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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (14): 52-60.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2024-0680

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Effects of Slow-released Fertilizer in Rice Seedling Tray on Seedling Growth, NPK Release Characteristics and Rice Yield

CHEN Gonglei1(), YAN Dong2, WANG Jidong2, ZHANG Hui2, NING Yunwang2, LIANG Dong2, MA Hongbo2()   

  1. 1 Danyang Agriculture and Rural Bureau, Danyang, Jiangsu 212300
    2 Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014
  • Received:2024-10-29 Revised:2025-04-16 Online:2025-05-15 Published:2025-05-14

Abstract:

The traditional soil-based rice seedling methods for mechanical transplanting are time consuming and laborious. Slow-released fertilizer in rice seedling tray is an important way to achieve efficient cultivation of rice. The effects of slow-released fertilizer in rice seedling tray on seedling growth, NPK release characteristics and rice yield were studied. The rice seedling experiment was set up with two treatments: rice seedling with nutrient soil and rice seedling with slow-released fertilizer. In further, the field experiment was set up with five treatments: no nitrogen application, conventional fertilization, one-time fertilization with slow-released fertilizer (OFSRF), one-time fertilization with side-deep fertilization (OFSDF) and one-time fertilization with slow-released fertilizer in rice seedling tray (OFSS). The results of the rice seedling experiment showed that the main release time of NPK in the slow-released fertilizer in the rice seedling tray was day 7 and day 13, and the main absorption time of nitrogen by rice was on day 8- day 9, and the main absorption time of phosphorus and potassium was on day 13. Compared with conventional rice seedling, the aboveground fresh weight, leaf number, plant height and stem diameter treated with rice seedling with slow-released fertilizer increased by 37.30%, 66.67%, 44.57% and 13.43%, respectively, and the chlorophyll content and nitrogen content of the leaves increased by 29.33% and 53.32%, respectively. The results of the field experiment showed that compared with the OFSRF and OFSDF, the rice yield of OFSS was significantly increased by 10.73% (P<0.05) and 6.69% (P<0.05), while the nitrogen fertilizer utilization rate was significantly increased by 26.51% (P<0.05) and 14.97%. In summary, compared with conventional rice seedling, rice seedling with slow-released fertilizer improved the aboveground growth and nutrient content of seedling. Under the same fertilization level in the field, one-time fertilization with slow-released fertilizer in rice seedling tray could increase rice yield and improve nitrogen utilization efficiency.

Key words: rice, seedling tray, slow-released fertilizer, one-time fertilization, seedling quality, yield