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[Silicon application enhances resistance to sheath blight (Rhizoctonia solani) in rice].

The enhancing resistance and decreasing incidence to sheath blight (Rhizoctonia solani) by silicon were studied from cytological and physiological aspects by using rice plants solution-cultured with silicon supplementation or with silicon-deficiency. By an environmental scanning electron coupled with X-ray microanalysis, as well as gravimetric quantification, the number of siliceous cell and Si content of the Si(+) rice leaf were much more than those of Si(-) rice leaf (Figs.1,2; Table 1). After being inoculated with R. solani MDA content in Si(+) rice plants was almost higher than that in Si(-) rice plants, SOD activity in Si(+) rice plants was always higher than that in Si(-) rice plants, SOD activity in Si(+) rice plants reached a minimum on 4 d, and POD activity was at the maximum, but POD activity in Si(-) rice plants was lower. These results suggested that silicon could enhance the harmony of SOD and POD. And silicon had no effect on CAT and '19289' href='#term-19289'>PAL activity, but weaken PPO activity (Fig.3). After being inoculated with R. solani, the Si(+) rice plants had significantly lower disease index with relative control effect of 1/4 compared to the Si(-) rice plants (Table 2).