University of Delaware look at adding silicon to soil to strengthen plant defenses

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Aug 15, 2017, 2:44 pm89 pts
To help plants better fend off insect pests, researchers are considering arming them with stones.The University of Delaware’s Ivan Hiltpold and researchers from the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University in Australia are examining the addition of silicon to the soil in which…

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