Editorial: Frontiers in Phytolith Research

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
² Institute of the Surface-Earth System Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
³ Department of Ancient Scripture, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States.
⁴ R.H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
⁵ Department of Biology, Global Change Ecology Centre, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium.

Editorial

Martin J Hodson et al. Front Plant Sci. 2020.

. 2020 Apr 17:11:454.

doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00454. eCollection 2020.

¹ Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
² Institute of the Surface-Earth System Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
³ Department of Ancient Scripture, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States.
⁴ R.H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
⁵ Department of Biology, Global Change Ecology Centre, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium.

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Keywords: biogeochemistry; biomineralisation; carbon sequestration; phytolith; silica; silicon.

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