About the Authors

Muhammad Mudassar Maqbool

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

drmudassar93@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

Shazia Naz

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

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

Tasneem Ahmad

Roles Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Pakki Thatti Research & Development Farm, Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan

Muhammad Shahid Nisar

Roles Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

Hassan Mehmood

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Soil Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Mona S. Alwahibi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Jawaher Alkahtani

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.