JOURNAL OF NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY ›› 2013, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (01): 44-48.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-2006.2013.01.007

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Influence of continually supplementing nitrogen on the quality of Larix olgensis seedlings

ZHU Yan1, LI Guolei1, LI Qingmei2, LIU Yong1*, ZOU Shangqing1, JIANG Le1   

  1. 1.The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education,Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083,China; 2. Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Key Laboratory of Forest Silviculture of State Forestry Administration, Beijing 100091, China
  • Online:2013-02-18 Published:2013-02-18

Abstract: Nutrient loading has been widely used as an important cultural technique to regulate seedling quality, which can build higher nutrient reserves in seedlings during nursery culture. To test the influence of nutrient loading on the quality of Larix olgensis, one-year-old seedlings were subjected to a continual supplement of nitrogen in August, September and October(equivalent applications of 240, 360 and 420 kg/hm2 N, respectively)after the ordinary fertilization in July. At the time of harvest, seedling height and root collar diameter increased by 35.4%-52.4% and 11.3%-19.0% compared with ordinary fertilization. There were no significant differences in morphology and shoot N concentration among seedlings with different N loadings, while the root N concentration increased significantly with fertilization application, suggesting root may be more sensitive to N loading than shoot. The biomass of seedlings increased significantly compared with ordinary fertilization,but didn’t show any differences among the treatments. On all the temperatures treatments, the values of freeze-induced electrolyte leakage(FIEL)in the N-fertilized seedlings was lower than that of unfertilized, which ranged from 13.57% to 23.12% at temperature above -20 ℃. However, once the temperature declined as low as -30 ℃, FIEL values increased sharply to 23.28%-35.59%, whereas that of the seedlings with 360 and 420 kg/ hm2 N treatments was significantly lower, demonstrating that the advantage of N loading practices having a possibility of enhancing the cold resistance of Larix olgensis seedling.

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