Elucidating the Potential of Native Rhizobial Isolates to Improve Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Growth of Common Bean and Soybean in Smallholder Farming Systems of Kenya

Table 2

Crop growth parameters as affected by rhizobia inoculation and common bean variety.

	Shoot height (cm plant^−1)	Shoot dry weight (g plant^−1)	Root length (cm plant^−1)	Root dry weight (g plant^−1)	Shoot/root ratio
Rhizobia inoculant
CIAT + CTM
CIAT899
CTM
Control
Variety
Mwezi moja
Mwitemania
values of the main factors and their interaction
Variety	0.001	0.001	0.463	0.309	0.393
Rhizobia inoculant	0.001	0.001	0.996	0.103	0.779
Variety × rhizobia inoculant	0.007	0.753	0.962	0.746	0.430

Means followed by same lowercase letter(s) are not significantly different at (Tukey’s HSD test).
Key: CIAT + CTM: elite + consortium, CIAT 899: elite strain, and CTM: consortium of indigenous strains.