On-farm hydro and nutri-priming increases yield of rainfed pearl millet through physio-biochemical adjustments and anti-oxidative defense mechanism

• N. K. Gupta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Seed Technology Research, Rajasthan Agriculture Research Institute, SKN Agriculture University, Jobner, Jaipur

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• Sunita Gupta,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Seed Technology Research, Rajasthan Agriculture Research Institute, SKN Agriculture University, Jobner, Jaipur

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• Jogendra Singh,

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

  Affiliation Seed Technology Research, Rajasthan Agriculture Research Institute, SKN Agriculture University, Jobner, Jaipur

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• Nitin K. Garg,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Seed Technology Research, Rajasthan Agriculture Research Institute, SKN Agriculture University, Jobner, Jaipur

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• Debanjana Saha,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Jatni, India

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• Rajesh Kumar Singhal,

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

  Affiliation ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi, India

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• Talha Javed ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: talhajaved54321@gmail.com (TJ); mhsiddiqui@ksu.edu.sa (MHS)

  Affiliations College of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China, Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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

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• Asma A. Al-Huqail,

  Roles Data curation, 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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• Hayssam M. Ali,

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

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6801-4263

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• Ritesh Kumar,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

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• Manzer H. Siddiqui

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: talhajaved54321@gmail.com (TJ); mhsiddiqui@ksu.edu.sa (MHS)

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2840-4608

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