About the Authors

Sajjad Asaf

Affiliation School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea

Abdul Latif Khan

Affiliation Chair of Oman's Medicinal Plants & Marine Natural Products, University of Nizwa, Nizwa, 616, Oman

Abdur Rahim Khan

Affiliation School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea

Muhammad Waqas

Affiliations School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea, Department of Agriculture, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan

Sang-Mo Kang

Affiliation School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea

Muhammad Aaqil Khan

Affiliation School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea

Raheem Shahzad

Affiliation School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea

Chang-Woo Seo

Affiliation School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea

Jae-Ho Shin

Affiliation School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea

In-Jung Lee

ijlee@knu.ac.kr

Affiliation School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA IJL. Performed the experiments: SA ALK ARK MW SMK MAK RS CWS JHS IJL. Analyzed the data: SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IJL. Wrote the paper: SA MW ALK.