Induction of Drought Tolerance in Cucumber Plants by a Consortium of Three Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacterium Strains

• Chun-Juan Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chun-Juan Wang, Wei Yang

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Nanjing Agricultural University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

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• Wei Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chun-Juan Wang, Wei Yang

  Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Nanjing Agricultural University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Eco-Agricultural Biotechnology around Hongze Lake, School of Life Science, Huaiyin Normal University, Huai'an, China

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• Chao Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Nanjing Agricultural University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

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• Chun Gu,

  Affiliation Anfeng Biogenic Pesticide Engineering Center of Jiangsu Province, Taicang, China

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• Dong-Dong Niu,

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Nanjing Agricultural University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

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• Hong-Xia Liu,

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Nanjing Agricultural University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

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• Yun-Peng Wang ,

  * E-mail: ypwang@njau.edu.cn (YPW); jhguo@njau.edu.cn (JHG)

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Nanjing Agricultural University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

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• Jian-Hua Guo

  * E-mail: ypwang@njau.edu.cn (YPW); jhguo@njau.edu.cn (JHG)

  Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Nanjing Agricultural University, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China, Anfeng Biogenic Pesticide Engineering Center of Jiangsu Province, Taicang, China

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