摘要:
This invention is intended to be used to search for a transcription factor having novel functions of increasing the weight of an individual plant, increasing the weight of a given tissue per individual plant, or improving the productivity of a given substance per individual plant and to improve such properties in the plant. The weight of an individual plant is increased, the weight of a given tissue per individual plant is increased, the productivity of a given substance per individual plant is improved, or the content of a given substance per given tissue of a plant is increased via expression of a transcription factor that has been modified to suppress transcription accelerating activity.
摘要:
This invention is intended to be used to search for a transcription factor having novel functions of increasing the weight of an individual plant, increasing the weight of a given tissue per individual plant, or improving the productivity of a given substance per individual plant and to improve such properties in the plant. The weight of an individual plant is increased, the weight of a given tissue per individual plant is increased, the productivity of a given substance per individual plant is improved, or the content of a given substance per given tissue of a plant is increased via expression of a transcription factor that has been modified to suppress transcription accelerating activity.
摘要:
It is intended to provide a technique of producing a sterile plant by inhibiting the transcription of a gene participating in flower organ formation. A chimeric gene composed of a gene, which encodes a transcriptional factor promoting the expression of a gene participating in flower organ formation, with a polynucleotide, which encodes a functional peptide converting an arbitrary transcriptional factor into a transcriptional inhibitor, is transferred into a plant cell to thereby produce a chimeric protein composed of the above-described transcriptional factor and the above-described functional peptide fused together. As the results of the predominant inhibition of the expression of the gene participating in flower organ formation by the chimeric protein, a male sterile plant which is unable to form normal pollen is produced. The chimeric protein also inhibits the expression of a gene participating in anther dehiscence to thereby give a plant with inhibited anther dehiscence. Furthermore, the chimeric protein inhibits the expression of a gene targeted by a transcriptional factor participating in the formation of stamen and pistil to thereby give a double-flowered plant.
摘要:
A peptide or a protein capable of converting a transcriptional factor into a transcription regulator; a gene encoding the above peptide or protein; a chimeric protein wherein the above peptide or protein is bonded to a transcriptional factor; a chimeric gene wherein a gene encoding the above peptide or protein is bonded to another gene encoding a transcriptional factor; a recombinant vector having the chimeric gene; and a transformant containing the recombinant vector. Because of having an extremely short length, the above-described peptide capable of converting a transcriptional factor into a transcription regulator can be very easily synthesized and makes it possible to efficiently regulate the transcription targeting a specific gene alone. Owing to these characteristics, this peptide is widely applicable and useful in, for example, regulating the expression of an oncogene and regulating the expression of a gene encoding an enzyme in a pigment metabolism system.
摘要:
[PROBLEM] In connecting a plurality of assembled batteries in parallel, to prevent a circulating current from exceeding an allowable current for the assembled battery. [SOLVING MEANS] A battery pack (100) has a plurality of assembled batteries (10-1 to 10-X) connected in parallel. Each of the assembled batteries has a plurality of cells (11) connected electrically. A circulating current in each of the assembled batteries is calculated from an open circuit voltage of the assembled battery that varies according to the number (N1 to Nx) of the cells connected in series, a value indicating a charge state of the assembled battery that varies according to the number (M1 to Mx) of the cells connected in parallel, and an internal resistance of the assembled battery. The number of the cells connected in parallel and the number of the cells connected in series in each of the assembled batteries are numbers determined under the condition that the circulating current should not exceed an allowable current value for the assembled battery.
摘要:
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.