About the monograph “eniology, ecology and variety”

April 26, 2024 marks 38 years since the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (1986). In the area of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Novozybkovsky district of the Bryansk region, field experiments were carried out to study the accumulation of radiocesium in grain in 42 varieties of winter rye and 92 varieties of winter wheat. In total, for the period from 1987 to 1993. In the contaminated zone of the Bryansk region, 1532 varieties were studied from 28 crops of the world gene pool. The Moscow branch of VIR, as the lead institution, and many other research institutions were involved in the research. The results of studies in the contaminated zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant showed that the world plant gene pool has a wide variety of forms for the accumulation of radionuclides. The maximum difference (under the conditions of one year and field) between crops in the accumulation of cesium-137 in grain can reach 170 times, and between varieties within the same crop – 9 times. The eniological approaches presented in the book, which take into account information and energy interactions at different biological levels, can and should be taken into account both in breeding work and in assessing the global plant gene pool.