About the Authors

Maria Khizar

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

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Jianxin Shi

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Sadia Saleem

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Fiza Liaquat

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Muhammad Ashraf

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Sadia Latif

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Urooj Haroon

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Syed Waqas Hassan

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, University of Wah, Quaid Avenue, Wah Cantt., Pakistan

Shafiq ur Rehman

Roles Software

Affiliation College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Hassan Javed Chaudhary

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Umar Masood Quraishi

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Farooq Hussain Munis

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

munis@qau.edu.pk

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.