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Although the biogenic pool of Si in soils is known to be of central importance to plant uptake and Si cycling in natural forest and grassland ecosystems, its role in agricultural systems is controversial and unclear. The biogenic pool is mainly composed of phytogenic (plant-derived) amorphous silica (deposited in plant shoots as phytoliths) but there are also minor components of zoogenic, microbial...