IAA producing fungal endophyte Penicillium roqueforti Thom., enhances stress tolerance and nutrients uptake in wheat plants grown on heavy metal contaminated soils

• Muhammad Ikram,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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• Niaz Ali ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: niazalitk25@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3814-5531

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• Gul Jan,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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• Farzana Gul Jan,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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• Inayat Ur Rahman,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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• Amjad Iqbal,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6141-8337

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• Muhammad Hamayun

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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