Pedosphere 8(4): 305--310, 1998
ISSN 1002-0160/CN 32-1315/P
©1998 Soil Science Society of China
Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science Press
| Effect of K and Al on growth and nutrient uptake of rice |
| CHEN Ji-Xing and XUAN Jia-Xiang |
| Institute of Soil Science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 821, Nanjing 210008 (China) |
| ABSTRACT |
| The effects of K and Al in K-deficient and complete nutrient solutions on the growth and nutrient uptake of rice were studied in the work. The effect of Al on the growth of roots and above-ground part of rice was associated with the concentration of Al in solution. A low level (0.1 mmol L-1) of Al promoted but a high level (1 mmol L-1) of Al inhibited the growth of both the root and the aerial part of rice, and the magnitude of K concentration in the nutrient solution also had an appreciable impact on this. Thus, in the low-Al solution, the plant treated with K2 (80 mg K L-1) produced much longer roots, showing the presence of interaction between Al and K; in the high-Al solution the K-treated plant had more and longer roots and a considerably greater dry weight of the above-ground part compared with the plant deficient in K, showing the alleviating effect of K+ on Al toxicity. The mechanism of the Al-K interaction affecting the rice aerial part growth is not yet known, but part of the reason might be that the excessive amount of Al inhibited the uptake of some nutrients such as Ca and Mg and reduced their transfer to the plant aerial organs, whereas K showed its compensating effect on this; therefore, K could relieve Al toxicity at a high level of Al and promoted rice growth at a low level of Al. |
| Key Words: aluminum, nutrient uptake, potassium, rice growth |
| Citation: Chen, J. X. and Xuan, J. X. 1998. Effect of K and Al on growth and nutrient uptake of rice. Pedosphere. 8(4): 305-310. |
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