ry Dr, HN from the normal. WwW St, John counted as laboratory, 23 varients on one island But these have not been reproducible in the anu In answer to that, that flattening of the stems, that's called fasciation. ony FF WOLFE: many as look long enough, and I've seen it mostly in the composites thing. And that's not an uncommon You can find it in all of the vascular plants if you 0 and it has nothing to do with radiation, WARREN: 10 WOLFE: What is it due to, do you know? It can result from insect bite or gall or va somtimes there's no obvious answer, 12 to an insect; it may be due to some damge at. the stem, the 13 growing tip where you don't get the radial deye lopment and 14 it flattens out, i5 16 17 You can't attribute it I think this can be brought about. But it ' also occurs naturally. WARREN: Would nutritional acceleration or accelera- tion from excess nutritional factors produce it? 18 WOLFE: 19 WARREN: I don't know, .I've got a cucumber plant that's about 30 20 feet long and the stems show this and I wormdered if they had 21 been exposing the seeds to neutrons to produce the new variety? 22 It's a lemon variety which is quite unusual. 23 2a FREMONT-SMITH: that was it! It was fust exposed to you, Staff, [Laughter] 25 BRUES: That's the California climate! 26 WOLFE: I would not say radiation could not cause 27 it but I would also point out that it could be caused by 28 other things. 29 30 WARREN: tnick in a cucumber plant is quite large. 31 WOLFE: 32 MILLER: 33 Three inches wide and about a haif-inch Yes, Dr, Donaldson, what is the minimum study that would reveal in other organisms than man that the Stafford Warren DOBIUCLA 5?