Behaviour of Strontium in Plants and the Environment

Dharmendra K. Gupta is Sr. Scientist of environmental biotechnology/radioecology and already published more than 80 refereed research papers/review articles in peer reviewed journals and edited ten books. His field of research includes abiotic stress by radionuclides/heavy metals and xenobiotics in plants; antioxidative system in plants, environmental pollution (radionuclides/heavy metals) remediation through plants (phytoremediation). Clemens Walther is professor of radioecology and radiation protection and director of the Institute for Radioecology and Radiation Protection at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. He published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed journals. His field of research is actinide chemistry with a focus on solution species and formation of colloids, ultra-trace detection and speciation of radionuclides in the environment by mass spectrometry and laser spectroscopy.

• Chapter 1. Strontium in the ecosystem: Transfer in plants via root system.- Chapter 2. Factors influencing the soil to plant transfer of strontium.- Chapter 3. Distribution of strontium in soil: interception, weathering, speciation and translocation to plants.- Chapter 4. Assessment of entry of 90Sr into plants in case of a heterogeneous radiation contamination of ecosystems.- Chapter 5. Accumulation of 90Sr by plants of different taxonomic groups from the soils at the East Ural Radioactive Trace.- Chapter 6. Soil-to-crop transfer factors (TFs) of alkaline earth elements and comparison of TFs of stable Sr with those of global fallout 90Sr.- Chapter 7. 90Sr distribution in system “soil-Scots pine” (Pinus sylvestris L.).- Chapter 8. Contamination of the firewood taken from the exclusion zone of Chernobyl NPP by 90Sr according to data of 2005-2016.- Chapter 9. The behaviour of 90Sr in macrophytes inhibiting water reservoirs in the Belarussian sector of the Chernobyl NPP exclusion zone.- Chapter 10. Strontium isotopes in biological material: a key tool for the geographic traceability of foods and humans beings.