Background Population expansion, global warming, and food scarcity have all increased the
demand for alternative lipid sources to ensure food and energy security. Furthermore, over …

Microorganisms are indispensable in the food industry, but wild-type strains hardly meet the
current industrial demands due to several undesirable traits. Therefore, microbial strain …

Recently, heavy ions or ion beams have been used to generate new mutants or varieties,
especially in higher plants. It has been found that ion beams show high relative biological …

Global environmental dissociative changes are now in steady state. Its negative impacts
were gradually imposed on a wide range of crops and thus crop improvement was hindered …

Background Heavy-ion mutagenesis is recognised as a powerful technology to generate
new mutants, especially in higher plants. Heavy-ion beams show high linear energy transfer …

Heavy‐ion irradiation is a powerful mutagen that possesses high linear energy transfer
(LET). Several studies have indicated that the value of LET affects DNA lesion formation in …

Covering state-of-the-art advances, novel applications, and future perspectives, this volume
presents new directions on the basic studies of charged particle and photon interactions with …

The promising possibilities of mutation breeding in ornamental plants have led to a great
interest in effective mutagenic treatment protocols for various species. This review discusses …

Mutation breeding and functional genomics studies of mutant populations have made
important contributions to plant research involving the application of radiation. The …

Heavy‐ion beams are widely used for mutation breeding and molecular biology. Although
the mutagenic effects of heavy‐ion beam irradiation have been characterized by sequence …