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Functions of silicon and phytolith in higher plants
Plant Signaling and Behavior, 2023 Silicon (Si) is abundant in the lithosphere, and previous studies have confirmed that silicon plays an important role in plant growth. Higher plants absorb soluble silicon from soil through roots which is deposited in plant tissues mainly in the form of ...
Rui Xu +4 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 Phytoliths are composed of 66 to 91% SiO2 and 1 to 6% organic carbon (C) known as phytolith occluded carbon (PhytOC). PhytOC is critical for long-term C storage in the agroecosystem.
Mohsina Anjum +1 more
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Does silica concentration and phytolith ultrastructure relate to phytolith hardness? [PDF]
Biosurface and Biotribology, 2017 Grasses are an important part of the forage of many herbivorous mammals and their phytoliths have long been regarded as the most important agent of tooth wear. Recent work has challenged this “paradigm” in finding evidence 1.
Ellen Schulz-Kornas +3 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Crop cultivation has great potential to result in a phytolith carbon sink and can play important roles in the long-term stable carbon sequestration of terrestrial ecosystems.
Linjiao Wang +3 more
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Phytolith Production and Morphotypes in Modern Plants on the Tibetan Plateau
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Tibetan Plateau is the “third pole” of Earth and significantly influences the world’s ecosystems. However, limited work on phytolith analysis has been done due to its harsh environment, and no study on phytolith production and morphotypes in modern ...
Yong Ge +4 more
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Quaternary, 2023 Phytolith analysis is a well-established archaeobotanical tool, having provided important insights into pre-Columbian crop cultivation and domestication across Amazonia through the Holocene.
James Hill +15 more
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Past plant use in Jordan as revealed by archaeological and ethnoarchaeological phytolith signatures [PDF]
, 2011 Ninety-six phytolith samples were analysed from seven archaeological sites ranging from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the Classical period and from two ethnoarchaeological sites in Jordan.
Jenkins, E.L. +5 more
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Dissolution does not affect grass phytolith assemblages
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2023 14 Dissolution is one among several taphonomical processes that may bias paleoenvironmental, 15 paleoclimatic or taxonomic interpretation of phytolith assemblages.
Hongye Liu +5 more
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The history of phytolith research in Australasian archaeology and palaeoecology [PDF]
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2023 Although phytolith research has come of age in archaeology and palaeoecology internationally, it has remained relatively marginalised from mainstream practice in Australasia.
Molly Turnbull, A. Parker, N. Jankowski
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Phytolith Palaeoenvironments at Mumba Rock Shelter
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The rock shelter site of Mumba in northern Tanzania plays a pivotal role in the overall study of the late Pleistocene archaeology of East Africa with an emphasis on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition.
Julio Mercader +10 more
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