[Dose dependence of the frequency of morphological changes in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in Chernobyl exclusion zone]

Radiats Biol Radioecol. 2009 Jan-Feb;49(1):117-26.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Patterns and main parameters of the dynamics of radioactive contamination of organs of Scots pine in the plantations of Chernobyl zone are presented. On the basis of this data and within the frameworks of the microdosimetric approach, the dosimetric model for the apical meristem of the pine trees was created. The dose rates were calculated for the trees of the experimental array growing at three sites in the exclusion zone and one outside, which differed by three orders of magnitude of the trees' radioactive contamination levels. Comparable high, up to several Gy/y, levels of the dose rate of chronic irradiation were shown for the plantation at the Red Forest site. Such an expressed radiation factor results in a high frequency of the morphological changes at this site. The dose rate-effect dependence was formulated for this type of the radiobiological effects.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Cesium Radioisotopes / toxicity*
  • Chernobyl Nuclear Accident*
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation
  • Meristem / anatomy & histology
  • Meristem / radiation effects
  • Models, Biological
  • Pinus sylvestris / anatomy & histology
  • Pinus sylvestris / radiation effects*
  • Radiation Monitoring*
  • Soil Pollutants, Radioactive / toxicity*
  • Strontium Radioisotopes / toxicity*
  • Ukraine

Substances

  • Cesium Radioisotopes
  • Soil Pollutants, Radioactive
  • Strontium Radioisotopes