A highly efficient ethanol-fermentative yeast having high efficiency in ethanol production is provided without introducing a foreign gene. The highly efficient ethanol-fermentative yeast features a fermentative yeast effectively producing ethanol from pentose and hexose and being deposited to NITE Patent Microorganisms Depositary under the accession number NITE BP-01963.

A Bipolaris yamadae (Y. Nisik.) shoemaker (HXDC-1-2), and a screening and identification method therefor and use thereof. The Bipolaris yamadae (Y Nisik.) strain (HXDC-1-2) is deposited in the China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center with the accession number CGMCC No. 17778. The Bipolaris yamadae (Y. Nisik.) strain (HXDC-1-2) is applied to biological weed control when the conidial concentration is 10.sup.2 conidia/ml or more.

The present invention relates to a method of preventing or treating a fibrotic condition, comprising administering an effective amount of composition to a subject in need thereof; wherein the composition comprises triterpenes extracted from Antrodia-camphorate or anisomeles indica.

Provided is a transformant which can produce lactic acid with a high productivity without requiring neutralization with an alkali and is excellent in both of lactic acid production capability and growth ability and its production process, and a method for producing lactic acid by using the transformant.

A transformant containing from 3 to 5 copies of a lactate dehydrogenase gene derived from human and introduced into a Schizosaccharomyces pombe host, wherein a gene that is a part of a group of genes encoding pyruvate decarboxylase of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe host is deleted or inactivated. A transformant characterized by providing a cell concentration of at least 4.0 g (on a dry cell weight basis)/L of a culture broth prepared by inoculating cells, at an initial cell concentration of 0.04 g (on a dry cell weight basis)/L, into a 500 mL Sakaguchi flask containing 100 mL of a liquid culture broth which includes 1% of yeast extract, 2% of peptone and 6% of glucose, and then cultivating 20 hours at a temperature of 32° C. under shaking conditions of 110 rpm and 7 cm stroke, and providing a lactic acid concentration of at least 80 g/L of a fermentation liquor prepared by inoculating cells obtained by cultivating 20 hours under the above-described conditions, at an initial cell concentration of 36 g (on a dry cell weight basis)/L, into a 11.1% glucose aqueous solution, and then fermenting 3 hours at a temperature of 32° C. under shaking conditions of 110 rpm and 7 cm stroke. A method for producing lactic acid by using these transformants.

Disclosed are compositions and formulations of lipase and methods of treatment and manufacture thereof.

A mycelium growth bed for growing a solid substrate-bound mycelium through which the mycelium composite is easily and readily removed. This is achieved through the use of a perforation layer embedded between the mycelium substrate and the mycelium composite so as to create a uniform structural weakness and thereby enhancing harvesting abilities of the ex-substrate mycelium via a greatly reduced and uniform tear strength. The perforation layer, through which the mycelium grows, allows for the gated and controlled extrusion of a matrix of colonial cells that may be easily and uniformly delaminated from the underlying mycelium substrate.

Remote access methods and systems for plant pathogen (e.g., fungi or fungus-like organisms) assessment and management, and uses thereof, in particular for real-time agricultural applications, are described herein. In embodiments, the method and systems combine the capture of pathogenic spores (e.g., by impaction on an adhesive surface), laboratory analysis to identify the spores (e.g., by microscopy and/or PGR), collecting weather data, determining the level of risk for each pathogen, and providing an output to a user, who may for example access such risk data remotely as a risk report. A weather station is installed in proximity to the field/area where the spore sampling/collection occurs, and allows the constant transfer of weather data to effect the risk assessment. The risk assessment may be used to direct and optimize pesticide (e.g., fungicide) application in accordance with the pathogen identification and assessed risk level.

The present invention relates to genetically modified ascomycetous filamentous fungi, particularly of the species Thermothelomyces heterothallica, capable of producing elevated amounts of nicotinamide riboside.

The invention relates to an integrated process for alcohol production from lignocellulosic material.

Provided is a highly efficient ethanol-fermentative yeast having high efficiency in ethanol production without introducing a foreign gene. The highly efficient ethanol-fermentative yeast is a fermentative yeast that effectively produces ethanol from pentose and hexose and is deposited to NITE Patent Microorganisms Depositary under the accession number NITE BP-01962.