TABLE 6.

Comparisons of plant aerial biomass inoculated with each single bacterial genotype and S. medicae or S. meliloti intraspecific mixtures

Inoculant	Bacterial genotype	Biomass comparison for plant linea:
		DZA315-16	PRT180-21	F83-005	JemalongA17
S. medicae intraspecific mixture	md1	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	md2	0.9249	0.4803	0.2018	0.6550
	md3	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	md4	ND	0.0054	<0.001	<0.001
S. meliloti intraspecific mixture	ml1, ml2, ml4, ml5, ml7	<0.05	<0.05	<0.05	<0.05
	ml3	0.9607	<0.001	0.0621	0.1799
	ml6	0.2547	<0.001	0.2509	0.0056
	ml8	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.5200

^aBased on Fisher post hoc tests (P values are shown). The numbers in boldface indicate that the genotypes were not significantly different from the bacterial mixtures considered. ND, not determined.