About the Authors

Ibtisam Al-Harrasi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Rashid Al-Yahyai

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Mahmoud W. Yaish

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

myaish@squ.edu.om

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.