Silicic Acid Transport and Its Control During Cell Wall Silicification in Diatoms

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Overall Considerations for Silicic Acid Transport During Diatom Cell Wall Synthesis The Solution Chemistry of Silicon Characterization of Diatom Silicic Acid Transport Molecular Characterization of the Silicic Acid Transport System Intracellular Silicon Pools The Relationship of Intracellular Pools and Incorporation to Uptake Intracellular Transport of Silicon Transport into the Silica Deposition Vesicle Summary Acknowledgments References