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THE recognition of the importance of the chain, plant–animal–man1, in the uptake of strontium-90 by humans as a result of the fall-out of fission products made it desirable to see if species differences existed in forage plants, such that some might take up less strontium from the soil than others. This knowledge might then be used to reduce the radiostrontium content of milk, or to choose species for the reclaiming of contaminated land.
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VOSE, P., KOONTZ, H. Uptake of Strontium by Pasture Plants and its Possible Significance in Relation to the Fall-out of Strontium-90. Nature 183, 1447–1448 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831447a0
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