Zahra Saeed: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – original draft
Muhammad Naveed: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing
– review & editing
Muhammad Imran: Role: Writing – review & editing
Muhammad Asaad Bashir: Role: Methodology
Annum Sattar: Role: Formal analysisRole: Methodology
Adnan Mustafa: Role: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
Azhar Hussain: Role: InvestigationRole: Methodology
Minggang Xu:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7308-0633
Role: ConceptualizationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Ricardo Aroca: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
13
March
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 3
Electronic Location Identifier: e0213016
Affiliations
[1
]
Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad,
Faisalabad, Pakistan
[2
]
Soil and Environmental Sciences Division, Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology,
Faisalabad, Pakistan
[3
]
Soil and Water Testing Laboratory, Sheikhupura, Pakistan
[4
]
National Engineering Laboratory for Improving Quality of Arable Land, Institute of
Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,
Beijing, China
[5
]
Department of Soil Science, University College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences,
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Estacion Experimental del Zaidin, SPAIN
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-19173
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213016
PMC ID: 6415811
PubMed ID: 30865683
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