John Raven was an amazing man. I met him when he was external examiner for Plant Biology at Bangor, Wales and I had just lecturing. He did very important work on plant silica #siliceousplants and his 1983 review is still cited.

Martin Hodson's Google Scholar word cloud

I thought I would run this again, as it is a year since I last tried, and a lot has happened since then! Pretty accurate I think! #phytoliths #siliceousplants
Look what I made! 🦋 With help from Scholar Goggler scholargoggler.com

Inter- and intra-observer variation in phytolith morphometry: are measurements comparable? Dr. Welmoed Out, archaeobotanist at Moesgaard Museum in Denmark, presents a paper published together with colleagues from the International Committee on Phytolith Morphometry (ICPM) of the Internat…

Interesting new blog post showing how to avoid phytolith identification varying among researchers by @welmoedo.bsky.social siliceousplants.wordpress.com/2025/01/11/i... #siliceousplants

The book will be out later this year. But I am not just a scientist. I am a human being, and the news that we breached 1.5C last year (maybe temporarily I know!), plus what is happening in S. California is very grim. But now on with the chapter.... 🧪 #siliceousplants

Interested in #teaching #learning #education and #siliceousplants and headed to #BES2024 ? Here’s the timetable for you! Workshops, posters, groups to meet. Please check times with official app as I may have made errors.

Silicon-Carbon Trade-Off in the Epidermis of Sedges Summary by Félix de Tombeur from the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (Montpellier, France) studying silicon dynamics in soil-plant systems. The variation in foliar Si concentrations be…

Cool new blog post looking at Si-C trade-offs in sedges by @felix-detombeur.bsky.social siliceousplants.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/s... #siliceousplants

Cell-specific silicon (Si) and carbon (C) concentrations in Chorizandra enodis and Mesomelaena tetragona acquired using CryoSEM-EDX.

My latest paper: Félix de Tombeur et al. (2024) Anatomical and Trait Analyses Reveal a Silicon-Carbon Trade-Off in the Epidermis of Sedges. Plant Cell and Environment #plantscience #phytoliths #siliceousplants 🧪
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Mechanisms of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Increasing Silicon Uptake by Rice Summary by Li-Xue Qiu, a master student at Zhejiang University, China, studyingAMF-Si-P interactions in soil-crop systems. The majority of vascular plants, including most crops, establish a symbiotic ...

New #siliceousplants paper summary. It’s by Li-Xue Qui on their recent paper about mechanisms of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increasing silicon uptake by rice: siliceousplants.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/m...

How does Silicon fertilization mediate diverse positive effects on crop plants under drought? Dr Kirti Bardhan, Assistant Professor of crop physiology at Navsari Agricultural University, India, currently working as visiting scholar in Texas Tech University, USA, summarizes his recent review pa...

New post: How does Silicon fertilisation mediate diverse positive effects on crop plants under drought? Dr Kirti Bardhan, summarises his recent review paper on this topic here: siliceousplants.wordpress.com/2024/07/15/h... #siliceousplants

The Isotopes in Biogenic Silica 2024 conference will be from 29-31 May 2024 in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. Abstract submission is now open. Registration will be open from 15 February. More info is available here: ibis2024.com #siliceousplants

SILICAMICS 4 conference – IUEM

The Silicamics 4 conference will be 14-18 Oct 2024, in Logonna-Daoulas near Brest (France). Call for abstracts is open until 15 March. More information here: www-iuem.univ-brest.fr/silicamics-4... #siliceousplants