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Salicylic Acid Improved the Growth of Soybean Seedlings by Regulating Water Status and Plant Pigments and Limiting Oxidative Injury under Salinity Stress

Shahin Imran^1,2,*, Md. Asif Mahamud³, Newton Chandra Paul¹, Prosenjit Sarker⁴, Md. Tahjib-Ul-Arif⁵, Nazmul Islam⁵, Mohammad Saidur Rhaman⁶, Saleh H. Salmen⁷, Sulaiman Ali Alharbi⁷, Mohammad Javed Ansari⁸, Mohammed Ali Alshehri⁹, Akbar Hossain^10,*

1 Department of Agronomy, Khulna Agricultural University, Khulna, 9100, Bangladesh
2 Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, 710-0046, Japan
3 Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Khulna Agricultural University, Khulna, 9100, Bangladesh
4 Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Khulna Agricultural University, Khulna, 9100, Bangladesh
5 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh
6 Department of Seed Science and Technology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh
7 Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
8 Department of Botany, Hindu College Moradabad (Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University Bareilly), Moradabad, 244001, India
9 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, 71491, Saudi Arabia
10 Soil Science Division, Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute, Dinajpur, 5200, Bangladesh

* Corresponding Authors: Shahin Imran. Email: ; Akbar Hossain. Email: