Characterization of plant growth-promoting bacteria from Vicia faba root nodules grown on oasis soils and their potential to enhance soil fertility and crop growth attributes in arid regions

• Oumaima Chaieb,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliations Laboratory of Legumes and Sustainable Agro-systems, Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Hammam Lif, Tunisia, High Agronomic Institute of Chott Mariem, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

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• Souhir Abdelkrim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Legumes and Sustainable Agro-systems, Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Hammam Lif, Tunisia

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• Iris Bertani,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Bacteriology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Trieste, Italy

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• Wael Taamalli,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliations Laboratory of Olive Biotechnology, Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Hammam Lif, Tunisia, Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Beja, University of Jendouba, Beja, Tunisia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5188-3606

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• Khediri Mannai,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Laboratory of Legumes and Sustainable Agro-systems, Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Hammam Lif, Tunisia

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• Fatma Souissi,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Laboratory of Legumes and Sustainable Agro-systems, Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Hammam Lif, Tunisia

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• Moez Jebara,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Legumes and Sustainable Agro-systems, Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Hammam Lif, Tunisia

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• Vittorio Venturi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Bacteriology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Trieste, Italy, African Genome Center, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P, Ben Guerir, Morocco

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• Salwa Harzalli Jebara

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jebarasalwa@yahoo.fr

  Affiliation Laboratory of Legumes and Sustainable Agro-systems, Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Hammam Lif, Tunisia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7918-2681

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