Editorial: Role of Silicon in Plants

Affiliations

¹ Département de Phytologie-Faculté des Sciences de l'Agriculture et de l'Alimentation, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
² Group of Plant Stress Physiology, Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Japan.

Editorial

Rupesh K Deshmukh et al. Front Plant Sci. 2017.

. 2017 Oct 25:8:1858.

doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01858. eCollection 2017.

¹ Département de Phytologie-Faculté des Sciences de l'Agriculture et de l'Alimentation, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
² Group of Plant Stress Physiology, Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Japan.

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Keywords: abiotic stress tolerance; biotic stress tolerance; physiology; silicon uptake; transport dynamics.

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