Dynamics of Silicon in Soil and Plant to Establish Silicate
Plant takes up silicon as H 4 SiO 4 primarily through root absorption. Earlier works strongly supported this mechanism, specifically in rice, following the identification of silicon transporters which facilitate the active transport of H 4 SiO 4 across cell membranes (Mitani and Ma 2005; Ma et al. 2006, 2007).The high density of transporters, Lsi1 and …
