Tratamento de sementes de soja com molibdênio e inoculante: desempenho agronômico e atividade da nitrato redutase

Abstract

The objectives of this work were to analyze and compare the effects of molybdenum associated with inoculant as seed treatment in soybeans and its role in agronomic performance, physiological quality and nitrate reductase enzymeactivity . The experiment was arranged with in a randomized complete block design with four replications. The treatments were set up in a factorial design, where the first treatment factor were the doses of molybdenum (Mo) from source of sodium molybdate (127g.L-1 solution). The following doses were used: zero; 16; 32; 48; 64 g.100kg-1 and these doses were combined with the second seed treatment factor. Therefore, the second factor was the presence and absence of inoculant via soybean seed treatment in the crop season 2013/2014. In the first study, the experiment was conducted until crop maturation phase, and subsequently were performed evaluation of agronomic performance and physiological seed quality. In the second study, during the experiment, leaf samples were taken at different growth stages to evaluate the nitrate reductase enzyme activity. The results of nitrate reductase activity were correlated with the data of agronomic performance and physiological quality of seeds obtained in the first chapter. In the first study, it was found that the addition of inoculant provides an improvement in the physiological quality of seed vigor compared to seeds produced, increase percentage of germinated seeds in the accelerated aging test as well as providing an increase in the length and mass of shoot and root. Also had a positive effect on plant height, number of pods per plant, seed number per plant and thousand seed weight. The seeds produced by molybdenum application at sowing also promoted benefits in seed vigor, contributing to a linear increase in length and dry weight of shoot and root, with increasing dose. Furthermore, increasing doses of molybdenum provide beneficial effects on agronomic characters, showing a higher thousand seed weight at the end of the cycle, and a larger plant height. In the second study, it was found that molybdenum in the presence of inoculant show positive influence on the nitrate reductase enzyme activity in the vegetative and reproductive stages. The molybdenum doses without the presence of inoculant provide a growing increase in nitrate reductase activity up to the highest dose (64 g Mo. 100 kg-1 seed). The nitrate reductase activity show a positive correlation with vigor tests and agronomic characters.