Recycling : Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

Ruwani Kalpana Jayawardana has experience in using silicon sources both chemical and natural for enhanced growth and disease tolerance in plants. She has a passion in improving plant growth performances by environmental friendly sources and utilizing agricultural waste for improving soil physical, chemical and

biological properties. She has contributed to develop a cost effective hydroponic nutrient solution with silicon. In her MPhil research study, she has found that a low cost simplified hydroponic system with paddy husk in the media as effective way of Si nutrition to enhance anthracnose disease resistance in capsicum.