Biopolym. Cell. 1994; 10(1):94-99.
http://dx.doi.org/10.7124/bc.000398
Green plants and reaction centers of photosynthetic bacteria as sensors of ecological state of environment
1Gushcha A. O., 1Dobrovolsky A. A., 1Privalko A. V., 1Fedorenko Yu. P., 1Kharkyanen V. N.
  1. Intersectoral Research and Engineering Center for Physics of the living and the microwave resonance therapy "Vidguk"
    61-b, Volodymyrska Str., Kyiv, Ukraine, 252017

Abstract

The green plants, reaction centers (RC) of purple bacteria and Langmuir films on their base were studied by optical and spectroscopic methods. The present communication was to discover the most informative properties of these objects for the ecological diagnostic. It was shown that kinetics fluorescent measurements were the most suitable for finding out of herbicides in the environment. Langmuir films on RC bacteria Rh. sphaeroides base seemed to be very promising for use as bioregistration system for ecological monitoring due to their adequate on environment polution and convenient in operating.
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