Vicia faba-PGPB association improves soil health as a sustainable strategy to remediate moderately Pb and Cd contaminated soils

• Omar Saadani,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Laboratory of Legumes and Associated Agro-systems, Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Hammam Lif, Tunisia, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University Tunis El Manar, CP.2092, El-Manar Tunis, Tunisia

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• Souhir Abdelkrim,

  Roles Investigation

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

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• Wael Taamalli,

  Roles Formal analysis

  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

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• Imen Challougui Fatnassi,

  Roles Resources

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

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• Khedhiri Mannai,

  Roles Resources

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

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• Moez Jebara ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: moez.jbara@cbbc.rnrt.tn

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2054-3892

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• Salwa Harzalli Jebara

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

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

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