AGRONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF CONTENDER AND AMARELO JAPONES CULTIVARS UNDER DIFFERENT WATER REPLACEMENTS

The use of cultivars appropriate to the soil and climate characteristics of a region provides farmers with security by facilitating credit for crop financing and improving product prices in local commerce. The objective of this work was to evaluate the agronomic performance of "Contender" and "Amarelo Japones" green bean bush cultivars grown in the Cerrado in terms of water replenishment (RH) of 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125% of evaporation using the Piche evaporimeter. The experiment was carried out in the experimental area of the State University of Goias, on the Ipameri Campus. The experimental design was a randomized block design. Sowing was done in May 2017, with treatments distributed in a split-plots scheme with water replenishment in plots and cultivar subplots with 3 replications. The analyzed variables were: height; stem diameter; leaf number; leaf area; number of inflorescences; number of flowers; fresh and dry mass of the plant; number, length, diameter, fresh and dry mass of the pods. The different water replenishment rates increased the mean plant height, stem diameter, number of pods per plant, number of bean seeds per pod, and number of bean seeds per plant in the cultivars "Amarelo Japones" and "Contender." Water replenishment of 125% produced higher development and better agronomic performance in the two cultivars than the other rates.