Efficacy of Zn-Aspartate in comparison with ZnSO₄ and L-Aspartate in amelioration of drought stress in maize by modulating antioxidant defence; osmolyte accumulation and photosynthetic attributes

• Qasim Ali,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Waqas Mazhar,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science & Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Ishtiaq ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: drishtiaq.bot@must.edu.pk

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science & Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2468-1413

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• Abdullah Ijaz Hussain,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Director Central Hitech Lab, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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• Khizar Hayat Bhatti,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Gujrat, Gujrat City, Pakistan

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• Mehwish Maqbool,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science & Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Pakistan

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• Tanveer Hussain,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science & Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Pakistan

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• Humaira Khanum,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science & Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Pakistan

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• Tauqeer Sardar,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science & Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Pakistan

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• Mubashir Mazhar

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science & Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Pakistan

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