Growth and physiological performance of aerobic and lowland rice grown under various water regimes / Nadzariah Kamarul Zaman

Rice is the heavy user of water and sensitive to moisture stress. Therefore, water scarcity can be a major factor that can threaten the rice productivity especially under irrigated production system. Thus, aerobic rice was developed to ensure the sustainability of rice production under water scarce environment. Aerobic rice technology is still new in Malaysia, and the information on performance of first local aerobic rice variety MARDI Aerob 1 under various environmental conditions are still lacking. A field study was carried out to compare the performance of MARDI Aerob 1 with MR 253, the lowland variety under water stress at selected growth stages. The experiment consisted of four treatments and three replications arranged in randomized complete block design.