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Improvement of Selected Morphological, Physiological, and Biochemical Parameters of Banana (Musa acuminata L.) Using Potassium Silicate under Drought Stress Condition Grown in vitro

Hosny Abdel Aziz¹, Mohamed Sharaf^2,3, Magdy Omar⁴, Ahmed Abou El-Yazied⁵, Nada Ibrahim AlJwaizea⁶, Shaimaa Ismail⁵, Mohamed M. A. Omar⁷, Khadiga Alharbi^6,*, Amr Elkelish^8,9, Moataz Tawfik¹⁰

1 Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, 11651, Egypt
2 Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, 11651, Egypt
3 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
4 Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, 11751, Egypt
5 Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, 11566, Egypt
6 Department of Biology, College of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, 11671, Saudi Arabia
7 Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, 11566, Egypt
8 Biology Department, College of Science, Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, 11623, Saudi Arabia
9 Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, 41522, Egypt
10 Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Port Said University, Port Said, 42511, Egypt

* Corresponding Author: Khadiga Alharbi. Email: