Nitrogen Uptake and Shoot Growth of Creeping Bentgrass after Application of Slow Release Nitrogen Fertilizer Blending

Young-Sun  Kim1   Chang-Eun  Lee2   Dohyoung  Kim3   Geung-Joo  Lee1,*   

1Department of Horticultural Science, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea
2 C&L Chemical Co. Ltd., Seoul 03938, Korea
3Syngenta Korea Co. Ltd., Jincheon 27855, Korea

Abstract

This study was conducted to evaluate effects of slow release nitrogen (N) fertilizer (SRF) blending isobutylidene diurea (IBDU), crotonylidene diurea (CDU) and methylene urea (MU) on growth, quality and N uptake of creeping bentgrass. Treatments were designed as follow; non-fertilizer (NF), control fertilizer (CF), SRF-1 (IBDU 12%, CDU 12%, MU 36%), and SRF-2 (IBDU 5%, CDU 5%, MU 15%). As applied SRF, visual quality, shoot length, clipping yield, T/R ratio, N content and N uptake of creeping bentgrass was not significant to CF. Total chlorophyll content of SRF-2 increased by17 % than that of CF. Amount of N uptake was positively correlated to visual quality, total chlorophyll content, clipping yield, and uptake of phosphorus and potassium (P <0.01). These results indicated that application of slow release nitrogen fertilizer blending with IBDU, CDU and MU improved chlorophyll content of creeping bentgrass by prompting N uptake.

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