Zubair Aslam 1, Ali Ahmad 1,*, Muhammad Idrees 2, Naeem Iqbal 2, Ghulam Akbar 3, Umaro Ali 4, Muhammad Usman Ibrahim 1, Korkmaz Bellitürk 5, Shoaib Naeem 1, Muhammad Nawaz 6, Mehwish Nadeem 7, Muhammad Waqas 1, Wajeeh Ur Rehman 1, Muhammad Sajjad 1, Samiullah 8, Yousuf Akram 1
1 Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan.
2 Plant Physiology Section, Agronomic Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
3 Department of Biochemistry, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan.
4 Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan.
5 Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Tekirdag Namık Kemal University, Suleymanpasa Tekirdag, Turkey.
6 Vegetable and Oil Seed Section, Agronomic Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
7 Department of Botany, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, 38000-Pakistan.
8 Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan.
*Corresponding author: Ali Ahmad
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