Silicon builds resilience in strawberry plants against both strawberry powdery mildew Podosphaera aphanis and two-spotted spider mites Tetranychus urticae

• Bo Liu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: b.liu7@herts.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5896-9074

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• Keith Davies ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Keith Davies, Avice Hall

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, Division of Biotechnology and Plant Health, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Ås, Norway

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• Avice Hall

  Contributed equally to this work with: Keith Davies, Avice Hall

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

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