{"id":1859,"date":"2015-11-02T16:20:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T07:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=1859"},"modified":"2021-06-15T16:16:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T07:16:42","slug":"research-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ag.kagawa-u.ac.jp\/english\/research-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"Rare Sugar<\/a> | Grape Cultivar<\/a> | Rice Cultivar<\/a> | Kiwifruit Cultivar<\/a> | Olive Products<\/a>\n

Rare Sugar Studies: Innovation from Kagawa University<\/a><\/h3>\nProfessor emeritus Izumori discovered an enzyme from bacteria isolated from soil behind the cafeteria in the Faculty of Agriculture of Kagawa University. The enzyme converted fructose, a sugar found naturally in many plants and fruits, into the rare sugar D-Psicose. Kagawa University made a joint venture company with Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., and developed a low-cost method to produce a syrup containing D-Psicose by specially treating inexpensive glucose-fructose syrup using heat. The syrup production plant was constructed in Kagawa prefecture, and about 12,000 ton per year of the syrup is being produced. The product was named as “Rare Sugar Sweet” and started to sell nation wide.\n
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\"Prof.<\/a>
Prof. Emeritus
Ken Izumori<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Professor emeritus Izumori discovered an enzyme from bacteria isolated from soil behind the cafeteria in the Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Twelve thousand tons per year of syrup containing D-Psicose has been produced by this production plant in Kagawa prefecture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n

After developing the production of rare sugars, progress has been made in research on bioactivities in a wide range of organisms, from microbes to higher animals and plants. The study of rare sugars on plants have yielded advancements in the production of “ecological pesticides” and has led to rapidly growing industry-academic-government collaborative studies on rare sugar.<\/p>\n

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D-Psicose and D-Allose give growth regulatory and defense induction effects on plants.<\/p>\n\n

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New grape cultivar \u2018Kadai-noh R-1\u2019 containing high level of anthocyanin<\/a><\/h3>\nBreeding with Muscat of Alexandria and Ryukyu Ganebu, a wild grape native to warm regions of Japan, gave new grape variety for wine brewing with high polyphenol content, Kadai-noh R-1 (Kagawa University Faculty of Agriculture R-1). We commercialized Kagawa University-brand wine using this Kadai-noh R-1, and the breeding program for newer varieties are continuously progressing.\n\n
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Ryukyu Ganebu V. ficifolia var. ganebu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Muscat of Alexandria V. vinifera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\"wine-3\"<\/a> \"wine-4\"<\/a>\n

Breeding for grape variety for wine brewing            Kadai-noh R-1 & Kagawa University-brand wine<\/p>\n \n

New rice cultivar \u2018Sanuki Yoimai\u2019 for adapting rice wine to local climate<\/a><\/h3>\nA new strain of rice with low protein content for sake brewing was bred with mixing Ohtose, a conventional cultivar used in Kagawa, with Yamada Nishiki, a well known sake rice cultivar. The new cultivar has been used by all major Sake brewers in Kagawa prefecture due to its superior characteristics, and gives a significant contribution to \u201clocal production for local consumption\u201d.\n\n\"sake1\"\"rice2\"<\/a>\n\nBreeding Sanuki Yoimai for Sake brewing | Center Photo – Left: Ohtose, middle: Sanuki Yoimai, right: Yamada Nishiki\n\n \n

New Kiwifruit cultivar \u2018Sanuki Kiwikko\u2019 adapted for warm climates<\/a><\/h3>\nBreeding with wild variety of Shima sarunashi and Kiwifruit produced a new variety of kiwi, “Sanuki Kiwicco”. The fruit of Sanuki Kiwicco is half sized compared with regular Kiwifruit cultivars and has high sugar content. This new cultivar was developed by a collaborative project of Kagawa University and Kagawa prefecture starting in 2006, and commercialized in 2013. Sanuki Kiwicco was named by the President of Kagawa University and the Governor of Kagawa prefecture.\n\n\"kiwi-1\"<\/a> \"kiwi-2\"<\/a> \"kiwi-3\"<\/a>\n\nBreeding and analysis of Sanuki Kiwicco\n\n \n

Olive product: olive leaf extract for health-oriented food products<\/a><\/h3>\nKagawa prefectural tree and flower is the olive, and the prefectural symbol is also based on the shapes of the mountain and olive leaves. Olive leaf extract containing rich polyphenolic compounds is added to cake, bread, ice cream, candy, chocolate, and so on, to contributing to the development of health-oriented foods and food products.\n\n
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The prefectural symbol of Kagawa is based on the shapes of mountains and olive leaves, which contain rich polyphenolic compounds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\"olive\"<\/a>\n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rare Sugar | Grape Cultivar | Rice Cultivar | Kiwifruit Cultivar | Olive Products Rare Sugar Studies: Innovation from Kagawa […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1859","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Lutes","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ag.kagawa-u.ac.jp\/english\/author\/lutes\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Rare Sugar | Grape Cultivar | Rice Cultivar | Kiwifruit Cultivar | Olive Products Rare Sugar Studies: Innovation from Kagawa […]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ag.kagawa-u.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ag.kagawa-u.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ag.kagawa-u.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ag.kagawa-u.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ag.kagawa-u.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ag.kagawa-u.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/www.ag.kagawa-u.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1859\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ag.kagawa-u.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}