Exogenous salicylic acid, abscisic acid, and shikimic acid enhance drought tolerance in tea by modulating antioxidant defense and osmotic regulation

• Shelina Akter Sheuli,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

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• Mir Sultanul Arafin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

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• Sadia Sultana,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

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• Md. Afser Rabbi,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6390-9719

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• Ajit Ghosh

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

  * E-mail: aghosh-bmb@sust.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9045-3916

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