Ion beam irradiation on rice seeds for the Mutation Breeding Project of the Forum of Nuclear Cooperation in Asia (FNCA)

アジア原子力協力フォーラム突然変異育種プロジェクトのためのイネ種子へのイオンビーム照射

田中 淳; 野澤 樹; 長谷 純宏; 鳴海 一成; 石川 秀高*; 小池 亜紀*

Tanaka, Atsushi; Nozawa, Shigeki; Hase, Yoshihiro; Narumi, Issei; Ishikawa, Hidetaka*; Koike, Aki*

From 2009, ion beams have been utilized for the Sub-Project on Composition or Quality in Rice (FY 2007-2012) under the Mutation Breeding Project of the Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia (FNCA). This sub-project contributes to increase food production and to improve food quality in Asia, by developing new rice mutant varieties that are more resistant to disease, insects, and drought, or give higher yields and offer higher quality. Eight participant countries, i.e., Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, The Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam joined this project and irradiated seeds of their own rice varieties with ion beams. In FY2011, most of participant countries finished to decide the best doses for mutation induction and have started to harvest descendant plants and mutant screening.