Épocas de aplicação de nitrogênio no feijoeiro comum (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) baseadas no índice de suficiência de clorofila

Abstract

Due to the high economic and social importance of the common bean in Brazil, still has doubts regarding the manner mode and use of topdressing nitrogen fertilizer aiming to obtain high yields, concern about the excessive use of nitrogenous fertilizers, associated with the development of new tools to assess quickly and accurately the nutritional status of crops.TIn this sense, the study aimed to evaluate the use of Sufficiency Chlorophyll Index (SCI) as a tool to identify the necessity for application and estimate the top dress nitrogen rate (N) should be applied, to obtain the common bean yield and its yield components and monitor the behavior of the index Falker chlorophyll (IFC), the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), the N content in the leaf tissue and available N in the soil with different N rates application and nitrogen topdressing application timing . The experimental design was randomized blocks in a factorial arrangement of 8 x 5 x 4 (N rates x topdressing application timing x evaluation periods), with three repetitions. N rates evaluated were: 0, 40, 80, 120, 160, 200, 240 and 280 kg ha-1, topdressing application. The evaluation periods were: 15, 25, 35 and 45 days after emergence (DAE). The application timing were as follows: E1: application of N rates on seeding; E2: application of N rates at 10 DAE; E3: application of N rates when the SCI ≤ 95%; E4: application of N rates at 20 DAE and E5: application of N rates when SCI ≤ 90%. From the results obtained it was concluded that the SCI was efficient to identify differences in IFC levels of 15 to 40 DAE, however, it was not possible to estimate the N rates that should be applied according to the SCI, because the yield showed no significance differences due to N rates and application timing. The mean yield was 2,061 kg ha-1. With increasing of N rates occurs linear increase in the number of pods plant-1 and a linear decrease in the number of grain legume-1. Soil mineral N content showed linear increase with increasing N rates, but were not showed the same behavior to IFC, NDVI and leaf tissue N values, which showed low significant variation depending of the N rates. NDVI increased over DAE, reaching the highest value between 35 and 45 DAE and in 45 DAE the IFC values did not differ among treatments.