Silicon effective against powdery mildew in verbena

摘要

From October 4, 2017 to January 8, 2018, a research project was conducted at the Niagara College, Niagara-on-the-Lake greenhouse to evaluate the efficacy of Silamol, a silicon product designed to help reduce the negative impact of biotic and abiotic stress in plants. Silamol is a highly-concentrated, stabilized form of a potassium silicate liquid. Once completely diluted in water, Silamol produces Si(OH)4, known as monosilicic acid, the only known plant-available form of silicon (Frontline Growing Products, 2018).