About the Authors

Sonia Goel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

soniabansal2609@gmail.com (SG); nksingh4@gmail.com (NKS); parvaizbot@yahoo.com (PA)

Current address: Faculty of Agricultural sciences, SGT (Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary) University, Gurugram,Haryana, India

Affiliation ICAR-National Research centre on Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

Kalpana Singh

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Water Technology Centre, Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Balwant Singh

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation ICAR-National Research centre on Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

Sapna Grewal

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation ICAR-National Research centre on Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

Neeta Dwivedi

Roles Software, Validation

Affiliation Water Technology Centre, Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Abdulaziz A. Alqarawi

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Software, Validation

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

Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah

Roles Funding acquisition, Software, Validation

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

Parvaiz Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

soniabansal2609@gmail.com (SG); nksingh4@gmail.com (NKS); parvaizbot@yahoo.com (PA)

Affiliations Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Botany, S.P. College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

N. K. Singh

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

soniabansal2609@gmail.com (SG); nksingh4@gmail.com (NKS); parvaizbot@yahoo.com (PA)

Affiliation ICAR-National Research centre on Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.