Consistent alleviation of abiotic stress with silicon addition: a meta-analysis

Functional Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1340-1357

  Cooke, Julia ^a,b   Leishman, Michelle R ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

agriculture; heavy metal toxicity; oxidative stress; silica; silicon fertilizer; stress alleviation

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; ANTIOXIDANT; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATABASE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAVY METAL; META-ANALYSIS; OXIDATION; PLANT; SILICON; SPECTRUM; TOXICITY;

EID: 84981156817     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12713     Document Type: Article

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