Research Article

Significance of Heavy-Ion Beam Irradiation-Induced Avermectin B1a Production by Engineered Streptomyces avermitilis

Table 1

Comparison of strain-specific productivity after 12C6+ heavy-ion irradiation with energy input of 140 AMeV at a dose of 80 Gy .

GroupNumber of coloniesStrain (%)

The original strain AV-J-AO40.3
AO-M318AO-M31-147.1
AO-M31-251.4
AO-M3213AO-M32-140.9
AO-M32-242.5
P21
AO-M3317AO-M33-158.9
AO-M33-226.7
AO-M3416AO-M34-153.7
AO-M34-251.4
AO-M3527AO-M35-149.8
AO-M35-253.3
AO-M368AO-M36-148.9
AO-M36-245.7
AO-M379AO-M37-131.5
AO-M37-2
M77
AO-M38328AO-M38-163.2
AO-M38-238.3
T426
  18.1%  4.9%

and represent the percentage content of specific productivity of all mutant’s and to those of the original strain S. avermitilis, respectively. (%) indicates the ratio of to .