“…As is known to all, heavy ions irradiation is expected to increase mutation frequency and mutation spectrum, characterized by high linear energy transfer (LET) and relative biological effectiveness (RBE) (Zhou et al, 2006).Heavy ion beam has been used on many plants, such as the Artemisia annua (Inthima et al, 2014), chrysanthemum (Yamaguchi et al, 2010), wheat (Liu et al, 2013), Lotus japonicus (Luo et al, 2016), Green wandering jew (Liu et al, 2016) and Arabidopsis (Du et al, 2014;Yoshihiro et al, 2017), etc. In plants, the biological effects of heavy-ion radiation encompassed a wide range of alterations, including developmental abnormalities (Kranz, 1994), chromosomal aberrations (Ritter & Durante, 2010;Kikuchi et al, 2009;Wei et al, 2006) and increased mutation rates (Du et al, 2014).…”