Ameliorating the drought stress tolerance of a susceptible soybean cultivar, MAUS 2 through dual inoculation with selected rhizobia and AM fungus

Table 2 Influence of dual inoculation on pod yield, seed yield and net plot yield in a drought susceptible soybean cultivar, MAUS 2 grown under water irrigated and moisture stressed field conditions

Treatments	Number of pods/plant	Pod weight (g/plant)	Net plot pod weight (g)	Number of seeds/plant	Seed weight (g/plant)	Net plot seed weight (g)	Total dry matter (g/plot)	Harvest index (%)	Δ¹³C (Per-mil)
UI	94.63	39.78	7350.00	183.80	20.17	3978.01	6270.86	63	22.25
I	124.32^*	53.48^*	9404.95^*	223.06^*	29.25^*	4954.63^*	8351.69^*	71*	21.66^*
UIS	68.31	19.12	4973.84	89.23	14.13	2238.79	3592.40	55	19.55
IS	81.10^*	25.65^*	6544.97^*	105.06^*	17.48^*	2897.89^*	4977.49^*	58*	19.98^*
SD	6.62	3.22	542.97	8.30	2.00	179.32	402.52	1.43	0.18
LSD	11.06	5.38	1252.10	13.36	3.97	413.52	928.24	2.31	0.39

Significant differences (p ≤ 0.05) relative to controls UI & UIS to their respective treatments I & IS are indicated by asterisk (*)
UI un-inoculated, IC inoculated, UIS un-inoculated stress, IS inoculated stress, Pod filling stage: 2nd stress period (85–100 DAS), SD standard deviation, LSD least significant difference

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