Abstract
An increasing global population requires a greater food supply, and accordingly there is demand for enhanced production of rice, as a major crop plant that covers half of the world's population.Rice production in arid area is extremely difficult due to poor soil fertility, salinity, deficit of irrigation water, and weather conditions.The aim of the present study was to determine whether various fertilization recipes could provide a countermeasure to allow rice production while also providing soil amendment such as soil pH adjustment.The study was conducted at an experimental field of the United Arab-Emirates (UAE) from January to April, 2022.Rice seedlings (cv.Asemi, alkaline-resistant) were transplanted in plastic containers, and different types of water and nutrient managements were employed as follows: water management (flooding and aerobic for NPKs treatment group) and nutrient management (NPKs, slow release fertilizers [SRFs] and SRFs + NPK-1 treatment groups with flooding).Water and nutrient management did not show any effect on soil pH adjustment.Rice growth was significantly enhanced in the flooding compared to the aerobic condition, whereas the effect of nutrient management clearly differed among the treatment groups, with SRFs + NPK-1 showing the best results followed by SRFs and NPKs.Most of the fertilization groups markedly accumulated soluble sugars in the shoots and grains of rice plants, but concomitantly a decrease in the roots.Overall, the level of starch showed a tendency of relatively slight perturbation by fertilization.Taken together, the results indicate that soil physical structure should be preferentially amended to find the key for suitable rice production.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Water and nutrient management did not adjust soil pH.
- Taxon
- Rice
Oryza sativae0 - Treatment
- Water and nutrient managemente1
- Outcome
- soil pH adjustmente1
- Direction
- did not show any effecte1
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e0“Rice seedlings”
e1“Water and nutrient management did not show any effect on soil pH adjustment”
Claim · model-written summary
Flooding significantly enhanced rice growth compared with aerobic conditions.
- Taxon
- RiceOryza sativae0
- Treatment
- floodinge0
- Outcome
- growthe0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Comparator
- aerobic conditione0
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e0“Rice growth was significantly enhanced in the flooding compared to the aerobic condition”
Claim · model-written summary
SRFs plus NPK-1 gave the best growth response among nutrient treatments.
- Taxon
- RiceOryza sativae0
- Treatment
- SRFs + NPK-1e1
- Outcome
- growthe0
- Direction
- beste1
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e0“Rice growth”
e1“SRFs + NPK-1 showing the best results followed by SRFs and NPKs”
Claim · model-written summary
SRFs ranked after SRFs plus NPK-1 for growth response.
- Taxon
- RiceOryza sativae0
- Treatment
- SRFse1
- Outcome
- growthe0
- Direction
- followed bye1
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e0“Rice growth”
e1“SRFs + NPK-1 showing the best results followed by SRFs and NPKs”
Claim · model-written summary
NPKs ranked after SRFs for growth response.
- Taxon
- RiceOryza sativae0
- Treatment
- NPKse1
- Outcome
- growthe0
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Verbatim
e0“Rice growth”
e1“SRFs + NPK-1 showing the best results followed by SRFs and NPKs”
Claim · model-written summary
Most fertilizer groups increased soluble sugars in rice shoots and grains.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae0
- Organ / stage
- shoots and grainse0
- Treatment
- fertilization groupse0
- Outcome
- soluble sugarse0
- Direction
- accumulatede0
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e0“Most of the fertilization groups markedly accumulated soluble sugars in the shoots and grains of rice plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Most fertilizer groups decreased soluble sugars in rice roots.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae0
- Organ / stage
- rootse0
- Treatment
- fertilization groupse0
- Outcome
- soluble sugarse0
- Direction
- decreasee0
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e0“Most of the fertilization groups markedly accumulated soluble sugars in the shoots and grains of rice plants, but concomitantly a decrease in the roots”
Claim · model-written summary
Fertilization caused relatively slight starch perturbation.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae0
- Treatment
- fertilizatione1
- Outcome
- level of starche1
- Qualifier
- relatively slight perturbatione1
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Verbatim
e0“rice plants”
e1“the level of starch showed a tendency of relatively slight perturbation by fertilization”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend prioritizing soil physical structure amendment for rice production.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae0
- Outcome
- soil physical structure should be preferentially amendede0
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e0“soil physical structure should be preferentially amended to find the key for suitable rice production”
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