About the Authors

Humaira Shaheen

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

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Mirza Faisal Qaseem

Roles Data curation, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

faisal.ali522@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Botany, PMAS-University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Muhammad Shoaib Amjad

Roles Software, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Botany, PMAS-University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Department of Botany, Women University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Bagh, Pakistan

Piero Bruschi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dept. of AgriFood Production and Environmental Sciences -Laboratories of Applied and Environmental Botany, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.