Preinoculation of Soybean Seeds Treated with Agrichemicals up to 30 Days before Sowing: Technological Innovation for Large-Scale Agriculture

Table 3

Recovery of Bradyrhizobium spp. cells (number of colony forming units, # CFU, per seed) from soybean seeds inoculated with different products, in the absence or presence of seed-treatment chemicals.

Treatment	Time after treatment/inoculation (duration of preinoculation)
	# CFU seed^-1♠
	2 hours	2 days	4 days	7 days	14 days	21 days	28 days	35 days
	Embrapa Soja
Standard inoculation
Cronos/on treated seeds
CronosNod on treated seeds
	Instituto Federal Goiano
Standard inoculation
Cronos/on treated seeds
CronosNod on treated seeds
CronosTSI on treated seeds

a significant and ns a nonsignificant difference relative to the control, standard inoculation, evaluated two hours after inoculation, according to the bilateral Dunnett test (). All values followed by were significantly superior to the control; ns means not significantly different from control. Values not followed by or ns were not compared.