“…Heavy-ion beam irradiation can generate mutations in the form of substitutions, small insertion–deletion polymorphisms (InDels), and structure variants. Currently, it has been used for mutation breeding or genetic studies in many crops, such as wheat( Zhang et al., 2008 ; Fitzgerald et al., 2015 ; Li et al., 2022 ), rice( Belfield et al., 2012 ; Yang et al., 2019 ; Zhang et al., 2021 ), Arabidopsis thaliana ( Du et al., 2014 ; Du et al., 2017 ; Du et al., 2018 ), chrysanthemum ( Yamaguchi et al., 2010 ), and soybean ( Im et al., 2017 ; Kim et al., 2008 ). Many plant variations have been induced by CIB irradiation, and many novel experimental materials and practical cultivars have been generated.…”