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Plants ecotoxicology. A case of low doses and multipollutant exposure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2005

S. Geras'kin
Affiliation:
Russian Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Agroecology, 249020 Obninsk, Russia
J. Kim
Affiliation:
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, 150 Deokjin-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-353, South Korea
T. Evseeva
Affiliation:
Institute of Biology, Komi Scientific Center, Ural Division RAS, Kommunisticheskaya 28, 167982 Syktyvkar, Russia
A. Oudalova
Affiliation:
Russian Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Agroecology, 249020 Obninsk, Russia
V. Dikarev
Affiliation:
Russian Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Agroecology, 249020 Obninsk, Russia
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Abstract

Results of laboratory, “green-house" and long-term field experiments carried out on different plant species (spring barley, Scots pine, bulb onion and others) to study ecotoxical effects of low doses and concentrations of such common environmental factors as acute and chronic g-radiation, heavy metals, pesticides, artificial and heavy natural radionuclides, are presented. Special attention is paid to ecotoxic effects of chronic low dose exposures, synergistic and antagonistic effects of different factors' combined action. The results of long-term field experiments in the 30-km Chernobyl NPP zone and in the vicinity of a radioactive wastes storage facility are discussed. The data presented suggest that the further evolution of investigations in this field would issue in the development of a theoretical bases and practical procedures for environmental protection against radioactivity, taking into account the new experimentally confirmed facts about the presence of such essentially important singularities as the nonlinearity of a dose-effect relationship, radiation-induced genomic instability, phenomenon of radioadaptation, increased probability of synergetic and antagonistic effects of the combined action of different nature factors.

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Research Article
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2005

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