Naoko Nakajima, Hiroko Hamada, Keisuke Nonaka, Fumitaka Takishita
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Publication number: 20180042183Abstract: A grafting method includes: making a cut surface of a scion and a cut surface of a rootstock contact with each other, and disposing sheet-like thermoplastic resin films facing each other across a contact part; and covering a periphery of the contact part with the thermoplastic resin films by ultrasonic ally welding the thermoplastic resin films.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2015Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicant: NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Natsuki Nakayama, Keita Yoshinaga, Loan Thi Thanh Nguyen
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Publication number: 20170347648Abstract: Disclosed herein is a soil-borne disease control method capable of simply suppressing a soil-borne pathogen. The method for controlling a soil-borne disease includes applying at least one polyhydroxyalkanoic acid having a structure represented by the following formula (1) to soil: [—CHR—CH2—CO—O—]??(1) (wherein R is an alkyl group represented by CnH2n+1 and n is an integer of 1 or more but 15 or less).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2017Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicants: NATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi NAKAMURA, Koichi SUZAKI, Takahiko SUGAYA, Shingo KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170298378Abstract: It is intended to provide a gene capable of conferring more practical environmental stress tolerances to a plant and the use thereof. The present invention provides a plant having enhancement in one or two or more genes selected from the group consisting of a second gene selected from a gene group consisting of a first gene subgroup consisting of Os12g0150200 gene, Os01g0858350 gene, Os05g0445100 gene, Os11g0151400 gene, AT3G48520 gene, and AT2G27690 gene, and a gene functionally equivalent to any of these genes and a second gene subgroup consisting of Os04g0584800 gene and a gene functionally equivalent to this gene.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicants: National University Corporation Nagoya University, National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Shin Takeda, Tsukaho Hattori, Ken-Ichi Kurotani, Hiroaki Ichikawa
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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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Publication number: 20170058285Abstract: A method for producing a plant cell comprising a mutation introduced in a target DNA comprises: a step of introducing into plant cells a DNA construct comprising a DNA homologous to a target DNA, wherein a desired mutation is introduced and a piggyBac transposon containing a marker gene is inserted in the homologous DNA; a step of selecting a plant cell, in which the mutation and the piggyBac transposon are introduced in the target DNA via homologous recombination, based on an expression of the marker gene; and a step of removing the piggyBac transposon from the target DNA by constitutively expressing a piggyBac transposase in the cell selected in the above step.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: NATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Ayako YOKOI, Seiichi TOKI
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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: 20160362699Abstract: It has been found that a marker gene, which is inserted in the genomic DNA via homologous recombination, and to both ends of which nuclease recognition sites are added, can be removed from a plant cell by using a corresponding nuclease, and further that the nuclease recognition sites can also be removed without leaving any trace by matching sequences of at least 30 nucleotides adjacent to the recognition sites. Moreover, in a method for introducing a mutation into a target DNA on the genome of a plant cell via homologous recombination, it is made possible to: stably select a plant cell, in which the mutation is introduced, based on an expression of a marker gene; further, to remove an unnecessary sequence such as the marker gene from the selected cell; and to introduce only a required mutation into the target DNA.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2015Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicant: NATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Masaki IWAKAMI, Seiichi TOKI
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Publication number: 20160319293Abstract: The production of exudate containing sugar from a plant at a high concentration is provided. A nucleic acid encoding a transporter involved in sugar transportation having a certain consensus sequence derived from the amino acid sequences of the SWEET proteins classified in the clade III is introduced and/or expression of the protein is enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2014Publication date: November 3, 2016Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Chikara OHTO, Madoka YONEKURA, Naohiro AOKI, Ryu OHSUGI, Tatsuro HIROSE
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Publication number: 20160319292Abstract: The production of exudate containing sugar from a plant at a high concentration is provided. It is provided by introducing a nucleic acid encoding an AtSWEET8 protein or a homologous nucleic acid of the nucleic acid and/or enhancing the expression of the protein encoded by the nucleic acid or the homologous nucleic acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2014Publication date: November 3, 2016Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Kumi TERADA, Madoka YONEKURA, Satoshi KONDO, Chikara OHTO, Naohiro AOKI, Ryu OHSUGI, Tatsuro HIROSE
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Publication number: 20160288110Abstract: A photocatalyst including, as an active component, a reaction product obtained by mixing a reducing organic substance having iron-reducing ability or a feedstock for supplying the reducing organic substance with an iron-supplying source in the presence of water, in which the reaction product exhibits a photocatalytic activity when irradiated with light having a wavelength of ultraviolet light, visible light, or infrared light. An organic substance degradation method or a sterilization method including bringing the photocatalyst into contact with an object to be degraded or an object to be sterilized and irradiating the photocatalyst with light having a wavelength of ultraviolet light, visible light, or infrared light.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: NATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Claudio Kendi MORIKAWA, Makoto SHINOHARA
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Patent number: 9372179Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: National Research and Development Agency National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Hiroyuki Abe, Masahiro Amari
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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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Publication number: 20160113431Abstract: It may correspond to the demand for cost reduction of the heating treatment apparatus including heating medium generating apparatus capable of generating a heat processable heating medium foods with disclosed high quality. Further, it is to realize energy savings, the shortening of the apparatus manufacturing process and time and weight. [Means to dissolve] comprising the exterior body 5 having a insulation; a far-infrared radiation heater 11 disposed in the exterior body 5; the heat exchange pipe 13 provided with water supply unit 18 and a water discharger 19, arranged from one end to the other end of the exterior body 5, and the heating medium supplied water passes through the inner space thereof; and first reflecting member 23 for reflecting far-infrared radiation rays radiated from the far-infrared radiation heater 11 and enabling to reflect it to the heat exchange pipe 13.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicants: National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Taiyo Seisakusho Co., Ltd.Inventors: Itaru SOTOME, Seiichiro ISOBE, Yukio OGASAWARA
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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: 9074215Abstract: Disclosed are: a method for producing a chrysanthemum plant having delphinidin-containing petals using a transcriptional regulatory region for a chrysanthemum-derived flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H) gene; and a chrysanthemum plant, a progeny or a vegetative proliferation product of the plant, or a part or a tissue of the plant, the progeny or the vegetative proliferation product, and particularly a petal or a cut flower of the plant. In the method for producing a chrysanthemum plant having delphinidin-containing petals, a flavonoid 3?,5?-hydroxylase (F3?5?H) is caused to be expressed in a chrysanthemum plant using a transcriptional regulatory region for a chrysanthemum-derived flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H) gene.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2010Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignees: Incorporated Adminstrative Agency, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Suntory Holdings LimitedInventors: Naonobu Noda, Ryutaro Aida, Sanae Sato, Akemi Ohmiya, Yoshikazu Tanaka