Deep placement of nitrogen fertilizer improves yield, nitrogen use efficiency and economic returns of transplanted fine rice

• Ahlam Khalofah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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• Muhammad Ifnan Khan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mifnan@gudgk.edu.pk (MIK); rahulmedcure@gmail.com (RD)

  Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2677-0025

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• Muhammad Arif,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Protection, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5410-3975

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• Ansar Hussain,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

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• Rehmat Ullah,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Soil and Water Testing Laboratory, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Irfan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

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• Shahzadi Mahpara,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

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• Rahmat Ullah Shah,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Department of Soil Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

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• Mohammad Javed Ansari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Hindu College Moradabad, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University Bareilly, Bareilly, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8718-3078

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• Antonin Kintl,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Agriculture Research, Ltd., Troubsko, Czech Republic, Faculty of Agrisciences, Department of Agrochemistry, Soil Science, Microbiology and Plant Nutrition, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Martin Brtnicky,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Agriculture Research, Ltd., Troubsko, Czech Republic, Faculty of Agrisciences, Department of Agrochemistry, Soil Science, Microbiology and Plant Nutrition, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, Faculty of Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5237-722X

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• Subhan Danish,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Department of Soil Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

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• Rahul Datta

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mifnan@gudgk.edu.pk (MIK); rahulmedcure@gmail.com (RD)

  Affiliation Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Geology and Soil Science, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

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