Nitrogen and potassium are necessary nutrients for cassava and are generally
deficient in soil, particularly nitrogen. High nitrogen fertilizer applications may induce
greater a potassium requirement. The results showed that increasing nitrogen rates
significantly increased plant height, SPAD value of the upper and lower leaf, the fresh and
dry weight of leaf blade, stem+petiole, tuber and total weight. Increasing potassium rates
was decreased the SPAD value of lower leaves. Nitrogen uptake in OSC and tuber was
significantly affected by interaction between N and K, but N uptake in the leaf blade and
the total N uptake were affected by increasing N rates. Potassium uptake in tuber and total
K uptake were significantly affected by interaction between N and K but K uptake in
stem+petiole and OSC affected by increasing K rates. Furthermore, the total uptake of N
and K gave a high positive correlation with the fresh and dry weight of all plant parts
except OSC. The correlation coefficient between uptake N and K in the leaf blade,
stem+petiole, OSC, and tuber were 0.85**, 0.83**, 0.35* and 0.87**, respectively.
Keywords
cassava, nitrogen, potassium, interaction
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