Abstract: A light emitting component includes: a substrate; a plural light emitting elements that are provided on the substrate and respectively have light emission regions; and a plural thyristors that are turned on to cause the light emission regions of the respective light emitting elements to emit light, or that increase amounts of emitted light of the light emission regions, in which the light emitting elements absorb light emitted from a corresponding thyristor among the plural thyristors.

Abstract: A method of screening for a stevia plant with high steviol glycoside content, that includes detecting from the genome of a test stevia plant the presence and/or the absence of the following genetic feature: (1) homozygous for the allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 290 of SEQ ID NO: 1 is T, and the presence and/or the absence of the following genetic feature: (2) homozygous or heterozygous for the allele wherein the base at the position corresponding to position 40 of SEQ ID NO: 2 is A.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high sweet content stevia plant having a variation at a portion corresponding to SEQ ID NO: 1, a method of producing or screening for the same, etc.

Abstract: A method of screening for a stevia plant with high rebaudioside M content ratio, that includes detecting from a test stevia plant the presence and/or absence of at least one of (1) and (2), and at least one of (3) to (7): (1) homozygous for the allele wherein position 290 of SEQ ID NO: 1 is T; (2) homozygous for the allele wherein position 33 of SEQ ID NO: 2 is A; (3) homozygous for the allele wherein position 44 of SEQ ID NO: 3 is T; (4) homozygous for the allele wherein position 40 of SEQ ID NO: 4 is T; (5) homozygous for the allele wherein position 48 of SEQ ID NO: 5 is C; (6) homozygous for the allele wherein positions 55-72 of SEQ ID NO: 6 are deleted; (7) homozygous for the allele wherein position 50 of SEQ ID NO: 7 is A.

Abstract: Provided is a plant having at least one of genetic characteristics (A)-(E) below. (A) Alleles in which the base at the position corresponding to position 40 of SEQ ID:1 is C are homozygous or heterozygous. (B) Alleles in which the base at the position corresponding to position 21 of SEQ ID:2 is T are homozygous or heterozygous. (C) Alleles in which the base at the position corresponding to position 28 of SEQ ID:3 is T are homozygous or heterozygous. (D) Alleles in which the base at the position corresponding to position 59 of SEQ ID:4 is C are homozygous or heterozygous. (E) Alleles in which the base at the position corresponding to position 64 of SEQ ID:5 is T are homozygous or heterozygous.

Abstract: The present invention provides a Stevia plant comprising useful steviol glycoside such as rebaudioside D at higher content as compared with known Stevia species. The present invention also provides a method of producing such a Stevia plant, and a dried leaf and an extract obtainable from such a plant.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high sweet content stevia plant having a variation at a portion corresponding to SEQ ID NO: 1, a method of producing or screening for the same, etc.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high rebaudioside M content non-genetically modified stevia plant comprising rebaudioside M at higher content as compared with the wild type stevia species. The present invention also provides a method of producing such a high rebaudioside M content non-genetically modified stevia plant, and a dry leaf obtainable from such a plant.