Silicon Promotes Exodermal Casparian Band Formation in Si-Accumulating and Si-Excluding Species by Forming Phenol Complexes

• Alexander T. Fleck ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander T. Fleck, Sascha Schulze

  * E-mail: fleck@pflern.uni-hannover.de

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419, Hannover, Germany

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• Sascha Schulze ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander T. Fleck, Sascha Schulze

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419, Hannover, Germany

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• Martin Hinrichs,

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419, Hannover, Germany

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• André Specht,

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419, Hannover, Germany

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• Friedrich Waßmann,

  Affiliation Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, Department of Ecophysiology, University of Bonn, Kirschallee 1, 53115, Bonn, Germany

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• Lukas Schreiber,

  Affiliation Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, Department of Ecophysiology, University of Bonn, Kirschallee 1, 53115, Bonn, Germany

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• Manfred K. Schenk

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419, Hannover, Germany

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