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Table 3 Nodule number of six soybean genotypes inoculated exotic and native isolates of bradyrhizobia under greenhouse condition in pot experiment

From: Symbiotic effectiveness of inoculation with Bradyrhizobium isolates on soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] genotypes with different maturities

Treatments

NN

GIZA

Afgat

Wogayen

TGx-1336424

Gishame

Belsa-95

Pooled

UK-Isolate

36.3a

35.0a

48.7a

63.3a

41.0a

53.3a

46.3a

TAL-379

20.0b

10.0b

9.7c

6.7b

9.3b

9.0c

10.8b

Local

38.7a

40.7a

36.7b

67.3a

39.0a

29.3a

41.9a

+VE control

0.0c

0.0c

0.0c

0.0b

0.0c

0.0c

0.0c

-VE control

0.0c

0.0c

0.0c

0.0b

0.0c

0.0c

0.0c

Mean

19.0

17.1

19.0

27.8

17.9

18.3

19.8

CV(%)

20.9

17.6

19.6

31.2

14.9

33.2

25.8

LSD

10.7

8.1

10.0

23.0

7.1

16.4

4.8

F value

67.22***

124.99***

108.77***

49.22***

179.68***

42.52***

8.42***

SEM±

15.733

9.067

13.800

73.400

7.067

37.133

26.033

  1. NS- non significant; *significant at 0.05; **significant at 0.01; ***significant at 0.001; Nodule number = NN.
  2. Notes. Means in the same column followed by the same letter are not significantly different at the 5% probability level by Tukey’s test.