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Agronomy, production and grain quality of soybean cultivars under two growing seasons

Abstract:

This work aimed to evaluate the agronomic, production and grain quality of soybean varieties KAMERUN and P-34 introduced from Colombia, compared with three national varieties during the rainy and dry season, in Quevedo, Los Ríos, Ecuador. Agronomic variables were evaluated (days to flowering, plants overturned, height plant and first pod), productive (number of branches per plant, nodes per plant, pods per plant, seeds per pod, grains per plant and seeds in 100 grams, weight of 100 seeds, grain per plot and grain yield per hectare) and grain quality (broken seed in the integument, seed mottling, purple stain and fungal incidence). The experimental design used in this study was the Complete Randomized Bloc design with five treatments and four replications. All variables were subjected to analysis of variance. Multiple range Turkey’s test (p < 0,05) was used, between treatment means for each season independently; while for the means obtained between the rainy and dry seasons, t-Student test was used. Under our conditions, most of the evaluated variables were affected by the planting season. The variety P-34 was considered a promising material for showing agronomic characteristics, grain production and quality superior to others and may be recommended for planting.