Nitrogen (N) is the most important nutrient to establish rice crop yield, but its dynamics on oxidations and reductions soil conditions in conventional flooded rice system can improve N looses, that is related with time and quantities of N application. The objective of this experiment was to evaluate different times and quantities of N application in a conventional rice system in a "Planossolo Hidromórfico" (Typic Albaqualf) soil in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul state. The experimental design was in random blocs with six replications and six treatments: T1 - without N application; T2 - 45 kg ha-1 of N in beginning of tillering (BT) and 45 kg ha-1 of N at beginning of the panicle differentiation (BPD); T3 - 90 kg ha-1 of N in seeding; T4 - 45 kg ha-1 of N in seeding and 45 kg ha-1 of N in BT; T5 - 45 kg ha-1 of N in seeding and 45 kg ha-1 of N in BPD; T6 - 30 kg ha-1 of N in seeding, 30 kg ha-1 of N in BT and 30 kg ha-1 in BPD, with urea as N source. It was evaluate dry matter production, N content, and N absorbed in four evaluations (BT; 15 days after first N application; BPD; and flowering), and grain yield. Parameters evaluated during rice cycle were different depending time and quantity of N application in each treatment. However, there was not difference in rice grain yield among treatments, including without N application, that appoint high soil nitrogen availability. In this condition, there is not effect of time and quantity of N fertilizer.
urea; nitrogen; N splitting; fertilizer efficiency
