About the Authors

Ajit Kumar Passari

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biotechnology, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India, Departamento de Biologia Molecular y Biotecnologia, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico, Mexico

Kalidas Upadhyaya

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Forestry, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India

Garima Singh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India

Ahmed M. Abdel-Azeem

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Sugitha Thankappan

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Biocatalysts Lab, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India

Sivakumar Uthandi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Biocatalysts Lab, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India

Abeer Hashem

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Mycology and Plant Disease Survey Department, Plant Pathology Research Institute, ARC, Giza, Egypt

Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, ERA Chair of Green Chemistry, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Jahangir Ahmed Malik

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, ERA Chair of Green Chemistry, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Alqarawi AS

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, ERA Chair of Green Chemistry, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Vijai Kumar Gupta

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Sanjay Ranjan

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Application Scientist, Spectraritec, Ranjit Nagar Commercial Complex, Saadipur, Delhi

Bhim Pratap Singh

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

bhimpratap@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India

Competing Interests

We have the following interests: Author Sanjay Ranjan is employed by Spectraritec. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.