Biochemical and Molecular Phylogenetic Study of Agriculturally Useful Association of a Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacterium and Nodule Sinorhizobium with Medicago sativa L.

Table 1

Dynamics of accumulation of vegetative mass of alfalfa inoculated by mono- and binary suspensions of diazotrophic microorganisms.

Inoculants	Phase of plant development
	Stooling		Budding		Flowering
	Above-ground mass; (g/plant)	Mass of roots; (g/plant)	Above-ground mass; (g/plant)	Mass of roots; (g/plant)	Above-ground mass; (g/plant)	Mass of roots; (g/plant)
Without inoculation; (control)	0,42 ± 0,02	0,12 ± 0,01	1,17 ± 0,06	1,12 ± 0,1	1,25 ± 0,02	2,25 ± 0,16
N. PTV	0,62 ± 0,02	0,18 ± 0,01	1,64 ± 0,09	1,79 ± 0,09	1,70 ± 0,07	2,11 ± 0,15
S. meliloti Т17	0,65 ± 0,04	0,15 ± 0,01	1,59 ± 0,13	1,22 ± 0,11	1,83 ± 0,04	2,59 ± 0,24
S. meliloti Т17 + N. PTV	0,75 ± 0,08	0,22 ± 0,01	1,81 ± 0,18	1,82 ± 0,10	1,92 ± 0,03	2,95 ± 0,29

≤ 0,05.