UPTAKE OF TRANSURANIC NUCLIDES FROM SOIL BY PLANTS 355 



TABLE 7 (Continued) 



Plant species 



Range ofCR 



Conditions and comments 



Reference 



Barley 



highest CR caused 

 by chelate applied 

 to a calcareous soil. 



10" 



Bean, bush (shoots) 10 ' to 10^ 

 Bean, bush (shoots) 10-' to 10' 



Beans 



10" 



soil spiked with 18 nCi to 



0.5 iuCi/g(soil)of '"' Am. 



Grown in Cinebar (pH 4.5) 

 and Ephrata (pH 7.5) 

 soils using the 

 Neubauer technique; 

 soils spiked with 1 .8 

 /uCi/g of * " ' Am 

 as Am(N03)3 ; uptake 

 similar from two soils. 



Same as for barley. 



Grown in 500 g of soil 

 spiked with 2 nCi/g 

 (soil) of '" ' Am as 

 Am(N03)3; lowest 

 CR occurred on limed 

 clay soil; highest CR 

 occurred on limed and 

 chelated treatment. 



Grown in standard Hoagland 

 solution spiked with 

 0.9 AiCi/liter of 

 '"'Am as Am(NO,),. 



aine, 1968 



Wallace et al., 



1976 

 Adriano et al., 



1977 



aine, 1968 



Wallace et al., 



1976 

 Adriano et aL, 



1977 



This study 



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