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Rhizobial strain NS 1 was isolated in 1987 from a field in Nova Scotia with no known history of soybean as part of a program to develop regionally-specific legume inoculants for Atlantic Canada. In 1989–90 strain NS 1, in preliminary small-plot field trials utilizing a non-commercial inoculant carrier, gave seed yields 25% greater than the most popular commercial strain, 532C, in five site-years of tests in Atlantic Canada. In 1991 strain NS 1, in two commercial carriers, was tested in both small-plot and farm-level field trials at five sites extending from Ontario to Prince Edward Island. In the small-plot tests, NS 1 gave an average of 10% higher seed yield than strain 532C in both the Grip (TM) and the Nitragin (TM) commercial carriers. In the farm-level field trial, NS 1 gave a 15% greater seed yield than strain 532C in the Nitragin (TM) carrier.
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Sanders, R.E. (1994). Eastern Canadian soybean field trials of rhizobial strain NS 1 in two commercial carriers. In: Graham, P.H., Sadowsky, M.J., Vance, C.P. (eds) Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 57. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1088-4_19
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