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Bulliform Phytolith Research in Wild and Domesticated Rice Paddy Soil in South China.

PLoS ONE, 2015
Bulliform phytoliths play an important role in researching rice origins as they can be used to distinguish between wild and domesticated rice. Rice bulliform phytoliths are characterized by numerous small shallow fish-scale decorations on the lateral ...
Xiujia Huan, Houyuan Lu, Can Wang, Xiangan Tang, Xinxin Zuo, Yong Ge, Keyang He   +6 more
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Phytolith profile of Acrachne racemosa (B. Heyne ex Roem. & Schult.) Ohwi (Cynodonteae, Chloridoideae, Poaceae).

PLoS ONE, 2022
Acrachne racemosa (B. Heyne. ex Roem. & Schult.) Ohwi of the subfamily Chloridoideae of the family Poaceae is an economically important grass species. Grasses are characterized by deposits of silica in the cells or tissues in the form of phytoliths which
Priya Badgal, Poonam Chowdhary, Mudassir Ahmad Bhat, Amarjit Singh Soodan   +3 more
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Triple Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotopes of Soil Water Across Climates, Seasons, and Depths

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 27, Issue 7, July 2026.
Abstract Soil waters are a central component of the terrestrial water cycle. Their δ2H, δ18O, and d‐excess values contain rich information about hydroclimate, including the source of moisture and its evaporative history. Paleoclimate workers seek to investigate ancient hydroclimates via triple oxygen isotope geochemistry, termed Δ′17O, which is ...
Julia R. Kelson, Naomi E. Levin, David P. Huber, Lixin Jin, Hugo A. Gutiérrez Jurado, Jennifer L. Pierce   +5 more
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Effects of leaf length and development stage on the triple oxygen isotope signature of grass leaf water and phytoliths: insights for a proxy of continental atmospheric humidity [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2019
Continental relative humidity (RH) is a key climate parameter, but there is a lack of quantitative RH proxies suitable for climate model–data comparisons.
A. Alexandre, E. Webb, A. Landais, C. Piel, S. Devidal, C. Sonzogni, M. Couapel, J.-C. Mazur, M. Pierre, F. Prié, C. Vallet-Coulomb, C. Outrequin, J. Roy   +12 more
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Marine silicon for biomedical sustainability

BMEMat, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2026.
Schematic illustrating marine silicon for biomedical engineering. Abstract Despite momentous divergence from oceanic origin, human beings and marine organisms exhibit elemental homology through silicon utilization. Notably, silicon serves as a critical constituent in multiple biomedical processes.
Yahui Han, Zhibo Yang, Wei Xia, Chengtie Wu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A review of carbon isotopes of phytoliths: implications for phytolith-occluded carbon sources

Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2020
Phytolith-occluded carbon (PhytOC) is mainly derived from the products of photosynthesis, which can be preserved in soils and sediments for hundreds-to-thousands of years due to the resilient nature of the amorphous phytolith silica. Therefore, stable and radioactive carbon (C) isotopes of phytoliths can be effectively utilized in paleoecological and ...
Shilei Yang, Qian Hao, Hailong Wang, Lukas Van Zwieten, Changxun Yu, Taoze Liu, Xiaomin Yang, Xiaodong Zhang, Zhaoliang Song   +8 more
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The Meaning of Mangabey Molars (And Premolars)

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The postcanine teeth of mangabeys (members of Cercocebus and Lophocebus) have figured prominently in discussions about the relationship between hard‐object feeding and dental form. Grey‐cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena) and sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) both have thickly enameled posterior teeth.
Debbie Guatelli‐Steinberg, W. Scott McGraw   +1 more
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Loess Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2026.
Loess in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) has been studied since its first documented recognition (on Banks Peninsula) in 1878 by Julius von Haast. A decade later, John Hardcastle revealed that southern ANZ loess was both glacial in origin and contained signals of past climates.
Brent V. Alloway, David J. Lowe, Bradley J. Pillans, Peter C. Almond, Alan S. Palmer   +4 more
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Traversing the effects of ploidy changes in different Eragrostis curvula genotypes through high‐throughput RNA sequencing

The Plant Genome, Volume 19, Issue 2, June 2026.
Abstract Polyploidization has played a key role in plant genome evolution. Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Ness, a perennial forage grass species of the Poaceae family, is an excellent model for investigating genome duplication due to its natural variation in ploidy levels.
D. F. Santoro, J. Carballo, M. C. Pasten, C. A. Gallo, E. Albertini, V. Echenique   +5 more
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Phytolith Characteristics in Leaves and Culm Sheaths of Three Sympodial Bamboo Genera (Bambusoideae) in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, China

Agronomy
This study focused on the phytolith characteristics of leaves and culm sheaths from nine bamboo species across three genera (Bambusa Schreb., Gigantochloa Nees, and Dendrocalamus Kurz ex Munro) in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden. By analyzing
Taiyang Zhao, Mengsi Duan, Guomi Luo, Kemei Gao, Tingxuan Fu, Xiao Wang, Rui Xu, Changming Wang   +7 more
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