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DR DONALD S FREDRICKSON, DIRECTOR 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE of health 
BETHESDA MD 20014 
THE FEASIBILITY OF USING A, TUMEF AC IENS TO IMPROVE MANY AGRICULTURALLY 
IMPORTANT PLANTS HaS BEEN DEMONSTRATED THIS ORGANISM IS A NATURAL 
EXCHANGER OF DN A WITH PLANTS THE POTENTIAL OF THIS SYSTEM CAN ONLY BE 
REALIZED BY ALLOWING EXPERIMENTS WHICH PERMIT RECOMBINANTS BETWEEN 
BACTERIAL AND PLANT DNA IN MY OPINION THERE IS NO HAZARD IN THESE 
EXPERIMENTS 
PROFESSOR MILTON P GORDON 
DEPT OF BIOCHEMISTRY 
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 
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