CORESTA Meeting, Agronomy/Phytopathology, Suzhou, 1999, AP05
Development of novel lines resistant to tobacco yellow spotted streak disease by ion beam irradiation
Japan Tobacco Inc., Leaf Tobacco Research Laboratory, Oyama, Tochigi, Japan.
Ion beams have a higher LET than X and gamma rays. The irradiation of ion beams has a high potential for inducing in mutant plants novel characters that might not be obtained by commonly used mutagens. Tobacco yellow spotted streak disease caused by...