Seed priming with growth regulators modulates production, physiology and antioxidant defense of Indian squash (Praecitrullus fistulosus) under semi-arid conditions

• Rafi Qamar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rafi Qamar, Sanaullah Khan, Muhammad Ehsan Safdar, Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ather Nadeem

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

  * E-mail: rafi.qamar@uos.edu.pk

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0716-4342

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• Sanaullah Khan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rafi Qamar, Sanaullah Khan, Muhammad Ehsan Safdar, Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ather Nadeem

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

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Ehsan Safdar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rafi Qamar, Sanaullah Khan, Muhammad Ehsan Safdar, Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ather Nadeem

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

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• Atique-ur-Rehman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Abdul Rehman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rafi Qamar, Sanaullah Khan, Muhammad Ehsan Safdar, Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ather Nadeem

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

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• Hafiz Muhammad Rashad Javeed,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5071-0834

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• Muhammad Ather Nadeem ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rafi Qamar, Sanaullah Khan, Muhammad Ehsan Safdar, Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Ather Nadeem

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

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

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• Rashid Al-Yahyai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, Department of Crop Science, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5717-4613

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• Jawaher Alkahtani

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

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