Pesticide application may change crop growth and metabolism, leading to negative or positive consequences. Strobilurin fungicides have been reported to increase soybean yield even without incidence of diseases, suggesting that physiological changes should be investigated. The objective of this study was to evaluate the growth of two soybean cultivars (MG/BR46 Conquista and BRS Valiosa RR) subjected to herbicide and fungicide (strobilurin and/or triazole) applications. Two field trials were carried out with treatments arranged in a split-plot in time design (5 x 12), with five herbicide combinations (glyphosate at 720 g ha-1 or sethoxydim (230 g ha-1) + bentazon + chlorimuron-ethyl (480 + 11,25 g ha-1)) and fungicides (pyraclostrobin a 75 g ha-1, epoxiconazole a 50 g ha-1 or pyraclostrobin + epoxiconazole (66,5 + 25 g ha-1)) in the plots; and the dates of evaluation were considered as the split-plots, varying between 30 and 120 days after sowing. Herbicide application did not affect the growth of soybean cultivars. Application of the strobilurin group combined with triazole fungicides increased dry mass and leaf area accumulation. The application of these fungicides on R2 and R5.1 increased AGR, RGR, NAR and CGR near to the end of the crop cycle, which was different even from the treatments with single triazole applications.
Glycine max (L.) Merr.; NAR; pyraclostrobin; strobilurin; triazole
