A pot experiment was conducted using extraneous cadmium as soil Cd contaminant for exploration of effect of timing and duration of waterlogging on rice yield and Cd accumulation in rice. Results show that rice yield lowered to a varying extent in all the flooding treatments vs CK (CI), especially Treatment WI (wetting irrigation throughout the rice growing season) and Treatments T1, T2, T3 and T4 (flooding beginning at the prime tillering stage and lasting for 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks, respectively), which was 23.7%, 16.0%, 15.5%, 20.2% and 18.6%, l...