“…In this sense, the removal of the apical meristem influences the growth of soy plants, reducing the number of nodes of the main stem, the plant height and the insertion height of the first pod, especially when performed at 25 cm of height (Tancredi et al, 2006). The increase in diameter of the stem of soy plants is interesting, because the stem becomes more robust and can develop a greater amount of side branches making the plants more tolerant to lodging (Dias, Lisboa, Ferreira, & Rocha, 2021) The use of plant anatomy techniques has been applied in soybean culture with several objectives such as: a) the analysis of leaves infected by the fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi (Mussury, Betoni, Silva, & Scalon, 2012), b) a comparative anatomical study in the leaves of different soybean cultivars (Lourenço, Vasconcelos Filho, Vasconcelos, & Campos, 2011), c) in the study of the impact of soil compaction on soybean root growth (Moraes et al, 2020), d) in the morpho-anatomical characterization of seeds with or without weathering damage (Pinheiro et al, 2021), e) in the study of anatomical alteration in the stem and root of soybean plants submitted to salt stress data (Silva, Batista, & Lobato, 2021), among others.…”