Urease inhibitor on performance of corn hybrids in second crop in Sinop-MT

Abstract

Nitrogen is the most demanded element with the most complex management and with the highest responses in productivity in the corn crop, of the principal source of nitrogen supplies, but the urea is inefficient due to its volatilization. The objective of this work was to evaluate the agronomic performance and the efficiency of the urease inhibitor in formulations containing urea, applied in five different commercial corn hybrids in Sinop - MT. The experimental design was in randomized blocks, in a 3 x 5 factorial scheme with three replications. The first factor consisted of three cover fertilizations: control (without application of fertilizer); fertilization with 250 kg ha-1 of urea and fertilization with 250 kg ha-1 of urea with the presence of the urease inhibitor (UREMAX®) NBPT. The second factor was five corn hybrids: 2B433, DKB255, DKB335, NS45 and SYN522. It was found that all hybrids had greater growth and productivity when they received the urease inhibitor, in relation to the treatment without coverage. The hybrids DKB 255, 2B433 and SYN 522, the treatment with UREMAX® reached the highest productivity. The most prominent hybrid in productivity was DKB 255, which reached 9600 kg ha-1, with UREMAX® in cover fertilization, about 31% more than the treatment without urea coverage, and with gains of 18% in relation to urea.

Keywords

• zea mays, no-till, urea, nitrate, ammonium. demand of nitrogen in maize. grain yield.