Depletion of plant-available silicon in soils: A possible cause of declining rice yields

Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis

Volumn 28, Issue 13-14, 1997, Pages 1245-1252

  Savant, Narayan K ^a   Datnoff, Lawrence E ^b   Snyder, George H ^b  

^a StaSav International   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RICE; RICE YIELD; SILICON; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL NUTRIENTS; YIELD DECLINE;

ORYZA SATIVA; POACEAE;

EID: 0030967447     PISSN: 00103624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00103629709369870     Document Type: Article

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