Abstract
Stimulated by recent observations of non-linearity in the dose effect relationship for the transformation of mammalian cells in vitro by fission neutron irradiation and the reverse dose rate effect in this system, the data for mutation induction in the stamen hairs of Tradescantia occidentalis has been re-examined. The non-linear dose effect relationships suggested in the original reports are confirmed both by the dose effect relationships themselves and by an examination of the statistics of the results. This non-linearity also appears to be present in the more recent observations of other workers. It is suggested that the non-linearity in the system may be due to a sub-population of cells in a particularly sensitive phase of the cell cycle at the time of irradiation. There is a possibility that the data also indicate a qualitative difference in the underlying biophysical actions of neutron and photon radiations.
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