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The phytolith carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems: the underestimated potential of bamboo forest

Ecological Processes, 2023
Background Terrestrial ecosystems contain significant carbon storage, vital to the global carbon cycle and climate change. Alterations in human production activities and environmental factors affect the stability of carbon storage in soil.
Xuekun Cheng, Huiru Lv, Shuhan Liu, Chong Li, Pingheng Li, Yufeng Zhou, Yongjun Shi, Guomo Zhou   +7 more
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Increasing the FAIRness of phytolith data

, 2022
This presentation was given on the 4th November 2021 to the EOSC WP 3 the meeting for FAIR Phytoliths project. It presents the projects aims and goals, scientific motivation, technical background, current status of data resources and workflows, workplan for implementation, training needs and key risks.
Kerfant, Celine, Karoune, Emma, Lancelotti, Carla, Ruiz-Pérez, Javier, García-Granero, Juan José, Madella, Marco   +5 more
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Phytoliths in European Archaeological Research

, 2018
Phytoliths are now used in archaeological research around the world. Europe was somewhat slow to take this up, but now phytoliths feature in many archaeological investigations.
Zurro Hernández, Débora, Hodson, Martin J., Débora Zurro, Martin J. Hodson   +3 more
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Silicon Deposition and Phytolith Morphological Variation in Culm Sheaths of Dendrocalamus brandisii at Different Growth Stages

Plants
Bamboo is an efficient silicon accumulator with diverse phytolith morphotypes and composition. The bamboo culm sheath, traditionally considered as a modified leaf, plays a key role in bamboo taxonomy and provides significant mechanical and physiological ...
Siyuan Duan, Maobiao Li, Dongbo Xie, Rui Xu, Shuguang Wang, Changming Wang, Hui Zhan   +6 more
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Evidence for a defensive ceiling in the effectiveness of plant silicon defences against an insect herbivore

Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.
Silicon‐mediated resistance in wheat reaches a defensive plateau; accumulating silicon beyond 2mM provides no additional benefit for suppressing insect herbivore relative growth rates. Silicon supplementation significantly increases wheat biomass and effectively ameliorates plant mass losses caused by Helicoverpa armigera herbivory. Lower mandible wear
Marie‐Emma Denarié, Uffe N. Nielsen, Susan E. Hartley, Richard Wuhrer, Scott N. Johnson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Silicon Supplementation of Rescuegrass Reduces Herbivory by a Grasshopper

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019
The theory of coevolution suggests that herbivores play an important role in the diversification and composition of plant communities. A prevalent idea holds that grasses and grazing animals participated in an evolutionary “arms race” as grassland ...
Showkat Hamid Mir, Irfan Rashid, Barkat Hussain, Zafar A. Reshi, Rezwana Assad, Irshad A. Sofi   +5 more
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When biology meets materials science – Interdisciplinary applications of electron microscopy

Journal of Microscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Research at the interface between biology and materials science creates challenges for electron microscopists. Everything from the sample preparation to the choice of imaging and analytical techniques and the interpretation of the resulting data refuses to sit comfortably within the domain of one discipline or the other.
Martin Saunders, Peta L. Clode, Enoch V. S. Wong, Anna‐Lee Jessop, Gerd E. Shröder‐Turk, Felix de Tombeur   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

This shows phytoliths recovered from a quid.

, 2015
The upper picture shows a single fiber within an Agave quid. The parallel lines of reflective structures are rows of phytoliths. The lower picture shows raphid and rhomboid phytoliths recovered from an Agave quid.
Melissa A. Baier (778548), Karl J. Reinhard (344111), Emily E. Hammerl (778547)   +2 more
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Experimental crop growing in Jordan to develop methodology for the identification of ancient crop irrigation [PDF]

, 2008
Crop irrigation has long been recognized as having been important for the evolution of social complexity in several parts of the world. Structural evidence for water management, as in the form of wells, ditches and dams, is often difficult to interpret ...
Jenkins, Emma L., Jenkins, E., Jamjoum, K., Nuimat, Sameeh, Nortcliff, S., Nuimat, S., Jamjoum, Khalil, Mithen, S., Finlayson, Bill, Finlayson, B., Mithen, S.J.   +10 more
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Bulliform Phytolith Size of Rice and Its Correlation With Hydrothermal Environment: A Preliminary Morphological Study on Species in Southern China

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019
In the last decade, our understanding of rice domestication has improved by new archaeological findings using advanced analytical techniques such as morphological and morphometric analyses on rice grains, spikelet bases and phytoliths, and ancient DNA ...
Can Wang, Houyuan Lu, Houyuan Lu, Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Jianping Zhang, Limi Mao, Yong Ge, Yong Ge   +8 more
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