. 2019 Oct 30;9:15606. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-52131-7

Table 1.

Nitrogen leaf content, number of grains per pod, and 1000-grain weight of soybean plants grown in areas previously covered by degraded pasture (post-pasture area) and a soybean crop (post-soybean crop area), in the 2015/2016, 2016/2017, and 2017/2018 crop seasons.

Crop season (S)	Number of grains		1000-grain weight		N-leaf concentration
	pod⁻¹		g		g kg⁻¹
	Post-pasture area	Post-soybean crop area	Post-pasture area	Post-soybean crop area	Post-pasture area	Post-soybean crop area
2015/2016	2.12 b	2.24 b	134.2 a	126.9 a	36.9 a	53.1 c
2016/2017	2.76 a	2.45 a	122.5 c	98.1 c	31.3 c	63.6 a
2017/2018	2.07 b	2.43 a	126.7 b	107.2 b	34.1 b	58.4 b
Inoculant dose (I) – doses ha⁻¹
0	2.29	2.48	126.8	112.8	32.1	57.5
4	2.34	2.37	128.0	111.5	33.3	57.7
8	2.28	2.30	129.9	112.3	35.3	59.0
12	2.35	2.39	127.1	109.2	35.7	59.3
Y	2.38^ns	2.5 + 0.04x + 0.003x²R² = 0.97**	127.3^ns	111.5^ns	32.2 + 0.31x R² = 0.84*	57.4 + 0.17x R² = 0.93*
Nitrogen rate (N) – kg ha⁻¹
0	2.35	2.29	132.1	114.1	27.7	57.1
25	2.30	2.47	129.5	109.8	32.1	57.8
50	2.34	2.34	126.6	111.9	35.2	58.3
100	2.27	2.45	123.7	109.1	41.3	60.3
Y	2.31^ns	2.38^ns	13.1 − 0.018x R² = 0.94*	11.2 − 0.004x R² = 0.60**	28.2 + 0.13x R² = 0.99*	57.1 + 0.03x R² = 0.98*
F
S	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000
N	0.5738	0.0530	0.4420	0.2031	0.0000	0.0001
I	0.4206	0.0223	0.0003	0.0073	0.0000	0.0000
S*N	0.0614	0.1072	0.0000	0.0863	0.0441	0.6720
S*I	0.9478	0.5431	0.5681	0.6762	0.0978	0.4921
N*I	0.5320	0.8269	0.6150	0.1953	0.0000	0.0000
SNI	0.3969	0.8973	0.4590	0.3069	0.0269	0.8655
CV%	11.4	13.1	8.1	6.8	9.4	3.8

*Significant at 1%, **significant at 5%, ns = not significant. Means of the treatments followed by the same letter do not differ by Tukey’s test at 5% probability a > b (p < 0.05).