|
Silicon protects plants from stress. Benefits of the nutrient especially become evident in adverse situations. While it is so difficult to prove the essentiality of silicon, experts often call the element 'beneficial' or even 'quasi-essential'. As a rule of thumb cereals and other monocotyledonous crops rank as silicon accumulators and dicotyledonous plants are non-accumulators. On hydroponics however, several dicotyledonous pot plants, cut flowers and vegetable crops benefit from silicon fertilisation.
|
|