Effects of Rice Variety and Growth Location in Cambodia on Grain Composition and Starch Structure简

The effects of variety and growth location on grain composition and starch structures were investigated using three rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars (Phka Romduol, Sen Pidao and IR66) with different amylose contents. All the three cultivars were planted in three different agro-climatic zones (Phnom Penh, Coastal and Plateau) of Cambodia. The protein content of polished grains increased when rice was planted at a location with higher average temperature, but their lipid content decreased. The amylose content and degree of branching were not greatly affected by the minor temperature differences among the growing locations. Starch fine structures characterized by the chain-length distribution were significantly different among the cultivars, but not significantly among different locations. The results suggested that protein and lipid biosyntheses were more sensitive to the environmental temperature than that of starch in rice grains.     

Spatial variability in the growth of direct-seeded rainfed lowland rice (Oryza sativa L.) in northeast Thailand

Large within-field variation in rice growth often causes production loss in broadcast-seeded (BC) rainfed lowland rice. The spatial variability of direct-seeded rainfed lowland rice was evaluated in 2004, 2005, and 2007 in on-station experiments at Ubon Ratchathani, northeast Thailand, in relation to soil water content and weed infestation, by adopting semivariogram and block kriging, including comparisons among BC with harrowing (BCH; no weeding), BC with no harrowing (BCNH; no weeding), and row-seeded (RS; interrow weeding once) fields. BCH and BCNH were also compared in 11 farmers’ fields in 2006 and 2007, to assess the effect of harrowing on rice growth and weed infestation. During most of the rice growing periods, flooded and non-flooded portions existed simultaneously in the fields, with different proportions among years and among seeding methods in the on-station experiment. BCH and BCNH rice had large within-field variation in seedling density, heading date, shoot dry matter, grain yield, harvest index, panicle density, and filled spikelet per panicle, as well as in weed infestation, measured by a quick visual estimation. Many of the measured variables (except mean soil water content in RS in 2007, seedling density in BCH in 2005 and 2007, shoot dry matter in BCH and BCNH in 2007, and panicle density in BCH in 2007) were spatially dependent (i.e., data from nearby locations were most similar) by geostatistical analysis. Analysis of correlations using the 420 data sets of BCH plots in 2005 and BCH, BCNH, and RS plots in 2007 revealed a positive correlation between soil water content and grain yield and negative correlations between weed infestation and soil water content and grain yield. Compared with BCH, in 2007 BCNH had much lower grain yield because of lower soil water content after establishment and more weed infestation. BCH had higher grain yield than BCNH in weedy fields in the farmers’ fields experiment. RS with interrow weeding resulted in a smaller coefficient of variation, smaller sill value, and higher grain yield than BCH, due to less weed infestation and a higher proportion of flooded water. These results indicated that reducing the spatial variability in rice growth requires careful field preparation, such as harrowing to level the soil surface and to reduce the uneven distribution of standing water and the variability in soil water content, combined with effective crop and weed management (i.e., harrowing and row-seeding). This is the first study that examined spatial variability in the growth of direct-seeded rice as a function of soil water content and weed infestation in a rainfed lowland environment.     

江苏中部轻型栽培稻田杂草群落特征及草害综合评价

 利用“七级目测法”结合定量分析和综合评价对江苏中部的扬州、泰州和南通3个地区6种不同栽培模式稻田的杂草群落进行了调查研究,以期揭示经多年轻型栽培的稻田杂草群落结构及杂草危害特点。在轻型栽培稻田中共发现杂草36种,隶属于18个科33个属。其中,杂草种类较多的科依次为禾本科、莎草科、菊科、玄参科、泽泻科、千屈菜科等。在3个地区皆表现出较高的优势度和发生频率的杂草有4种：稗、水苋菜、鳢肠和千金子,其发生频率都达到或接近100%。然而,地区间草害水平存在差异,扬州地区的杂草危害最重,泰州地区次之,南通地区相对最轻。不同的稻作模式皆对应着不同的优势杂草。机插秧模式中优势度值与发生频率皆较高的杂草为鸭舌草、水苋菜;麦套稻模式中,主要的优势杂草包括水苋菜、马唐、鸭舌草、半边莲等;抛秧稻田中为稗、鸭舌草、水苋菜等;水直播稻作模式下是稗、水苋菜、鸭舌草等;旱直播模式中为稗、水苋菜、千金子等。与传统的手工插秧相比,轻型栽培稻作模式下的杂草群落中,不仅物种丰富度高,而且优势度也高。6种稻作模式杂草危害程度由低到高的顺序为：传统手工插秧＜机插秧＜抛秧＜水直播＜旱直播＜麦套稻。     

Evaluation of Water-Saving Rice-Winter Crop Rotation System in a Suburb of Tokyo

Abstract

Water-saving rice-winter crop rotation systems were repeated for 4 cycles from 2000 to 2004 in an urban area, Nishitokyo, Japan, to assess the effects of water-saving (i.e. non-flooded vs. flooded) on grain yield of rice (Oryza sativa L.) and chemical constituents of percolating water. The effects of pre-rice winter cropping compared with fallow on rice yield were also examined. The pre-cultivated crops were wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) or spinach (Spinacea oleracea L.) with their above-ground parts removed, chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus L.) or rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) with their above-ground parts incorporated before rice transplanting. Neither winter cropping effects nor its interaction with water-saving were significant for rice yield, although the yield after rapeseed incorporation tended to be 9 % higher than that after fallow. In 2001, 2003 and 2004, when more than 70% of irrigation water was saved in the non-flooded trial, average yield in non-flooded trial was 58 % of flooded trial, but water productivity increased (from 0.10 to 0.16 kg m^-3). Among the 3 years, yield in non-flooded trial was highest in 2004 when the amounts of irrigation and total water supply was larger, the frequency of dry spells was the lowest, and 2 seedlings were transplanted per hill. The nitrate and nitrite concentrations in the percolating water were far below the environmental standard values by WHO. The study showed that incorporation of winter crops had no negative effects on water-saving rice production at least for the first 4 years, and that under extreme water-saving, irrigation and planting methods could minimize yield reduction.     

【Short Report】Grain Yield and Leaf Area Growth of Direct-Seeded Rice on Flooded and Aerobic Soils in Japan

Abstract

Direct-seeding has been proposed as a water- and labor-saving method to grow irrigated rice. Our objective was to compare the effects of flooded and aerobic conditions on the yield stability of direct-seeded rice. We set up four trials in the field: aerobic, near-saturated and flooded soils with direct seeding, and flooded soil with transplanting. Grain yield of direct-seeded rice was comparable to that of transplanted under flooded conditions. However, the yield of direct-seeded rice under aerobic conditions was up to 21% lower than that under flooded conditions. This poor performance was associated with reduced leaf growth during the vegetative stage. Our results indicate that the yield stability of direct-seeded rice could be lowered by the water-saving irrigation, compared with the conventional flooded culture. In order to save irrigation water, physiological research on direct-seeded rice should target the vulnerability of rice to aerobic soils or to soil moisture fluctuations.     

Effect of Establishment Methods and Weed Management Practices on Some Growth Attributes of Rice

In rice, the traditional system of transplanting gives the crop a 14 to 21-day growth advantage over the weeds [1]. The transplanting also enables rice to capture space earlier. This is because the young rice plants have leverage over germinating weeds due to shading and earlier establishment of root system. The immediate flooding after transplanting limits the establishment of many weeds [2]. Similarly, in direct seeded method, the use of high seed rates could reduce weed infestation to a lar…     

The implications of land preparation, crop establishment method and weed management on rice yield variation in the rice-wheat system in the Indo-Gangetic plains

The implications of adopting alternative seeding methods for rice and wheat establishment were examined at three geographically separate sites in the rice-wheat system of the Indo-Gangetic plains, across northern India. Rice yields in cultivated plots, established by either wet or dry seeding methods, were evaluated in comparison to yields from zero-tillage plots and under conventional transplanting methods. In the same trials, the effects of crop establishment methods in wheat were assessed both on wheat yields and rice yields. Rice crop establishment methods markedly influenced the emerging weed flora and attainable yields were measured in relation to intensity of weed management. Over four years, average rice grain yields in the absence of weed competition were greatest (6.56 t ha⁻¹) under wet seeding (sowing pre-germinated rice seed on puddled soil), and similar to those from transplanted rice (6.17 t ha⁻¹) into puddled soil, and dry seeded rice after dry soil tillage (6.15 t ha⁻¹). Lowest yields were observed from dry seeded rice sown without tillage (5.44 t ha⁻¹). Rice yield losses due to uncontrolled weed growth were least in transplanted rice (12%) but otherwise large (c. 85%) where rice had been sown to dry cultivated fields or to puddled soil, rising to 98% in dry seeded rice sown without soil tillage. Weed competition reduced multiple rice yield components, and weed biomass in wet seeded rice was six-fold greater that in rice transplanted into puddled soil and twice as much again in dry seeded rice sown either after dry tillage or without tillage. Wheat grain yields were significantly higher from crops sown into tilled soil (3.89 t ha⁻¹) than those sown without tillage (3.51 t ha⁻¹), and also were elevated (5% on average) where the soil had been dry cultivated in preparation for the previous rice crops rather than puddled. The method of wheat cultivation did not influence rice yield. Soil infiltration rates in the wheat season were least where the land had been puddled for rice (1.52 mm h⁻¹), and greater where the soil had been dry-tilled (2.63 mm h⁻¹) and greatest after zero-tillage (3.54 mm h⁻¹).These studies demonstrated at research managed sites across a wide geographic area, and on farmers’ fields, that yields of dry seeded rice sown after dry cultivation of soil were broadly comparable with those of transplanted rice, providing weed competition was absent. These results support the proposition that direct seeding of rice could provide an alternative to the conventional practice of transplanting, and help address rising costs and threats to sustainability in the rice-wheat rotation. Further, analysis of patterns of long-term rainfall data indicated that farmers reliant on monsoon rainfall could prepare fields for dry direct seeded rice some 30 days before they could prepare fields for either transplanting or seeding with pre-germinated seed. Dry, direct seeding of rice contributes a valuable component of an adaptive strategy to address monsoonal variability that also may advance the time of wheat establishment and yield. Whilst the results illustrate the robustness, feasibility and significant potential of direct seeded rice, they also highlight the critical nature of effective weed control in successful implementation of direct seeding systems for rice.     

不同耕作和种植方式对稻田杂草及水稻产量的影响

采用田间试验,研究了7种不同水稻耕作和种植方式[水田翻耕移栽(puddling transplanting,PT)、免耕移栽(no tillage transplanting,NTT)、水田翻耕滚筒湿播(puddling drum wet seeding,PDWS)、免耕滚筒湿播(no tillage drum wet seeding,NTDWS)、传统耕作旱穴播(conventional tillage dry drilling,CTDD)、沟垄灌溉旱穴播(furrow irrigated raised beds system dry drilling,FIRBSDD)和免耕旱穴播(no-tillage dry-drilling,NTDD)对稻田杂草和水稻产量的影响。结果表明,PT处理下水稻产量最高,杂草干物质量最低;与移栽相比,直播(direct seeded rice,DSR),包括旱直播和湿直播,杂草生长能力最强,且不管有无杂草均降低了水稻产量;直播处理因杂草使水稻减产91.4%~99.0%,而PT和NTT处理分别减产16.0%和42.0%;香附子、龙爪茅、长穗苋、珠子草和假海马齿等杂草种类在DSR处理中大量出现,但在PT处理中未出现。大田示范试验结果表明,普通水稻品种(HKR-47和IR-64)在DSR处理较PT处理减产达15.8%,但优质水稻品种(Sharbati和PB-1)在两处理间无明显差异。当前劳动力紧缺,人工插秧需要大量劳力,因此亟需开发好氧栽培(如免耕直播和机插)模式下的适宜水稻品种及其相关配套农业机械及技术。     

草铵膦在转基因抗除草剂杂交稻直播栽培中的应用效果

以转基因抗除草剂杂交早稻“株1S／Bar68—1”为材料,常规除草剂2次除草方式为对照,探讨了草铵膦1次除草方式在水稻直播栽培中的应用效果。结果表明：与常规除草（效果表现为千金子草害）相比,灭生性除草剂草铵膦除草对供试材料株叶形态无显著影响,但使田间杂草数量减少85．3％,减少产量损失33．1％,节约成本37．5％。“株1S!Bar68—1”直播栽培中应用草铵膦除草剂1次除草的技术要点为：草铵膦有效成分0．6g／L,每公顷用量720—960L（有效成分剂量432～576g／hm2）,于分蘖末期紧挨冠层均匀喷雾,冒头杂草重点喷施。     

Yield and water productivity of rice–wheat on raised beds at New Delhi, India

Permanent raised beds are being proposed for the rice–wheat system in the Indo-Gangetic Plain to increase its productivity and to save water. It is not clear whether reported water savings in rice arise from the geometry of the beds per se or from the particular water management that keeps the soil in aerobic conditions and that can also be applied on flat land. Moreover, little research has been reported on direct seeding of rice on raised beds and on the effect of raised beds on the subsequent wheat crop. In this paper we compare the yield, input water (rainfall and irrigation) use and water productivity of dry-seeded rice on raised beds and flat land with that of flooded transplanted and wet-seeded rice, and analyze the effects of beds on the subsequent wheat crop. The experiment was conducted in 2001–2003 at New Delhi, India.

Rice yields on raised beds that were kept around field capacity were 32–42% lower than under flooded transplanted conditions and 21% lower than under flooded wet-seeded conditions. Water inputs were reduced by 32–42% compared with flooded rice, but could also be accomplished with dry seeding on flat land with the same water management. Reduced water inputs and yield reductions balanced each other so that water productivity was comparable among most treatments. Wheat yield was 12–17% lower on raised beds than on flat land with conventional (20 cm) row spacing. Neither wheat nor rice on raised beds compensated for the loss in rows by extra tillering or leaf growth at the edges of the rows. There was no carry-over effect of type of land preparation in rice on the growth and yield of the subsequent wheat crop. Further research on raised beds should focus on the selection of suitable rice and wheat varieties, soil health issues such as nematodes and micro-nutrient deficiencies, weed control, bed stability and long-term carry-over effects from one crop to the other.     

不同机直播方式对南方优质晚籼稻产量及抗倒伏特性的影响

【目的】研究不同机直播方式对南方优质晚籼稻茎秆抗倒伏能力及产量的影响,为南方优质晚籼稻高产抗倒栽培提供参考。【方法】以籼型常规稻品种黄华占和籼型杂交稻品种泰优398为材料,设置旱直播、湿直播和淹水直播3个处理,分别测定优质晚籼稻的产量及产量构成、出苗率、干物质生产、叶面积指数和茎秆形态与力学特性。【结果】与湿直播方式或淹水直播方式相比,旱直播方式可显著提高供试晚稻品种的出苗率,增幅为6.10% ~ 22.96%,且干物质生产和叶面积指数均增加。同时,旱直播方式有利于提高供试晚稻品种产量,两品种增产幅度为6.99%~27.77%,其中泰优398产量增幅高于黄华占,从产量构成因素来看,机械旱直播方式下供试晚稻品种产量的提高主要得益于有效穗数增加。此外,旱直播方式下供试水稻株高相对较矮,基部各节间较短,但茎秆粗壮,茎壁较厚,有利于提高植株茎秆抗折力和秆型指数,降低弯曲力矩与倒伏指数。相关分析表明,茎粗、壁厚和秆型指数与抗折力显著正相关,而与倒伏指数显著负相关;株高、穗长、弯曲力矩与抗折力显著负相关,与倒伏指数显著正相关。【结论】采用机械旱直播方式不仅有利于增加南方优质晚籼稻产量,还能显著增加茎秆强度,提高植株抗倒伏能力,降低直播生产的风险。     

不同机直播方式对南方优质晚籼稻产量及抗倒伏特性的影响

【目的】研究不同机直播方式对南方优质晚籼稻茎秆抗倒伏能力及产量的影响，为南方优质晚籼稻高产抗倒栽培提供参考。【方法】以籼型常规稻品种黄华占和籼型杂交稻品种泰优398为材料，设置旱直播、湿直播和淹水直播3个处理，分别测定优质晚籼稻的产量及产量构成、出苗率、干物质生产、叶面积指数和茎秆形态与力学特性。【结果】与湿直播方式或淹水直播方式相比，旱直播方式可显著提高供试晚稻品种的出苗率，增幅为6.10% ~ 22.96%，且干物质生产和叶面积指数均增加。同时，旱直播方式有利于提高供试晚稻品种产量，两品种增产幅度为6.99%~27.77%，其中泰优398产量增幅高于黄华占，从产量构成因素来看，机械旱直播方式下供试晚稻品种产量的提高主要得益于有效穗数增加。此外，旱直播方式下供试水稻株高相对较矮，基部各节间较短粗、壁厚和秆型指数与抗折力显著正相关，而与倒伏指数显著负相关；株高、穗长、弯曲力矩与抗折力显著负相关，与倒伏指数显著正相关。【结论】采用机械旱直播方式不仅有利于增加南方优质晚籼稻产量，还能显著增加茎秆强度，提高植株抗倒伏能力，降低直播生产的风险。，但茎秆粗壮，茎壁较厚，有利于提高植株茎秆抗折力和秆型指数，降低弯曲力矩与倒伏指数。相关分析表明，茎     

Relations of rice seeding rates to crop and weed growth in aerobic rice

Aerobic rice describes a management adaptation to reduced irrigation water supplies but, due to reduced intervals of flooding in this system, this requires revised weed management approaches to reduce costs and provide effective weed control. One approach is to make the crop more competitive and reduce the effects of weeds on the crop by using higher rice seeding rates. A study was conducted in the Philippines and India in 2008 and 2009 to assess the relations of seeding rates (15-125 kg ha⁻¹) of hybrid and inbred varieties to crop and weed growth in aerobic rice. Plant densities, tillers, and biomass of rice increased linearly with increased in seeding rates under both weedy and weed free environments. Weed biomass decreased linearly with increasing seeding rates from 15 to 125 kg ha⁻¹. Panicles and grain yields of rice in competition with weeds increased in a quadratic relation with increased seeding rates at both locations; however, the response was flat in the weed free plots. A quadratic model predicted that seeding rates of 48-80 kg ha⁻¹ for the inbred varieties and 47-67 kg ha⁻¹ for the hybrid varieties were needed to achieve maximum grain yield when grown in the absence of weeds, while rates of 95-125 kg seed ha⁻¹ for the inbred varieties and 83-92 kg seed ha⁻¹ for the hybrid varieties were needed to achieve maximum yields in competition with weeds. On the basis of these results, seeding rates greater than 80 kg ha⁻¹ are advisable where there are risks of severe weed competition. Such high seeding rates may be prohibitive when using expensive seed, and maximum yields are not the only consideration for developing recommendations for optimizing economic returns for farmers. Results of the present study do suggest however that increasing seeding rates of aerobic rice does suppress weed growth and reduce grain yield losses from weed competition. This information could be incorporated in integrated crop management packages to manage weeds more effectively.     

The Origin of Flooded Rice Cultivation

Rice cultivation has long been considered to have originated from seeding of annual types of wild rice somewhere in subtropics, tropics or in the Yangtze River basin. That idea, however, contains a fatally weak point, when we consider the tremendous difficulty for primitive human to seed any cereal crop in the warm and humid climate, where weed thrives all year round. Instead of the accepted theory, we have to see a reality that vegetative propagation of edible plants is a dominant form of agriculture in such regions. The possibility is discussed that Job's tears and rice, two cereal crops unique to the region, might have been developed via vegetative propagation to obtain materials for medicine or herb tea in backyard gardens prior to cereal production. This idea is supported by the fact that rice in temperate regions is still perennial in its growth habit and that such backyard gardens with transplanted taro can still be seen from Yunnan Province of China to Laos. Thanks to detailed survey of wild rice throughout China for 1970-1980, it is now confirmed that a set of clones of wild rice exist in shallow swamps in Jiangxi Province, an area with severe winter cold. In early summer ancient farmers may have divided the sprouting buds and spread them by transplanting into flooded shallow marsh. Such way of propagation might have faster improved less productive rice through a better genetic potential for response to human interference than quick fixation in seed propagation, because vegetative parts are heterogeneous. Obviously, such a primitive manner of rice cultivation did include the essential parts of rice farming, i.e., nursery bed, transplanting in flooded field of shallow marsh like. Transfer from the primitive nursery to true nursery by seed may have later allowed rice cultivation to be extended to northern regions. In thus devised flooded cultivation there were a series of unique advantages, i.e.; continuous cropping of rice in a same plot, no soil erosion, slow decline of soil fertility, availability of minerals, and resulting in high yield per unit area, which have collectively attained the highly productive cereal cultivation in the warm and humid region. Rice cultivation in marsh is also favorable to raise fish culture, both of which constituted a nutritionally balanced base. Development of irrigation technology to construct flooded farms gave strong bases for stable rice-cultivating society, which in the end formulated the rise of ancient kingdoms of Yue and Wu in China in BC 6 th -5th centuries. They were direct descendents of those people who had developed the unique rice cultivation from the era of Hemudu culture, which is dated back to 5 000 BC. Their movement to the south is considered to have established rice-cultivating communities in South China and Southeast Asia, while to the north it transferred the rice-based technology to ancient Korea and Japan and had established there a base for a civilized society.     

Effects of crop establishment techniques on weeds and rice yield

Field and pot studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of seven rice establishment techniques {puddling transplanting (PT), no tillage transplanting (NTT), puddling drum wet seeding (PDWS), no tillage drum wet seeding (NTDWS), conventional tillage dry drilling (CTDD), furrow irrigated raised beds system dry drilling (FIRBSDD), and no-tillage dry-drilling (NTDD)} and water submergence stress on weeds and rice yield. The highest yield and least weed abundance were in the PT treatment. The direct seeded rice (DSR), both dry and wet exhibited severe weed infestation, and compared to transplanting showed reduced yield both in the presence and absence of weeds. The yield losses due to weeds in the DSR treatments ranged from 91.4 to 99.0%, compared to 16.0 and 42.0% in the transplanting treatments (PT and NTT). Weeds, including Cyperus rotundus L., Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd., Digera arvensis Forsk., Phyllanthus niruri L., and Trianthema portulacastrum L. which were found in the un-puddled DSR treatments were absent in the puddled plots, particularly the PT treatments. In pot studies, continuous water-submergence (2.5 cm) for 20 days reduced the emergence of C. rotundus, D. aegyptium, T. portulacastrum, and Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) Beauv. by 99.4, 100, 100, and 24.4%, respectively, compared to alternate wetting–drying. In farmer's field studies, when compared to the PT treatments, the DSR treatments exhibited lower yields (15.8%) with coarse varieties (HKR-47 & IR-64), but fine cultivars (Sharbati & PB-1) exhibited similar yields under both systems. In view of the shortage of labour for manual transplanting, there is a need to develop suitable cultivars for aerobic system conditions (unpuddled DSR and NT machine-transplanting).     

盐碱地条件下机插秧与旱直播水稻产量及其构成因子比较

以天津市4个水稻主栽品种为供试材料,采用机插秧和旱直播两种模式进行种植,比较了两种栽培模式水稻的产量、产量构成因子以及经济效益。结果表明,旱直播条件下的水稻株高显著低于机插秧,两种模式下水稻单位面积有效穗数、穂长、千粒重、每穗粒数、结实率和实际产量因品种而异。从经济效益来看,旱直播高于机插秧。     

Plant characteristics associated with weed competitiveness of rice under upland and lowland conditions in West Africa

Weeds are a major constraint to rice (Oryza spp.) production in West Africa. Superior weed competitive rice genotypes may reduce weed pressure and improve rice productivity. Two upland and two lowland experiments were conducted in southern Benin to examine genotypic variations in weed-suppressive ability and grain yield under weedy conditions, and to identify plant characteristics that could be used as selection criteria for improved weed competitiveness. A total of 19 genotypes, including Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima genotypes and interspecific hybrids developed from crossing O. sativa and O. glaberrima, were grown under weed-free and weedy conditions in an upland with supplemental irrigation and in a flooded lowland. In weedy plots, hand weeding was done once or not at all. Mean relative yield loss across all genotypes due to weed competition ranged from almost 0% to 61%. Large genotypic variations in weed biomass and grain yield under weedy conditions were found. Visual growth vigor at 42 and 63 days after sowing (DAS) under weed-free conditions significantly correlated with weed biomass at maturity in both upland and lowland experiments (R² = 0.26–0.48). Where weed pressure was low to moderate, with mean relative yield loss less than 23%, the multiple regression models using grain yield and plant height at maturity or only grain yield measured under weed-free conditions as independent variables could explain 66–88% of the genotypic variation in grain yield under weedy conditions. At higher weed pressure (mean relative yield loss: 61%), as observed in one of the upland experiments, biomass accumulation of rice at 42 days after sowing was associated with higher grain yield under weedy conditions. Biomass accumulation also significantly correlated with visual growth vigor at the same sampling dates. Therefore, we conclude that grain yield, plant height at maturity and visual growth vigor at 42–63 DAS under weed-free conditions appear to be useful selection criteria for developing superior weed competitive rice genotypes.     

Effects of Temperature,Sowing Depth and Soil Hardness On Seedling Establishment and Yield of Cambodian Rice Direct-Seeded in Flood Paddy Fields

Abstract

Rice is The Most Important Crop For Supporting Cambodian Economy, However The Cultivated Area is Limited Due To The Rice Production System. Rice is Transplanted By Hand and Yet The Direct-Seeding Technology and Proper Cultivars For Direct-Seeding Have Not Been Established. The Aim of This Study is To Find The Adaptability of Cambodian Cultivars For Direct Seeding. First, We Determined The Seedling Establishment of Rice Direct-Seeded in A Flooded Paddy Field, and Examined Their Growth and Yield. The Seedling Establishment of Koshihikari and W42 Were Significantly Higher Than Those of Rumpe and Sen Pidao At Both Medium and Low Temperatures, But Not Significantly Different Among Cultivars At High Temperature. Koshihikari and W42 Showed Significantly Higher Seedling Establishment Than Sen Pidao At 0 Cm Deep Sowing. and Koshihikari Also Showed Significantly Higher Seedling Establishment Than Both Rumpe and Sen Pidao At 1 Cm and 2 Cm Deep Sowing. The Percentage of Seedling Establishment From The Seeds Sown After 4, 1 and 0 Day of Drainage Was Higher in Rohat Than in The Other Cultivars. The Percentage of Seedling Establishment in 0 Day Drainage Was 51% in Rohat, But Only 28% in Sen Pidao, Which Was The Lowest Among The Cultivars. Cambodian Rice Cultivars Had A Short Plant Length and Short Basal Low internodes, Which Contributed To Strong Lodging Resistance. Crossing of Cambodian Cultivars With Koshihikari To Obtain Cultivars Adapted To Direct-Seeding in Cambodia Was Proposed.     

直播稻生产概况与品种选育策略

近年,直播稻面积在我国迅速扩大。本文结合国内外直播稻生产概况,指出了直播稻在抗倒伏、出苗率、耐冷性、防治杂草以及生育期等方面存在的问题,提出了培育“生育期适中、抗倒伏、耐低温、耐低氧萌发”的适合直播的水稻新品种选育策略。     

Increasing Production of Rainfed Lowland Rice in Drought Prone Environments

Summary

Drought is a major production constraint of rainfed lowland rice grown in Thailand and Laos. Adverse soil conditions also reduce yield. In an attempt to increase rainfed lowland rice production in these countries, a major collaborative international project was conducted during a 6-year period in the region. The objectives of the project were to quantify production constraints, determine genotypic variation in yield, and identify an effective breeding strategy. A rice simulation model was developed also and used to investigate the potential impact of strategies for genetic improvement and agronomic management.

Four major physical or biological constraints to higher production levels of rainfed lowland rice were identified, (1) the lack of standing water at the appropriate time of transplanting, (2) severe water stress that often develops at the end of the growing season, (3) low yield potential of the present cultivars, particularly in Thailand, and (4) adverse soil conditions including low pH and low soil fertility. The results of the field experiments and simulation modelling exercises showed that the influence of these constraints can be reduced and yield increased by several methods : in particular, choice of appropriate cultivars and time of sowing to match crop phenology with water availability, application of appropriate fertilizer, adoption of high yielding cultivars, adoption of direct seeding in place of the traditional transplanting system, and reduction of percolation water loss from the paddies.

A technology package currendy being investigated for the rainfed lowland rice is direct seeding early in the season, using cultivars that flower by the end of the rainy season, with application of organic or chemical fertilizer. The appropriate cultivars are early flowering and short-intermediate statured, possess high yield potential and ability to maintain favourable plant water status at flowering, and have the ability to establish well and compete against weed under direct seeding.