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Radionuclides in the environment are one of the major concerns to human health and ecotoxicology. The explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant renewed interest in the role played by fungi in mediating radionuclide movement in ecosystems. As a result of these studies, our knowledge of the importance of fungi, especially in their mycorrhizal habit, in long-term accumulation of radionuclides, transfer up the food chain and regulation of accumulation by their host plants was increased. Micro-fungi have been found to be highly resilient to exposure to ionizing radiation, with fungi having been isolated from within and around the Chernobyl plant ...Read more. Fungi and ionizing radiation from radionuclides     John Dighton, Tatyana Tugay & Nelli Zhdanova

Vol.282-2 p.109 (2008)

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Research Letters cover the following subject categories:

Biotechnology Environmental microbiology; plant-microbe interactions Eukaryotic cells Evolution, taxonomy and typing

Genetics and molecular biology Genomics and bioinformatics Pathogenicity including veterinary microbiology Physiology and biochemistry

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