Soybean cultivars in rotation with rice and pastures in hydromorphic soils in Rio Grande do Sul, has been used as an agricultural option. The present report had as main objective to determine the performance on the yield component of soybeans cultivars under hydromorphic soil conditions, and in the verification of the crop responses to excess of water in the soil at different stages of growth. The study was conducted during the crop year of 1995/96, bellow extructure covered, at the Plant Sciences Departament of the Federal University of Santa Maria, RS, Brazil (29º 41' S latitude, 58º 48' W longitude, 95 m above the sea level). PVC pots were filled with planossolo soil. The experimental design randomized blocks, bifactorial with three replications. Cultivars Ocepar 14, FT Saray, IAS 5 and CEP 16 were submitted to hydrical saturation in the V2, V6, R2, R3 and R4 plant development stages. The results indicated that the used cultivar soybeans, they showed a good tolerance to the hydrical saturation in the soil, and this tolerance to hydrical saturation in the soil is higher in the vegetative stage than in the reproductive stage.
cultivar; stages of development; hidrical excess
