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Characterization of highly efficient heavy-ion mutagenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana.
BMC plant biology - 15 Nov 2011
Kazama Yusuke, Hirano Tomonari, Saito Hiroyuki, Liu Yang, Ohbu Sumie, Hayashi Yoriko, Abe Tomoko
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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 (LET) and thus more effectively induce DNA double-strand breaks than other mutagenic techniques. Previously, we determine...
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