Although silicon (Si) is ubiquitous in soil and plant, evidence is still lacking that Si is
essential for higher plants. However, it has been well documented that Si is beneficial for …

Plants' ability to take up silicon from the soil, accumulate it within their tissues and then
reincorporate it into the soil through litter creates an intricate network of feedback …

Carbon sequestered in phytoliths, the silicified features of plants, may accumulate in soils
and sediments for several hundreds to thousands of years depending mainly on the …

Phytolith carbon (C) sequestration plays a key role in mitigating global climate change at a
centennial to millennial time scale. However, previous estimates of phytolith‐occluded …

Silicon nanoparticles (SiNPs) have been widely used to immobilize toxic trace metal (loid) s
(TTMs) in contaminated croplands. However, the effect and mechanisms of SiNP application …

There has been much interest in the possibility that phytoliths might sequester substantial
amounts of carbon and might continue to do so in soils and sediments after the death of the …

Aims Carbon (C) bio-sequestration within the phytoliths of plants, a mechanism of long-term
biogeochemical C sequestration, may play a major role in the global C cycle and climate …

Phytoliths are silica bodies formed in living plant tissues. Once deposited in soils through
plant debris, they can readily dissolve and then increase the fluxes of silicon (Si) toward …

The persistent terrestrial carbon sink regulates long‐term climate change, but its size,
location, and mechanisms remain uncertain. One of the most promising terrestrial …

Terrestrial biogeochemical carbon (C) sequestration is coupled with the biogeochemical
silicon (Si) cycle through mechanisms such as phytolith C sequestration, but the size and …