title: Biometric approach in selecting plants for phytoaccumulation of uranium.
abstract: This paper promotes the biometric classification system of plant cultivars, unique characteristics, in terms of the uranium (U) uptake, primarily in the function of the application for phytoremediation. It is known that the degree of adoption of U depends on the plant species and its morphological and physiological properties, but it is less known what impact have plants cultivars, sorts, and hybrids. Therefore, we investigated the U adoption in four cultivars of three plant species (corn, sunflower and soy bean). "Vegetation experiments were carried out in a plastic-house filled with soil (0.66 mgU) and with tailing (15.3 mgU kg(-1)) from closed uranium mine Gabrovnica-Kalna southeast of Serbia". Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Cluster Analysis (CA) and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used for assessing the effect of different substrates cultivars, plant species and plant organs (root or shoot) on U uptake. Obtained results showed that a difference in U uptake by three investigated plant species depends not only of the type of substrate types and plant organs but also of their cultivars. Biometrics techniques provide a good opportunity for a better understanding the behavior of plants and obtaining much more useful information from the original data.
authors.affiliation: a Institute for Technology of Nuclear and Other Mineral Raw Materials , Belgrade , Serbia.
authors.forename: Mirjana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stojanović
authors.affiliation: b Institute of General and Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade , Serbia.
authors.forename: Lato
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pezo
authors.affiliation: c Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade , Serbia.
authors.forename: Časlav
authors.initials: Č
authors.lastname: Lačnjevac
authors.affiliation: a Institute for Technology of Nuclear and Other Mineral Raw Materials , Belgrade , Serbia.
authors.forename: Marija
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mihajlović
authors.affiliation: a Institute for Technology of Nuclear and Other Mineral Raw Materials , Belgrade , Serbia.
authors.forename: Jelena
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Petrović
authors.affiliation: a Institute for Technology of Nuclear and Other Mineral Raw Materials , Belgrade , Serbia.
authors.forename: Jelena
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Milojković
authors.affiliation: a Institute for Technology of Nuclear and Other Mineral Raw Materials , Belgrade , Serbia.
authors.forename: Marija
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stanojević
mesh_terms: D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D001699:Biometry; D006368:Helianthus / Q000378:metabolism*; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000378:metabolism*; D013025:Glycine max / Q000378:metabolism*; D014501:Uranium / Q000378:metabolism*; D003313:Zea mays / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive; D014501:Uranium
keywords: Corn; biometrics; phytoremediation; soy bean; sunflower; uranium