Abstract: A device includes a body weight obtainment unit for obtaining measurement data; a storage unit for storing the measurement data; a target calculation unit that, based on the measurement data in, calculates a target diurnal fluctuation amount including a body weight fluctuation amount during sleep and a body weight diurnal target increase/decrease amount; and a computation unit that, based on the target diurnal fluctuation amount, calculates a target value to serve as a target when measuring a pre-sleep body weight value at a second timing before the measurement subject sleeps relative to a post-waking body weight value that is measured at a first timing after the measurement subject wakes. The target calculation unit calculates the diurnal target increase/decrease amount based on the measurement data in the storage unit so that the diurnal target increase/decrease amount is within a predetermined increase/decrease percentage range of the post-waking body weight value.

Abstract: The present invention provides nucleic acid markers for rice blast resistance genes Pi-ta and Pi-ta2, which hybridize with any RFLP probes isolated from rice genomic DNA and are located within a distance of 2.0 cM from rice blast resistance genes Pi-ta or Pi-ta2. According to the present invention, it becomes possible to easily identify rice blast resistance genes and related genes from rice cultivars containing Pi-ta or Pi-ta2, thus promoting development and breeding of superior cultivars. It becomes also possible to easily carry out a resistance test of rice. This will open up way to create new resistance genes.

Abstract: The present invention provides nucleic acid markers for rice blast resistance genes Pi-ta and Pi-ta2, which hybridize with any of RFLP probes isolated from rice genomic DNA and are located within a distance of 2.0 cM from rice blast resistance genes Pi-ta or Pi-ta2. According to the present invention, it becomes possible to easily identify rice blast resistance genes and related genes from rice cultivars containing Pi-ta or Pi-ta2, thus promoting development and breeding of superior cultivars. It becomes also possible to easily carry out a resistance test of rice. This will open up the way to create new resistance genes.

Abstract: The present invention provides nucleic acid markers for rice blast resistance genes, which are isolated from the rice genomic DNA, are DNA sequences having a total length of up to 2 kb, with two identical sequences of at least ten bases at the both ends thereof and are located within a distance of 2.0 cM from rice blast resistance genes Pi-b, Pi-ta or Pi-ta.sup.2 . According to the present invention, it becomes possible to easily isolate rice blast resistance genes and related genes from rice cultivars containing Pi-b, Pi-ta.sup.2 or Pi-ta, thus promoting development and breeding of superior cultivars. It becomes also possible to easily carry out a resistance test of rice. This will open up the way to create new resistance genes.