Radio agronomy

The Radioagronomie is a research direction in which the consequences of radioactive substances on plants, mainly agricultural is used plants examined.

The nutrient balance can be analyzed here, in particular the migration of nutrients and their storage can be observed through radioactively marked substances .

One of the first institutes for radio agronomy is located at Forschungszentrum Jülich , where, for example, the effectiveness of pesticides and fungicides is determined in this way.