INFLUENCE OF BIOSTIMULANT SPRAYING ON THE SOYBEAN YIELD

COMPONENTS

Santos, HL; Candido, IB; Sartori, DS; Galvão, L; Silva, MA

Laboratory of Ecophysiology Applied to Agriculture – LECA, School of Agricultural Sciences, Sao

Paulo State University - UNESP, 3780 Universitaria Ave, Botucatu, SP, 18.610-034, Brazil
(isabelibotura@gmail.com).

Soybean is the main oilseed crop produced and consumed worldwide, and Brazil is the world’s
largest producer. Climatic factors are directly related to production risks, so it is necessary to seek
for increased yield, even in harsh environmental conditions. Given that, biostimulants are the main
products used to improve the adaptive responses of plants to environmental stresses, as it promotes
physiological changes in plants and improves the nutritional efficiency and the shoot and root
system growth, leading to higher productivity. In this context, the objective of this work was to
evaluate soybean yield parameters under the action of biostimulants applied via foliar. The
experiment was conducted in an experimental area of School of Agricultural Sciences − UNESP, in
randomized block design, with four treatments [control (T1), Stimulate 250 mL ha -1 applied in V5,
R1 and R3 (T2), Biozyme 250 mL ha -1 applied in V5 and R1 (T3), Expert Grow 500 mL ha -1
applied in V5 and R1 (T4)] and four replicates. The spraying of the products was carried out at
different phenological stages, through a CO2 pressurized sprayer, using a 100 L ha-1 spray volume.
The yield components were evaluated at harvest. The data were submitted to analysis of variance
and the averages were compared by the Tukey test (P <0.05). There were no differences in the
number of pods with two seeds, in the 100 grains mass and in the hectoliter weight between the
treatments. However, foliar application of biostimulants provided increases in the number of pods
with three seeds, in the number of pods per plant, in the number of grains per plant, in the number of
grains per pod and in the productivity, when compared to the control. It was concluded that the
spraying of Biozyme provided the highest values for most of the yield components and the greatest
increase in productivity, thus, its application can be indicated in the V5 and R1 phenological stages.

Key words: Glycine max (L.) Merrill, foliar application, productivity, biostimulation.