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ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Plant Silicon Defences Suppress Herbivore Growth but Trigger Compensatory Feeding in a Moderate-Accumulating Grass.

Scott N Johnson, Ximena Cibils-Stewart, Jannatul Ferdous

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Article in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Scott N JohnsonHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-8388-8345
Ximena Cibils-StewartHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0296-5554
Jannatul FerdousHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia.

Funding

Australian Research Council FT170100342 and LP220200872
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Silicon (Si) accumulation is a widespread anti-herbivore defence in grasses, yet little is known about how insects counteract silicification, including via compensatory feeding, or whether Si-mediated changes in plant stoichiometry also influence herbivore performance. We examined how Si supplementation alters foliar Si, carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) in two grasses with contrasting accumulation strategies,

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feeding behaviourherbivoreherbivore growth ratesinsect herbivorenutrientsplant defencesilica

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PMID42122870
PMCPMC13165232

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