Tomato (C3-plants) and maize (C4-plants) were grown in a nutrient solution to which triacontanol was added twice a week. After about 4 weeks the triacontanol treatment caused a significant increase in the dry weight of the tomato plants. Leaf area and dry weight measurements of tomato leaves at different stages of development showed that the largest increase in growth was obtained when triacontanol treatment was initiated before bud formation. In maize, no effect of the triacontanol treatment on dry wieght was observed. Photosynthesis was inhibited by 27% in young leaves from triacontanol-treated tomato plants and 39% in the controls, when the oxygen concentration was raised from 2% to 21%. In maize no change in photosynthesis could be observed, neither after altered oxygen concentration nor after triacontanol treatment. The difference in the response of C3- and C4-plants to triacontanol indicates that it regulates processes related to photosynthesis.
SummaryWetland rice was cultivated in pots of puddled soil under continuous and intermittent flooding conditions. The soil was either fertilized with the surface application of prilled urea in three split doses or once with urea supergranules applied at different soil levels.The grain yield, fertilizer efficiency and percent nitrogen recovery by the grains were increased by deep placement of urea supergranules independent of the water regime. Grain yield was always lower with intermittent flooding, particularly when the plants were fertilized with the surface application of prilled urea.Nitrogen loss by ammonia volatilization, measured in a closed cuvette system, was reduced from 24% with the surface application of urea prills and 20% with surface application of urea supergranules to approximately 2% with deep placement of urea supergranules. Intermittent flooding created conditions which promoted additional nitrogen loss by nitrification and denitrification processes. The total nitrogen loss, measured in an open cuvette system, was about 38% with the surface application of urea supergranules, whereas this loss was reduced to 10% with deep placement of urea supergranules. Furthermore, deep placement of urea fertilizer reduced the nitrogen loss irrespective of water regime.
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