Top 10 Roles of Elemental Silicon

As a new type of inorganic mineral fertilizer, elemental silica is a good quality fertilizer, health care fertilizer and plant regulating fertilizer, and is a new multifunctional fertilizer incomparable to other chemical fertilizers. It can be used as a fertilizer to provide nutrients and as a soil conditioner to improve the soil. Let's learn the role of silicon fertilizer for crop growth together.

1, It is a kind of health care nutrient fertilizer: the application of silicon fertilizer can improve the soil to correct soil acidity, improve the soil salt base, promote the decomposition of organic fertilizer, inhibit soil pathogens. Such as red soil dry land is acid PH value of 4.5 ~ 5.2 or so, lack of organic matter and calcium, easy to plate. Application of silicon fertilizer can improve soil properties, accelerate maturation, conducive to increased crop yields. Vegetable greenhouse continuous planting for more than two years, mold and disease accumulation will affect crop yield and quality. Application of silicon fertilizer can effectively prevent the survival and reproduction of mold and rootstock mold and other crops.

2, It is the construction of the plant body essential nutrients: the vast majority of plants contain silicon. Especially rice, in recent years, its nutritional role is considered second only to N, P, K in fourth place. Testing shows that the production of 1000 kg of rice, silicon dioxide absorption of up to 150 kg, more than the sum of rice absorption of hydrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Rice, wheat, barley, soybeans, lentils, fennel six crop ash, silicon phosphorus potassium calcium and other seven nutrients oxides accounted for more than 80% of the ash, of which silicon oxides accounted for 16 ~ 61.4%.

3, It is a nutrient element fertilizer to improve quality: fruit trees can be significantly improved by silicon fertilizer fruit quality, volume increased. Sugar content increased. Sweet taste, aroma and health benefits. It is also resistant to storage and transportation. Sugar cane silicon, can improve yield, late can promote the accumulation of sugar in the stem, improve the sugar yield.

4, It is a combination of multi-calcium and magnesium elements compound fertilizer: silicon fertilizer also contains a certain amount of phosphorus, zinc, boron, iron, manganese and other trace elements, the crop has a compound nutritional effect. Suitable for a variety of crop application role.
 
5, Can help crops to improve photosynthesis: silicon fertilizer can make the crop epidermal cell silicification, so that the crop's stem and leaves straight, reduce shade, leaf photosynthesis enhanced. Such as rice silicon application, the leaf angle narrowed, the crown photosynthesis increased by more than 10%.

6, Can enhance crop resistance to diseases and insects: crops absorb silica, the formation of silicified cells in the body, the stem and leaf surface cell wall thickening, the cuticle layer increased, thereby improving the ability to prevent insects and disease resistance, especially resistance to rice blast, leaf spot disease, stem rot, white leaf blight, fungal column disease and cotton bollworm, rust, etc.

7, It can improve the crop resistance to collapse: As the stalk of the crop is straight, the resistance to collapse is increased by about 80%.

8, Can make the crop body aeration enhanced: the amount of silica in the crop body increased, so that the crop duct rigidity to strengthen, prompting aeration enhanced, for rice, reeds and other aquatic and warm crops have important significance, can also promote root growth, prevent root rot and premature failure. Especially for the prevention and control of rotten roots of rice has an important role.

9, can improve the crop's resistance: crops absorb silicon fertilizer to produce siliconized cells, effectively regulating the opening and closing of leaf stomata and controlling water transpiration. Improve the role of drought resistance, resistance to dry hot wind and low temperature resistance to the ability to resist damage. Silicon fertilizer is suitable for early spring crops. Such as early rice, early peanut and winter and spring vegetable production.

10, can reduce the fixation of phosphorus in the soil: tillage soil application of silicon can activate the phosphorus in the soil, and insoluble phosphorus, to promote the operation in the crop body, thereby improving the rate of fruit set.

Silicon fertilizer, by the international soil community as the fourth major elemental fertilizer after nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium.