Development of an ion microbeam system for irradiating single plant cell[s].
Development of an ion microbeam system for irradiating single plant cell[s].
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DOI:
10.2187/bss.17.298
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发表时间:
2003-12-01
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Inoue, Masayoshi
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Yokota, Yuichiro;Funayama, Tomoo;Inoue, Masayoshi
An ion microbeam system for irradiating single plant cells was developed to analyze exact biological effects of ion beams. Tobacco BY-2 protoplasts were used as a model of single plant cells. Protoplasts were cultured in thin agarose medium on a specially designed irradiation-vessel, which has a CR-39 nuclear track detector (a 100-micrometer thick sheet). The colony formation rate of unirradiated protoplasts was 22.7 +/- 6.7% (mean +/- SE of 3 different experiments) after a month of culture. Protoplasts were irradiated with programmed numbers of 18.3 MeV/u carbon ions that had been collimated by a 20-micrometer phi micro-aperture. After the irradiation, the positions within the protoplasts that were hit with ions were accurately determined by etching the CR-39 sheet in 13.4M KOH solution at 27 degrees centigrade for 9 h. The hit rate of the carbon ion microbeam, i.e., the percent of the ion particles that hit the protoplast that they were aimed at, was 56.9 +/- 2.4% (mean +/- SE of 7 different replications).