Abstract The decline of soil nutrient status and productivity crops, restoration health is a key global concern. Crop yields are reduced by degradation, which endangers the world's food supply. further decreased improper fertilizers use in conjunction with intense cropping. A wide variety plants, particularly monocotyledonous crops can collect significant levels silicon their organs showing ben...

Geo-neutrino detection will determine the amount of long lived radioactive elements within our planet and fix the debated radiogenic contribution to the terrestrial heat. In addition, it will provide a direct test of the Bulk Silicate Earth model, a fundamental cosmochemical paradigm about the origin of the Earth. Unorthodox models of Earth’s core (including the presence of potassium or the pos...

ABSTRACT Silicon is an inducer of plant resistance to arthropod pests, being a promising strategy for integrated management. The aim this study was evaluate the effect silicon on biological, reproductive and population aspects parental F1 generations two-spotted spider mite strawberry plants. Potassium silicate, nanosilica water were applied Two-spotted females confined leaf disks oviposition a...

the influence of increasing the sio2/k2o molar ratio on the electrochemical action of a waterbornepotassium silicate zinc-rich coating was investigated by means of electrochemical impedancespectroscopy (eis) and corrosion potential (ecorr) measurements. the eis results showed thatincreasing the sio2/k2o molar ratio in the range of 3.135 to 5 by the addition of nano-sio2 to theresins improved th...

Drought is one of the major environmental stresses that devastatingly impact squash development, growth, and productivity. Potassium silicate can attenuate injuries caused by water stress. Hence, this study was designed to investigate influence three concentrations potassium silicate; 10, 15, 20 g/L on plants versus untreated control under irrigation regimes; 100, 75, 50% estimated crop evapotr...

This is a safety assessment of silica and the related cosmetic ingredients: alumina magnesium metasilicate, aluminum calcium sodium silicate, aluminum iron silicates, hydrated silica, and sodium potassium aluminum silicate. These ingredients are synthetic amorphous silicas and silicates; crystalline silica is not a cosmetic ingredient and is not used in cosmetics. These ingredients are used as ...

 The effect of sodium silicate (Si) and potassium (K) were investigated on the major antioxidant enzyme activities in two different grapevine cultivars (Vitis vinifera L., cvs Yezandai and Malinger Ramfi) under drought stress. The traits included superoxide dismutase (SOD, EC 1.15.1.1), catalase (CAT, EC 1.11.1.6), peroxidase (POD, EC 1.11.1.7), guaiacol peroxidase (GPX, EC 1.11.1.7), ascorbate...

Silicon (Si) is the second most abundant element in soils, and at elevated concentration levels in plant tissue Si is reported to improve plant resistance to a range of biotic and abiotic stresses. in the present study, Si solutions at 100, 300 or 500 mg l-1 made from potassium silicate (K2Sio3) were applied as foliar sprays or soil drenches to pepper (capsicum annum l.) plants, and their effec...