The Rapeseed Project for Restoring Tsunami-Salt-Damaged Farmland after the GEJE

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Single ingestion of soy β-conglycinin induces increased postprandial circulating FGF21 levels exerting beneficial health effects

Soy protein β-conglycinin has serum lipid-lowering and anti-obesity effects. We showed that single ingestion of β-conglycinin after fasting alters gene expression in mouse liver. A sharp increase in fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) gene expression, which is depressed by normal feeding, resulted in increased postprandial circulating FGF21 levels along with a significant decrease in adipose tissue weights. Most increases in gene expressions, including FGF21, were targets for the activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4), but not for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α. Overexpression of a dominant-negative form of ATF4 significantly reduced β-conglycinin-induced increases in hepatic FGF21 gene expression. In FGF21-deficient mice, β-conglycinin effects were partially abolished. Methionine supplementation to the diet or primary hepatocyte culture medium demonstrated its importance for activating liver or hepatocyte ATF4-FGF21 signaling. Thus, dietary β-conglycinin intake can impact hepatic and systemic metabolism by increasing the postprandial circulating FGF21 levels.UTokyo Research掲載「大豆のタンパク質1回摂取で代謝を改善する因子が急増」 URI: http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/utokyo-research/research-news/single-ingestion-of-soy-protein-improves-metabolism.htmlUTokyo Research "Single ingestion of soy protein improves metabolism" URI: http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/utokyo-research/research-news/single-ingestion-of-soy-protein-improves-metabolism.htm

Trials on Cross and Mutation Breeding of Rice for Adaptability to Nature Farming

アジア原子力協力フォーラム(FNCA)放射線育種プロジェクトで2013年度から2017年度にかけて実施されたサブプロジェクト「持続可能な農業のためのイネの突然変異育種」に関連した報告であり、日本の在来イネ品種である「旭日」と「亀の尾」との交配、及びガンマ線照射による早生変異体選抜により、自然農法での栽培に適した優良系統を選抜した経過をとりまとめたものである

Compressed Beef Marbling Image Database with Browser-based Retrieval System

The system we are proposing in this paper demonstrates the capability of a robust multi-user access database management system by which compressed beef carcass rib-eye images, together with other related information, can be easily accessed on the Internet through web browsers in a client-server distributed fashion. This framework, we believe, can pioneer a new direction in information reuse and sharing among different users of the Japanese livestock industry that is non-existent at present. The compression technique we employ has its basis in a class of functions which we termed Fluency functions that enables highly efficient storage and retrieval of image data over the Internet with limited bandwidth. Eventually, we envision that the characteristics of the compressed data could provide insights into creating efficient image matching and retrieval algorithms that constitute a layer above the functions being provided by current database management systems. Such research, we believe, could contribute to a wider range of application domains involving images such as cartographic data and medical images, etc