Table 1.
Analyses of population structure of Bradyrhizobium sampled from in situ nodules
| (a) ITS region | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
A. strigosus |
A. heermannii |
L. arboreus |
L. bicolor |
|
A. strigosus |
6.6601 |
0.0422ns |
0.5814* |
0.4405* |
|
A. heermannii |
0.4506ns |
13.1696 |
0.5459* |
0.4126* |
|
L. arboreus |
24.6912* |
23.4825* |
26.2134 |
0.0058ns |
|
L. bicolor |
18.1281* |
17.9398* |
0.0078ns |
35.922 |
|
(b) nifD locus | ||||
| |
A. strigosus |
A. heermannii |
L. arboreus |
L. bicolor |
|
A. strigosus |
5.1895 |
-0.0040ns |
0.5649* |
0.6024* |
|
A. heermannii |
-0.0217ns |
7.4971 |
0.5830* |
0.6223* |
|
L. arboreus |
21.6199* |
22.0285* |
25.1368 |
0.0406ns |
| L. bicolor | 19.3541* | 19.6343* | 1.0162ns | 17.0395 |
Significance, obtained from 1023 permutations: ns, not significant; *, p < 0.0001; significant values in boldface.
Sequence divergence (along diagonal), corrected between-population differences (below diagonal), and between-population Φst (above diagonal).