Physiological responses of Cucurbita pepo seeds to cadmium and copper stress: Differential impacts on reserve mobilization, metabolic efficiency, and growth

• Smail Acila ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: smailacila@gmail.com, smail-acila@univ-eloued.dz

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Faculty of Nature and Life Sciences, University of El Oued, El Oued, Algeria, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Application of Biotechnology in the Agricultural Field, University of El Oued, El Oued, Algeria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8309-4254

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• Nora Allioui,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Nature and Life Sciences and Earth and Universe Sciences, University of May 8th, 1945 Guelma, Guelma, Algeria

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• Samir Derouiche

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Biodiversity and Application of Biotechnology in the Agricultural Field, University of El Oued, El Oued, Algeria, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Nature and Life Sciences, University of El Oued, El Oued, Algeria

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