Nutrients Release from a Novel Gel-Based Slow/Controlled Release Fertilizer

Table 1

Nutrient release patterns in each incubation period and the accumulative nutrient release patterns from G-CRF and conventional fertilizer.

	Nutrient release pattern in each incubation period				Accumulative nutrient release pattern
	Conventional fertilizer		Gel-based controlled release fertilizer		Conventional fertilizer		Gel-based controlled release fertilizer
	Function equation	()	Function equation	()	Function equation	()	Function equation	()
N		0.975		0.929		0.982		0.977
P2O5		0.928		0.921		0.974		0.981
K2O		0.981		0.913		0.935		0.995