About the Authors

Arshid Hussain Ganie

Affiliation Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Hamdard University, New Delhi, 110062, India

Altaf Ahmad

Affiliation Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India

Renu Pandey

Affiliation Division of Plant Physiology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India

Ibrahim M. Aref

Affiliation Department of Plant Production, College of Food and Agricultural Science, P.O. Box 2460, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia

Peerzada Yasir Yousuf

Affiliation Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Hamdard University, New Delhi, 110062, India

Sayeed Ahmad

Affiliation Department of Pharmacognosy & Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, 110062, India

Muhammad Iqbal

iqbalg5@yahoo.co.in

Affiliation Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Hamdard University, New Delhi, 110062, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA RP SA MI. Performed the experiments: AHG PYY. Analyzed the data: AHG AA RP IMA MI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA MI. Wrote the paper: AHG AA RP SA MI.