Selecting plants to minimise radiocaesium in the food chain
(2003)
Journal Article
Escobar-Gutiérrez, A. J., White, P. J., Swarup, K., Escobar-Gutierrez, A., Bowen, H. C., Willey, N., & Broadley, M. R. (2003). Selecting plants to minimise radiocaesium in the food chain. Plant and Soil, 249(1), 177-186. https://doi.org/10.1023/A%3A1022593307224
Caesium (Cs) is an alkali metal with chemical properties similar to potassium (K). It has no known role in plant nutrition and it is not toxic to plants at the micromolar concentrations occurring naturally in soil solutions. However, two radioisotope... Read More about Selecting plants to minimise radiocaesium in the food chain.