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The behavior of soil N, fertilizer N and plant N was studied in a greenhouse experiment with 2 plant densities of rice (IR 36) under flooded conditions. Increasing plant density from 25 hills m2 to 50 hills m2 increased tiller number and panicle number but had no influence on grain yield. The yield of grain was linearly related to N content of the above ground dry matter at harvest (r2=.96) and thus the effect of manipulating the N supply on yield was directly related to N uptake.
Mixing of (NH4)2SO4 with the soil volume before transplanting resulted in increases in N in the aboveground dry matter equal to 87% of the applied N. When (NH4)2SO4 was broadcast into the flood water at 4 stages of growth beginning 25 DAT, the corresponding increase was 77% of the applied N. When (NH4)2SO4 was split between shallow mixing before transplanting and a broadcast application of 32 DAT, the corresponding increase was 42%. Thus several applications of fertilizer N increased grain production per unit of applied N.
Inorganic N extractable by KCl was a useful but not an infailible guide to the behavior of the soil and fertilizer inorganic N.
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Bhuiyan, N.I., Crasswell, E.T. & Bouldin, D.R. Yield and crop parameters of wetland rice as influenced by soil and fertilizer nitrogen. Plant Soil 79, 369–381 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02184329
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