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In order to study the transfer of 129I from soil into rice, tracer experiments have been carried out in the soil-rice plant system. The soil-plant transfer factors, which are defined as ‘concentrations of the nuclide in a plant organ’ divided by ‘concentrations of the nuclide in dry soil’, were 6.0 × 10−3 for brown rice, 3.2 for the first leaf blade (flag leaf), 5.1 for the second leaf blade, 2.6 for stem, 1.4 for rachis and 9.0 for root on a dry weight basis at the time of harvest. The ratio of radio-iodine in brown rice to polished rice was about 1:0.3. The transfer factor of radio-iodine from soil to polished rice was estimated to be about 2 × 10−3. It was observed that the concentration of radio-iodine in the soil solution increased with the plant growth. This was attributed to the reduced condition in the soil caused by the effects of root and/or micro-organisms. Release of I from rice plants into the air in an organic form was found. The chemical form of radio-iodine in the soil solution appeared to be iodide, and the radio-iodine in the plant tissue was found in a low molecular weight fraction by gel-filtration. The vertical distribution of radioiodine in the soil was also studied.
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Muramatsu, Y., Uchida, S., Sumiya, M. et al. Tracer experiments on transfer of radio-iodine in the soil — rice plant system. Water Air Soil Pollut 45, 157–171 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00208585
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