“…Agrobacterium (Chen et al, 2000, Youseif et al, 2014b) and Rhizobium (Abaidoo et al, 2000, Hong et al, 2010, Alam et al, 2015) strains have been previously isolated from soybean nodules. Fast-growing rhizobia are believed to have a number of advantages including high competitiveness, facility for commercial production, easier establishment in the soil (Chatterjee et al, 1990) and high N 2 fixation capacity (Youseif et al, 2014b, Alam et al, 2015). In this study, however, fast-growing rhizobia were medium to poor symbionts (Supplementary Table S5).…”