Table 6: Summary of the effect of fertilizer-phosphorus (P) source on total aboveground tissue properties (aboveground vegetative plus grain) 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 |
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ECST |
CPST |
MAP |
DAP |
TSP |
RP |
UC |
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Total aboveground DM (kg m-2) |
0.22 |
3.4 |
3.2 |
3.7 |
3.1 |
4.0 |
3.2 |
3.1 |
3.4 |
Total aboveground DM uptake |
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N (g m-2) |
< 0.01 |
61.0 ab‡ |
48.2 cde |
55.8 bc |
68.4 a |
54.7 bcd |
47.8 de |
44.7 e |
- |
P (g m-2) |
0.22 |
6.8 |
6.4 |
7.0 |
6.3 |
7.9 |
5.6 |
5.8 |
6.5 |
K (g m-2) |
0.42 |
16.1 |
16.3 |
14.6 |
13.8 |
18.0 |
16.4 |
16.2 |
15.9 |
Mg (g m-2) |
0.67 |
10.2 |
10.6 |
11.9 |
9.9 |
10.7 |
10.8 |
9.1 |
10.5 |
Ca (g m-2) |
0.36 |
10.5 |
12.4 |
14.8 |
14.4 |
13.7 |
14.2 |
9.9 |
12.8 |
Fe (g m-2) |
0.04 |
0.40 b |
0.41 b |
0.65 a |
0.49 ab |
0.51 ab |
0.48 ab |
0.37 b |
- |
Mn (g m-2) |
0.37 |
4.2 |
4.8 |
5.6 |
4.9 |
5.7 |
5.3 |
3.5 |
4.9 |
Zn (g m-2) |
0.03 |
0.15 ab |
0.14 ab |
0.17 a |
0.12 b |
0.19 a |
0.13 b |
0.13 b |
- |
†Dry matter (DM), 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.