Ventomod: A dynamic model for leaf to fruit transfer of radionuclides in processing tomato plants (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) following a direct contamination event

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 309-328

  Brambilla, M ^a   Strebl, F ^b   Carini, F ^a   Gerzabek, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Caesium; Dynamic model; Foliar absorption; Fruit; Radionuclides; Strontium; Tomato; Zinc

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; FRUITS; RADIOISOTOPES;

DYNAMIC EVALUATION MODEL;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

CESIUM 134; RADIOISOTOPE; STRONTIUM 85; ZINC 65;

FOLIAGE; FRUIT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CALIBRATION; CROP; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD PROCESSING; FRUIT RIPENING; HORTICULTURE; PLANT LEAF; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOMATO; VALIDATION PROCESS; VEGETABLE;

LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0346668293     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0265-931X(02)00105-4     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Antonopoulos-Domis M., Clouvas A., Gagianas A. Compartment model for long-term contamination prediction in deciduous fruit trees after nuclear accident. Health Physics. 58:(6):1990;737-741.
2. Baldini E. Arboricoltura Generale. 1986;Editrice CLUEB, Bologna (I). pp. 277-284.
3. Bianco V.V., Pimpini F. Orticoltura. 1990;Edizioni Patron, Bologna.
4. 65Zn in processing tomato plants (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.). Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 60:2002;351-363.
5. Brown J., Simmons J.R. FARMLAND: A Dynamic Model for the Transfer of Radionuclides Through Terrestrial Foodchains. 1995;National Radiological Protection Board, UK. ISBN 0-85951-380-7.
6. Coughtrey P.J., Thorne M.C. Radionuclide Distribution and Transport in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems. A Critical Review of Data, vol. 1. 1983;A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, Nederland.
7. Coughtrey P.J., Thorne M.C. Radionuclide Distribution and Transport in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems. A Critical Review of Data, vol. 2. 1983;A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, Nederland.
8. Coyle R.G. System Dynamics Modelling: a practical approach. 1996;Chapman & Hall, London, UK. ISBN: 0-412-61710-2.
9. 137Cs in Trees. Soil Plant Relationship. Proceedings of the XXIV annual ESNA/IUR Meeting September 12-16 1994, Varna, Bulgaria. ÖEFZ-4278, Forschungszentrum Seibersdorf, Austria.
10. Grimm V. Mathematical models and understanding in ecology. Ecological modelling. 75/76:1994;641-651.
11. Ho C.L. Tomato. Zamski E., Schaffer A.A. Photoassimilate Distribution in Plants and Crops. 1996;709-728 Marcel Dekker Inc, New York.
12. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 1996a. Modelling of Radionuclide Interception and Loss Processes in Vegetation and of Transfer in Semi-Natural Ecosystems. Second report of the VAMP Terrestrial Working Group. International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA-TECDOC-857, Vienna, Austria.
13. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 1996b. Validation of Models Using Chernobyl Fallout Data from Southern Finland. Scenario S. Second report of the VAMP Multiple Pathways Assessment Working Group. International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA-TECDOC 904, Vienna, Austria.
14. Müller H., Pröhl G. ECOSYS 87: A radiological model for the assessment of the consequences of nuclear accidents. Health Physics. 64:1993;232-252.
15. Rombke J., Moltmann J.F. Applied Ecotoxicology. 1996;Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, London, Tokyo.
16. Thorne M.C., Coughtrey P.J. Coughtrey P.J., Bell J.N.B., Roberts T.M. Dynamic Models for Radionuclide Transport in Soil, Plant and Domestic Animals. Ecological Aspects of Radionuclide Release. 1983;127-139 Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
17. Watkins B.M., Maul, P.R., 1995. Transfer of Deposited Radioactivity from Foliage to Edible Crop Parts. Internal report of the work undertaken by Intera Information Technologies under MAFF project reference 1B058.
18. Whicker F.W., Kirchner T.B. PATHWAY: A dynamic food chain model to predict radionuclide ingestion after fallout deposition. Health Physics. 52:1987;717-737.
19. Wicker Ward F., Schultz V. Radioecology: Nuclear Energy and Environment. vol. 1. 1982;CRC Press, Inc, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. 153-166.
20. Widders I.E., Lorenz O.A. Tomato root development as related to potassium nutrition. J. Am. Soc. Hort. Sci. 104:1979;216-220.