Genome-driven insights into Bacillus safensis strain B7 as a seed coating agent for plant growth promotion and alleviation of biotic and abiotic stresses

• Maissa Ben-Jabeur ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maissa Ben-Jabeur, Zayneb Kthiri

  Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: zayneb.kthiri@gmail.com (ZK); maissa.benjabeur@gmail.com (MBJ)

  Affiliation Carthage University, Laboratory of Genetics and Cereal Breeding (LR14 AGR01), The National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Zayneb Kthiri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maissa Ben-Jabeur, Zayneb Kthiri

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

  * E-mail: zayneb.kthiri@gmail.com (ZK); maissa.benjabeur@gmail.com (MBJ)

  Affiliations Carthage University, Laboratory of Genetics and Cereal Breeding (LR14 AGR01), The National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia, Carthage University, Higher Institute of Preparatory Studies in Biology and Geology (ISEP BG), Soukra, Tunisia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5020-6320

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• Salma Jallouli,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Carthage University, Laboratory of Genetics and Cereal Breeding (LR14 AGR01), The National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Kalthoum Harbaoui,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Carthage University, Higher School of Agriculture of Mateur, Mateur, Tunisia

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• Zoubeir Chamekh,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Carthage University, National Institute of Agronomic research of Tunis (INRAT), Tunis, Tunisia

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• Sawsen Ayadi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Carthage University, Laboratory of Genetics and Cereal Breeding (LR14 AGR01), The National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Youssef Trifa,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Carthage University, Laboratory of Genetics and Cereal Breeding (LR14 AGR01), The National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Walid Hamada

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Carthage University, Laboratory of Genetics and Cereal Breeding (LR14 AGR01), The National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia

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