Table 2 Yield components of early-season rice ‘Xiangwanxian 45’ under nitrogen fertilizer and plant density treatments in 2015.

From: Potential for high yield with increased seedling density and decreased N fertilizer application under seedling-throwing rice cultivation

Treatment

Total Spikelets (107·ha−1)

Panicle No. (104·ha−1)

Spikelets per panicle

Filled grains per panicle

Spikelet filling percentage (%)

1000-grain weight (g)

SAT

T1

4.36ab

428.7b

101.6c

81.5d

80.2c

23.6ab

T2

4.62a

460.6a

100.2c

74.4e

74.3d

23.5ab

NST

T3

4.08bc

374.0c

106.4ab

90.8ab

85.3ab

23.6ab

T4

3.75c

345.1d

108.7a

94.6a

87.0a

23.2b

SAT-NST

T5

4.29ab

415.5bc

103.2bc

84.6c

82.0b

23.7ab

T6

4.70a

465.3a

101.1c

81.9d

81.0b

23.2b

T7

3.82c

367.5cd

103.9b

86.1bc

82.9b

23.6ab

T8

4.17b

410.8b

101.4c

83.3cd

82.1b

23.4ab

CK

4.19b

385.4c

108.7a

92.9a

85.5ab

23.9a

Analysis of variance

seedling (S)

*

**

*

**

*

ns

nitrogen (N)

*

*

ns

ns

ns

*

S × N

*

**

*

*

ns

ns

  1. Within the row for each location, means followed by the same letters are not significantly different according to LSD at P = 0.05.
  2. *Significant at the 0.05 level based on analysis of variance.
  3. **Significant at the 0.01 level based on analysis of variance.
  4. Ns denotes non-significance based on analysis of variance.
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