Silicon and Plant Diseases
One of the most notable plant effects of silicon is the reduction in the intensities of a number of plant diseases caused by biotrophic, hemibiotrophic, and necrotrophic pathogens. This reduction in symptom expression is due to the element’s effect on a n
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Silicon and Plant Diseases
Silicon and Plant Diseases
Fabrício A. Rodrigues • Lawrence E. Datnoff Editors
Silicon and Plant Diseases
Editors Fabrício A. Rodrigues Departamento de Fitopatologia Universidade Federal de Viçosa Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Lawrence E. Datnoff Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology Louisiana State University Agricultural Center Baton Rouge, LA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-22929-4 ISBN 978-3-319-22930-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22930-0
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Foreword
Silicon (Si) is the most abundant mineral element in the earth’s crust, so all plants rooting in soil contain Si in quantities that exceed many essential mineral elements. However, due to its universal existence and lack of obvious visible deficiency symptoms, very little attention was paid to the role of this element in plant growth until 1917, when the first scientific report on Si suppressing a plant disease was published by Onodera in Japanese. Onodera found that rice leaves with a low Si content was susceptible to blast while leaves with high Si were more resistant to this disease. Nowadays, Si is known to suppress many plant diseases in both monocots and dicots such as bacterial blight, brown spot, grain discoloration, leaf scald, leaf and panicle blast, stem rot, and sheath blight in rice as well as powdery mildew in wheat and cucumber. Mechanisms underlying the Si-mediated resistance to different diseases have also been intensively studied. In this book written by Drs. Rodrigues from Brazil and Datnoff from USA, the authors comprehensively cover all aspects on the relationship between Si and plant disease that span from history to disease control, m
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