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. 2018 Sep 5:9:1281.
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01281. eCollection 2018.

Plant Silicon and Phytolith Research and the Earth-Life Superdiscipline

Ofir Katz  1
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Plant Silicon and Phytolith Research and the Earth-Life Superdiscipline

Ofir Katz. Front Plant Sci. .
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Keywords: earth system; phytolith; plants; silicon; superdiscipline.

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Four models for transfer and sharing among disciplines (Klink et al., ; Krishnan, 2009). (A) Cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer: Scholars from one discipline (yellow) use knowledge or methods from another discipline asymmetrically and unidirectionally. (B) Multidisciplinary collaboration: One discipline (yellow) initiates a research programme, on which other disciplines work independently. Synthesis is carried out almost solely by the initiating discipline, and although knowledge transfer is not unidirectional, it is asymmetrical. (C) Interdisciplinary framework: Several disciplines share a theoretical framework. All disciplines contribute knowledge to the shared framework and take part in synthesis. Knowledge flows symmetrically, but through a mediating intersection. (D) A superdiscipline: Disciplines are rearranged by relaxing boundaries among them and thus looking at the union rather than at the intersection. Each discipline bears an equal weight and knowledge flows in all directions (ideally) free of constrains.
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