RESEARCH ON TRACE ELEMENTS IN THE USSR

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• Publication Date: April 28, 1954
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Altl ou;h the ?lajorit, Of the trace elements which enter into the structural
cu.nwaition of pl_?,nts and au,iu,als were discovered durinC, the 19th Century and in
the u_;;innicg of the 20th Century, the freutest achiove..;enLe in the study of the
ele en tel coruposition of orsar:isrii aid the clerificetiou of tire biolo ical role
ul trace 010nent?; hsvc oceu :Wade in the past 25 or 30 years.
Scientific - Biolo0y', trace elements
BLnonthly periodical
Moscow
Nov - Dec 1y~3
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U pe1:h1 Sovre::anroy Blolo*ii, Vol 3S, No 3 (5), . 3`.5-3:5
N2SEARCH ON TRACd ELEMENTS IN TH'3 USSR
V. V. Koval'skiy
[Con:ser:t: Trio following report is taker, iron :r review f
ri. 0. Voyne:?'.; Bock, The Biological Role of Trace Sle.nenteoin
i,ui.:,al and Itanlar, Ortc,nis-ns" (BioloE;icheskaya Rol' Mikroulementov
v Orgar.iz;ne Zhivotnyllr i Cnelovei:a), uublished u.,- Scvets;e_:ya
N u;:a, t.:oecow, 193. Thu review appeared in Ucuc:i,ili
Bi soVrcacnr,o;
olo,;ii, Vol 3u, No 3 (b), November - T ecen;ber 1) 3, Pi' 317 So.
r.ccurnlu to "Trace cia:.er.ts in the
procosses ;_
I
St:,
edited 01 .. P. Vinogradovr(i/oscow, 19 of pl
r.Hearth on the uiclo,,icel significance and oiogeoche:nistryof
,
Li'oue 0lu:u fnte is of irrterest, uecause results of work in this
field are betrr ap.ilicd in prospecting for ores (e.g., cobalt
ere ), in ntterr;ts ut the protection of aEricultural plants
infectious diseases, in the ir:;rrrove.:;er.t of the: yields of
:!`cricultural crops e,, ueirid special fertilizers, and in Lreat-
raent if :,utrltierutl det'iciences of liveoteeL. /ccoruin~ to
the I:ctr York Ties of 11, Fc~uruer,; l(,54, A. 1'. Vino~raluc (whose
eonnectior. wito research or trace elements is :ientiored uelow)
v!,s quoted by Moscow Radio in 1947 is sayin;; trot r;3ioactive
elements were ueinp u;cJ in Lire USSR to increase the yields of
raboet?-bearir,,7 plants and of' sugar ueets. Also, Data on this
.iauject rineared Jr. "Thy Biological Role of Natural Radioactive
:ile.neutn" t.y e1. Lrubc ov, Uspc:'dri Sovreriunno Biologii, Vul 31,
Go 1, yrt: 62-1.00, 1951. J
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Research on trace elements is being carried on in the Soviet Union in the
following laboratory and institutes; the Laboratory of Biogeocb etry Ln-ai
Academician V. I. Vernadskiy, now under the direction of Academician A. P. trim.
gradov; the All-Union Institute of Animal Husbandry, under Prof V. V. fioral'aktl!
the Institute of Zootechnic and Zoohygiene of the
BOB, under Prof Ya. N. Berzin; the Institute of Animal Ruseba~Boieofes earaaa
of Sciences Lithuanian SSRj the institute of Botany of the y of the Aodsq
Ukrainian SSR, under Prof. P. A. Vlasyuk; the Botanical Instittuteimeai I. Saloom
Komarov of the Academy of Sciences USSR, under N. Ya. 8hkol'nik; the Vitebsk
Veterinary Institute under F. Ya. Berenstein; and the Medical Institute Of the
city of Stalin, under A. 0. Voynar.
The All-Union Conference on Trace Elements, held in Moscow in 1950 at the
instigation of the Trace Element Commission of the Academy of 8cierces {O, has
given added impetus to the work on this subject during the past few years.* So
conference, attended by more than 300 delegates from various scientific loatt-
tutions of the USSR, listened to and discussed more than 100 reports; it them
pointed out the way to further success in the development of research on uses
elements and their application in various parts of the national economy. -
transactions of this conference were published in 1959 =der the title "lyrsee
Elements in the Livi Processes of Plants and Animals" (Nikroe
Rasteniy i Zhivotnykhh. lementY r lhita!
Prof A. 0. Voynar's book fills in many of the existing gaps in our kmpyls*
of this subject. It devotes 16 of its 18 chapters to an examination of the @00-
chemistry, biology, physiology, and biochemistry of the following trace elemsntat
lithium, rubidium, cesium, beryllium, strontium, barium, titanium, vanadiu.,
chromium, molybdenum) manganese, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, cadmium, aersuly,
silicon, aluminum, arsenic, selenium, tellurium, iodine, bromine, fluorine, sil-
ver, gold, tin, lead, bismuth, boron, antimony, radium, thorium, scandium, pl.
iium, cerium, germanium, lanthanum, tungsten end thallium. This book is the
most complete reference work in existence on the subject,
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