Nonlinear relationship between 90Sr content in the Koeleria gracilis plants growing in the Semipalatinsk test site and frequency of cytogenetic alterations
Нелинейность зависимости частоты цитогенетических нарушений от содержания 90Sr в растениях Тонконога тонкого с территории Семипалатинского испытательного полигона
GerasKin S.A. Minkenova K.S. Perevolotsky A.N. Baigazinov Z.A. Perevolotskya T.V.
2021National Medical Research Radiological Centre of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Radiation and Risk
2021#30Issue 277 - 88 pp.
To construct dose-response curves for basic biological indicators, such as mortality, fertility, radiation-related morbidity, genetic effects, data of experimental studies of acute radiation exposure carried out under controlled conditions within laboratory walls are mainly used. However, the results of experimental research cannot be applied to research of radiation effects on biological species inhabiting and growing in large territories, contaminated with the mixture of α-, β- and γ-emitting radionuclides with different penetrativeness, biological efficiency and mobility in the soil-plant system. Large scale study of impact of 90Sr in different concentrations in the Koeleria gracilis plants on the frequency of cytogenetic damage formation. For the study 105 experimental points on the «4A» landing in the Semipalatinsk test site were selected. The landing was earlier used for radioactive substances testing, the 90Sr concentration in plants varied between 102 and ~108 Bq/kg. It was the first open-air study that allowed researchers to obtain the curve of the relationship between the radioniuclide content in the plants and the frequency of cytogenetic alterations. The threshold for cytogenetic alterations induction in the plants below 1.58×105 Bq/kg was found. At the higher 90Sr concentrations statistically significant increase (p<0.001) in the frequency of cytogenetic alterations induction from <2% to ~18% was observed. Among all cytogenetic disorders found in the plants double bridges and fragments occurred more frequently; it indicates that formed cytogenetic alterations were induced by radiation.
90Sr , Cytogenetic effects , Koeleria gracilis , Nonlinear dependence , Radioactive contamination , Radioactive warfare agent , Semipalatinsk test site , Threshold concentration , Volume activity
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Russian Institute of Radiology and Agroecology, Obninsk, Russian Federation
Institute of Radiation Safety and Ecology, NNC, Kurchatov, Kazakhstan
University of Pannonia, Veszprem, Hungary
Russian Institute of Radiology and Agroecology
Institute of Radiation Safety and Ecology
University of Pannonia
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