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 3

Soybean growth parameters and nodulation as affected by rhizobia inoculation.

Rhizobia inoculant	Nodule number plant^−1	Nodule dry weight (mg plant^−1)	Shoot dry weight (g plant^−1)	Root dry weight (g plant^−1)
Isolate 1
Isolate 2	0.0	0.0
Consortium
USDA 110
N treated	0.0	0.0
−ve control	0.0	0.0
values	<0.001	0.015	0.015	<0.001

Means followed by same lowercase letter(s) are not significantly different at (Tukey’s HSD test).