dc.contributor.author | Liu, Bo | |
dc.contributor.author | Hall, Avice | |
dc.contributor.author | Davies, Keith | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-18T00:11:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-18T00:11:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-12-08 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Liu , B , Hall , A & Davies , K 2020 , ' Silicon builds resilience in strawberry plants against both strawberry powdery mildew Podosphaera aphanis and two-spotted spider mites Tetranychus urticae ' , PLoS ONE , vol. 15 , no. 12 , e0241151 , pp. e0241151 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241151 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-6060-2394/work/85522396 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-5896-9074/work/98164032 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/23611 | |
dc.description | Funding Information: The author B.L.?s PhD study was mainly self-funded, with an additional funding (no more than 15 percent of the overall funding) provided by Orion Future Technology Ltd (http://orionft.com). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There was no additional external funding received for this study. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
dc.description.abstract | Silicon is found in all plants and the accumulation of silicon can improve plant tolerance to biotic stress. Strawberry powdery mildew (Podosphaera aphanis) and two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) are both detrimental to strawberry production worldwide. Two field trials were done on a UK commercial strawberry farm in 2014 and 2015, to assess the effects of silicon nutrient applied via the fertigation system on P. aphanisand T. urticae. The silicon treatments decreased the severity of both P. aphanis and T. urticae in two consecutive years on different cultivars. The percentage leaf area infected with P. aphanis mycelium from silicon treated plants were 2.19 (in 2014) and 0.41 (in 2015) compared with 3.08 (in 2014) and 0.57 (in 2015) from the untreated plants. The etiology of the pathogen as measured by the Area Under the Disease Progress Curve from silicon (with and without fungicides) treatments was 152.7 compared with 217.5 from non-silicon (with and without fungicides) treatments for the overall period of 2014-2015. The average numbers of T. urticae recorded on strawberry leaves were 1.43 (in 2014) and 1.83 (in 2015) in plants treated with silicon compared with 8.82 (in 2014) and 6.69 (in 2015) in untreated plants. The silicon contents of the leaves from the silicon alone treatment were 26.8 μg mg-1 (in 2014) and 22.2 μg mg-1 (in 2015) compared with 19.7 μg mg-1 (in 2014) and 21.4 μg mg-1 (in 2015) from the untreated. The silicon nutrient root application contributed to improved plant resilience against P. aphanis and T. urticae. Silicon could play an important role in broad spectrum control of pests and diseases in commercial strawberry production. | en |
dc.format.extent | 1044075 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | PLoS ONE | |
dc.subject | General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology | |
dc.subject | General Agricultural and Biological Sciences | |
dc.subject | General | |
dc.title | Silicon builds resilience in strawberry plants against both strawberry powdery mildew Podosphaera aphanis and two-spotted spider mites Tetranychus urticae | en |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences | |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Life and Medical Sciences | |
dc.contributor.institution | Centre for Agriculture, Food and Environmental Management Research | |
dc.contributor.institution | Crop Protection and Climate Change | |
dc.contributor.institution | Geography, Environment and Agriculture | |
dc.contributor.institution | Agriculture, Food and Veterinary Sciences | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Science | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
dc.identifier.url | http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097514890&partnerID=8YFLogxK | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1371/journal.pone.0241151 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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