Foliar applied calcium chloride alleviated drought stress in pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.) by improving growth and yield contributing traits and antioxidant activity

• Tauqeer Ahmad Yasir,

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

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

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• Wasif Azhar,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, University of Layyah, Layyah, Pakistan

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• Qaisar Ali,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Sustainable Land Management, The School of Agriculture, Policy and Development (SAPD), University of Reading, England, United Kingdom

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• Muhammad Usman Masood Bhutta,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation

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

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• Muhammad Ateeq,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Resistance and High-Efficiency Production and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P.R. China

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• Allah Wasaya,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation

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

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• Mubshar Hussain,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

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

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• Rehana Riaz

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: rehanariaz7848@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Bahauddin Zakriya University, Multan, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8623-1877

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