NONSYMBIOTIC NITROGEN FIXATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE RICE PLANT IN FLOODED SOILS

Autor: APP, A. A., WATANABE, I., ALEXANDER, M., VENTURA, W., DAEZ, CRESENCIANA, SANTIAGO, TERESITA, DATTA, S. K. DE
Zdroj: Soil Science; November 1980, Vol. 130 Issue: 5 p283-289, 7p
Abstrakt: Nitrogen balance studies based on Kjeldahl data are reported for several crops of rice (Oryza sativa) grown in continuously flooded soil in pots under greenhouse conditions in the Philippines. Flooded soil planted to rice had a statistically significant positive nitrogen balance. The positive nitrogen balance was found to be the result of photo-trophic and heterotrophic nitrogen-fixing agents. Adding phosphorus and iron to the pots of flooded soil planted to rice significantly increased the positive nitrogen balance. Blue-green algal (cyanobacterial) inoculation of the soils fertilized with these nutrients did not have a statistically significant effect, although azolla inoculation in combination with these nutrients did significantly increase the positive nitrogen balance. Heterotrophic fixation depended upon the presence of rice plants. It is not possible to determine from these nitrogen balance data if the rice plant enhances fixation or simultaneously enhances fixation and reduces nitrogen losses.
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