Ion Beam Breeding Team

Staff

Research Areas

Ion beam breeding team studies various biological effects of fast heavy ions. It also develops new technique to breed plants and microbes by heavy-ion irradiations. Heavy ions can produce dense and localized ionizations in matters along their tracks. These localized and dense ionization can cause DNA double-strand breaks which are not easily repaired and result in mutation more effectively than single-strand breaks. Its research subjects cover physiological study of DNA repair, genome analyses of mutation, and development of mutation breeding of plants by heavy-ion irradiation. Some new cultivars have already been brought to the market.

Asagao Club (Japanese only)
　　

Research Subject

1. Biological effects caused by heavy-ion irradiation
2. Ion-beam breeding and genome analysis
3. Innovative applications of heavy-ion beams

List of Selected Publications

1. Yamatani H., Kohzuma K., Nakano M., Takami T., Kato Y., Hayashi Y., Monden Y., Okumoto Y., Abe T., Kumamaru T., Tanaka A., Sakamoto W. and Kusaba M.:
   "Impairment of Lhca4, a subunit of LHCI, causes heigh accumulation of chlorophyll and the stay-green phenotype in rice"
   J. Exp. Bot., 69, 1027-1035 (2018)
2. Kazama Y.,Ishii K., Hirano T., Wakana T., Yamada M., Ohbu S. and Abe T.:
   " Different mutational function of low- and high-linear energy transfer heavy-ion irradiation demonstrated by whole genome re-sequencing of Arabidopsis mutants "
   Plant J., 92, 1020-1030 (2017)
3. Izumi M, Mizuno T, Yanagi K, Sugimura K, Okumura K, Imamoto N, Abe T, and Hanaoka F.:
   "The Mcm2-7-interacting domain of human mini-chromosome maintenance 10 (Mcm10) protein is important for stable chromatin association and origin firing"
   J. Biol. Chem. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M117.779371 (2017)
   
4. Ishii K., Kazama Y., Morita R., Hirano T., Ikeda T., Usuda S., Hayashi Y., Ohbu S., Ikeda R., Nakamura Y., Abe T.:
   "Linear Energy Transfer-Dependent Change in Rice Gene Expression Profile after Heavy-Ion Beam Irradiation"
   PLOS ONE 11(7), e0160061 (2016)
   
5. Ikeda T., Kojima T., Natsume Y., Kimura J., Abe T.:
   "Stable transmission of slow highly charged ions through tapered glass capillary with active discharging method for sub-micron sized beams"
   Applied Physics Letters 109, Article No. 133501 (2016)
   
6. Yamada K., Suzuki H., Takeuchi T., Kazama Y., Mitra S., Abe T., Goda K., Suzuki K., Iwata O.:
   "Efficient selective breeding of live oil-rich Euglena gracilis with fliorescence-actived cell sorting"
   Sci.Rep.6, Article No. 26327 (2016)
   
7. Kato M., Masamura N., Shono J., Okamoto D., Abe T., Imai S.:
   "Production and characterization of tearless and non-pungent onion"
   Sci.Rep.6, Article No. 23779 (2016)
   
8. Kazama Y., Ishii K., Aonuma W., Ikeda T., Kawamoto H., Koizumi A., D. A. Filatov, M. Chibalina, R. Bergero, D. Charlesworth, Abe T., Kawano S.:
   "A new physical mapping approach refines the sex-determining gene positions on the Silene latifolia Y-chromosome"
   Sci.Rep. 6, Article No.18917 (2016)
9. Morita R., Nakagawa M., Takehisa H., Hayashi Y., Ichida H., Usuda S., Ichinose K., Abe H., Shirakawa Y., Sato T., Fujiwara T. M., Itoh D.R., Abe T.:
   "Heavy-ion beam mutagenesis identified an essential gene for chloroplast development under cold stress conditions during both early growth and tillering stages in rice"
   Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 81(2), .271-282 (2016)
   
10. Hirano T, Kazama Y, Ishii K, Ohbu S, Shirakawa Y, and Abe T.:
    "Comprehensive identification of mutations induced by heavy‐ion beam irradiation in Arabidopsis thaliana"
    Plant J. 82: 93-104 (2015)