Table 5: Summary of the effect of fertilizer-phosphorus (P) source on grain tissue properties for rice grown in a P-deficient, silt-loam soil under flood-irrigated conditions in the greenhouse. Least square means are reported, with n = 4 observations for MAP and RP, but n = 3 observations for DAP, ECST, TSP, and the UC and n = 2 observations for CPST due to missing data from one dead plant and grain masses that were too low for any chemical analyses.

Plant Property

P-value

Fertilizer-P Source

Overall mean

ECST

CPST

MAP

DAP

TSP

RP

UC

Grain (kg m-2)

0.39

1.4

1.4

1.0

0.9

1.6

0.9

1.2

1.2

Grain concentration

N (%)

0.19

1.5

1.3

1.4

1.8

1.3

1.3

1.3

1.4

P (%)

0.77

0.25

0.27

0.28

0.26

0.27

0.26

0.26

0.27

K (%)

0.02

0.69 ab

0.72 a

0.57 c

0.61 bc

0.61 bc

0.67 ab

0.67 ab

-

Mg (%)

0.61

0.13

0.13

0.13

0.12

0.13

0.13

0.13

0.13

Ca (%)

0.11

0.02

0.03

0.03

0.02

0.03

0.04

0.03

0.03

Fe (mg kg-1)

0.16

18.2

19.6

30.1

23.6

13.0

24.5

34.1

23.3

Mn (g kg-1)

0.17

0.23

0.27

0.26

0.22

0.27

0.29

0.24

0.25

Zn (mg kg-1)

0.69

34.4

36.0

35.7

38.9

32.7

39.4

37.5

36.4

Grain uptake

N (g m-2)

0.24

19.7

21.2

13.5

14.0

21.9

12.2

15.3

16.8

P (g m-2)

0.26

3.5

3.7

2.7

2.3

4.4

2.4

3.1

3.2

K (g m-2)

0.40

9.5

10.0

5.7

5.5

10.2

6.3

8.2

7.9

Mg (g m-2)

0.32

1.8

1.8

1.2

1.1

2.1

1.2

1.6

1.5

Ca (g m-2)

0.23

0.32

0.43

0.26

0.20

0.49

0.38

0.35

0.35

Fe (mg m-2)

0.73

24.1

27.2

23.8

18.5

23.1

22.4

29.5

24.1

Mn (g m-2)

0.40

0.32

0.36

0.26

0.20

0.43

0.26

0.28

0.30

Zn (mg m-2)

0.20

47.2

51.9

33.6

32.2

53.7

36.7

41.3

42.4

Electrochemically precipitated struvite (ECST), chemically precipitated struvite (CPST), monoammonium phosphate (MAP), diammonium phosphate (DAP), triple superphosphate (TSP), rock phosphate (RP), and unamended control (UC); Means in a row followed by different letters are different at P ≤ 0.05.