Variabilidade e desempenho de plantas de soja em função da qualidade fisiológica de sementes

Abstract

The agronomic performance of soybean plants may be influenced by physiological seed quality. Two experiments were conducted at the Experimental and Didactic Plant Science Department and Analysis Laboratory of the Graduate Program Seed Science and Seed Technology at Universidade Federal de Pelotas in the agricultural years 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 and aimed to evaluate the effect of seed vigor on the agronomic behavior of soybean plants. In the first experiment, the effect of physiological quality seeds on isolated plants of soybean behavior due to the growth habit. Soybean seeds were used BMX Turbo RR cultivars of indeterminate growth habit and cultivate BMX Active RR determined growth habit of greater and less physiological quality seeds, respectively. To obtain the high vigor seeds levels for both growth habits were selected lots of greater physiological quality characterized by the germination and vigor tests. Low quality levels were obtained through artificial aging of the batch high physiological quality for both growth habits. In the second experiment aimed to evaluate the distribution of variability and the agronomic performance of the plants in early growth, yield components and grain yield of isolated soybean plants in relation to physiological seed quality. Were used seeds of soybean cultivar BMX Potência RR of two quality levels, greater and less physiological seed quality. The parameters of the initial growth of individual plants evaluated were soybean plant height, leaf number, leaf area and dry matter at 10, 20, 30 and 40 DAE (days after emergence). The morphological characteristics and yield components of isolated soybean plants were determined by evaluating the plant height at harvest, stem diameter, height of first pod, number of branches, number of pods per plant, number of seeds per plant and yield per plant. Isolated soybean plants have higher initial growth when greater physiological seed quality are used, and the effect of physiological seed quality on plant performance does not depend on their growth habit. The physiological seed quality affects the yield of plants and increases from 8 to 12% have been observed when used greater physiological quality of seeds. Seeds lots of greater physiological quality show less variation in the physiological quality of the seeds components of the lot.