About the Authors

Numrah Nisar

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Lahore College for Women University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Amber Aleem

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Lahore College for Women University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Faiza Saleem

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Lahore College for Women University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Fakhra Aslam

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Lahore College for Women University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Ammara Shahid

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Lahore College for Women University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Hina Chaudhry

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Lahore College for Women University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Kausar Malik

Affiliation Department of ORIC, Lahore College for Women University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Abdulhadi Albaser

Affiliation Faculty of Sciences, University of Sebha, Sebha, Libya

Amjad Iqbal

Affiliations Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Wenchang, Hainan, China, Department of Agriculture, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan

Rashad Qadri

waseemrana_83pk@hotmail.com (RQ); yangyd@tocri.com (YY)

Affiliations Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Wenchang, Hainan, China, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, University of Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Yaodong Yang

waseemrana_83pk@hotmail.com (RQ); yangyd@tocri.com (YY)

Affiliation Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Wenchang, Hainan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NN AA FS FA AS HC KM AbA. Data curation: NN. Formal analysis: NN AI RQ. Investigation: NN AA FS FA AS HC KM AA. Methodology: NN AI RQ. Project administration: NN. Resources: NN YY. Software: NN AI RQ. Supervision: NN AA. Validation: NN. Visualization: NN AI RQ. Writing – original draft: NN AI RQ YY. Writing – review & editing: AI RQ YY.