Overview
- Editors:
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Fabrício A. Rodrigues
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Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil
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Lawrence E. Datnoff
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Agricultural Center, Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, , Louisiana State University, BATON ROUGE, USA
- Up-to-date information on silicon’s effects against different components of host plant resistance in a vast number of dicot and monocot species
- Detailed explanation as to why root vs foliarly applied silicon is more effective in suppressing plant diseases
- Current and future perspectives on how silicon potentiates host plant resistance
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xiii
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- Lawrence E. Datnoff, Fabrício A. Rodrigues
Pages 1-5
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- Brenda Servaz Tubaña, Joseph Raymond Heckman
Pages 7-51
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- Alessandro Antônio Fortunato, Fabrício A. Rodrigues, Lawrence E. Datnoff
Pages 53-66
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- Fabrício A. Rodrigues, Leandro José Dallagnol, Henrique Silva Silveira Duarte, Lawrence E. Datnoff
Pages 67-108
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- Fabrício A. Rodrigues, Renata Sousa Resende, Leandro José Dallagnol, Lawrence E. Datnoff
Pages 109-138
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- Lawrence E. Datnoff, Fabrício A. Rodrigues
Pages 139-145
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Back Matter
Pages 147-148
About this book
Silicon, considered to be the second most abundant mineral element in soil, plays an important role in the mineral nutrition of plants. A wide variety of monocot and dicot species have benefited from silicon nutrition, whether direct or indirect, when they are exposed to different types of abiotic and or biotic stresses. Besides the many agronomic and horticultural benefits gained by maintaining adequate levels of this element in the soil and also in the plant tissue, the most notable effect of silicon is the reduction in the intensities of a number of plant diseases caused by biotrophic, hemibiotrophic and necrotrophic plant pathogens in many crops of great economic importance. The aim of this book is to summarize our current understanding of the effects of silicon on plant diseases. The chapters address the dynamics of silicon in soils and plants; the history of silicon in the control of plant diseases; the use of silicon to control soil-borne, seed-borne and foliar diseases in monocots and dicots; the mechanisms involved in the host resistance against infection by plant pathogens mediated by silicon as well as the current knowledge at the omics level, and finally, highlights and prospects for using silicon in the future.
Editors and Affiliations
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Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil
Fabrício A. Rodrigues
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Agricultural Center, Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, , Louisiana State University, BATON ROUGE, USA
Lawrence E. Datnoff
