Abstract: The invention discloses a method and device for detecting a leakage rate of a solid oxide fuel cell system on line. The method comprises steps of: cutting off fuel gas supply of an anode cavity, cutting off an exhaust line of the anode cavity and cutting off high-pressure air supply of a cathode cavity in the operation process of a solid oxide fuel cell; obtaining an open-circuit voltage and temperature of the solid oxide fuel cell; and determining a leakage rate of the solid oxide fuel cell system according to the open-circuit voltage and the temperature of the solid oxide fuel cell. Based on the technical solutions disclosed by the invention, the leakage rate of the solid oxide fuel cell system can be detected on line.

Abstract: A composition is provided for promoting skeletal muscle oxidative muscle fiber generation. The composition comprises a Lycium barbarum water extract. The Lycium barbarum extract comprises polysaccharide, Lycium barbarum flavone, carotenoid, polyphenol, and Lycium barbarum pigment. The composition may further comprise one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients selected from such as a solvent, a co-solvent, an emulsifier, a preservative, a buffer, a protein powder, or a combination thereof. The composition may be used as medicine, functional product, or food supplement.

Abstract: A plant material comprises a genomic nucleotide sequence encoding a SUSIBA2 or SUSIBA2-like transcription factor under transcriptional control of a promoter active in the plant material. The genomic nucleotide sequence encoding the SUSIBA2 or SUSIBA2-like transcription factor lacks at least a portion of an activation region of a SUSIBA1 or SUSIBA1-like promote represent in an intron of a wild-type version of the genomic nucleotide sequence encoding the SUSIBA2 or SUSIBA2-like transcription factor. The plant material has a controlled production of carbohydrates, in particular starch or starch and fructan. In particular, the plant material can be designed to produce carbohydrates at enhanced levels.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rice plant material capable of reducing methane emission by reducing organic acid, such as fumarate, secretion from the roots of the rice plant. The reduction in organic acid, such as fumarate, secretion reduces the amount of methanogens associated with the roots of the rice plant and thereby reduces the emission of methane from such methanogens.

Abstract: A composition is provided for promoting skeletal muscle oxidative muscle fiber generation. The composition comprises a Lycium barbarum water extract. The Lycium barbarum extract comprises polysaccharide, Lycium barbarum flavone, carotenoid, polyphenol, and Lycium barbarum pigment. The composition may further comprise one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients selected from such as a solvent, a co-solvent, an emulsifier, a preservative, a buffer, a protein powder, or a combination thereof. The composition may be used as medicine, functional product, or food supplement.

Abstract: A rice plant material having improved resistance against biotic stress factors, including rice brown planthopper and rice blast fungus, is achieved by overexpressing a FatB gene in the rice plant material to cause an increase in oil or triacylglycerol content in the rice plant material.

Abstract: A composition is provided for promoting skeletal muscle oxidative muscle fiber generation. The composition comprises a Lycium barbarum water extract. The Lycium barbarum extract comprises polysaccharide, Lycium barbarum flavone, carotenoid, polyphenol, and Lycium barbarum pigment. The composition may further comprise one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients selected from such as a solvent, a co-solvent, an emulsifier, a preservative, a buffer, a protein powder, or a combination thereof. The composition may be used as medicine, functional product, or food supplement.

Abstract: A composition is provided for promoting skeletal muscle oxidative muscle fiber generation. The composition comprises a Lycium barbarum water extract. The Lycium barbarum extract comprises polysaccharide, Lycium barbarum flavone, carotenoid, polyphenol, and Lycium barbarum pigment. The composition may further comprise one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients selected from such as a solvent, a co-solvent, an emulsifier, a preservative, a buffer, a protein powder, or a combination thereof. The composition may be used as medicine, functional product, or food supplement.

Abstract: A plant material comprises a genomic nucleotide sequence encoding a SUSIBA2 or SUSIBA2-like transcription factor under transcriptional control of a promoter active in the plant material. The genomic nucleotide sequence encoding the SUSIBA2 or SUSIBA2-like transcription factor lacks at least a portion of an activation region of a SUSIBA1 or SUSIBA1-like promote represent in an intron of a wild-type version of the genomic nucleotide sequence encoding the SUSIBA2 or SUSIBA2-like transcription factor. The plant material has a controlled production of carbohydrates, in particular starch or starch and fructan. In particular, the plant material can be designed to produce carbohydrates at enhanced levels.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing transgenic plant material by transforming a plant with a vector comprising an essential gene having mutations at two sites at least. The method is exemplified with EPSPS as the essential gene. The method makes it possible to use an antisense molecule directed to the native form of said gene for selection of transformed plants. The application relates further to a plant obtainable by the method, a binary vector system containing the mutated essential gene, said mutations being silent mutations. Furthermore, the application discloses the use of an antisense molecule directed to an essential gene as a herbicide in particular using an aqueous solution comprising a saccharide such as sucrose, fructose and glucose.

Abstract: Provided are nucleotide sequences which encodes a sugar-signalling transcription factors capable of activating a promoter of a gene encoding an enzyme involved in the synthesis or deposition of starch e.g. in response to sugar levels in a plant. Preferred sequences encode WRKY proteins such as the sugar signaling in barley2 (SUSIBA2) factor and variants thereof, and act on promoters which comprise at least one SURE element and\or W box element to which the transcription factor binds (e.g. promoters such as iso1, sbe1, sbeIIb, ssI, agpaseS). The invention also provides related methods and materials e.g. for activating, modulating, and investigating the elements present in such promoters.

Abstract: Cornstarch characteristics can be changed by expressing a non-corn plant starch branching enzyme in a corn plant. In a preferred embodiment, transgenic corn plants containing the barley starch branching enzyme IIa transgene was generated. Some transgenic corn plants produced seeds containing cornstarch with lowered gelatinization temperature and retrogradation rate while others produced seeds containing cornstarch with higher retrogradation rate when compared to non-transgenic corn plants.