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Table 7 Plant total tissue N of common bean var. Dursitu obtained from selected areas of eastern Ethiopia with and without Rhizobium leguminosarum. bv. vicieae inoculation

From: Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae sp. inoculation improves the agronomic efficiency of N of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

Treatments

Plant total tissue N (%)

Babillae

Fedis

Haramaya

Hirna

Non inoculated

Inoculated

Non inoculated

Inoculated

Non inoculated

Inoculated

Non inoculated

Inoculated

Control

2.3800c

2.1600b

2.5200c

3.3833a

4.2100ab

4.0533ab

3.9867b

4.0500b

20 kg N ha−1

3.2433a

3.1800a

3.5533b

3.3633a

4.4367a

4.3667a

4.6233a

4.0067b

40 kg N ha−1

2.8533abc

2.6567ab

3.7800ab

3.6800a

4.5567a

3.9067ab

4.7500a

4.2533ab

60 kg N ha−1

2.5567bc

2.7000ab

3.6933b

3.8200a

3.7967ab

3.4133bc

4.3567ab

4.5933a

80 kg N ha−1

2.5167c

3.2000a

3.8600ab

3.9200a

4.0933ab

3.2300c

4.4867a

4.6633a

100 kg N ha−1

3.1567ab

3.0133a

4.2000a

3.8767a

3.4133b

3.4800bc

4.8267a

4.0367b

Mean

2.7844

2.8183

3.6011

3.6739

4.0844

3.7417

4.5050

4.2672

F-value

7.18**

11.01***

40.88***

3.73*

5.16**

10.19***

9.54***

10.95***

LSD

0.6348

0.5683

0.4251

0.6064

0.8849

0.6496

0.4709

0.4219

CV (%)

8.13

7.35

4.30

6.02

7.90

6.33

3.18

3.60

  1. Means in the same column followed by the same letter are not significantly different at the 5% probability level by Tukey’s test.
  2. NS non significant.
  3. * Significant at 0.05; ** significant at 0.01; *** significant at 0.001.