Effects of nicosulfuron on plant growth and sugar metabolism in sweet maize (Zea mays L.)

• Ningwei Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ningwei Xu, Zhenxing Wu

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations College of Landscape and Tourism, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology, Hebei Normal University of Science &Technology, Qinhuangdao, China

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• Zhenxing Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ningwei Xu, Zhenxing Wu

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Maize and Featured Upland Crops, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Dongyang, China

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• Xiangling Li,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology, Hebei Normal University of Science &Technology, Qinhuangdao, China

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• Min Yang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology, Hebei Normal University of Science &Technology, Qinhuangdao, China

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• Jinling Han,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology, Hebei Normal University of Science &Technology, Qinhuangdao, China

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• Bin Lu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Landscape and Tourism, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

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• Bingshe Lu ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lubingshe@hebau.edu.cn (BL); wangjian1989@live.cn (JW)

  Affiliation College of Landscape and Tourism, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

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• Jian Wang

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lubingshe@hebau.edu.cn (BL); wangjian1989@live.cn (JW)

  Affiliation College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Hebei Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology, Hebei Normal University of Science &Technology, Qinhuangdao, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3207-3055

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