Silicon application enhances resistance to xanthomonas wilt disease in banana

Field trial of Xanthomonas wilt disease-resistant bananas in East Africa

(2014) Leena Tripathi et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Induction of systemic resistance and defense-related enzymes after elicitation of resistance by rhizobacteria and silicon application against Ralstonia solanacearum in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

(2013) Henok Kurabachew et al.   CROP PROTECTION

Towards establishing broad-spectrum disease resistance in plants: silicon leads the way

(2012) Jonas Van Bockhaven et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Silicon Suppresses Fusarium Wilt Development in Banana Plants

(2012) Alessandro Antonio Fortunato et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY

Silicon nutrition increases grain yield, which, in turn, exerts a feed-forward stimulation of photosynthetic rates via enhanced mesophyll conductance and alters primary metabolism in rice

(2012) Kelly C. Detmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phenotypic and molecular characterization of resistance induction by single and combined application of chitosan and silicon in tomato against Ralstonia solanacearum

(2012) Leonard Muriithi Kiirika et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Benefits of plant silicon for crops: a review

(2011) Flore Guntzer et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Protective role of silicon in the banana-Cylindrocladium spathiphylli pathosystem

(2011) Marie-Liesse Vermeire et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PATHOLOGY

Silicon Reduces Black Sigatoka Development in Banana

(2011) L. Kablan et al.   PLANT DISEASE

Development of a specific molecular tool for detecting Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum

(2011) S. Adikini et al.   PLANT PATHOLOGY

Transcriptome of silicon-induced resistance against Ralstonia solanacearum in the silicon non-accumulator tomato implicates priming effect

(2010) Hassan Ghareeb et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Xanthomonas Wilt: A Threat to Banana Production in East and Central Africa

(2009) Leena Tripathi et al.   PLANT DISEASE

Role of silicon in enhancing resistance to freezing stress in two contrasting winter wheat cultivars

(2008) Yongchao Liang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Physiological and cytological mechanisms of silicon-induced resistance in rice against blast disease

(2008) Kunzheng Cai et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM