Temporal and seasonal variations of radiocaesium content in some plants from the western part of Ukrainian Polesye

We present measurements of 137Cs contamination for some of the berry plants and medicinal herbs growing in the western part of Ukrainian Polesye during 1996–2009. Basing on the calculations of the aggregated transfer factors, we classified the medicinal herbs into five groups according to their abil...

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Published in:Journal of environmental radioactivity 2013-03, Vol.117, p.2-8
Main Authors: Grabovskyi, V.A., Dzendzelyuk, O.S., Kushnir, O.S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Berry plants
Biological and medical sciences
Biological effects of radiation
Cesium Radioisotopes - metabolism
clay minerals
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
General pharmacology
Medical sciences
Medicinal herbs
medicinal plants
monitoring
Pharmacognosy. Homeopathy. Health food
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
Plants - metabolism
Radiocontamination
Radionuclide contamination
seasonal variation
Seasons
Soil
Soil Pollutants, Radioactive - metabolism
Tissues, organs and organisms biophysics
Transfer factor
Ukraine
Ukrainian Polesye
vegetation
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Summary:We present measurements of 137Cs contamination for some of the berry plants and medicinal herbs growing in the western part of Ukrainian Polesye during 1996–2009. Basing on the calculations of the aggregated transfer factors, we classified the medicinal herbs into five groups according to their ability for accumulation of 137Cs: very weak (Tag 
ISSN:0265-931X
1879-1700
DOI:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2012.05.025