Soil-dependent uptake of 137Cs by mushrooms: experimental study in the Chernobyl accident areas

137Cs and 40K in fruiting bodies of different fungal species collected in a single forest in southern Poland

“…The Tricholoma genus belongs to mycorrhizal fungi but it was found to have some unusual properties. According to data presented by Kaduka et al (2006), those fruitbodies show unusual independence of its radiocesium transfer factor from main soil parameters, whereas other mycorrhizal fungi show some correlations.…”

“…Transfer of radiocesium to fungal fruiting bodies depends on soil type (Kaduka et al, 2006), but the very limited scale of sampling site allows us to make the assumption that soil properties were rather uniform throughout the sampling site.…”

Bioaccumulation of cesium-137 and cobalt-60 from solid cellulosic-based radioactive waste simulates by Plurotus pulmonarius

“…The factors affecting the biouptake and biotransfer of radiocontaminants by mushroom are claimed to be: the concentration of total and available radionuclide in the wastes, pH-value and growing conditions in additions to the mushroom's trophic group e.g. biological family, genus and species (Kaduka et al, 2006). CBW substrates were spiked with radioactive solution labelled with cesium-137 or cobalt-60 or mixture of both radionuclides.…”

Radiocaesium activity concentrations in macrofungi from Galicia (NW Spain): Influence of environmental and genetic factors

“…The behavior and transport of radionuclides in soil, plants and mushrooms have been the object of many investigations (Malinowska et al, 2006;Kaduka et al, 2006;Bazała et al, 2008;Bystrzejewska-Piotrowska and Bazała, 2008;Dupré de Boulois et al, 2008;Mietelski et al, 2010). The main factors controlling the 137 Cs levels in mushrooms are mycelium depth and ecophysiological behavior of fungi.…”