Silicon fertilization counteracts salinity-induced damages associated with changes in physio-biochemical modulations in spinach

• Riffat Naz,

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

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Qamar uz Zaman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Saba Nazir,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Nayab Komal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Yinglong Chen,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The UWA Institute of Agriculture, and School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

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• Kamran Ashraf,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Government College University, Faisalabad Sahiwal Campus, Sahiwal, Pakistan

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• Asma A. Al-Huqail,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Alanoud Alfagham,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Manzer H. Siddiqui ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

  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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• Hayssam M. Ali,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, 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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• Faheema Khan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Khawar Sultan,

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

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Quratulain Khosa

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

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

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