Table 1.

Role of Si in plant tissue culture.

Plant species	Role of Si	Reference
Ajuga multiflora	Increased frequency of shoot regeneration Increased resistance to NaCl	Sivanesan and Jeong (2014)
Begonia semperflorens	Increased growth, biomass and chlorophyll content	Lim et al. (2012)
Brassavola perrinii Hybrid orchid	Increased seedlings growth, favorable characteristics in the leaf anatomy of the orchid seedlings	Soares et al. (2012)
Cattlleya loddigesii	Increased the number of shoots	Soares et al. (2011)
	Increased growth traits of seedlings	Soares et al. (2013)
Coleus hybridus	Maintained regenerative potential of vitroplantlets	Radovet et al. (2008)
Cotoneaster wilsonii	Reduced hyperhydricity	Sivanesan et al. (2011)
Dendrobium moniliforme	Increased resistance to low temperature	Duan et al. (2013)
Fragaria ×ananassa	Increased biomass, thickness of leaf tissues and epicuticular wax deposition	Braga et al. (2009)
Musa sp. ‘Grande Naine’	Well-developed stomata, Increased epicuticular wax layer in leaves	Asmar et al. (2013a)
Musa sp. ‘Maca’ banana	Increased chlorophyll content, biomass and seedlings growth	Asmar et al. (2011)
	Improved leaf anatomy	Luz et al. (2012)
	Improved morpho-physiological leaf characteristics of seedlings	Asmar et al. (2013b)
Ornithogalum dubium	Reduced hyperhydricity and improving leaf structure and ex vitro survival during acclimatization	Ziv (2010)
Oryza sativa	Improved callus induction, and plant regeneration Improved structural stability of cell walls	Islam et al. (2005)
		He et al. (2013)
Perilla frutescens	Increased the growth rate and content of anthocyanins	Zhong et al. (1992)
Phalaenopsis hybrid	Increased shoot growth	Zhou (1995)
Phragmites australis	Stimulated callus growth, somatic embryogenesis and root formation	Mathe et al. (2012)
Picea abies	Ameliorated the effect of Al	Prabagar et al. (2011)
Psidium guajava	Inhibiting phenol-based browning	Youssef et al. (2010)
Salvia splendens	Increased resistance to NaCl	Soundararajan et al. (2013)
Solanum tuberosum var. Gersa	Maintained regenerative potential of vitroplantlets	Radovet-Salinschi and Cachita-Cosma (2012)
S. tuberosum	Increased growth, biomass and tolerance to NaCl	Qing et al. (2005)
Viola ×wittrockiana	Increased growth, biomass and chlorophyll content	Lim et al. (2012)
Vitis vinifera ×V. labrusca	Increased the survival rate of callus under low temperature	Moriguchi et al. (1988)