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How Significant are Conifers for the Silicon Biogeochemical Cycle?

The conifers were generally shown by [Hodson et al. (2005)](http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/6/1027.short) to be low silicon accumulators. The apparent reason is that conifers (and many gymnosperms) largely lack NIPIIs, aquaporins that are involved in silicon transport in plants ([Tremba...

By Martin Hodson