Nitrogen Fixation by US and Middle Eastern Chickpeas with Commercial and Wild Middle Eastern Inocula

Table 2

Strain effect on % of plant N supplied by fixation in chickpeas (𝑛=30).

Strain	N fixed (%)*
Jord-M1	84.7^a
BU-M3	84.3^ab
NB-M4	84.3^ab
NB-M7	83.3^ab
EMD-M1	83.2^ab
Turk-M1	82.9^ab
Leb-M1	82.5^ab
Syr-M1	81.4^b
𝑃 value	0.045
Contrast
Middle East strains	82.9
Commercial strains	83.8
𝑃 value	0.107

*Letters that are the same within a column are not significantly different at 𝑃≤0.05.