Biochar enhances wheat crop productivity by mitigating the effects of drought: Insights into physiological and antioxidant defense mechanisms

• Bilal Zulfiqar,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Department of Agronomy, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Aown Sammar Raza ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  * E-mail: aown.sammar@iub.edu.pk, aown_samar@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Department of Agronomy, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Farrukh Saleem,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Usman Aslam,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Department of Agronomy, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9060-3264

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• Rashid Iqbal,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Department of Agronomy, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0473-889X

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• Faqeer Muhammad,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Department of Agronomy, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

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• Jawad Amin,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Department of Agronomy, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Arif Ibrahim,

  Roles Software, Validation

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Department of Agronomy, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

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• Imran Haider Khan

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Engineering and Technology Centre for Information Agriculture (NETCIA), College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, China

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