Black radiotrophic fungi : adaptation and exploitation of ionizing radiation and potential applications
Year: 2014
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In 1991, Zhdanova et al. reported that some fungi were colonizing the walls of the highly radioactive damaged reactor and growing in the area around the site of 1986 Chernobyl's nuclear accident [Fig.3].The melanized fungal species were Cladosporium sphaerospermum, Wangiella dermatitidis, and Cryptococcus neoformans [Fig.4].They termed this attraction of fungi to radiation as "radiotropism".These discoveries and the laboratory observations of the resistance of melanized fungi to ionizing radiation suggested a role for this pigment in radioprotection [3].
Authors: Vázquez Sánchez, Daniel Antonio, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Facultat de Biociències
Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Language: English
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7036128676