Abstract: A barley plant including a mutant LOX-1 protein and that is deficient in lipoxygenase activity.

Abstract: A barley plant including a mutant LOX-1 protein and that is deficient in lipoxygenase activity.

Abstract: A barley plant including a mutant LOX-1 protein and that is deficient in lipoxygenase activity.

Abstract: A barley plant including a mutant LOX-1 protein and that is deficient in lipoxygenase activity

Abstract: A selection method for barley lipoxygenase-1 deficient barley, comprising a step of distinguishing the barley lipoxygenase-1 deficient barley by whether or not the guanine at the splicing donor site of the 5th intron of the barley lipoxygenase-1 gene is mutated to a different base; and a method for production of malt alcoholic beverages using a material for malt alcoholic beverages derived from barley obtained by the selection method.

Abstract: A selection method for barley lipoxygenase-1 deficient barley, comprising a step of distinguishing the barley lipoxygenase-1 deficient barley by whether or not the guanine at the splicing donor site of the 5th intron of the barley lipoxygenase-1 gene is mutated to a different base; and a method for production of malt alcoholic beverages using a material for malt alcoholic beverages derived from barley obtained by the selection method.

Abstract: A 9-fatty acid hydroperoxide lyase gene consisting of the nucleotide sequence as set forth in SEQ ID No: 1, and a 9-fatty acid hydroperoxide lyase gene consisting of the nucleotide sequence as set forth in SEQ ID No: 5.

Abstract: A selection method for barley lipoxygenase-1 deficient barley, comprising a step of distinguishing the barley lipoxygenase-1 deficient barley by whether or not the guanine at the splicing donor site of the 5th intron of the barley lipoxygenase-1 gene is mutated to a different base; and a method for production of malt alcoholic beverages using a material for malt alcoholic beverages derived from barley obtained by the selection method.

Abstract: A method for screening malt characterized by evaluating fatty acid hydroperoxide lyase activity in malt, and a method for producing a malt-based sparkling beverage characterized by using malt having low fatty acid hydroperoxide lyase activity screened by the method for screening.

Abstract: The present invention provides new gene expression regulatory DNA. This gene expression regulatory DNA comprises a promotor region derived from the barley D-hordein gene enabling the expression of a desired gene, and a regulatory region for regulating the expression of said gene based on said promoter region. This regulatory region consists at least of an activating region to activate the expression of said gene and a suppressing region to suppress the same.Use of this gene expression regulatory DNA enables controlling as desired the expression of gene within a plant cell such as barley.

Abstract: cDNA derived from the ARF gene that is actively expressed in barley seeds, roots and callus, but is highly suppressed or almost not expressed at all in leaves, was cloned. Next, the upstream region of the ARF gene was cloned, its promoter activity was verified, and a gene expression vector using the expression region of this gene was produced.

Abstract: An image of a part is used to judge whether it is good or no good. A predetermined intensity, edge or similar feature image is extracted from the inspected image and is quantized. The quantized feature image is obtained from a training image in advance, and the feature is subjected to a generalized Hough transform operation which refers to the weight of each feature point for each feature value in the image and vote the feature point weight. The similarity is obtained from the results of the transform operation, and a good/no good judgement is made depending upon whether the similarity is above or below a threshold value.