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Chief Editor: Jeff Cole
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From April 2008, the NIH is mandating grant-holders to deposit their published papers in PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. Read more
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Latest MiniReview: Fungi help cleanup radioactive contamination
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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
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Vol.282-2 p.109 (2008)
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Research Letters cover the following subject categories:
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Biotechnology
Environmental microbiology; plant-microbe interactions
Eukaryotic cells
Evolution, taxonomy and typing
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Genetics and molecular biology
Genomics and bioinformatics
Pathogenicity including veterinary microbiology
Physiology and biochemistry
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