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Visualising Silicon in Plants: Histochemistry, Silica Sculptures and Elemental Imaging.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Cell walls dominate the cellular allocation of silicon in sedges.Journal of experimental botany · 2026Article
- Molecular tuning of DNA framework-programmed silicification by cationic silica cluster attachment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- The Role of Confinement in Biomineralization.Chemical reviews · 2025Review
- Beyond essentiality: silicon as a systems regulator of photosynthesis under stress scenarios.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Review
- A Study on the Use of the Phyto-Courier Technology in Tobacco Leaves Infected byInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Agronomic Investigation of Spray Dispersion of Metal-Based Nanoparticles on Sunflowers in Real-World Environments.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Inorganic Polymeric Materials for Injured Tissue Repair: Biocatalytic Formation and Exploitation.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Silicon Supplementation Modulates Physiochemical Characteristics to Balance and Ameliorate Salinity Stress in Mung Bean.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Quantification of Silicon in Rice Based on an Electrochemical Sensor via an Amplified Electrocatalytic Strategy.Micromachines · 2021Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Silicon is a non-essential element for plants and is available in biota as silicic acid. Its presence has been associated with a general improvement of plant vigour and response to exogenous stresses. Plants accumulate silicon in their tissues as amorphous silica and cell walls are preferential sites. While several papers have been published on the mitigatory effects that silicon has on plants under stress, there has been less research on imaging silicon in plant tissues. Imaging offers important complementary results to molecular data, since it provides spatial information. Herein, the focus is on histochemistry coupled to optical microscopy, fluorescence and scanning electron microscopy of microwave acid extracted plant silica, techniques based on particle-induced X-ray emission, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and mass spectrometry imaging (NanoSIMS). Sample preparation procedures will not be discussed in detail, as several reviews have already treated this subject extensively. We focus instead on the information that each technique provides by offering, for each imaging approach, examples from both silicifiers (giant horsetail and rice) and non-accumulators (
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