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Drought Stress Alleviation in Chenopodium quinoa through Synergistic Effect of Silicon and Molybdenum via Triggering of SNF1-Associated Protein Kinase 2 Signaling Mechanism

Asmat Askar^1,#, Humaira Gul^1,#, Mamoona Rauf¹, Muhammad Arif², Bokyung Lee³, Sajid Ali^4,*, Abdulwahed Fahad Alrefaei⁵, Mikhlid H. Almutairi⁵, Zahid Ali Butt⁶, Ho-Youn Kim⁷, Muhammad Hamayun^1,*

1 Department of Botany, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, 23200, Pakistan
2 Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, 23200, Pakistan
3 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Dong-A University, Pusan, 602760, Republic of Korea
4 Department of Horticulture and Life Science, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 38541, Republic of Korea
5 Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
6 Department of Botany, Government College Women University, Sialkot, 51310, Pakistan
7 Korean Institute of Science and Technology, Gangneung, 25451, Republic of Korea

* Corresponding Authors: Sajid Ali. Email: ; Muhammad Hamayun. Email:
# Two authors equally contributed to this work