Abstract: An antiviral agent according to the present disclosure includes, as an active ingredient, an extract extracted from a microalga Pseudochoricystis ellipsoidea Sekiguchi et Kurano gen. et sp. nov. MBIC11204 strain. The microalga may be cultured in a culture medium comprising sufficient nitrogen or may be cultured in a nitrogen-deficient medium thereafter. The extract is extracted from the microalga with alcohol, hot water, or the like as an extraction solvent. The extract may be extracted from the residue thereof with hot water. The antiviral agent may include the extract obtained using one extraction solvent, or may include a mixture of the extracts obtained using multiple extraction solvents.

Abstract: A metal removing agent has a capability of removing metal clusters and metal ions from fuel with high efficiency. The metal removing agent is made of resin having anionic functional group of a functional group density within a range of 2 to 25 mmol/ml. The anionic functional group contained in the metal removing agent is at least one selected from sulfonate group, carboxyl group, sulfate group, thiol group, phosphate group, phosphonate group, iminodiacetic acid group, and aminophosphate group. A metal removing filter has a container and the metal removing agent. The container accommodates the metal removing agent.

Abstract: A metal removing agent has a capability of removing metal clusters and metal ions from fuel with high efficiency. The metal removing agent is made of resin having anionic functional group of a functional group density within a range of 2 to 25 mmol/ml. The anionic functional group contained in the metal removing agent is at least one selected from sulfonate group, carboxyl group, sulfate group, thiol group, phosphate group, phosphonate group, iminodiacetic acid group, and aminophosphate group. A metal removing filter has a container and the metal removing agent. The container accommodates the metal removing agent.

Abstract: A safe additive that increases the feeling effects from a hair cosmetic is provided at low costs. The additive that increases the feeling effects has less stickiness, can be easily and uniformly mixed with hair cosmetics, and can provide feelings, effects and advantages that are similar to those of sterol wax and lanolins including lanolin itself, liquid lanolin, and hard lanolin. The additive that increases the feeling effects contains a composition (I) prepared by distillation, fatty acid esterification, decoloring, and deodorization of a by-product obtained when tocopherol is extracted, separated and purified from a vegetable oil deodorized distillate.

Abstract: A safe additive that increases the feeling effects from a hair cosmetic is provided at low costs. The additive that increases the feeling effects has less stickiness, can be easily and uniformly mixed with hair cosmetics, and can provide feelings, effects and advantages that are similar to those of sterol wax and lanolins including lanolin itself, liquid lanolin, and hard lanolin. The additive that increases the feeling effects contains a composition (I) prepared by distillation, fatty acid esterification, decoloring, and deodorization of a by-product obtained when tocopherol is extracted, separated and purified from a vegetable oil deodorized distillate.

Abstract: A safe additive that increases the feeling effects from a hair cosmetic is provided at low costs. The additive that increases the feeling effects has less stickiness, can be easily and uniformly mixed with hair cosmetics, and can provide feelings, effects and advantages that are similar to those of sterol wax and lanolins including lanolin itself, liquid lanolin, and hard lanolin. The additive that increases the feeling effects comprises a composition (I) prepared by distillation, fatty acid esterification, decoloring, and deodorization of a by-product obtained when tocopherol is extracted, separated and purified from a vegetable oil deodorized distillate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a plant growth promoter comprising an epoxycylohexane derivative represented by the general formula: ##STR1## (wherein by R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, C1 to C6 alkyl group or C3 to C6 cycloalkyl group, and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are independently lower alkyl groups or are combined to form a polymethylene group which may be substituted with an alkyl group) and gibberellin as active ingredients.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plant growth regulator comprising as an active ingredient an epoxycyclohexane derivative represented by general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl group or C.sub.3 -C.sub.6 cycloalkyl group, and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are independently C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl groups or are combined to form a C.sub.2 -C.sub.3 polymethylene group which may be substituted with a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl group, as well as to a plant growth regulator comprising the epoxycyclohexane derivative and a brassinosteroid as active ingredients. The epoxycyclohexane derivatives exhibit a potent plant growth regulating action which is equivalent to or higher than that of abscisic acid, and are useful as plant growth regulators such as a plant growth accelerator, a germination growth accelerator, a transpiration and wilting inhibitor, a cold resistance enhancer, an accelerator for growing, thickening or maturing fruits, roots, stems or bulbs, etc.

Abstract: A plant growth promoter comprising as the active ingredients (i) a jasmonic acid or jasmonate of the formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is pentyl or pentenyl and R.sup.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plant growth regulator comprising as an active ingredient an epoxycyclohexane derivative represented by general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6, alkyl group or C.sub.3 -C.sub.6 cycloalkyl group, and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are independently C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl groups or are combined to form a C.sub.2 -C.sub.3 polymethylene group which may be substituted with a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6, alkyl group, as well as to a plant growth regulator comprising the epoxycyclohexane derivative and a brassinosteroid as active ingredients. The epoxycyclohexane derivatives exhibit a potent plant growth regulating action which is equivalent to or higher than that of abscisic acid, and are useful as plant growth regulators such as a plant growth accelerator, a germination growth accelerator, a transpiration and wilting inhibitor, a cold resistance enhancer, an accelerator for growing, thickening or maturing fruits, roots, stems or bulbs, etc..

Abstract: Brassinosteroid derivatives expressed in formula (I) and formula (II) ##STR1## and a plant growth regulator containing one type or two types of these brassinosteroid derivatives as active ingredient.The invention thereby presents novel brassinosteroid analogous compounds expressed in formula (I) and formula (II) and a plant growth regulator containing these compounds showing a persisting plant growth regulating action.

Abstract: A process for producing a steroid compound which is useful as an intermediate for synthesizing plant growth regulators, brassinosteroids, and is represented by the general formula (4): ##STR1## in which R.sub.2 is a methyl or ethyl, and * indicates the binding site of R.sub.1 to a steroid nucleus, or general formula (5): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 is as defined above. According to the process disclosed herein, an intermediate for a brassinolide, epibrassinolide, homobrassinolide or derivatives thereof can be produced highly advantageously in the industries.