Takasago International Corporation

Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

Taisei Corporation

Ntt Mobile Communications Network, Inc.

Daisuke Igarashi

Yasuyuki Watanabe

Hideo Shimizu

Wataru Kuriyama

Noboru Sayo

Takashi Miura

Motoshi Tamura

Takaaki Sato

Junichiro Hagiwara

Akira Amano

Noboru Endo

Kazufumi Yunoki

Katsuhiko Yamagata

Yoshiyuki Yasuda

Mutsumaru Miki

Masafumi Hata

Takuya Hamajima

Natalia Viktorovna Stoynova

Kenya Kusunose

Akihiro Uchikoshi

Nobuhide Uchiyama

Yukinori Yusa

Atsushi Hayakawa

Natalia Sergeevna Eremina

Kazuhiko Totsuka

Chieko Ohsumi

Naoki Kadotani

Shunji Suzuki

Yang Chen

Kouki Yoshida

Miho Akiyoshi

Yasuko Yoshida

Taito Takeda

Kenichi Kaida

Kseniia Viktorovna Emelina

Daisuke Kitazawa

Yuta Nagasaka

Takashi Ishizaki

Akiko Green Gables C-101 12-14 Okamoto

Nobutaka 202 Bell Light Nokendai Ishikawa

An agricultural or horticultural composition is provided. A composition containing a culture broth of abacterium having prephenate dehydratase (PD) resistant to feedback inhibition by phenylalanine.

Agricultural or horticultural composition containing culture broth ofbacterium

Coloring of fruits is promoted by applying a one or more the amino acids leucine, isoleucine, and/or phenylalanine, in combination with abscisic acid to a fruit plant, such as those of the genus Vitaceae or Rosaceae. The amino acid(s) and abscisic acid may be present in a solution(s) having concentrations of 0.2 mM to 100 mM and 0.1 &#x3bc;M to 10 mM, respectively.

Agricultural and horticultural material, and plant cultivation method which promote coloring in fruit

Infection of pathogens is controlled by inducing disease resistance with a method of treating a plant with a composition of an acidic heat-treated solution of microorganisms.

Disease resistance enhancer for plants and method of controlling plant disease by using the same

Provide that a useful catalyst for homogeneous hydrogenation, particularly a catalyst for homogeneous asymmetric hydrogenation for hydrogenation, particularly asymmetric hydrogenation, which is obtainable with comparative ease and is excellent in economically and workability, and a process for producing a hydrogenated compound of an unsaturated compound, particularly an optically active compound using said catalyst with a high yield and optical purity.

Homogeneous asymmetric hydrogenation catalyst

Homogeneous asymmetric hydrogenation process

The present invention provides a water-soluble transition metal-diamine complex which can be easily separated from reaction products through liquid separation, etc. and is recycleable; an optically active diamine compound constituting the ligand of the complex; and a catalyst for asymmetric synthesis which comprises these. The present invention relates to a water-soluble optically active transition metal-diamine complex represented by the formula (2): [wherein Rand Reach represents hydrogen, a hydrocarbon group, &#x2014;SOR(wherein Ris a hydrocarbon group, substituted amino, etc.), etc.; Rto Reach represents hydrogen, a hydrocarbon group, alkoxy, substituted amino, etc.; M represents a transition metal; X represents halogen; L represents a ligand; and * indicates an asymmetric carbon atom; provided that at least one of Rto Rand Rto Ris substituted amino], a catalyst for asymmetric synthesis containing the complex, and a process for producing an optically active alcohol, which comprises using the catalyst to asymmetrically reduce a ketone.

Optically active transition metal-diamine compound and process for producing optically active alcohol with the same

This invention provides a novel gene that can impart salt stress tolerance to plants for a long period of time and salt stress tolerant transgenic plants to which such gene has been introduced. Such novel gene encodes the following protein (a), (b), or (c), and such salt stress tolerant transgenic plant has such gene introduced therein: (a) a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 in the Sequence Listing; (b) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 in the Sequence Listing by deletion, substitution, or addition of one or several amino acid residues and having activity of imparting salt stress tolerance to plants; or (c) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 in the Sequence Listing by deletion, substitution, or addition of one or several amino acid residues and having UDP-glucose 4-epimerase activity.

Gene capable of imparting salt stress resistance

[PROBLEMS] To provide a method by which desired optically active carboxylic acids may be prepared from a carboxylic acid having a carbon-carbon double bond through asymmetric hydrogenation with a catalyst consisting of a transition metal complex containing a water-soluble ligand and which permits easy separation of the used catalyst from the product by liquid-liquid separation alone and enables the recovery of an expensive transition metal and the reuse of the catalyst. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] Phosphines represented by the general formula (1):  wherein Xis oxygen or methylene; Xis methylene, ethylene, trimethylene, 1,2-dimethylethylene, isopropylidene, or difluoromethylene; A is a Group IA alkali metal of the periodic table, hydrogen, or an ammonium ion; and a, b, c and d are each an integer of 0 or 1, with the proviso that the cases wherein the sum of a, b, c, and d is 0 are excepted.

Phosphines, transition metal complexes containing the same as the ligand, and process for production of optically active carboxylic acids

A process for producing an optically active 3-azide-carboxylic acid ester by reacting an optically active 3-hydroxycarboxylic acid ester and a thionyl halide in the presence of a basic substance in an organic solvent to produce an optically active 3-halogenocarboxylic acid ester which is then reacted with an azide salt represented by the formula: MN(wherein M is an alkaline metal) in water or a mixture of water and a water soluble organic solvent.

Process for producing optically active 3-halogenocarboxylic acid ester and 3-azidocarboxylic acid ester

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Kanagawa, Japan

Daisuke Igarashi