The potential to reduce emissions from agriculture and increase the amount of carbon
captured in soils is currently being examined by researchers in a number of countries. This
paper describes a process of carbon capture and long-term storage using silica phytoliths
and, provides the results of a study of this process on newly planted and ratooned
sugarcane varieties. Our results indicate that a) there was significant variation in the
phytolith occluded carbon (PhytOC) content of different varieties, b) this did not appear to be …