By Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird
The area of crops and its relation to mankind as published by means of the most recent clinical discoveries. "Plenty of tough proof and miraculous clinical and functional lore."--Newsweek
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P be turned into a commercially marketable device for jealous wives 111 monitor their philandering husbands, by means of a potted begonia. BI b it was not yet conducive to a simple, foolproof system of getting a plat sl to trigger a switch consistently. uP an insect. Sauvin therefo'pl wired three plants, each set in a different room, and thus in a differe'bl environment, to a single circuit which could only be activated if all thIi plants reacted synchronously. By keeping the plants in separate enviro'&, ments Sauvin hoped the required stimulus would be synchronous on 38 MODERN RESEARCH en it came from him, wherever he might be.
If this monocellular plant exhibits the "Backster Effect," Byrd will then surgically remove its nucleus. If it then fails to respond, Byrd hopes this will offer proof that the genetic material in the nuclei of plant cells is chiefly responsible for plant response. A revolutionary new lie-detector device known as a Psychological Stress Evaluator has also been made available to Byrd, along with lal space and facilities, by Allan Bell, inventor of the device, who is presi· dent of Dektor Counter Intelligence Systems, a firm he recently formed with two other ex-intelligence ollicers.
Vogel backed ten feet away and got gyra· bans from the needle by opening and closing his hands. Though Puthoff and several others present tried to do the same, all failed. The needle's movement, once thought to be affected by resistance on the skin of humans attached to electrodes, is known as Galvanic Skin Response, or GSR. Since plants have no skin, in the human sense, the term for the effect on plants has been changed to Psycho-GalvanIc Response, or PGR. "The PGR," says Vogel, "exists not only in plants, but in all living forms.