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Characterization of 140 Japanese and world rice collections cultivated in Nihonmatsu-city in Fukushima in terms of radiocesium activity concentrations in seed grains and straws to explore rice cultivars with low radiocesium accumulation

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We studied varietal difference in radiocesium accumulation by using Japanese and World rice collection for future development of low accumulation varieties. As a result, the radiocesium activity concentration varied by 12- and 22-fold in seed grains and straws, respectively. When we examined the seed grain to straw ratio of radiocesium activity concentration, paddy rice cultivars of Japonica sub-species showed a lower result than Indica and Javanica paddy rice cultivars. These observations suggest that the Japonica paddy rice cultivars may have the property of repressing radioactive cesium translocation to edible parts.

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This study was supported by the Special Research Fund of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Japan titled “Research and development of security and safe crop production to reconstruct agricultural lands in Fukushima prefecture based on novel techniques to remove radioactive compounds using advanced bio-fertilizer and plant protection strategies”.

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  1. Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 3-5-8 Saiwai-cho, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-8509, Japan

    Katsuhiro Kojima & Djedidi Salem

  2. Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 3-5-8 Saiwai-cho, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-8509, Japan

    Taiichiro Ookawa, Naoko Ohkama-Ohtsu & Tadashi Yokoyama

  3. College of Bioresources Sciences, Nihon University, 1866 Kameino, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, 252-0880, Japan

    Hiroko Yamaya-Ito

  4. Institute of Land Use Systems, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Eberswalder str. 84, 15374, Muencheberg, Germany

    Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura

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Kojima, K., Ookawa, T., Yamaya-Ito, H. et al. Characterization of 140 Japanese and world rice collections cultivated in Nihonmatsu-city in Fukushima in terms of radiocesium activity concentrations in seed grains and straws to explore rice cultivars with low radiocesium accumulation. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 314, 1009–1021 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5453-1

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