TABLE 5.

MANOVA of 106 P. azotofixans strains from Várzea and Cerrado soils with REP and BOX patterns, respectively

Soil	Canonical variate analysis	Statistica	F statistic	Pb
Várzea	Rhizoplane × rhizosphere × nonrhizosphere	0.22543	1.949	0.006
	Rhizoplane × rhizosphere	0.50370	0.657	0.813
	Rhizosphere × nonrhizosphere	0.49325	1.419	0.189
	Rhizoplane × nonrhizosphere	0.13087	3.479	0.019
	S1 × S2 × S3 × S4	0.05254	2.893	<0.002
	S1 × S2 × S3	0.10453	1.993	0.015
	S1 × S2 × S4	0.08651	2.628	<0.002
	S1 × S3 × S4	0.13132	2.095	0.006
	S2 × S3 × S4	0.19547	1.202	0.281
	S1 × S2	0.26632	0.918	0.595
	S1 × S3	0.28943	1.052	0.495
	S1 × S4	0.26139	1.615	0.197
	S2 × S3	0.36851	0.326	0.961
	S2 × S4	0.31455	0.726	0.734
	S3 × S4	0.46893	0.485	0.917
Cerrado	Rhizosphere × nonrhizosphere	0.92883	0.354	0.938
	S1 × S2 × S3 × S4	0.31690	2.069	0.007
	S1 × S2 × S3	0.51488	1.181	0.317
	S1 × S2 × S4	0.38025	1.399	0.197
	S1 × S3 × S4	0.28600	2.936	0.002
	S2 × S3 × S4	0.43962	1.842	0.047
	S1 × S2	0.64647	0.479	0.838
	S1 × S3	0.41665	2.800	0.038
	S1 × S4	0.57577	0.921	0.537
	S2 × S3	0.81776	0.501	0.839
	S2 × S4	0.60317	0.822	0.601
	S3 × S4	0.46381	3.035	0.020

^aMultivariate test of significance (Wilk’s lambda value). 

^bP, probability of occurrence of extreme variance.