Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria improve growth and yield related attributes of chili under low nitrogen availability

• Ali Raza ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ansaraskari@gmail.com (AR); tkz@upm.edu.my (ATKZ)

  Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7765-4251

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• Shaghef Ejaz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Shahzad Saleem,

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

  Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

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• Vaclav Hejnak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

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• Furqan Ahmad,

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, MNS University of Agriculture Multan, Multan, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5328-2174

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• Mohamed A. A. Ahmed,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Plant Production Department (Horticulture—Medicinal and Aromatic Plants), Faculty of Agriculture (Saba Basha), Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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• Saqer S. Alotaibi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6162-7953

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• Ahmed M. El-Shehawi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia

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• Moodi Saham Alsubeie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology Department, College of Science, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Ali Tan Kee Zuan

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ansaraskari@gmail.com (AR); tkz@upm.edu.my (ATKZ)

  Affiliation Department of Land Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0473-4303

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