Abstract
Rhizobium strains used in inoculants for Trifolium spp., Medicago spp., Glycine max, and Lotus pedunculatus were isolated from nodules of these legumes grown in soils into which the rhizobia had been introduced 4 to 8 years before. Isolations were made from a total of 420 nodules. Nodule occupancy by the inoculant strains varied from 17.7% for a soybean strain to 100% in the case of L. pedunculatus whose specific rhizobia did not occur in the soils studied. In general, inoculant strains isolated from nodules did not differ in effectiveness from cultures of the same strains concurrently maintained in lyophilized form. The average effectiveness of all of the isolates (identified and unidentified) from a legume was 7.1 to 73.3% higher than that of the unidentified isolates alone, demonstrating the prolonged effect that a single-seed inoculation has on the rhizobial population in a soil which had not been planted with legumes before. Relatively weak recovery of a Rhizobium japonicum strain introduced into soil 4 years after soybean seed inoculated with a different strain had been planted in the same soil confirmed the advantage of a resident population over an introduced inoculant strain.
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