The investigation of element distributions in some aquatic higher plants and bottom sediments of Novosibirsk reservoir (data by SR-XRF techniques)

Inferring the Geometry of Fourth-Period Metallic Elements in Arabidopsis thaliana Seeds using Synchrotron-Based Multi-Angle X-ray Fluorescence Mapping

“…The distribution and concentration of elements in single bacterial cells was determined using synchrotron-based XRF (Kemner et al, 2004). XRF was used to determine the concentrations of 16 elements (from K to Pb) in powdered aquatic plants (Sokolovskaya et al, 2000;Kipriyanova et al, 2001) as well as to map the distribution of Se in the leaves and stems of Astragalus bisulcatus (Pickering et al, 2000). Other work has investigated the distribution of Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn and Rb in the roots of Salix nigra (black willow) irrigated with spill water from a radioactive settling pond (Punshon et al, 2003), Cr in the roots of Trifolium brachycalicinum (Howe et al, 2003), P to Zn in Plantago lanceolata roots and the associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus mosseae (Yun et al, 1998), and K, Mn, Fe, Cu and Zn in tobacco flowers and leaves from plants both lacking and overexpressing nicotianamine aminotransferase (Takahashi et al, 2003).…”

Elemental Composition in Two Water Beetles (Dytiscus thianschanicus, Dytiscus persicus) (Dytiscidae: Coleoptera) as Revealed by WDXRF Spectroscopy

“…They are then stored in their bodies. Sokolovskaya et al [40] investigated concentration of microelements in different parts of plants and bottom sediments and determined 14 elements together with rare elements like Rb, Sr, Y. Some elements determined in D. thianschanicus and D. persicus (Ce, Ti, Se, Ba, Rb, Pr, Ge, Ga, Sm, Cs, Nd) are also rarely founded in nature and economically valuable.…”