Inoculation of native symbiotic effective Sinorhizobium spp. enhanced soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] grain yield in Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Table 8 Effects of rep, GMR, loc and GMR*Loc interactions on various parameters of soybean at the field sites

Site	NN	NDW	SH	SDW	TN%	NPP	NSPPD	NSPPL	TSW	GY
Effects of replication (rep) and GMR on growth, nodulation and yield
BARC
rep	NS	NS	*	NS	*	NS	NS	*	*	NS
GMR	**	NS	NS	NS	**	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Cv	9	12	8	10	17	7	9	7	16	22
DDARC
rep	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
GMR	**	**	NS	*	**	*	NS	**	NS	**
cv	15	18	18	21	15	13	17	11	21	19
Combined ANOVA: Effects of location, rep, and GMR-location interaction
Loc	NS	NS	NS	*	NS	**	**	NS	NS	NS
Rep	NS	NS	*	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
GMR	**	**	NS	**	**	NS	**	**	NS	**
GMR*loc	**	**	*	*	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
CV	10	15	15	18	15	12	11	10	21	19

NS not significant, *(significant), ** (highly significant) at p ≤ 0.05
NN nodule number, NDW nodule dry weight, SH shoot height, SDW shoot dry weight, TN% total nitrogen percent of shoot, NPP number of pods per plant, NSPPD number of seeds per pod, NSPPL number of seeds per plant, TSW thousands of seed weight, GY grain yield, rep replication, GMR Glycine max rhizobiia, loc location, GMR*loc GMR-location interaction, Cv coefficient of variance, BARC Bako Agricultural Research Center, DDARC Dembi Station of Debrezeit Agricultural Research Center