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Application of ferrous sulfate alleviates negative impact of cadmium in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

JAVARIA AFZAL^1,2,#, XIUKANG WANG^3,*, MUHAMMAD HAMZAH SALEEM^4,#, XUECHENG SUN¹, SHAHID HUSSAIN⁵, IMRAN KHAN⁶, MUHAMMAD SHOAIB RANA¹, SHAKEEL AHMED⁷, SAMRAH AFZAL AWAN⁶, SAJID FIAZ⁸, OMAR AZIZ⁹, KASHIF ALI KUBAR¹⁰, SHAFAQAT ALI^11,12, CHENGXIAO HU^1,*

1 Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
2 Department of Soil Science, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, 70060, Pakistan
3 College of Life Sciences, Yan’an University, Yan’an, 716000, China
4 College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
5 Schools of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China
6 Department of Grassland Science, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, China
7 Instituto de Farmacia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, 5110566, Chile
8 Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, The University of Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 22620, Pakistan
9 Department of Soil & Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Sub-Campus Depalpur, Okara, Pakistan
10 Faculty of Agriculture, Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences, Uthal, 90150, Pakistan
11 Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan
12 Department of Biological Sciences and Technology, China Medical University, Taichung, 40402, Taiwan

* Corresponding Authors: XIUKANG WANG. Email: ; CHENGXIAO HU. Email:
# These authors contributed equally to this work