Is silicon a panacea for alleviating drought and salt stress in crops?

SJ Thorne, SE Hartley, FJM Maathuis - Frontiers in plant science, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Salinity affects around 20% of all arable land while an even larger area suffers from
recurrent drought. Together these stresses suppress global crop production by as much as …

Silicon and salinity: crosstalk in crop-mediated stress tolerance mechanisms

A Khan, AL Khan, S Muneer, YH Kim… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Salinity stress hinders the growth potential and productivity of crop plants by influencing
photosynthesis, disturbing the osmotic and ionic concentrations, producing excessive …

[HTML][HTML] Nano-selenium, silicon and H2O2 boost growth and productivity of cucumber under combined salinity and heat stress

TA Shalaby, E Abd-Alkarim, F El-Aidy… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The production of cucumber under combined salinity and heat stress is a crucial challenge
facing many countries particularly in arid environments. This challenge could be controlled …

Silicon mediated improvement in the growth and ion homeostasis by decreasing Na+ uptake in maize (Zea mays L.) cultivars exposed to salinity stress

M Ali, S Afzal, A Parveen, M Kamran, MR Javed… - Plant Physiology and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Silicon (Si), a major contributing constituent for plant resistance against abiotic stresses. In
spite of this, the detailed mechanisms underlying the potential of Si in mitigating salt toxicity …

Silicon nutrition in plants under water-deficit conditions: overview and prospects

M Irfan, MA Maqsood, H Rehman, W Mahboob… - Water, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Drought is one of the major constraints for sustainable crop production worldwide, especially
in arid and semiarid regions. The global warming and climate change scenario has …

Soil salinity, a serious environmental issue and plant responses: A metabolomics perspective

KH Chele, MM Tinte, LA Piater, IA Dubery… - Metabolites, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
The effects of global warming have increasingly led to devastating environmental stresses,
such as heat, salinity, and drought. Soil salinization is a serious environmental issue and …

Exogenous silicon application improves fruit yield and quality of drip-irrigated greenhouse tomato by regulating physiological characteristics and growth under …

Z Dou, AE Abdelghany, H Zhang, H Feng, Y Zhang… - Scientia …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Improving crop productivity in drought-stressed and salt-affected regions is the key to
promoting sustainable agriculture. Silicon is considered to improve the stress tolerance of …

Silicon improves ion homeostasis and growth of liquorice under salt stress by reducing plant Na+ uptake

Z Shen, X Pu, S Wang, X Dong, X Cheng, M Cheng - Scientific Reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
Silicon (Si) effectively alleviates the effects of salt stress in plants and can enhance salt
tolerance in liquorice. However, the mechanisms by which Si improved salt tolerance in …

Regulatory role of silicon on growth, potassium uptake, ionic homeostasis, proline accumulation, and antioxidant capacity of soybean plants under salt stress

K Peña Calzada, A Calero Hurtado… - Journal of Plant Growth …, 2023‏ - Springer
In this study, we investigated the regulatory roles of different vias of silicon (Si) applications
on soybean biochemical, physiological, and growth responses and their effectiveness in salt …

Different methods of silicon application attenuate salt stress in sorghum and sunflower by modifying the antioxidative defense mechanism

AC Hurtado, DA Chiconato, R de Mello Prado… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Soil salinization is the most common abiotic stress limiting agricultural productivity
worldwide. Recent research has suggested that the application of silicon (Si) has beneficial …