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Silicon in agriculture /
Presenting the first book to focus on the importance of silicon for plant health and soil productivity and on our current understanding of this element as it relates to agriculture. Long considered by plant physiologists as a non-essential element, or plant nutrient, silicon was the center of attent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Elsevier,
2001.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Studies in plant science ;
8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Silicon in plants: Facts vs. concepts
- Silicon as a beneficial element for crop plants
- Silicon transport at the cell and tissue level
- A primer on the aqueous chemistry of silicon
- Silicon Deposition in Higher Plants
- Silicon in horticultural crops grown in soilless culture
- Effect of silicon on plant growth and crop yield
- Plant genotype, silicon concentration, and silicon-related responses
- Silicon and disease resistance in dicotyledons
- The use of silicon for integrated disease management: reducing fungicide applications and enhancing host plant resistance
- Methods for silicon analysis in plants, soils, and fertilizers
- Silicon sources for agriculture
- The relationship between silicon and soil physical and chemical properties
- The economics of silicon for integrated management and sustainable production of rice and sugarcane
- Silicon research down under: Past, present, and future
- Past, present and future research of the role of silicon for sugarcane in southern Africa
- Review of research in Japan on the roles of silicon in conferring resistance against rice blast
- Silicon from rice disease control perspective in Brazil
- Effects of silicon fertilization on disease development and yields of rice in Colombia
- Plant-related silicon research in Canada
- Agricultural utilization of silicon in China
- Past and future advances in silicon research in the Republic of Korea.