Kinetin mitigates Cd-induced damagesto growth, photosynthesis and PS II photochemistry of Trigonella seedlings by up-regulating ascorbate-glutathione cycle

• Gausiya Bashri ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gausiya.bashri@gmail.com (GB); profsmprasad@gmail.com (SMP); mjavedansari@gmail.com (MJA)

  Current address: Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Ranjan Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India

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• Shikha Singh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Ranjan Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India

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• Sheo Mohan Prasad ,

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

  * E-mail: gausiya.bashri@gmail.com (GB); profsmprasad@gmail.com (SMP); mjavedansari@gmail.com (MJA)

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Ranjan Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India

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• Mohammad Javed Ansari ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gausiya.bashri@gmail.com (GB); profsmprasad@gmail.com (SMP); mjavedansari@gmail.com (MJA)

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

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

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• Salma Usmani,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, D.K.M College for Women (Autonomous), Vellore, India

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• Saleh Alfarraj,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Sulaiman Ali Alharbi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Botany & Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Marian Brestic

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Physiology, Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovakia

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