About the Authors

Salah El-Hendawy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

shendawy@yahoo.com, mosalah@ksu.edu.sa, shendawy2003@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Plant Production, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Nasser Al-Suhaibani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Plant Production, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Wael Hassan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliations Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt, Department of Biology, Quwayiyah College of Science and Humanities, Shaqra University, Shaqra, Saudi Arabia

Mohammad Tahir

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Plant Production, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Urs Schmidhalter

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chair of Plant Nutrition, Department of Plant Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.