Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Okayama Prefecture

The University of Tokyo

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Kyoto University

Riken Corporation

Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd.

National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences

National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

Nisshinbo Chemical Inc.

Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

Meiji University

Chikara Ohto

Norihiro Mitsukawa

Nobuhiko Muramoto

Satoshi Kondo

Masaru Takagi

Kyoko Matsui

Tomotsugu Koyama

Kenichi Ogawa

Tokuzo Nishino

Nobutaka Mitsuda

Yukio Okamura

Shinichi Ohnuma

Hiroshi Chatani

Madoka Yonekura

Tomoko Tanaka

Hiroki Sugimoto

Kazutake Hirooka

Masayoshi Muramatsu

Chika Asada

Yoshie Takeuchi

Hisashi Hemmi

Keishi Narita

Hiroyuki Nakane

Jun Ogawa

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Shusei Obata

Shigenobu Kishino

Kunihiro Ohta

Masakazu Ito

Hidenori Tanaka

Iwao Furusawa

Hisashi Ito

Ritsuko Yogo

Chika Ishida

Etsuko Hattori

Naohiro Aoki

Ryu Ohsugi

Tatsuro Hirose

Masaki Okamura

Takahiro Nakamura

Kazuhiko Sato

Ikuo Takahashi

Satoshi Katahira

Shuji Nakagawa

Shigekazu Suzuki

Kazuhiko Totsuka

Akio Miyao

Kenji Henmi

Akinori Ikeuchi

Kiyohiko Nishi

Makoto Hayashi

Yoshihiro Kon

Shinya Fujibayashi

Risa Nakamura

Shinji Watanabe

Shuichi Osato

Shin-ichi Ohnuma

Hideaki Yazawa

Shuichi Ohsato

Yuka Higuchi

Manabu Suzuki

Matsui Kyoko

Masuru Takagi

Masaru Tagaki

A method of inducing genetic recombination, including: allowing a protein having DNA double-stranded cleavage activity to act in cells of a eukaryotic organism which is a polyploidy inherently possessed by a eukaryotic organism. In eukaryotic organisms, various genetic recombination generates new genome set composition. This is done to obtain a population of eukaryotic organisms that hold the modified genomic set.

Method of inducing genetic recombination, and use therefor

A method of modifying the genome of an organism, wherein the modification method includes modifying the genome of the organism by using in a cell of the organism a protein having an optimal temperature for double-stranded DNA breakage activity in an ordinary temperature region.

Method of modifying genome of organism and use thereof

This invention is intended to increase biomass production through suppression of expression of a gene functioning in relation to intracellular vesicular transport or inhibition of functions of a protein encoded by such gene. To this end, expression of a gene encoding the coatomer adapter zeta subunit is suppressed, the coatomer adapter zeta subunit is inhibited, expression of a gene encoding the clathrin adaptor small (sigma) subunit is suppressed, or the clathrin adaptor small (sigma) subunit is inhibited.

Plant in which expression of a clathrin and/or coatomer subunit is suppressed or inhibited, a method for increasing the production of plant biomass and a method for producing a plant

The production of exudate containing sugar from a plant at a high concentration is provided. A nucleic acid encoding a transporter involved in sugar transportation having a certain consensus sequence derived from the amino acid sequences of the SWEET proteins classified in the clade III is introduced and/or expression of the protein is enhanced.

Transformed plant and method for producing exudate containing sugar using transformed plant

This invention provides a recombinant microorganism into which an acyl-CoA reductase exhibiting excellent activity in a reduction reaction using acyl-CoA as a substrate has been introduced. Such recombinant microorganism comprises a nucleic acid encoding an acyl-CoA reductase comprising any of characteristic Common sequences 1 to 3 introduced into a host microorganism.

Recombinant microorganism and method for producing a substance using the same

A technique by which the production of plant biomass can be significantly increased is provided. A protein phosphatase 2C gene having 3 consensus sequences comprising the amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NOS: 1-3 from the N-terminal side in such order is over-expressed.

Gene for increasing the production of plant biomass and/or seeds and method for use thereof

A gene having novel functions is searched for, by which plant weight (that is, biomass level) can be increased and by which substance productivity can be increased or decreased. A chimeric protein is expressed in which a transcriptional factor comprising the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, or 6 is fused to a functional peptide that converts an arbitrary transcriptional factor into a transcriptional repression factor.

Gene for increasing plant weight and method for using the same

According to the present invention, a gene having a novel function that can cause an increase or decrease in seed protein content is searched for. A chimeric protein obtained by fusing a transcription factor consisting of a protein comprising an amino acid sequence shown in any of the even-numbered SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 76 and a functional peptide capable of converting an arbitrary transcription factor into a transcriptional repressor or a transcription factor consisting of a protein comprising an amino acid sequence shown in any of the even-numbered SEQ ID NOS: 77 to 84 is expressed in a plant.

Plant with reduced protein productivity in seeds and method for producing same

A method for producing a linear hydrocarbon, including reacting a linear aliphatic aldehyde in the presence of at least one metal ion selected from the group consisting of a vanadium ion, a manganese ion, an iron ion, a cobalt ion, an iridium ion, a copper ion, and a thallium ion.

Method for producing hydrocarbon

Environmental stress resistance is imparted to a plant or the environmental stress resistance of a plant is improved. Environmental stress resistance is imparted to a plant by changing the expression level of the tyrosine phosphatase gene (At1g71860).

Method for imparting environmental stress resistance to plants

This invention provides a recombinant microorganism into which an acyl-CoA reductase exerting excellent activity in a reduction reaction involving the use of acyl-CoA as a substrate has been introduced. Such recombinant microorganism comprises a nucleic acid encoding a protein (a) or (b) below introduced into a host microorganism: (a) a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; or (b) a protein comprising an amino acid sequence having 70% or higher identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 and having activity for synthesizing an aldehyde compound from acyl-CoA.

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