Silica in plants: biological, biochemical and chemical studies.

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Physiological functions of beneficial elements. (2009, neutral): “Zn, Cd and Al silicates), followed by sequestration of the metals in the vacuoles [41,46,53].”
Silicon: its manifold roles in plants (2009, neutral): “Currie and Perry (2007) have discussed the biomineralization of silicon.”
The ecology of herbivore‐induced silicon defences in grasses (2016, background): “Silicon defences are usually deployed as phytoliths or other forms of amorphous silica (SiO2) in the leaf epidermis, or deposited in spines, trichomes or hairs on the leaf surface (Currie & Perry 2007; Hartley et al. 2015; Str€omberg, Di Stilio & Song 2016).”
Silicon Nanoparticles More Efficiently Alleviate Arsenate Toxicity than Silicon in Maize Cultiver and Hybrid Differing in Arsenate Tolerance (2016, neutral): “In the soil, it comprises more than 25% of the earth’s crust (Currie and Perry, 2007) and is available to plants in the form of monosilicic acid [Si(OH)4].”