The objective of this study was to evaluate the concentration of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in drybean shoots in response to irrigation, fertirrigation with nitrogen and seed micronutrient application. The experiment was conducted on a loam Podzolic soil, in Santa Maria, RS. Treatments with conventional nitrogen distribution used urea as nitrogen source at a rate of 85kg N ha-1 applied 12 days after emergency. Nitrogen owas splited at 12, 24 and 30 days after emergency for treatments with fertirrigation. Micronutrients were applied at a rate of 3.5g kg-1 of seeds in a concentration of 38% of zinc, 9% of molybdenum, 2% of boron and 0.5% of cobalt. The concentrations of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium were measured in the leaves. colms and seeds at 49 and 71 days after emergency. Irrigated plants presented higher nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium concentrations at 49 days after emergency. Lower nitrogen and potassium concentrations in the leaves and colms were observed for irrigated plants at 71 days after emergency. However, a higher concentration of nitrogen, phosporus and potassium were observed in the seeds of non irrigated drybean plants. There was no effèct of partitioning nitrogen applications through fertirrigation and seed micronutrient application on the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium concentration in drybean shoots.
chemigation; fertilizer; macronutrients
