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Three 5-Leaf Clovers & eight 4-Leaf Clovers - Grand Rapids, MI 5/31/12
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Mutations in many plants - in addition to dandelions and clovers - are being reported all over Canada and the USA this year, not just in Michigan: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mutati...30100447017280 One thing fasciated dandelions and extra-leaved clovers have in common - besides being previously considered a relative rarity in nature compared to what we are seeing in 2012 - is that the increase in both phenomena may very well be the result of increased incidences of genetic mutation in somatic cells. In the case of fasciated dandelions, genetic mutation is one of the various known causes: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/fasci...asciation.html"Fasciation is thought to be caused by a hormonal imbalance. In some cases, this imbalance could be a random genetic mutation or, in other cases, induced by one or more environmental factors, including bacteria, fungi, virus, insects, frost and physical damage to the growing point." While it is still unknown what causes extra leaves on clovers, some botanists consider genetic mutation in somatic cells to be the best theory, such as this guy: http://biojournalism.com/?p=69"In four-leaf clovers, the mutation is most likely somatic, meaning the mutation occurs in the somatic cells. Somatic mutations in plants can sometimes be passed down to their offspring. They also are mutations that occur after the plant is started." Nuclear radiation is known to cause genetic mutation in somatic cells: http://www.rerf.jp/radefx/late_e/mutatrbc.html"Radiation effects on chromosomes remain in lymphocytes even many years after radiation exposure, and reflect effects on genetic material contained in the chromosomal DNA. Therefore, radiation effects on genes resulting in mutations in "somatic cells" (all the cells of the body other than the reproductive cells of the ovary or testes) were also expected to remain in the body." Between the clovers and dandelions alone, this narrows down the possible causes for both phenomena to be so much more common this year throughout Canada and the USA. Quote:
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My friend's father picked this mutated asparagus spear on his property in Cannon Township, Michigan on 6/5/12:
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Last week I found dozens of proliferated black eyed susans in the parking lot of a mall within shouting distance of my house.
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This does not look good at all wabun..
. How are you feeling yourself?Do you feel any difference compared to before Fukushima?
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I have been mitigating since the meltdowns began in March 2011. But at the beginning of May 2012 - after I had found mutated dandelions several days in a row - I was inspired to step up my mitigation/general-health routines a few more notches, for obvious reasons. Here's some of the things I'm currently doing to mitigate and to stay healthy in general: - I drink reverse osmosis filtered water whenever possible. I get it from the water machines at grocery stores; so far, the best deal I've found in the Grand Rapids area is 29 cents per gallon refill at Meijer. (Distilled water works in a pinch since distillation also filters out radiation, though it filters out beneficial minerals as well.) - I now drink almond milk instead of cow's milk, and I am also eating meat less often. (The higher up in the food chain, the more radioactive particles are concentrated. Thus, the less meat and dairy we consume, the less radioactive particles we consume.) - My daily multivitamin is among the best that our local health food store has to offer: http://www.rainbowlight.com/immune-s...tivitamin.aspx - I take this daily to reduce free radical damage: http://www.enzymedica.com/products/Defenze - I add a few drops of this food-supplement level potassium iodide to my water daily. (2 drops = 150mcg/100% DV.) http://www.iherb.com/World-Organic-L...9-ml/7775?at=0 - I recently started my first niacin flush with these: http://www.nutraceutical.com/search/..._index=8349523 - When I shower, I wash down with baking soda at the end of the shower. (In the military, it is standard procedure to do this to decontaminate after being possibly exposed to radiation.) - I avoid direct contact with rain; there's always an umbrella in my car. - I eat organic, free range and locally grown food as often as possible, as I have for years. For further tips on radiation mitigation, one starting point I'd recommend would be www.naturalnews.com - go there and do a search on "radiation protection" or similar keywords to pull up dozens of articles on the subject. In this powerful interview with TruNews' Rick Wiles, Christina Consolo describes many of the basic things we can all be doing to mitigate. Many of my routines listed above are the same routines Christina describes in the interview. I highly recommend listening to her various mitigation tips as she describes them here, starting at about 21 minutes in: Anyway- I have now documented mutated black eyed susans in 9 locations around Grand Rapids between 6/30 and 7/13 - and I haven't even been looking that hard! I have not yet made any special trips around town specifically looking for black eyed susans. Instead, I have only examined patches of black eyed susans that I've spotted while driving or walking around town for other reasons, and I have only stopped when it was convenient. The patch of black eyed susans I documented on 6/30 was the first patch of black eyed susans I even examined this year - and since then, only two of the Grand Rapids locations I've visited with black eyed susans have NOT had any obvious mutations that I could find, upon examination. My take on what this means: either I've been extremely lucky so far, or MOST Grand Rapids locations with black eyed susans probably have at least one patch with one or more mutants in them. Here's my latest videos since the last post:  7/6/10 @ Great Lakes Shipping Company  7/8/12 @ Valvoline Instant Oil Change  7/9/12 @ Noodles and Company  7/10/12 @ Spinnaker Restaurant  7/12/12 @ Panopolous Salons  7/13/12 @ Rider's Hobby Shop Updated Google Map of the plant mutations I've documented in the Grand Rapids area since 4/26/12: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0...16e4975592a1de Updated Photobucket album of the black eyed susan mutations I've documented in Grand Rapids since 6/30/12, viewable as a slideshow: http://s175.photobucket.com/albums/w...pids%206-30-12
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 7/24/12 @ Westside Garage At this location, I found two different types of mutations in black eyed susans: fasciation and proliferation. In one example - shown at 0:10 in the video and shown more clearly in the photo below - a fasciated flower and a proliferated flower are growing from the same plant! Of the 11 locations in Grand Rapids where I have documented mutated black eyed susans since June 30, this is the first where I have found fasciated flowers; at the first ten locations, I found only proliferated flowers.  7/31/12 @ A.K. Rikk's - A fasciated flower and a proliferated flower are growing from the same plant. Updated Google Map of the plant mutations other than black eyed susans that I've documented in the Grand Rapids area since 4/26/12: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0...16e4975592a1de Updated Photobucket album of the black eyed susan mutations I've documented in Grand Rapids since 6/30/12, viewable as a slideshow: http://s175.photobucket.com/albums/w...pids%206-30-12
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As of today, I have now documented mutated black eyed susans in 20 locations around the Grand Rapids area since 6/30/12.
 8/6/12 @ Kennedy's Flowers & Gifts  8/8/12 in East Grand Rapids  8/12/12 @ Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church  8/12/12 near Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church  8/13/12 @ McDonald's, 44th St. SE  8/13/12 @ Huntington Bank, 44th St. SE  8/13/12 @ PNC Bank, 44th St. SE  8/13/12 @ Breton Gardens Family Dentistry  8/16/12 @ Ridgewood Apartments Updated Google Map of plant mutations I've documented in the Grand Rapids area since 4/26/12: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0...16e4975592a1de Updated Photobucket album of the mutated black eyed susans I've documented in the Grand Rapids area since 6/30/12, viewable as a slideshow: http://s175.photobucket.com/albums/w...pids%206-30-12
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Very disturbing and sad..
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Earlier this summer, I began to notice mutations in maple leaves and common buckthorn leaves around my yard. Last week, I filmed two videos of some of the most visually obvious mutations among them.
     Many of the buckthorn leaves in one group of plants near my driveway are well over 4 inches long- with a few of them even reaching 5 inches. Common buckthorn (rhamnus cathartica) leaves are not supposed to grow longer than 3 inches: http://www.bbmb.iastate.edu/campustr...am_leaves.html    Radiation Biologist: Tree leaves were gigantic after Chernobyl — “Witch’s Broom” effect (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/radiation-biologi...m-effect-video Effects of non-human species irradiation after the Chernobyl NPP accident S.A. Geras'kin, S.V. Fesenko, R.M. Alexakhin http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3bio/bi...nNonhumans.pdf From Page 884: "An increased mutation rate in phytocenoses became apparent in 1987 as various morphological abnormalities. Morphoses were registered at reaching an external dose rate of γ-radiation of 4.2–6.3 mGy/day on May 10, 1986 (Suvorova et al., 1993). More frequently occurring abnormalities were morphoses such as fasciation and branching of stems, doubling, changes in racemes, color and size of leaves and flowers. Enhancement of vegetative mass of heather (Calluna vulgaris L.) and gigantism of some plant species were observed at external dose rates more than 24 mGy/day and 36 mGy/day, respectively (Smirnov and Suvorova, 1996). In ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata L.), both the rate of morphoses increased and seed productivity decreased along with the contamination density increase (Popova et al., 1992). Its seed reproduction in uncontaminated soil had revealed higher occurrence of morphoses, mainly in the raceme structure."
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On 8/28/12, I visited the hiking trails at Manhattan Recreation Area in East Grand Rapids and found giant leaves on many of the buckthorn saplings along the trail:
 This video documents the largest leaves on 10 of those saplings: On 9/1/12, I found giant leaves on 4 buckthorn saplings near the trailhead of Reeds Lake Trail in East Grand Rapids, growing around the parking lot and next to the trail:  Immediately after shooting the video linked above, I visited a nearby grocery store and found mutated gerbera daisies for sale on a small flower display:  I got the idea to look for mutant flowers at local grocery stores from Christina Consolo. On 8/24/12, she began finding mutated flowers for sale at grocery stores in the Detroit area:
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This is just SO sad.
 Thank you for your dedicated efforts to document this. Everybody should see this.
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Today's updates: On 9/3/12, I visited a flower store in Comstock Park and found a purple coneflower with a giant disk (flower head) for sale. According to the USDA, the disks on this species are supposed to be "up to 3.5 cm across." http://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/cs_ecpu.pdf The disk on this one is about 6 cm across:  On 9/6/12, I found a new kind of dandelion mutation. The flower stem has branched into two flowers midway up the stem:   The next day (yesterday) while I was touring local grocery stores looking for more mutated flowers for sale, I found an even stranger variation on this. The flower stem on this dandelion branches into two, then fuses back together, then splits into two flower heads:  I also found mutated flowers for sale at three out of the four grocery stores I checked out yesterday. Video: Mutated gerbera daisies for sale at D&W Fresh Market on 28th Street:  Mutated gerbera daisies for sale at Forest Hills Foods:  Mutated gerbera daisy for sale at Meijer on East Beltline:  Proliferated black eyed susan for sale at Meijer on East Beltline:  Meanwhile, Christina Consolo is continuing to find mutated flowers for sale at grocery stores in the Detroit area: http://fukushimafacts.tumblr.com/pos...le-trader-joes It has become increasingly clear to me that mutations are very easy to find this year- for those who are actually looking, that is. Unfortunately, it's also becoming increasingly apparent to me that this is still an extremely small minority of people, even among those who have seen my posts and who consider themselves "fearless infowarriors." Disagree? OK, then- here's a question for you, the person reading this right now: Have you even tried looking for mutations in your back yard or your local grocery store yet? If not, then why not? Winter's coming soon, people. We are running out of time to collectively document enough mutations to potentially indisputably prove that the mutation trend is happening everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere - not just in Michigan. But as long as almost everyone who knows about this issue remains a silent spectator instead of an active participator, it will be all too easy for too many people to continue to maintain their denial about what's happening here.
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Some updates on mutations I've found since my last post:
On 9/9/12, I found a third example of a dandelion with a "Siamese twin" stem. This one featured two kinds of mutations in one plant. A single stem split off into two stems: one of the stems was was of normal width and had a normal-looking flower, while the other stem was fasciated- an overly thick stem with a double-headed flower. Here's the video featuring this dandelion and the other two "Siamese Twin" dandelions that I found on 9/6 and 9/7: Mutated Dandelions - Grand Rapids, MI 9/7/12 & 9/9/12  9/9/12 @ Breton Rd. & 32nd St. On the same day (9/9/12) I visited the Meijer store at 28th St. & Kalamazoo Avenue and found another fasciated gerbera daisy for sale. Video: Mutated Gerbera Daisy For Sale - Grand Rapids, MI 9/9/12  9/9/12 @ Meijer, 28th St. & Kalamazoo Ave. On 9/20/12, I stopped at two grocery stores - D&W Fresh Market at Knapp & East Beltline, and Meijer at 28th St. & I-96 - and found fasciated gerbera daisies for sale at both of them. A few examples:  9/20/12 @ D&W, Knapp & East Beltline  9/20/12 @ D&W, Knapp & East Beltline  9/20/12 @ Meijer, 28th St. & I-96 In September, I noticed a buckthorn leaf in my front yard that was both deformed and gigantic, measuring 5 inches long. I also noticed gigantic leaves on another buckthorn plant in my back yard. I documented both finds in the following video: Mutated Buckthorn Leaves In My Yard - East Grand Rapids, MI 9/26/12  9/24/12 @ my front yard. On 10/7/12, I went on another tour of nearby grocery stores and found fasciated gerbera daisies for sale at three of them. All of them were from Canadian flower distributors, according to the labels. Video: Mutated Gerbera Daisies For Sale - Grand Rapids, MI 10/7/12  10/7/12 @ Meijer, 28th St. & I-96  10/7/12 @ Meijer, 28th St. & I-96  10/7/12 @ Meijer, 28th St. & I-96 (Due to a limit of 10 images per post, this post is in 2 parts.)
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(Part 2 of a 2-part post)
 10/7/12 @ Meijer, Knapp & East Beltline  10/7/12 @ Meijer, 28th St. & Kalamazoo Ave. In October, I went to Portland, Oregon for my sister's wedding. While I was mostly busy with wedding-related activities while I was out there, I did manage to find and document two different mutated plants during my visit: On 10/11/12, I was walking the two blocks from our hotel to a store when I spotted a conspicuous lone "Siamese twin" leaf amongst normal-looking leaves on a small bushy plant growing next to the sidewalk. I then examined the plant further. While the majority of its leaves were normal, I spotted several more leaves that were severely deformed in a variety of bizarre ways other than "twinning." (While I was documenting it, I asked a passerby if he knew what kind of plant it was; he identified it as a harlequin glorybower sapling, and pointed out the full-size harlequin glorybower tree on the opposite side of the sidewalk as the likely mother plant.) Video: Mutated Harlequin Glorybower Leaves - Portland, OR 10/11/12    10/11/12 in Portland, OR. On 10/12/12, we visited Lowe's in Wood Village to buy a few supplies for the wedding. I checked out their potted gerbera daisies and noticed that one of them was fasciated. The gerbera daisies were from another Canadian distributor, according to their labels. During my visit to Oregon, this was my only visit to a store that sold potted gerbera daisies. Video: Mutated Gerbera Daisy For Sale - Wood Village, OR 10/12/12  10/12/12 @ Lowe's in Wood Village, OR. Gerbera daisy season ended in October, and most stores in my area stopped selling them. I stopped looking for them until towards the end of November, when I found out that Meijer stores were still selling them. I found fasciated gerberas for sale at two of these stores on November 30, and another one at a third Meijer on December 15. Video: Mutated Gerbera Daisies For Sale - Grand Rapids, MI 11/30 & 12/15/12  11/30/12 @ Meijer, 28th St. & I-96  11/30/12 @ Meijer, 28th St. & Kalamazoo Ave. This double-headed flower was originally a triple-headed flower before someone took the trouble to clip off the third head. (Strange that this person didn't clip off BOTH of the extra flower heads; I wonder what they were thinking?)  12/15/12 @ Meijer, East Beltline & Knapp
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I recently published three videos on YouTube which summarize my documentation of the mutations that I found in three different species of plants in 2012.
The first is a 16-minute video which chronologically compiles my documentation of mutated dandelions in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2012. Between April 26 and May 8, I documented fasciated dandelions in 13 locations; between September 7 and 9, I documented branching "twin" dandelions in 3 locations: Mutated Dandelions in Grand Rapids, MI 2012: April 26-May 8, September 7-9 The second is a 23 minute video compiling my documentation of the hundreds of mutated black eyed susans I found between June 30 and September 7, in 23 West Michigan locations mostly within the greater Grand Rapids area: Mutated Black Eyed Susans in Grand Rapids, MI 2012: June 30-September 7 The third is a 5 minute video compiling my documentation of the fasciated gerbera daisies I found for sale in various stores between September 1 and December 15, mostly in Grand Rapids: Mutated Gerbera Daisies For Sale 2012: September 1-December 15 To make these videos, I compiled the footage from my original videos into chronological order, edited out the less essential parts to reduce running time, added photos of mutations which I had photographed but not filmed, and added captions stating the "when" and "where" to introduce each segment. Unlike my original individual videos - which lack the fuller context, the more economical editing, and the captions featured in these videos - I have set them to "Creative Commons" so that others can repost the videos on their own YouTube channels. I think that these three videos should go viral. Please repost them elsewhere if you agree.
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This year, mutated dandelions are even easier to find in Grand Rapids than they were last year- about 9 times easier so far, if the numbers I'm finding are any indication. Last spring, I documented 16 dandelion plants with mutated flowers in 12 Grand Rapids locations in 9 days in a row of seeking them (4/26/12-5/4/12) and then found one more in one more location on 5/8/12. This year, as of yesterday I have now documented 140 dandelion plants with mutated flowers in 10 days, in 15 locations around Grand Rapids- and on two of those days (May 3 and May 8) I did not go out to look for them.
Here's a rough breakdown of the numbers of what I found last spring on the days when I looked for mutated dandelions, versus what I'm finding so far this year: 2012: 1.7 found per day in 10 days / 1.3 per location 2013: 17.5 found per day in 8 days / 9.3 per location At this point, I think I'm going to have to wait until dandelion season is over before I have time to edit down the 130 or so (and counting) video clips of these finds into a YouTube compilation video. I have spent an average of only 80 minutes a day since May 1 seeking and documenting them, but the huge number of them that I'm finding means I've so far only had time to compile and post photos of my finds; editing video clips is a much more time-consuming process. For now, you can view the photos of what I've found so far in this Photobucket album: http://s175.photobucket.com/user/Sca...I%20May%202013 Direct link to the slideshow of the album: http://s175.photobucket.com/user/Sca...I%20May%202013 My Facebook version of this album, which currently has more complete information attached to the photos than its Photobucket mirror: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...829.1145896122 A few examples from the 140 mutated dandelions I've found so far this spring:   Most of the dandelion mutations I'm finding this year fall under the mutation category of fasciation, but this "twin" falls under the category of "branching," like the three that I documented in early September last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBIVHr2woW0   This one looks not fasciated, but proliferated- a type of mutation I've never seen in a dandelion before.    I also have a few updates on the other mutations I've documented since my last post: On January 27, my friend found this "two-tone" apple in a bag of Washington-grown apples that she had bought at a Meijer store in Grand Rapids:   When a similar apple was found in the UK in 2009, the BBC found it newsworthy, and described the phenomenon as "one-in-a-million" in apples: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/devon/hi...00/8275570.stm The fact that my friend found one makes me wonder if the phenomenon is no longer "one-in-a-million." On February 26, I uploaded a compilation video with examples of various deformities in leaves on saplings that I documented between August 21 and October 11 last year: Mutated Leaves On Saplings 2012: Maple, Buckthorn & Harlequin Glorybower, August 21-October 11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hjotLFySR8 On March 17, I uploaded a compilation video of the four 5-leaf clover patches I documented around Grand Rapids last spring: Five-Leaf Clover Patches In Grand Rapids, MI 2012: May 5-June 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ0n9hh9b6o On April 1, I visited a Meijer store and found a gerbera daisy for sale with fasciation upon fasciation. Three flowers were growing from a fused triple stem; one of the flowers on the stem was trying to split into three, one of them was trying to split into two, and the third had a normal-looking circular center. The next day, I returned to buy it (I couldn't pass this one up) and decided to visit more grocery stores on an extended return trip. I found that potted gerberas are now back in season, with most local grocery stores selling them again. (Over the winter in my area, only Meijer stores carried potted gerberas - small selections of red and white flowers.) Each of the four stores selling potted gerberas that I visited on April 2 had more than one pot with a fasciated flower in its selection. Of the 66 or so pots of gerberas between the five stores I visited on those two days, 20 of them contained at least one fasciated flower: about 30%. (Meijer at 5531 28th St SE: 2/11; Forest Hills Foods: 6/13; D & W: 8/25; Family Fare: 2/7; Meijer at 1540 28th St SE: 2/10) They are all documented in this video: Mutated Gerbera Daisies For Sale - Grand Rapids, MI 4/1 & 4/2/13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDXSVl8rr8A On April 10 in a copy shop in Grand Haven, I noticed an unevenly "twinning" double-pointed leaf on their umbrella tree plant:  (Umbrella tree leaves are supposed to be single-pointed.) On April 29, I checked out the gerbera daisies for sale at the grocery store nearest to my house and found that 7 out of 14 of their gerbera daisy pots contained at least one fasciated flower. I didn't shoot any video, but the cell phone photos that I took are included in my Photobucket album of 2013 gerbera daisy mutations: http://s175.photobucket.com/user/Sca...%20Sale%202013 Slideshow link: http://s175.photobucket.com/user/Sca...%20Sale%202013 So anyway: Since May 1 this year, I have dedicated only an average of 80 minutes each day to finding, filming and photographing mutated dandelions, and I've now found 140 of them in 15 locations around my town. Would any of you be up for helping me out here and spending an hour or two looking for fasciated dandelions in your own town, even if it's for just a couple days in a row? With my efforts over the last ten days, I'm only proving that fasciation in dandelions - a phenomenon once universally described as "uncommon" - is now common in Grand Rapids. Don't any of you think it might be important - while dandelion season is still happening - to take this chance to see if you can prove that there's an increase in the mutation rate of dandelions in your town as well, while we still have a chance? If it were proven in enough other towns, it would be solid evidence that the increase is global. I appreciate the photos people are submitting to Mutation Watch of single examples of mutations they happened to find in their backyard or their local grocery store - it's certainly better than nothing, and those contributions do have value - but those photos are not evidence of an increase in mutation rate for that species, because they are only single examples. The submissions of multiple examples from a single location don't prove much more; they are only evidence that there may be an increase in mutation rate in that one location. Multiple examples of mutations in one species from more than one location around a town, however, ARE potentially strong evidence of an increase in mutation rate in that general area- and the more locations around that town in which they are found in a shorter amount of time, the more the documentation potentially becomes stronger evidence of an increase in mutation rate for that species in that general area. Thus, my efforts. I know I'm not the only one who has read this thread - nor the only one who is aware of the recent mutation trends through other sources - who has access to a digital camera and a little extra free time. Why am I still the only one doing this? https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mutat...30100447017280
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