Carbon sequestered in phytoliths, the silicified features of plants, may accumulate in soils
and sediments for several hundreds to thousands of years depending mainly on the …

Silica is deposited extra-and intracellularly in plants in solid form, as phytoliths. Phytoliths
have emerged as accepted taxonomic tools and proxies for reconstructing ancient flora …

Phytolith remains of rice (Oryza sativa L.) recovered from the Shangshan site in the Lower
Yangtze of China have previously been recognized as the earliest examples of rice …

There has been much interest in the possibility that phytoliths might sequester substantial
amounts of carbon and might continue to do so in soils and sediments after the death of the …

Phytoliths are silica casts of plant cells, created within and between living tissues across
almost all plant clades. Because they are abundant, durable and distinctive, phytoliths are …

Phytoliths contain occluded organic compounds called phytC. Recently, phytC content,
nature, origin, paleoenvironmental meaning and impact in the global C cycle have been the …

Silicon (Si) is the most abundant element on the earth's surface after oxygen. Si can be
found in minerals, electronic chips, cosmetic products, and plants for instance. Here we …

Phytoliths, which are noncrystalline particles of amorphous silica that form inside plant cells,
contribute to the global carbon cycle through their ability to occlude organic carbon. The …

Phytoliths of biogenic silica play a vital role in the silicon biogeochemical cycle and occlude
a fraction of organic carbon. The location, chemical speciation, and quantification of this …

Aims Increasing the leaf silicification of cereal crops to ameliorate defenses against stresses
and improve yields constitutes a major challenge in (sub-) tropical regions with highly …