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Twenty isolates taken at random from indigenous populations of Rhizobium leguminosarum sampled near Aberystwyth were each inoculated into plants of a standard Vicia faba variety grown aseptically under conditions free of combined nitrogen. Plants in association with the individual rhizobium isolates exhibited large differences in dry matter yield, nitrogen content, efficiency of nitrogen utilization and date of first flower. The implications of these differences to the productivity and reliability of varieties of field beans are discussed.
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El-Sherbeeny, M.H., Mytton, L.R. & Lawes, D.A. Symbiotic variability in Vicia faba. 1. Genetic variation in the Rhizobium leguminosarum population. Euphytica 26, 149–156 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00032080
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