Enhancing wheat production and quality in alkaline soil: a study on the effectiveness of foliar and soil applied zinc

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Plant Biology

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Experimental site

Experimental procedure

Soil and plant samples analysis and calculations

Statistical analysis

Results

Agronomic attributes

Grain Zn, P and K concentrations

Grain protein content

Pearson’s correlation analysis

Discussion

Wheat yield and yield components

Plant nutrient concentration in wheat grain

Grain protein content

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare that there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Farhat Ullah Khan conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Adnan Anwar Khan conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Yuanyuan Qu conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Qi Zhang conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Muhammad Adnan conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Shah Fahad conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Fatima Gul performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Muhammad Ismail conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Shah Saud analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Shah Hassan performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Xuexuan Xu conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data is available in the Supplemental File.

Funding

The authors received no funding for this work.

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