ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Silicon Mitigates Negative Impacts of Drought and UV-B Radiation in Plants.
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- Enhancing UV-B Protection and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Tomato Plants: The Role of Silicon Nanoparticles in Photosynthetic Parameters, Pigments, and Secondary Metabolite Production.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Silicon regulates phosphate deficiency through involvement of auxin and nitric oxide in barley roots.Planta · 2024Article
- Uncovering the mechanisms of salicylic acid-mediated abiotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Changes in the Physiological and Morphometric Characteristics and Biomass Distribution of Forage Grasses Growing under Conditions of Drought and Silicon Application.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Silicon as a Smart Fertilizer for Sustainability and Crop Improvement.Biomolecules · 2022Review
- Different Concentrations of Potassium Silicate in Nutrient Solution Affects Selected Growth Characteristics and Mineral Composition of Barley (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Multiple Role of Silicon Nutrition in Alleviating Environmental Stresses in Sustainable Crop Production.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Improvement of Plant Responses by Nanobiofertilizer: A Step towards Sustainable Agriculture.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Transcriptomic and metabolomic reveals silicon enhances adaptation of rice under dry cultivation by improving flavonoid biosynthesis, osmoregulation, and photosynthesis.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Due to climate change, plants are being more adversely affected by heatwaves, floods, droughts, and increased temperatures and UV radiation. This review focuses on enhanced UV-B radiation and drought, and mitigation of their adverse effects through silicon addition. Studies on UV-B stress and addition of silicon or silicon nanoparticles have been reported for crop plants including rice, wheat, and soybean. These have shown that addition of silicon to plants under UV-B radiation stress increases the contents of chlorophyll, soluble sugars, anthocyanins, flavonoids, and UV-absorbing and antioxidant compounds. Silicon also affects photosynthesis rate, proline content, metal toxicity, and lipid peroxidation. Drought is a stress factor that affects normal plant growth and development. It has been frequently reported that silicon can reduce stress caused by different abiotic factors, including drought. For example, under drought stress, silicon increases ascorbate peroxidase activity, total soluble sugars content, relative water content, and photosynthetic rate. Silicon also decreases peroxidase, catalase, and superoxide dismutase activities, and malondialdehyde content. The effects of silicon on drought and concurrently UV-B stressed plants has not yet been studied in detail, but initial studies show some stress mitigation by silicon.
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