About the Authors

Azhar Hussain

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

azharhaseen@gmail.com (AH); jentsung@nuk.edu.tw (JTC); parvaizbot@yahoo.com (PA)

Affiliation Department of Soil Science, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Maqshoof Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Soil Science, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Muhammad Nafees

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Horticultural Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Zafar Iqbal

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Soil Science, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Muhammad Luqman

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Soil Science, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Moazzam Jamil

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Soil Science, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Ambreen Maqsood

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Freddy Mora-Poblete

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Talca, Talca, Chile

Sunny Ahmar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Jen-Tsung Chen

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

azharhaseen@gmail.com (AH); jentsung@nuk.edu.tw (JTC); parvaizbot@yahoo.com (PA)

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Mohammed Nasser Alyemeni

Roles Resources, Supervision

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

Parvaiz Ahmad

Roles Resources, Supervision

azharhaseen@gmail.com (AH); jentsung@nuk.edu.tw (JTC); parvaizbot@yahoo.com (PA)

Affiliations Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Botany, S.P. College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.