About the Authors

Muhammad Waseem Riaz Marral

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Muhammad Bismillah Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Fiaz Ahmad

Roles Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Physiology/Chemistry Section, Central Cotton Research Institute, Multan, Pakistan

Shahid Farooq

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

Mubshar Hussain

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

mubashiragr@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan, Agriculture Discipline, College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.