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Responses of grain zinc and nitrogen concentration to nitrogen fertilizer application in rice varieties with high-yielding low-grain zinc and low-yielding high grain zinc concentration

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Abstract

Background and aims

Rice crop management for Zn biofortification should also benefit yield. This study established how grain Zn concentration and yield of rice varieties with a range of grain Zn concentration vary under different N-fertilizer applications.

Methods

Rice varieties, the low-yield/high grain Zn varieties KPK and NR, the high-yield/medium grain Zn variety KDML105 and the high-yield/low grain Zn varieties CNT1 and RD21, were grown under field conditions with fertilizer rates of 60 and 120 kg N ha−1.

Results

Increasing N rate increased grain Zn concentration and yield in the high-yield/low grain Zn varieties, but depressed grain Zn concentration and increased grain yield in the low-yield/high grain Zn varieties. On the other hand, it increased grain N in all five varieties. Grain Zn concentration was associated positively with yield and grain N concentration in low grain Zn concentration varieties, but negatively in high-grain Zn varieties.

Conclusions

Nitrogen fertilizer increased grain Zn concentration and yield simultaneously in low-grain Zn varieties, but depressed grain Zn concentration, while boosting yield, in high-grain Zn varieties.

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This study received financial support from the Office of the Higher Education Commission under the National Research University Project.

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  1. Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand

    Pennapa Jaksomsak & Chanakan Prom-u-thai

  2. Plant Genetic Resource and Nutrition Laboratory, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand

    Benjavan Rerkasem

  3. Lanna Rice Research Centre, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand

    Chanakan Prom-u-thai

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Jaksomsak, P., Rerkasem, B. & Prom-u-thai, C. Responses of grain zinc and nitrogen concentration to nitrogen fertilizer application in rice varieties with high-yielding low-grain zinc and low-yielding high grain zinc concentration. Plant Soil 411, 101–109 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-3056-1

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