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Fly ash and zeolite amendments increase soil nutrient retention but decrease paddy rice growth in a low fertility soil

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Purpose

Fly ash (FA) and zeolite (Z) are known to increase nutrient retention in paddy soils through the immobilization of phosphorus (P) by FA and nitrogen (N) by Z. However, there is a possibility that the co-application of the amendments may hamper rice growth due to reduced availability of the nutrients. This study was conducted to investigate the effects of the co-application of FA and Z on soil N and P availability and rice growth.

Materials and methods

Rice was cultivated in soils without the amendment (control) and with the amendment: FA alone, Z alone, and both FA and Z. Tiller number, dry matter (DM), rice uptake of N and P, and soil N and P concentrations were determined.

Results and discussion

The application of FA and Z increased N and P concentrations in the soils; however, such increased nutrient retention did not translate to DM increases. Results suggested that reduced mobility of nutrients hampered tillering in the early growth period, eventually leading to a reduction in DM accumulation at the harvest. Due to the nutrient limitation caused by FA and Z, the rice grown with both FA and Z did not survive at the harvest.

Conclusions

Our study shows that the application of FA and Z does not always improve rice growth due to nutrient limitation, especially in a low fertility soil. Furthermore, the co-application of FA and Z should be avoided, as the negative impact of FA or Z on nutrient limitation became more severe when FA and Z were co-amended.

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This study was financially supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2015R1D1A3A01018961).

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  1. Department of Rural and Bio-Systems Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, Korea

    Sang-Sun Lim, Dong-Suk Lee, Jin-Hyeob Kwak, Hyun-Jin Park & Woo-Jung Choi

  2. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E3, Canada

    Sang-Sun Lim & Jin-Hyeob Kwak

  3. Department of Applied Plant Science, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, Korea

    Han-Yong Kim

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Lim, SS., Lee, DS., Kwak, JH. et al. Fly ash and zeolite amendments increase soil nutrient retention but decrease paddy rice growth in a low fertility soil. J Soils Sediments 16, 756–766 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-015-1294-0

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