ABSTRACT
Cs into fungal hyphae ranges from 44 (
Fusarium
sp.) to 276 (
Mycena polygramma
) nmol Cs g
dry weight h
(Clint et al., 1991; Dighton et al., 1991). In nature, the species-specific accumulation of
Cs in basidiocarps was already described before Chernobyl (see, e.g., Haselwandter, 1978). Hence, after Chernobyl a selection of species analyzed earlier could be used for biomonitoring the radioactive contamination of the environment (cf. Haselwandter et al., 1988; Grodzinskaya et al., 1995). Data on
Cs contamination of fruit bodies of selected species of basidiomycetes were compiled by Haselwandter and Berreck (1994). Since that review, further analytical data have been published in agreement with observations made earlier.
