Soil-to-grain transfer of fallout 137Cs for 28 winter wheat cultivars as observed in field experiments

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 275-284

  Schimmack, W ^a   Zimmerman, G ^b   Sommer, M ^a   Dietl, F ^a   Schultz, W ^a   Paretzke, H G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CULTIVAR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; GRAIN; HARVEST; PH; PLANT GENETICS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WINTER WHEAT;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GERMANY; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; TRITICUM;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 1342287591     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-003-0217-4     Document Type: Article

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