SALTANT PRODUCTION BY WAVE LENGTHS OF VISIBLE AND LONG ULTRAVIOLET MONOCHROMATIC IRRADIATION, AND A COMPARISON WITH SALTANTS PRODUCED BY SHORT WAVE LENGTHS OF MONOCHROMATIC ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION IN THE FUNGUS CHAETOMIUM GLOBOSUM.
1. Saltants have been produced in the fungus Chaetomium globosum by longer wave lengths than previously reported-by 365 mmicro and by a visible line 404 mmicro. 2. Absence at these wave lengths of the K saltant, which is so abundant at short wave lengths, is marked. 3. Ratio of percentage irradiated spores germinating to control spores germinating decreases from 83 per cent at 265 mmicro, a short ultraviolet wave length, to 57 per cent at 404 mmicro, a visible violet wave length.
Ford
J M
JM
Physics Department, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania.
D002597:Chaetomium; D055614:Genetic Phenomena; D040941:Heredity; D011846:Radio Waves; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays