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Role of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Caesium Uptake by Plants

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It was demonstrated that rhizospheric processes involving mycorrhizal fungi can influence root uptake of radiocaesium. The ability of both ectomycorrhizal and endomycorrhizal fungi to limit radiocaesium availability to their host plants was considered. The ectomycorrhizal fungi grown in forest ecosystems were suggested to immobilize between 10 and 100 % of the total 137Cs activity. Radiocaesium was found to be accumulated in mycelium and fruit bodies of ectomycorrhizal fungi by simple diffusion and facilitated transport. Ectomycorrhizal fungi was considered to be efficient indicators of cumulative biogeochemical fluxes of radiocaesium in terrestrial ecosystems and thus to be appropriate candidates for phytoremediation technique.

The significance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi as participants in radiocaesium cycle in the upper soil layers was discussed. Up to date, their role in processes of radiocaesium uptake by plants remains incompletely understood and controversial. It was demonstrated that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi could accumulate 137Cs in their extraradical or intraradical structures, transport the radionuclide to their hosts and influence its distribution among plant roots/shoots. Depending on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant species used, the significant reduction or increase of radiocaesium transfer to aboveground plants biomass was found. The perspectives of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi application in phytoremediation techniques were discussed.

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Acknowledgements

First and foremost I want to thank my former supervisor in the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) Dr. hab. Prof. Katarzyna Turnau for welcoming me in Plant-Microbial Research team and introducing me to the world of mycorrhiza, for her guidance, manifold reading and comprehensive help in the preparation of my doctoral thesis, and support in every possible way. I am very grateful to Dr. hab. Jerzy Wojciech Mietelski from the Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics (Krakow, Poland), and Dr. Grzegorz Tylko from the Institute of Zoology of Jagiellonian University for providing facilities, help and advices in evaluation of results and writing papers as well as for hospitality of their research teams. Many thanks to everybody from MYCOREMED project for interesting meetings and discussions. The financial support of the work from MYCOREMED European Project MEST-CT-2005-020387 is gratefully acknowledged.

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Dubchak, S. (2017). Role of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Caesium Uptake by Plants. In: Gupta, D., Walther, C. (eds) Impact of Cesium on Plants and the Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41525-3_3

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