Silicon and Plant Diseases

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. History of Silicon and Plant Disease

   • Lawrence E. Datnoff, Fabrício A. Rodrigues

   Pages 1-5

3. Silicon in Soils and Plants

   • Brenda Servaz Tubaña, Joseph Raymond Heckman

   Pages 7-51

4. Silicon Control of Soil-borne and Seed-borne Diseases

   • Alessandro Antônio Fortunato, Fabrício A. Rodrigues, Lawrence E. Datnoff

   Pages 53-66

5. Silicon Control of Foliar Diseases in Monocots and Dicots

   • Fabrício A. Rodrigues, Leandro José Dallagnol, Henrique Silva Silveira Duarte, Lawrence E. Datnoff

   Pages 67-108

6. Silicon Potentiates Host Defense Mechanisms Against Infection by Plant Pathogens

   • Fabrício A. Rodrigues, Renata Sousa Resende, Leandro José Dallagnol, Lawrence E. Datnoff

   Pages 109-138

7. Highlights and Prospects for Using Silicon in the Future

   • Lawrence E. Datnoff, Fabrício A. Rodrigues

   Pages 139-145

8. Back Matter

   Pages 147-148

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Silicon, considered to be the second most abundant mineral element in soil, plays an important role in the mineral nutrition of plants. A wide variety of monocot and dicot species have benefited from silicon nutrition, whether direct or indirect, when they are exposed to different types of abiotic and or biotic stresses. Besides the many agronomic and horticultural benefits gained by maintaining adequate levels of this element in the soil and also in the plant tissue, the most notable effect of silicon is the reduction in the intensities of a number of plant diseases caused by biotrophic, hemibiotrophic and necrotrophic plant pathogens in many crops of great economic importance. The aim of this book is to summarize our current understanding of the effects of silicon on plant diseases. The chapters address the dynamics of silicon in soils and plants; the history of silicon in the control of plant diseases; the use of silicon to control soil-borne, seed-borne and foliar diseases in monocots and dicots; the mechanisms involved in the host resistance against infection by plant pathogens mediated by silicon as well as the current knowledge at the omics level, and finally, highlights and prospects for using silicon in the future.

• induced resistance
• mechanisms of host resistance
• mineral nutrition
• plant disease
• silicon

• Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

  Fabrício A. Rodrigues

• Agricultural Center, Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, , Louisiana State University, BATON ROUGE, USA

  Lawrence E. Datnoff

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