Abstract
Abstract Nitrogen (N) plays an essential role in the crop growing cycle. Canopy vegetation indexes and chlorophyll concentration were important tools in-crop N status diagnosis and provided a crucial guide for agricultural managers. This work focused on evaluating the performance of different chlorophyll-related indexes (canopy chlorophyll index, CCI) and Greenseeker RT 200 values (GS values, normalized difference vegetation index, NDVI & Ratio vegetation index, RVI) in crop N nutrient diagnosis. Four experiments were conducted with multiple N fertilizer rates (0 ∼ 390 kg N ha−1) and seven Japonica rice (Oryza sativa L.). Results suggested that the relationship between CCI value and tissue nitrogen accumulation [including leaf nitrogen accumulation (LNA) and plant N accumulation (PNA)] was more reliable than that of GS values. Compered GS values with CCI values-based N concentration dilution curves, CCI-based Nc curve showed better accuracy and lower bias than GS values-based curves. And this curve lower than the reference LAI basis Nc curve and higher than the dry matter-based curve. The N nutrition index (NNI), calculated by the CCI-based curve, ranged from 0.31 to 1.33 during the vegetative stage. A significant positive relationship between CCI values and accumulated N deficit (AND) applications over the rice developmental stages. This present study also proved that CCI could be used to predict grain yield in total growth periods. These developed canopy level vegetation indexes-based Nc curve as a novel tool to offer more choices for evaluating crop N nutrition status and precision N topdressing management in Japonica rice of China.
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