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Foliar, Floral, and Root Absorption of Sr90 by Crops 1
Author(s) -
Evans E. J.,
Dekker A. J.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1965.00021962005700010026x
Subject(s) - bran , agronomy , biology , raw material , ecology
Synopsis In a field experiment carried out to determine the relative Sr 90 content of wheat, oats, alfalfa, and timothy grown in the open compared with that of the same crops grown under clear plastic tents, absorption of Sr 90 for the uncovered crops exceeded that of the covered for all crops. The Sr 90 content of flour and bran milled from wheat grown in the open was considerably greater than that of the same fractions milled from wheat which was covered at the flowering stage. However, the ratios of Sr 90 in the flour to that in the bran were similar in the two situations.