Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a plant in order to obtain a plant having a high content of a caffeoylquinic acid compound. Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a processed plant product. The method for producing a plant according to the present invention includes a step of growing at least one plant selected from the group consisting of a tuber other than a sweet potato, a plant belonging to the family Convolvulaceae, and a plant belonging to the family Asteraceae; and a step of subjecting the grown plant to nutriculture using a culture solution which is substantially free of a nitrate ion and a phosphate ion.

Abstract: A photosensitive composition having an extremely constant photosensitivity distribution relative to an exposure light having a wavelength of 400 nm to 410 nm, and excelling in pattern reproductivity, suppressing variations in pattern formation; a pattern forming material and a photosensitive laminate with the photosensitive composition laminated thereon; and a pattern forming apparatus and a pattern forming process. The photosensitive composition contains a binder, a polymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator; the photosensitive composition has a maximum spectral sensitivity in the wavelength range of 380 nm to 420 nm; the minimum exposure dose S400 capable of forming a pattern at a wavelength of 400 nm of the photosensitive composition is 300 mJ/cm2 or less; the minimum exposure dose S410 capable of forming a pattern at a wavelength of 410 nm of the photosensitive composition is 300 mJ/cm2 or less; and S400 and S410 satisfy the relation 0.6<S400/S410<1.6.

Abstract: A light-sensitive sheet comprises a support, a first light-sensitive layer and a second light-sensitive layer in this order. Each of the first and second light sensitive layers independently contains a binder, a polymerizable compound and a photo-polymerization initiator. The second light-sensitive layer is more sensitive to light than the first light-sensitive layer. A light-sensitive laminate comprises a substrate, the second light-sensitive layer and the first light-sensitive layer in this order.

Abstract: A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and a photosensitive layer, wherein the photosensitive layer comprises a photosensitive resin composition containing (A) a sensitizing dye absorbing light of from 350 to 450 nm, (B) a polymerization initiator, (C) a polymerizable compound and (D) a binder polymer, and (D) the binder polymer is an acrylic resin containing a hydrophilic group and a crosslinkable group and having an acid value of 0.3 meq/g or less.

Abstract: A light-sensitive sheet comprises a support, a first light-sensitive layer, a barrier layer and a second light-sensitive layer in this order. Each of the first and second light sensitive layers independently contains a binder, a polymerizable compound and a photo-polymerization initiator. The second light-sensitive layer is more sensitive to light than the first light-sensitive layer. A light-sensitive laminate comprises a substrate, the second light-sensitive layer, the barrier layer and the first light-sensitive layer in this order.

Abstract: An inkjet recording sheet has a colorant-receiving layer on a support. The colorant-receiving layer is provided with at least one of compounds represented by the following formulas (1) to (4) and which has either or both of an I/O value of at least 0.5 and a water soluble property. The colorant-receiving layer is also provided with at least one organic mordant selected from polyallylamine, polyvinylamine and derivatives of these.

Abstract: The invention provides a colored photosensitive resin composition for forming a colored image on a transparent substrate, the colored photosensitive resin composition comprising: an alkali-soluble binder, one of a monomer and an oligomer having at least two ethylenic unsaturated double bonds, one of a photopolymerization initiator and a photopolymerization initiating system, and a pigment, said alkali-soluble binder comprising a copolymer including a structural unit having a carboxyl group, a structural unit represented by the following general formula (1), and a structural unit comprising a (meth)acrylate having at least one of an aromatic ring and an alicyclic ring: wherein R1 represents one of a hydrogen atom and a methyl group; and each of R2 to R6 independently represents one of a hydrogen atom, a substituted and unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted and unsubstituted aryl group, a halogen atom and a cyano group.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter having excellent color pixel resolution. The method features forming a liquid crystal layer which includes a cholesteric liquid crystal composition containing at least a liquid crystal compound, a photoreactive chiral dopant, and a polymerization initiator; and forming partition walls at portions corresponding to a boundary of each of pixels to be formed, by irradiating those portions through a mask with ultraviolet light at a wavelength to which the polymerization initiator is sensitive, either before or after the pixels are formed in the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A light-sensitive sheet comprises a support, a first light-sensitive layer, a barrier layer and a second light-sensitive layer in this order. Each of the first and second light sensitive layers independently contains a binder, a polymerizable compound and a photo-polymerization initiator. The second light-sensitive layer is more sensitive to light than the first light-sensitive layer. A light-sensitive laminate comprises a substrate, the second light-sensitive layer, the barrier layer and the first light-sensitive layer in this order.

Abstract: A light-sensitive sheet comprises a support, a first light-sensitive layer and a second light-sensitive layer in this order. Each of the first and second light sensitive layers independently contains a binder, a polymerizable compound and a photo-polymerization initiator. The second light-sensitive layer is more sensitive to light than the first light-sensitive layer. A light-sensitive laminate comprises a substrate, the second light-sensitive layer and the first light-sensitive layer in this order.

Abstract: Optical diffusion element comprises a layer of polymer particles self-fused together, each polymer particle having a refractivity varying from the center to the periphery thereof and a component for the periphery having a glass transition temperature that is desirably lower than 100° C. The optical diffusion element is desirably provided with an optical transparent layer in contact with the polymer particle layer.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an ink jet recording sheet which has high glossiness of the recording surface and is free from the bleeding of an image with time even under high temperature and humidity. Also, the recording sheet can avoid the occurrence of cracks, is strong, possesses high ink-absorbing ability, and can form an image with high light resistance and water resistance. The ink jet recording sheet comprises a polymer which contains a quaternary ammonium base in its molecule, of which the ratio of inorganicity/organicity (I/O value) calculated based on an organic conceptual diagram is 1.0 or less and the cation density (meq/g) is 3.0 or less, and which is soluble in at least one of water and an organic solvent.

Abstract: The invention provides a colored photosensitive resin composition for forming a colored image on a transparent substrate, the colored photosensitive resin composition comprising: an alkali-soluble binder, one of a monomer and an oligomer having at least two ethylenic unsaturated double bonds, one of a photopolymerization initiator and a photopolymerization initiating system, and a pigment, said alkali-soluble binder comprising a copolymer including a structural unit having a carboxyl group, a structural unit represented by the following general formula (1), and a structural unit comprising a (meth)acrylate having at least one of an aromatic ring and an alicyclic ring:

Abstract: An inkjet recording sheet has a colorant-receiving layer on a support. The colorant-receiving layer is provided with at least one of compounds represented by the following formulas (1) to (4) and which has either or both of an I/O value of at least 0.5 and a water soluble property. The colorant-receiving layer is also provided with at least one organic mordant selected from polyallylamine, polyvinylamine and derivatives of these. In the formulas, each of R1 to R7 independently represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group that may have a substituent, and any of pairs R1 and R2, R4 and R5, and R6 and R7 may be mutually coupled to form a ring.

Abstract: Optical diffusion element comprises a layer of polymer particles self-fused together, each polymer particle having a refractivity varying from the center to the periphery thereof and a component for the periphery having a glass transition temperature that is desirably lower than 100° C. The optical diffusion element is desirably provided with an optical transparent layer in contact with the polymer particle layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter having excellent color pixel resolution. The method features forming a liquid crystal layer which includes a cholesteric liquid crystal composition containing at least a liquid crystal compound, a photoreactive chiral dopant, and a polymerization initiator; and forming partition walls at portions corresponding to a boundary of each of pixels to be formed, by irradiating those portions through a mask with ultraviolet light at a wavelength to which the polymerization initiator is sensitive, either before or after the pixels are formed in the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an ink jet recording sheet which has high glossiness of the recording surface and is free from the bleeding of an image with time even under high temperature and humidity. Also, the recording sheet can avoid the occurrence of cracks, is strong, possesses high ink-absorbing ability, and can form an image with high light resistance and water resistance. The ink jet recording sheet comprises a polymer which contains a quaternary ammonium base in its molecule, of which the ratio of inorganicity/organicity (I/O value) calculated based on an organic conceptual diagram is 1.0 or less and the cation density (meq/g) is 3.0 or less, and which is soluble in at least one of water and an organic solvent.

Abstract: A heat sensitive recording material comprising a substrate having sequentially thereon a heat sensitive recording layer and a protective layer, 1) wherein the protective layer contains an aqueous silicone modified polymer.It is desirable this aqueous silicone modified polymer is used together with an aqueous binder, and a crosslinking agent which can cause a crosslinking reaction with them is desirably used. 2) The protective layer contains a silicone modified polymer having a Tg (glass transition point) of 60.degree. C. or more. In the heat sensitive recording materials of 1) and 2), the silicone modified polymer is desirably a silicone graft polymer, silicone block polymer, silicone modified acrylic polymer and the like, and particularly, the silicone graft polymer is desirably a silicone graft acrylic polymer and the like.

Abstract: A thermo-responsive microcapsule containing a diazo compound or an electron donative dye precursor, wherein the capsule wall of the microcapsule is composed of at least one polymer obtained by polymerization of an isocyanate compound containing an adduct of (A) a compound having one active hydrogen in the molecule and having an average molecular weight from 500 to 20000 and (B) a multifunctional isocyanate having two or more isocyanate groups in the molecule, and a heat-sensitive recording material and a multicolor heat-sensitive recording material comprising a heat-sensitive recording layer containing the microcapsule are disclosed.

Abstract: A light-sensitive resin composition which can be developed in an alkaline aqueous solution and has an excellent image-forming performance and a sufficient UV absorbance after an image formation is disclosed. The light-sensitive resin composition includes (1) a photopolymerization initiator or a photopolymerization initiator system, (2) an addition-polymerizable monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, (3) a high molecular binder which is soluble in an alkaline aqueous solution and insoluble in water, and (4) at least one of the compounds which substantially do not absorb light in a specified UV region and which, when subjected to treatment with an aqueous alkali solution and/or to heating, are capable of absorbing light in that region and have substantially no absorption in the visible region.