Effect of zinc nanoparticles seed priming and foliar application on the growth and physio-biochemical indices of spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) under salt stress

• Sara Zafar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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• Shagufta Perveen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Kamran Khan,

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

  Affiliation Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Rashid Shaheen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan

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• Rashid Hussain,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan

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• Nadeem Sarwar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GSCAAS), Beijing, China

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• Sahar Rashid,

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

  Affiliation Horticultural Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Nafees,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan

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• Ghulam Farid,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

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• Saud Alamri,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Anis Ali Shah,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Division of Science and Technology University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Talha Javed,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2986-9992

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• Mohammad Irfan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

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• Manzer H. Siddiqui

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mhsiddiqui@ksu.edu.sa

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

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