Contribuição à fisiologia da nutrição mineral no crescimento e desenvolvimento da soja (Glycine max. L. Merril)
The aim of this work was to study the accumulation of dry material and absorption of nutrients by soybean. Three varieties (Bragg, IAS-2 and Santa Rosa) had their physiological behavior observed in three kinds of soil (Santa Maria, São Pedro and Vacacaí) of Rio Grande do Sul.In the first stage of the work we seek to estimate the behavior of the varieties, oedering the variation of fresh-weight, dry-weight and the percentage of water, obtaining informations about samples, age of the plant, stages of development, vegetative cycle and productiveness. In the second stage, we observed the percentage of absorption of some macro and micronutrients and their amplitudes, calculating their simple correlations and equations of significatives regressions.In aerial portions there were accumulations of macro and micronutrients, but do not observing great oscillations in quantity of absorbed elements. Phosphorus (P) was continually and constantly absorbed, until the formations of the seed. We obsorbed that potassium (K), was completly absorbed before maturation, whereas calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) were gradually accumulated.