Round and round in cycles? Silicon-based plant defences and vole population dynamics

Plant-herbivore interactions: silicon concentration in tussock sedges and population dynamics of root voles

(2014) Monika Wieczorek et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Silicon, endophytes and secondary metabolites as grass defenses against mammalian herbivores

(2014) Otso Huitu et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Silicon uptake by wheat: Effects of Si pools and pH

(2013) Martina Gocke et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Silicon-vegetation interaction in multiple ecosystems: a review

(2013) Jonas Schoelynck et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Identification and functional characterization of silicon transporters in soybean using comparative genomics of major intrinsic proteins in Arabidopsis and rice

(2013) Rupesh K. Deshmukh et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Delayed induced silica defences in grasses and their potential for destabilising herbivore population dynamics

(2012) Jennifer J. H. Reynolds et al.   OECOLOGIA

More than herbivory: levels of silica-based defences in grasses vary with plant species, genotype and location

(2012) Eeva M. Soininen et al.   OIKOS

Discovery of a multigene family of aquaporin silicon transporters in the primitive plantEquisetum arvense

(2012) Caroline Grégoire et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Cloning, functional characterization and heterologous expression of TaLsi1, a wheat silicon transporter gene

(2012) Jonatan Montpetit et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Functional Characterization of a Silicon Transporter Gene Implicated in Silicon Distribution in Barley

(2012) N. Yamaji et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

New insight into silica deposition in horsetail (Equisetum arvense)

(2011) Chinnoi Law et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Isolation and functional characterization of an influx silicon transporter in two pumpkin cultivars contrasting in silicon accumulation

(2011) Namiki Mitani et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

An enormous amorphous silica stock in boreal wetlands

(2010) Eric Struyf et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Delayed density-dependent onset of spring reproduction in a fluctuating population of field voles

(2010) Torbjørn Ergon et al.   OIKOS

Is plant ecology more siliceous than we realise?

(2010) Julia Cooke et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Identification and Characterization of Maize and Barley Lsi2-Like Silicon Efflux Transporters Reveals a Distinct Silicon Uptake System from That in Rice

(2009) N. Mitani et al.   PLANT CELL

A Novel Mechanism by which Silica Defends Grasses Against Herbivory

(2008) J. W. Hunt et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Are silica defences in grasses driving vole population cycles?

(2008) F.P Massey et al.   Biology Letters

Functions and transport of silicon in plants

(2008) J. F. Ma et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Silica: an essential nutrient in wetland biogeochemistry

(2008) Eric Struyf et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Physical defences wear you down: progressive and irreversible impacts of silica on insect herbivores

(2008) Fergus P. Massey et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

A Transporter Regulating Silicon Distribution in Rice Shoots

(2008) N. Yamaji et al.   PLANT CELL

HvLsi1 is a silicon influx transporter in barley

(2008) Yukako Chiba et al.   PLANT JOURNAL