scholarly journals Plant Mutation Breeding with Heavy Ion Irradiation at IMP

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xicun Dong ◽  
Xia Yan ◽  
Wenjian Li

<p>The Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL) is one of the ion-beam acceleration facilities intensively used at IMP, founded as national laboratory and opened for user in world from 1992. Since then, a lot of experiments irradiated by heavy ion beam have been carried out in the HIRFL, including plant mutation breeding. In this review, the biological effects induced by heavy ions and their corresponding mechanisms were reported from the point of view of cytological, morphological and molecular levels. To date, a large number of mutants were isolated using heavy ion irradiation IMP, such as early maturity, flower color and shape, high yield and disease resistant. In conclusion, heavy ion beam irradiation is an efficient mutagen and has significant phenotypic variations in plant. Our research will be further focused on transformation of scientific and technological achievements and mutagenic mechanism of heavy ion beam on high plant at the molecular level in the recent future.</p>

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Shu-Yang Wang ◽  
Yong-Heng Bo ◽  
Xiang Zhou ◽  
Ji-Hong Chen ◽  
Wen-Jian Li ◽  
...  

Heavy-ion irradiation technology has advantages over traditional methods of mutagenesis. Heavy-ion irradiation improves the mutation rate, broadens the mutation spectrum, and shortens the breeding cycle. However, few data are currently available regarding its effect onStreptomyces avermitilismorphology and productivity. In this study, the influence of heavy-ion irradiation onS. avermitiliswhen cultivated in approximately 10 L stirred-tank bioreactors was investigated. The specific productivity of the avermectin (AVM) B1a-producing mutantS. avermitilis147-G58 increased notably, from 3885 to 5446 μg/mL, approximately 1.6-fold, compared to the original strain. The mycelial morphology of the mutant fermentation processes was microscopically examined. Additionally, protein and metabolite identification was performed by using SDS-PAGE, 2- and 3-dimensional electrophoresis (2DE and 3DE). The results showed that negative regulation gene deletion of mutants led to metabolic process upregulating expression of protein and improving the productivity of an avermectin B1a. The results showed that the heavy-ion beam irradiation dose that corresponded to optimal production was well over the standard dose, at approximately 80 Gy at 220 AMeV (depending on the strain). This study provides reliable data and a feasible method for increasing AVM productivity in industrial processes.


Author(s):  
Charles W. Allen ◽  
Robert C. Birtcher

The uranium silicides, including U3Si, are under study as candidate low enrichment nuclear fuels. Ion beam simulations of the in-reactor behavior of such materials are performed because a similar damage structure can be produced in hours by energetic heavy ions which requires years in actual reactor tests. This contribution treats one aspect of the microstructural behavior of U3Si under high energy electron irradiation and low dose energetic heavy ion irradiation and is based on in situ experiments, performed at the HVEM-Tandem User Facility at Argonne National Laboratory. This Facility interfaces a 2 MV Tandem ion accelerator and a 0.6 MV ion implanter to a 1.2 MeV AEI high voltage electron microscope, which allows a wide variety of in situ ion beam experiments to be performed with simultaneous irradiation and electron microscopy or diffraction.At elevated temperatures, U3Si exhibits the ordered AuCu3 structure. On cooling below 1058 K, the intermetallic transforms, evidently martensitically, to a body-centered tetragonal structure (alternatively, the structure may be described as face-centered tetragonal, which would be fcc except for a 1 pet tetragonal distortion). Mechanical twinning accompanies the transformation; however, diferences between electron diffraction patterns from twinned and non-twinned martensite plates could not be distinguished.


2012 ◽  
Vol 167 (7) ◽  
pp. 506-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Devaraju ◽  
S. V.S. Nageswara Rao ◽  
N. Srinivasa Rao ◽  
V. Saikiran ◽  
T. K. Chan ◽  
...  

Breast Cancer ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Matsuzaki ◽  
Tadaaki Miyamoto ◽  
Yukimasa Miyazawa ◽  
Shinichi Okazumi ◽  
Yoshio Koide ◽  
...  

1996 ◽  
Vol 439 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Müller ◽  
M. L. Jenkins ◽  
C. Abromeit ◽  
H. Wollenberger

AbstractStereo transmission electron microscopy has been used to characterise the distribution in depth of disordered zones and associated dislocation loops in the ordered alloys Ni3Al and Cu3Au after heavy ion irradiation, most extensively for Ni3Al irradiated with 50 keV Ta+ ions at a temperature of 573 K. The Cu3Au specimen was irradiated with 50 keV Ni+ ions at an incident angle of 45° at a temperature of 373 K. In Ni3Al the defect yield, i.e. the probability for a disordered zone to contain a loop was found to be strongly dependent on the depth of the zone in the foil, varying from about 0.7 for near-surface zones to about 0.2 in the bulk. The sizes and shapes of disordered zones were only weakly dependent on depth, except for a small population of zones very near the surface which were strongly elongated parallel to the incident ion beam. In Cu3Au the surface had a smaller but still significant effect on the defect yield. The dependence of the tranverse disordered zone diameter d on ion energy E for Ta+ irradiation of NiA was found to follow a relationship d = k1, E1/α with k, = 2.4 ± 0.4 and α = 3.3 ± 0.4. A similar relationship with the same value of α is valid for a wide variety of incident ion/target combinations found in the literature.


1995 ◽  
Vol 396 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Iwase ◽  
L. E. Rehn ◽  
P. M. Baldo ◽  
L. Funk

AbstractThe effects of cascade remnants on Freely Migrating Defects (FMD) were studied by measuring Radiation-Induced Segregation (RIS) in Cu-l%Au at 400°C during simultaneous irradiation with 1.5-MeV He and (400-800)-keV heavy ions (Ne, Ar or Cu). The large RIS observed during 1.5-MeV He-only irradiation was dramatically suppressed under simultaneous heavy ion irradiation. For Cu simultaneous irradiation, the suppression disappeared immediately after the Cu irradiation ceased, while for simultaneous inert gas (Ne or Ar) irradiation, the suppression persisted after the ion beam was turned off. These results demonstrate that the displacement cascades created by heavy ions introduce additional annihilation sites, which reduce the steady-state FMD concentrations. As the cascade remnants produced by Cu ions are thermally unstable at 400°C, the RIS suppression occurs only during simultaneous irradiation. On the other hand, the inert gas atoms which accumulate in the specimen apparently stabilize the cascade remnants, allowing the suppression to persist.


2002 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 1129-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskia Kraft ◽  
Beate Schattat ◽  
Wolfgang Bolse ◽  
Siegfried Klaumünzer ◽  
Felix Harbsmeier ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
R. C. Birtcher ◽  
L. M. Wang ◽  
C. W. Allen ◽  
R. C. Ewing

We present here results of in situ TEM diffraction observations of the response of U3Si and U3Si2 when subjected to 1 MeV electron irradiation or to 1.5 MeV Kr ion irradiation, and observations of damage occuring in natural zirconolite. High energy electron irradiation or energetic heavy ion irradiation were performed in situ at the HVEM-Tandem User Facility at Argonne National Laboratory. In this Facility, a 2 MV Tandem ion accelerator and a 0.6 MV ion implanter have been interfaced to a 1.2 MeV AEI high voltage electron microscope. This allows a wide variety of in situ experiments to be performed with simultaneous ion irradiation and conventional transmission electron microscopy. During the electron irradiation, the electron beam was focused to a diameter of about 2 μ.m at the specimen thin area. The ion beam was approximately 2 mm in diameter and was uniform over the entire specimen. With the specimen mounted in a heating holder, the temperature increase indicated by the furnace thermocouple during the ion irradiation was typically 8 °K.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document