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Research on mutation generation in higher plants with heavy ions at NIRS-HIMAC

Abstract

Plants are closely related to medical treatment in medicine, foods, herbs and medical care by gardening. Ion beams have much higher linear energy transfer (LET) and relative biological effectiveness than those of gamma rays and X-rays. Ion beams are supposed to be useful as new mutagen to obtain novel mutants with superior characteristics in higher plants. In this study, the influence of heavy ions irradiation on bud growth was examined in carnation and the mutation generation was inspected in babies' breath. The growth of carnation buds began to decrease at 10 Gy and the median growth dose was estimated at 35 Gy for 290 Mev/u carbon ion beams. Mutants with petaloid leaves were observed in babies' breath by the irradiation of 290 Mev/u carbon ion beams at 20Gy. We will examine the mutation rates and spectrum for 290 MeV/u carbon, 400 MeV/u neon and 500 MeV/u argon ion beams to find optimum use of the beams in plant breeding. The efficient system to generate useful mutants using heavy ions at NIRS-HIMAC will be developed in higher plants. (author)
Authors:
Okamura, M; Watanabe, S; Watanabe, M; Toguri, T; [1]  Furusawa, Y [2] 
  1. Kirin Brewery Co., Ltd., Plant Laboratory, Tokyo (Japan)
  2. National Inst. of Radiological Sciences, Research Center for Heavy-ion Therapy, Chiba, Chiba (Japan)
Publication Date:
May 15, 2006
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
NIRS-M-192; HIMAC-115
Resource Relation:
Other Information: 2 refs., 3 figs; Related Information: In: 2005 annual report of the research project with heavy ions at NIRS-HIMAC, 328 pages.
Subject:
60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES; ARGON IONS; BUDS; CARBON IONS; CARNATIONS; HIMAC ACCELERATOR; ION BEAMS; IRRADIATION; LET; MEV RANGE 100-1000; MUTATIONS; PLANT BREEDING; RADIATION DOSES
OSTI ID:
20878125
Research Organizations:
National Inst. of Radiological Sciences, Chiba (Japan)
Country of Origin:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Other Identifying Numbers:
TRN: JP0701720045858
Availability:
Available from National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba-ken 263-8555, Japan
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
page(s) 83-84
Announcement Date:
Jun 18, 2007

Citation Formats

Okamura, M, Watanabe, S, Watanabe, M, Toguri, T, and Furusawa, Y. Research on mutation generation in higher plants with heavy ions at NIRS-HIMAC. Japan: N. p., 2006. Web.
Okamura, M, Watanabe, S, Watanabe, M, Toguri, T, & Furusawa, Y. Research on mutation generation in higher plants with heavy ions at NIRS-HIMAC. Japan.
Okamura, M, Watanabe, S, Watanabe, M, Toguri, T, and Furusawa, Y. 2006. "Research on mutation generation in higher plants with heavy ions at NIRS-HIMAC." Japan.
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title = {Research on mutation generation in higher plants with heavy ions at NIRS-HIMAC}
author = {Okamura, M, Watanabe, S, Watanabe, M, Toguri, T, and Furusawa, Y}
abstractNote = {Plants are closely related to medical treatment in medicine, foods, herbs and medical care by gardening. Ion beams have much higher linear energy transfer (LET) and relative biological effectiveness than those of gamma rays and X-rays. Ion beams are supposed to be useful as new mutagen to obtain novel mutants with superior characteristics in higher plants. In this study, the influence of heavy ions irradiation on bud growth was examined in carnation and the mutation generation was inspected in babies' breath. The growth of carnation buds began to decrease at 10 Gy and the median growth dose was estimated at 35 Gy for 290 Mev/u carbon ion beams. Mutants with petaloid leaves were observed in babies' breath by the irradiation of 290 Mev/u carbon ion beams at 20Gy. We will examine the mutation rates and spectrum for 290 MeV/u carbon, 400 MeV/u neon and 500 MeV/u argon ion beams to find optimum use of the beams in plant breeding. The efficient system to generate useful mutants using heavy ions at NIRS-HIMAC will be developed in higher plants. (author)}
place = {Japan}
year = {2006}
month = {May}
}