On 21/04/97 , Jean-Philippe GRARD wrote:
>I am trying to get informations about the implication of
>ORGANIC SILICON in general metabolism.
>
Sorry for the long delay in following this up, but I didn't have the
reference to hand before. Martin Hodson in my department (School of
Biological & Molecular Sciences, Oxford Brookes) works on aluminium
toxicity in plants and the effects of silicon. It's a somewhat involved
area, because the effects vary with plants and it is necessary to ensure
that the experiments are studying a genuine interaction and are not just
recording a chemical precipitation of the aluminium in the nutrient
solution. He has published a review:
Hodson, M J & Evans, D E: J. Exp. Bot. 46, 161-171, 1995.
David Fell
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