About the Authors

Hira Kamal

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America

Fayyaz-ul-Amir Afsar Minhas

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan

Diwaker Tripathi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Wajid Arshad Abbasi

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Current address: Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of AJ&K, Muzaffarabad

Affiliation Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Hamza

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Roma Mustafa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Zuhaib Khan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Shahid Mansoor

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

Affiliation National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Hanu R. Pappu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America

Imran Amin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

imranamin1@yahoo.com

Affiliation National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.