Azospirillum brasilense promotes increases in growth and nitrogen use efficiency of maize genotypes

• Douglas Mariani Zeffa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Douglas Mariani Zeffa, Luiz Júnior Perini, Mayara Barbosa Silva, Nicholas Vieira de Sousa

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0808-7230

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• Luiz Júnior Perini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Douglas Mariani Zeffa, Luiz Júnior Perini, Mayara Barbosa Silva, Nicholas Vieira de Sousa

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

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• Mayara Barbosa Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Douglas Mariani Zeffa, Luiz Júnior Perini, Mayara Barbosa Silva, Nicholas Vieira de Sousa

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

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• Nicholas Vieira de Sousa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Douglas Mariani Zeffa, Luiz Júnior Perini, Mayara Barbosa Silva, Nicholas Vieira de Sousa

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

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• Carlos Alberto Scapim ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

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• André Luiz Martinez de Oliveira ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

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• Antônio Teixeira do Amaral Júnior ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Plant Breeding Laboratory, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Leandro Simões Azeredo Gonçalves

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: leandrosag@uel.br

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9700-9375

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