Xiaodong Wei, Yadong Zhang, Xuemei Song, Ling Zhao, Qingyong Zhao, Tao Chen, Kai Lu, Zhen Zhu, Shengdong Huang, Cailin Wang
This study examined how silicon and zinc fertilizers affect the quality and aroma of Nanjing 46. We applied nine different fertilizer treatments, one involving soil topdressing at the top fourth leaf-age stage and one involving foliar spraying during the booting stage of the silicon and zinc fertilizers. We tested the effects of the nine treatments on grain quality and aroma. Silicon and zinc fertilizers significantly affected the brown rice rate, milled rice rate, head rice rate, amylose content, gel consistency, RVA characteristic value, taste value, and aroma but did not affect the chalky grain rate, chalkiness, protein content, rice appearance, hardness, stickiness, balance, peak time, or pasting temperature...
January 2, 2024: Foods (Basel, Switzerland)