Effects of saline affected soil and rhizobium inoculation on performance and variation of sixteen faba bean genotypes [electronic resource].

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Four field experiments were carried out in 2003/2004 and 2001/2005 seasons at Demo Research Station, Faculty of agriculture, Fayoum University to study the response of 16 genotypes of faba bean to effect four Rhizobium inoculation under variable salinity soil conditions.Mean squares due to main effects salinity (S), Rhirobium treatments (. R), genotypes (G) and s x R, Sx G, RxG and S x R x G interaction were significant for most studied characters in both sensons. Broad sense heritability estimates were low to moderate for all recorded traits and ranged from 15.6 and 37.0% for plant dry weight lo 62.8 and 58.4% for 100-seed weight in the first and second seasons, respectively. Salinity stress affected most troirs studied in both seasons.

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