Antonova E V, Pozolotina V N
Radiats Biol Radioecol. 2007 May-Jun;47(3):349-55.
The diversification of rare and unique morphs of some ferment systems and the clonal structure of dandelion coenopopulations, growing in radioactive contaminated drained watershed and flood-land ecosystems in the Ural region was studied. Drained watershed and flood-land dandelion coenopopulations significantly differed in the number of rare and of unique morphs and in the clonal structure. In the gradient of contamination in the drained watershed coenopopulations (zone of East-Urals radioactive trace) the share of rare morphs in most ferments systems increased, while the number of clones decreased. In two flood-land coenopopulations of the Techa River essential differences in the enzyme structure were observed, but these peculiarities were not connected with the level of radioactive contamination.