UNCLASSIFIED — eee eee er tk - tba. oF;RenevedDartay Septenbers "1980 ResearchBrojectsee one ice eed Peas aye orn 2 -" as, < hi The following immbers‘of: research projectswere approved tiation or renewalsuring September for direct AEC edmini stratior No.of projects | Amount 3 $20; 300 Biology Medicine , 5 76,048 8 $96 > 348 Advisory Committee for Blology and Medicine The Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine held its third meeting at the AEC in Washington, D. C., on September 8 agd 9, 1950. On Friday, September 8, a visit was made to the AEC Projéct at the U. S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland, fo purpose of viewing methods and uses for radioisotopes in problems lating to soil and fertilizers. In comection with the review of the budget, a full disd ussion Was held of the over-all research program for the Division of Biolg gy and ~ Medicine. It was the sense of the Committee that there be no qurtailment of the research program and thet within our program universal d@mphasis be placed on the acquisition of fimdamental knowledge. Dr. George A. Hardie, of the Medical Branch, and.Mr. Jopn VY. Lennon, of the Division of Finance, reported on their visit taf the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Japan. Dr. Hardie's report has been made available to the Commission and to the Division of Medical Scilences of the National Research Commcil. Copies are on file in the Divilsion of Biology and Medicine. The Committee studied the problems emanating from the and made specific recommendations as to the research program been forwarded to the Chairman of the AEC. discussions pPhich have Biology Radiation damage in plants. The Phytoradiclogy group fat Argonne National Labaratory was initiated as a project to study the dffects of radiation on higher plants. One of the major controlling fadtors of plant growth. and development is the growth hormones. Plant growth hor- mones are commonly known as auxins, on the basis of their refulatory function of growth; They possess other important properties but their function on growth, that is, irreversible increase in size of volume, is definitive. Acting in minute concentrations (physiological mount being sometimes as little as a millionth of a millionth of a gram), they provide (td itd If ite [ca O to ji lca pis {oq - 20 = DOW ARCHIVES