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ArticleThe New phytologist2025

Across 33 broad-leaved deciduous woody species, silicon enhances leaf lamina stiffness but not tensile strength whereas cellulose enhances both.

Hirofumi Kajino, Yusuke Onoda, Kaoru Kitajima

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Article in The New phytologist, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hirofumi KajinoGraduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3388-5832
Yusuke OnodaGraduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6245-2342
Kaoru KitajimaGraduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6822-8536

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science #19H05365
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Silicon (Si) has been hypothesized to be a metabolically cheaper substitute for carbon-based cell wall components to support leaves. However, how the biomechanical function of Si, deposited as amorphous silica, differs from cell wall components remains untested. Here, we tested the hypothesis that species with higher leaf Si concentrations have stiffer but more brittle leaf lamina. We measured the mechanical properties, including modulus of elasticity (E), tensile strength (σ

Indexed as

CellulosePlant LeavesSiliconTensile StrengthWoodBiomechanical PhenomenaCell WallElasticityCelluloseSiliconbiomechanicscell wall componentsleaf mechanical propertiessilicontrade‐off

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PMID40211568
PMCPMC12059519

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