Gamma Rays and CarbonIon-Beams Irradiation for Mutation ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
My entire gratitude to my academic adviser, Dr. Hiroshi Gemma,
Professor of the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Tsukuba
for his essential supervision, guidance, availability, assistance and efficient
help during my research; to Dr. Yoritoshi Okuno, Professor of the Institute
of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Tsukuba for his critical review
and commentary on the manuscript and Dr. Toshiya Yamamoto, Professor
of the University of Tsukuba, Doctor Program of Advanced Agriculture
Technology and Sciences for his valuable corrections and suggestions.
I would like to thanks to Dr. Sumiko Sugaya, Assistant Professor
of the Laboratory of Pomology of the Institute of Agriculture and Forest,
University of Tsukuba for her outstanding guidance and support of my
research and Dr. Yoshihiko Sekozawa, Laboratory of Pomology of the
Institute of Agriculture and Forest, University of Tsukuba for his support of
my research.
My appreciation to Dr. Shigeki Nagatomi, former Head of the
National Institute of Radiation Breeding, for his technical advice and
assistance on the establishment of the experiments on Gamma ray irradiation,
providing necessary facilities, which made this research possible.
Thankfulness to Dr. Atsushi Tanaka, Head of the Institute of
Takasaki Ion Accelerators for Advanced Radiation Application (TIARA),
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Japan, for is collaboration providing
necessary facilities to make this research possible and Dr. Yoshihiro Hase,
Researcher of the (TIARA-JAEA), Japan, for his valuable orientation on
irradiation for better conduction of this research
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