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Concerning to the weight <strong>and</strong> height of plantlets on the ‘Cavendish<br />

Enano’, ‘Williams’, ‘FHIA-01’ <strong>and</strong> ‘Orito’ using <strong>Gamma</strong> rays <strong>and</strong> ‘Cavendish<br />

Enano’ <strong>and</strong> ‘Williams’ with the first irradiation of Carbon ion beams up to 16<br />

Gy, the tendency was to decrease weight <strong>and</strong> height when the irradiation was<br />

increased. When second Carbon ion beam irradiation was applied, the explants<br />

behave different in cluster’s height <strong>and</strong> weight. ‘Williams’ which was the one<br />

irradiated twice by Carbon ion-beams tend to remind similar in cluster’s<br />

height <strong>and</strong> weight up to 8 Gy. The same pattern showed ‘Orito’ <strong>and</strong> ‘FHIA-<br />

01’.<br />

According to the results obtained by <strong>Gamma</strong> rays in the “<strong>Gamma</strong><br />

room”, the survival rate of ‘FHIA-01’ was higher than the other cultivars <strong>and</strong><br />

was even able to sustain dosages of up to 500 Gy but with diminishing<br />

survival rate. This result suggests that ‘FHIA-01’ can be used in future trials<br />

utilizing doses between 150 <strong>and</strong> 500 Gy. In addition, The flow cytometer<br />

analysis reported difference of relative DNA content only in ‘FHIA-01’ when<br />

200 <strong>and</strong> 300 Gy were applied, suggesting that DNA deletion occurred, being<br />

definitely a promising cultivar with high sensitivity response to Gy exposure<br />

with a high chance of improving its quality by mutation induction. Seventeen<br />

plant of ‘FHIA-01’ were selected with diminished relative DNA content <strong>and</strong><br />

growth at greenhouse conditions. An interesting sigmoid drooping leaf plant<br />

mutation of ‘FHIA-01’ have been occurred. The characteristics have been<br />

observed in the first <strong>and</strong> second generations (mother plant <strong>and</strong> sucker)<br />

suggesting that this characteristic is heritable to the subsequent generations. A<br />

sigmoid drooping leaf is a peculiar characteristic in certain Musa cultivars<br />

such as ‘FHIA-03’, which is a cooking banana (AABB) with high production<br />

<strong>and</strong> good vigor (Reyes-Borja, 1995). Un<strong>for</strong>tunately, bunch characteristics of<br />

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