Ideas tagged with plant
In recent years there has been much work on the possibility that carbon could be sequestered in phytoliths and contribute to solving global warming.<sup>[1](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02118.x/full), [2](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11368-016-1527-x)<...
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...