Table 3. Effect of inoculation on L. mariae-josephae seedling performance in field trials performed in two succesive seasons.
| Inoculant | Seedlings sown | % survival | Pods▾ | Average seeds per plant | Total seeds |
| Season 2011–2012 | |||||
| LmjC | 96 | 53 a* | 4.37±0.43 a | 12.72±1.24 a | 649 |
| LmjM3 | 84 | 58 a | 1.87±0.09 b | 4.65±0.38 b | 228 |
| Control | 78 | 28 b | 1.27±0.09 c | 2.59±0.25 c | 57 |
| Season 2012–2013 | |||||
| LmjC | 99 | 39 a | 9.38±0.85 a | 26.20±2.7 a | 1,022 |
| LmjM3 | 99 | 33 a | 2.54±0.19 ab | 5.39±0.51 ab | 178 |
| Control | 99 | 16 b | 1.56±0.22 b | 3.12±0.83 b | 50 |
| Season comparison | |||||
| F | 17.69 | 6.44 | 4.37 | ||
| P | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.03 | ||
▾
Mean per plant ± standard error (σ/√n).
* Column values were analyzed independently for each season. Within a given season, those values followed by different letters were significantly different (α = 0.05) when compared by Fisher's LSD post-hoc test.