“…Grouse (1954), also working with Liliura longiflorum, observed chromatid aberrations when irradiation takes place at pachytene, but half-chromatid aberrations when irradiation occurs during diakinesis and metaphase I, Swanson and Young (1965, p. 120) summarized the irradiation experiments of both meiosis and mitosis by stating, "The appearance of half-chromatid aberrations following irradiation in prophase (post-pachytene (1956) and Pawcett (1956) independently discovered in synapsed homologues a tripartite structure which is now referred to as the synaptinemal complex. It has been shown to occur during synapsis of homologues in meiotic prophase of a variety of animals, plants, and fungi (Aldrich, 1967;Carroll and Dykstra, 1966;Ohardard, 1962;Coleman and Moses, 1964;Engles and Groes, 1968;Gassner, 1969;Lu, 1967;Moens, 1968aMoens, , 1968bMoens, , 1969aMoens, , 1969bMoses, i960, 1964;Moses and Coleman, 1964;Febel, I96O;Kebel and Coulon, 1962a;Eoth, 1966;Roth and Ito, 1967;Schin, 1965;Sheridan and Barrnet, 1969;Sotelo and Trujillo-Cenoz, 1958;Sotelo and Wettstein, 1966;Underbrink, et al 1967b;Wolstenholm and Meyer, 1966;and Woo11am and Pord, 1966). Menzel and Price (1966) observed synaptinemal complexes in a tomato-potato hybrid.…”