Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Hokko Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

Greensogna, Inc.

Japan Science and Technology Agency

University of Tsukuba

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaihsa

Masaru Takagi

Kyoko Matsui

Chikara Ohto

Nobuhiko Muramoto

Norihiro Mitsukawa

Nobutaka Mitsuda

Tomotsugu Koyama

Hiroshi Chatani

Yukio Okamura

Satoshi Kondo

Teruo Ishishita

Madoka Yonekura

Keiji Kaita

Yuji Nishi

Tomoko Tanaka

Nobuyuki Yamazaki

Teruhiko Terakawa

Miho Ikeda

Masaki Okamura

Yukinari Tanabe

Tomomichi Yamamura

Masao Sugiyama

Yoshimi Oshima

Tomomi Mito

Michiyuki Ono

Akira Iwase

Keiichiro Hiratsu

Keiichirou Hiratsu

Matsui Kyoko

Keiichiro c/o Department Of Applied Chemistry Hiratsu

As a means for artificially inducing functional endosperm in a seed plant without fertilization, provided is a nucleic acid molecule that contains a base sequence encoding a polypeptide capable of inducing endosperm development, said nucleic acid molecule being to be transferred into the genome of the seed plant and expressed therein so as to induce endosperm development in the seed plant without fertilization.

Nucleic acid molecule and vector inducing endosperm development in seed plant without fertilization, transgenic seed plant capable of developing endosperm without fertilization and method for constructing same

A charge control device for an in-vehicle battery includes a control unit that obtains a neglect resistance increase rate as a reversible resistance component based on an SOC of the battery and a temperature of the battery when the battery is not charged/discharged, and that obtains a permissible charge current value to the battery based on the obtained neglect resistance increase rate.

Charge control device for in-vehicle battery

A battery includes at least an electrode group including a positive electrode, a separator, a negative electrode, and a protection layer. The separator is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode mixture layer, and a positive electrode tab. The positive electrode mixture layer is disposed on a surface of the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode tab is electrically connected to the positive electrode current collector. The protection layer covers a surface of the positive electrode tab. A volume resistivity of the protection layer is within a range of one to 100 times a volume resistivity of the positive electrode mixture layer.

Battery and manufacturing method of the same

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 secondary battery includes, in a battery case, an electrode body having an electrode sheet, a current collecting member including a weld part ultrasonic welded to a current collecting foil of the electrode sheet, and a pressure-type current interrupt mechanism electrically connected to the current collecting member. The current interrupt mechanism has a first valve element integrated with the current collecting member and a second element body, both joined at a joint portion. Of the current collecting member, the first valve element, and the second valve element, at least a part between the weld part and the joint portion is made of damping metal. A method of manufacturing this secondary battery includes: a step of forming a structure in which the first and second valve elements are joined at the joint portion; and a step of thereafter ultrasonic welding the current collecting foil and the weld part.

Secondary battery manufacturing method and secondary battery

A method of producing a multi-petaledplant having an increased number of petals, including at least inhibiting the function of a transcription factor involved in morphogenesis of a floral organ of

Method of producing cyclamen with multi-petaled flowers

The present invention provides a method for producing a plant with a stress tolerance, comprising the step of inhibiting, in a plant, a function of a first polypeptide including an amino acid sequence represented by any one of SEQ ID NOS: 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. This enables developing a new technique capable of producing a plant with a stress tolerance such as a salt tolerance and a high osmotic pressure tolerance.

Method for production of plant imparted with stress tolerance and use thereof

An object of the present invention is to search for a gene having a novel function that can cause an increase or decrease in material productivity, and particularly, fat and oil content. In the present invention, 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 158 and a functional peptide capable of converting an arbitrary transcription factor into a transcriptional repressor is expressed in a plant.

Gene capable of improving material productivity in seed and method for use thereof

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

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Tsuchiura, Japan

Masaru Takagi