Enhancing rice growth and yield with weed endophytic bacteria Alcaligenes faecalis and Metabacillus indicus under reduced chemical fertilization

• Kaniz Fatema,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (IBGE), Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh

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• Nur Uddin Mahmud,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (IBGE), Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh

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• Dipali Rani Gupta,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (IBGE), Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh

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• Md. Nurealam Siddiqui,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh

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• Tahsin Islam Sakif,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, California, United States of America

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• Aniruddha Sarker,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Residual Chemical Assessment Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Jeollabuk-do, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6751-7301

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• Andrew G. Sharpe,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Institute for Food Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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• Tofazzal Islam

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

  * E-mail: tofazzalsilam@bsmrau.edu.bd

  Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (IBGE), Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7613-0261

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