Got silicon? The non-essential beneficial plant nutrient.

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Current opinion in plant biology

• Publication date

  2003-06-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/S1369-5266(03)00041-4PMID 12753977
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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