Interactions of silicon with essential and beneficial elements in plants

J Pavlovic, L Kostic, P Bosnic, EA Kirkby… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Silicon (Si) is not classified as an essential element for plants, but numerous studies have
demonstrated its beneficial effects in a variety of species and environmental conditions …

Growth, nutrient accumulation, and drought tolerance in crop plants with silicon application: a review

RS Rea, MR Islam, MM Rahman, B Nath, K Mix - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plants take up silicon (Si) from the soil which impacts their growth and nutrient accumulation.
It increases plant resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses such as drought, salinity, and …

Silica nanoparticles boost growth and productivity of cucumber under water deficit and salinity stresses by balancing nutrients uptake

A Alsaeedi, H El-Ramady, T Alshaal… - Plant Physiology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The role of amorphous silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) in enhancing growth and yield of
cucumber under water deficit and salinity stresses was assessed. A field experiment under …

Silicon influences soil availability and accumulation of mineral nutrients in various plant species

M Greger, T Landberg, M Vaculík - Plants, 2018 - mdpi.com
Silicon (Si) effects on mineral nutrient status in plants are not well investigated. It is known
that Si has a beneficial effect on plants under stressed conditions. The aim was to make a …

Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust‐amended agricultural soil

ME Kelland, PW Wade, AL Lewis… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐based enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a biogeochemical carbon dioxide removal
(CDR) strategy aiming to accelerate natural geological processes of carbon sequestration …

Nanosilica facilitates silica uptake, growth and stress tolerance in plants

P Mathur, S Roy - Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanobiotechnology has gained considerable momentum in the field of plant sciences in the
last few years. Nanomaterials of various metal oxides has been utilized for enhancing …

Silicon in the soil–plant continuum: Intricate feedback mechanisms within ecosystems

O Katz, D Puppe, D Kaczorek, NB Prakash, J Schaller - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

The combined use of silicon and arbuscular mycorrhizas to mitigate salinity and drought stress in rice

H Etesami, Z Li, FJM Maathuis, J Cooke - Environmental and experimental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Rice (Oryza sativa L.), being a high silicon (Si)-accumulator, is a major global food
crop for more than half of the world's population. However, both salinity and drought, two of …

Impacts of exogenous mineral silicon on cadmium migration and transformation in the soil-rice system and on soil health

C Ma, K Ci, J Zhu, Z Sun, Z Liu, X Li, Y Zhu… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Exogenous silicon has been shown to enhance plant growth and alleviate heavy metals
toxicity, but the regulation mechanism of silicon on cadmium migration and transformation in …

Silicon alleviates copper toxicity in flax plants by up-regulating antioxidant defense and secondary metabolites and decreasing oxidative damage

HS El-Beltagi, MR Sofy, MI Aldaej, HI Mohamed - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent years, nutrient management has gained much attention as a way to mitigate heavy
metal stress. Silicon (Si) promotes plant defense responses against toxic metal stresses. In …