The work had the objective of evaluating the individual behavior of plants originated from seeds of high and low vigor of hybrid rice, inside of populations and behavior of populations of hybrid rice plants that were constituted by different ratio of plants derived from seeds of high and low physiological quality. The experiment was conducted in the experimental area of the agronomy school. It was used seeds of hybrid rice of the cultivar Avaxi, which belongs to the Ricetec®, consisting 5 treatments ( ratio of 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100% plants originated from seeds of high vigor in the population) including two lots characterized as low and high vigor. After the emergence of the plants in the trays, a looping was proceeded in order to remove the undesirable plants, removing the precocious plants in the low vigor lot and the delayed plants in the high vigor lot, intending to use the emerged plants of the day with higher frequencies of emergency on each one of the vigor levels. The transplant was carried out 20 days after sowing. The experiment was developed by a randomized complete block design, with 3 repetitions. It was evaluated: the plants height at 60 DAT, number of panicles per plant at 115 DAT, number of tiller at 60 DAT, leaf area, number of grains per panicle, number of grains per plant, weight of 1000 seeds and plant yield. Seeds of high vigor originated plants with better performance on all evaluations, independing ong the seedline distribuition. The use of high vigor seeds on the establishment of hybrid rice populations provided increases over than 30% on the yield.
Oryza sativa; vigor; arrangement
