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

ECST

CPST

MAP

DAP

TSP

RP

UC

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

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.