About the Authors

Rabia Naz

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

rabia.naz@comsats.edu.pk

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Thomas H. Roberts

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plant Breeding Institute, Sydney Institute of Agriculture, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Asghari Bano

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, University of Wah, Wah Cantt, Pakistan

Asia Nosheen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Humaira Yasmin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Nadeem Hassan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Rumana Keyani

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Sami Ullah

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

Wajiha Khan

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbotabad Campus, Abbotabad, Pakistan

Zahid Anwar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus, Vehari, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.