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
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and it has nothing to do with radiation,
WARREN:
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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,
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to an insect; it may be due to some damge at. the stem, the
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growing tip where you don't get the radial deye lopment and
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it flattens out,
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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?
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WOLFE:
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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
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been exposing the seeds to neutrons to produce the new variety?
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It's a lemon variety which is quite unusual.
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FREMONT-SMITH:
that was it!
It was fust exposed to you, Staff,
[Laughter]
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BRUES:
That's the California climate!
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WOLFE:
I would not say radiation could not cause
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it but I would also point out that it could be caused by
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other things.
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WARREN:
tnick in a cucumber plant is quite large.
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WOLFE:
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MILLER:
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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?