“…For the yield components, the average values for number of pods per plant, number of grains per pod, mass of 100 grains, grain mass per plant, plant population and plant height were, respectively, 25, 2.0, 15.8 g, 6.9 g, 36.5 plants m -2 and 75.8 cm, different from those obtained by Dalchiavon et al (2011), who evaluated the soybean grain yield under no-tillage, in the region of Selvíria, and lower in terms of number of pods per plant, number of grains per pod and grain mass per plant attributes, whose values corresponded, respectively, to 72.2 g, 2.2 g and 23 g. The number of pods per plant was lower than that of 36.6 obtained by Queiroz et al (2011), who studied the soybean grain yield in an Oxisol, in a crop rotation with brachiaria pasture, and of 72.2 observed by Dalchiavon & Carvalho (2012), evaluating soybean grain yield cultivated in a Oxisol under no-tillage. Possibly, the number of pods per plant was lower due to the increase in the soil bulk density, since, under stress conditions, the plant formed few grains in the pods, because the main biological objective of the crop is the dissemination of the species (Carvalho et al 2004).…”