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Impact of rice cultivar and organ on elemental composition of phytoliths and the release of bio-available silicon

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Plant Science, October 2014
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Title
Impact of rice cultivar and organ on elemental composition of phytoliths and the release of bio-available silicon
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Frontiers in Plant Science, October 2014
DOI 10.3389/fpls.2014.00529
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Zimin Li, Zhaoliang Song, Jean-Thomas Cornelis

Abstract

The continental bio-cycling of silicon (Si) plays a key role in global Si cycle and as such partly controls global carbon (C) budget through nutrition of marine and terrestrial biota, accumulation of phytolith-occluded organic carbon (PhytOC) and weathering of silicate minerals. Despite the key role of elemental composition of phytoliths on their solubility in soils, the impact of plant cultivar and organ on the elemental composition of phytoliths in Si high-accumulator plants, such as rice (Oryza sativa) is not yet fully understood. Here we show that rice cultivar significantly impacts the elemental composition of phytoliths (Si, Al, Fe, and C) in different organs of the shoot system (grains, sheath, leaf and stem). The amount of occluded OC within phytoliths is affected by contents of Si, Al, and Fe in plants, while independent of the element composition of phytoliths. Our data document, for different cultivars, higher bio-available Si release from phytoliths of leaves and sheaths, which are characterized by higher enrichment with Al and Fe (i.e., lower Si/Al and Si/Fe ratios), compared to grains and stems. We indicate that phytolith solubility in soils may be controlled by rice cultivar and type of organs. Our results highlight that the role of the morphology, the hydration rate and the chemical composition in the solubility of phytoliths and the kinetic release of Si in soil solution needs to be studied further. This is central to a better understanding of the impact of soil amendment with different plant organs and cultivars on soil OC stock and on the delivery of dissolved Si as we show that sheath and leaf rice organs are both characterized by higher content of OC occluded in phytolith and higher phytolith solubility compared to grains and stems. Our study shows the importance of studying the impact of the agro-management on the evolution of sinks and sources of Si and C in soils used for Si-high accumulator plants.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Italy 1 2%
Australia 1 2%
Unknown 63 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 17 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Lecturer 3 5%
Other 3 5%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 16 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 25 38%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 6 9%
Environmental Science 6 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 21 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 October 2014.
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#15,739,529
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Outputs from Frontiers in Plant Science
#8,550
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#140,601
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Plant Science
#81
of 219 outputs
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