Non-leguminous winter cover crop and nitrogen rate in relation to double rice grain yield and nitrogen uptake in Dongting Lake Plain, Hunan Province, China
Annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.), a non-leguminous winter cover crop, has been adopted to absorb soil native N to minimize N loss from an intensive double rice cropping system in southern China, but a little is known about its effects on rice grain yield and rice N use efficiency. In this s...
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| author | Bo ZHU Li-xia YI He-shui XU Li-mei GUO Yue-gao HU Zhao-hai ZENG Fu CHEN Zhang-yong LIU |
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| description | Annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.), a non-leguminous winter cover crop, has been adopted to absorb soil native N to minimize N loss from an intensive double rice cropping system in southern China, but a little is known about its effects on rice grain yield and rice N use efficiency. In this study, effects of ryegrass on double rice yield, N uptake and use efficiency were measured under different fertilizer N rates. A 3-year (2009–2011) field experiment arranged in a split-plot design was undertaken. Main plots were ryegrass (RG) as a winter cover crop and winter fallow (WF) without weed. Subplots were three N treatments for each rice season: 0 (N0), 100 (N100) and 200 kg N ha−1 (N200). In the 3-year experiment, RG reduced grain yield and plant N uptake for early rice (0.4–1.7 t ha−1 for grain yield and 4.6–20.3 kg ha−1 for N uptake) and double rice (0.6–2.0 t ha−1 for grain yield and 6.3–27.0 kg ha−1 for N uptake) when compared with WF among different N rates. Yield and N uptake decrease due to RG was smaller in N100 and N200 plots than in N0 plots. The reduction in early rice grain yield in RG plots was associated with decrease number of panicles. Agronomic N use efficiency and fertilizer N recovery efficiency were higher in RG plots than winter fallow for early rice and double rice among different N rates and experimental years. RG tended to have little effect on grain yield, N uptake, agronomic N use efficiency, and fertilizer N recovery efficiency in the late rice season. These results suggest that ryegrass may reduce grain yield while it improves rice N use efficiency in a double rice cropping system. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f94e16a947c245f7b3cb6ad04a23f6092025-08-02T23:56:25ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Journal of Integrative Agriculture2095-31192016-11-01151125072514Non-leguminous winter cover crop and nitrogen rate in relation to double rice grain yield and nitrogen uptake in Dongting Lake Plain, Hunan Province, ChinaBo ZHU0Li-xia YI1He-shui XU2Li-mei GUO3Yue-gao HU4Zhao-hai ZENG5Fu CHEN6Zhang-yong LIU7College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, P.R. China; College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, P.R. China; ZHU BoCollege of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, P.R. ChinaCollege of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, P.R. ChinaCollege of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, P.R. ChinaCollege of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, P.R. ChinaCollege of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, P.R. China; Correspondence ZENG Zhao-hai, Tel: +86-10-62734884, Fax: +86-10-62732441College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, P.R. China; College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, P.R. ChinaCollege of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, P.R. ChinaAnnual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.), a non-leguminous winter cover crop, has been adopted to absorb soil native N to minimize N loss from an intensive double rice cropping system in southern China, but a little is known about its effects on rice grain yield and rice N use efficiency. In this study, effects of ryegrass on double rice yield, N uptake and use efficiency were measured under different fertilizer N rates. A 3-year (2009–2011) field experiment arranged in a split-plot design was undertaken. Main plots were ryegrass (RG) as a winter cover crop and winter fallow (WF) without weed. Subplots were three N treatments for each rice season: 0 (N0), 100 (N100) and 200 kg N ha−1 (N200). In the 3-year experiment, RG reduced grain yield and plant N uptake for early rice (0.4–1.7 t ha−1 for grain yield and 4.6–20.3 kg ha−1 for N uptake) and double rice (0.6–2.0 t ha−1 for grain yield and 6.3–27.0 kg ha−1 for N uptake) when compared with WF among different N rates. Yield and N uptake decrease due to RG was smaller in N100 and N200 plots than in N0 plots. The reduction in early rice grain yield in RG plots was associated with decrease number of panicles. Agronomic N use efficiency and fertilizer N recovery efficiency were higher in RG plots than winter fallow for early rice and double rice among different N rates and experimental years. RG tended to have little effect on grain yield, N uptake, agronomic N use efficiency, and fertilizer N recovery efficiency in the late rice season. These results suggest that ryegrass may reduce grain yield while it improves rice N use efficiency in a double rice cropping system.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209531191661331Xdouble ricegrain yieldN uptakeN use efficiencywinter cover crop |
| spellingShingle | Bo ZHU Li-xia YI He-shui XU Li-mei GUO Yue-gao HU Zhao-hai ZENG Fu CHEN Zhang-yong LIU Non-leguminous winter cover crop and nitrogen rate in relation to double rice grain yield and nitrogen uptake in Dongting Lake Plain, Hunan Province, China Journal of Integrative Agriculture double rice grain yield N uptake N use efficiency winter cover crop |
| title | Non-leguminous winter cover crop and nitrogen rate in relation to double rice grain yield and nitrogen uptake in Dongting Lake Plain, Hunan Province, China |
| title_full | Non-leguminous winter cover crop and nitrogen rate in relation to double rice grain yield and nitrogen uptake in Dongting Lake Plain, Hunan Province, China |
| title_fullStr | Non-leguminous winter cover crop and nitrogen rate in relation to double rice grain yield and nitrogen uptake in Dongting Lake Plain, Hunan Province, China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Non-leguminous winter cover crop and nitrogen rate in relation to double rice grain yield and nitrogen uptake in Dongting Lake Plain, Hunan Province, China |
| title_short | Non-leguminous winter cover crop and nitrogen rate in relation to double rice grain yield and nitrogen uptake in Dongting Lake Plain, Hunan Province, China |
| title_sort | non leguminous winter cover crop and nitrogen rate in relation to double rice grain yield and nitrogen uptake in dongting lake plain hunan province china |
| topic | double rice grain yield N uptake N use efficiency winter cover crop |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209531191661331X |
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