About the Authors

Fadila Al Salameen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

fslamian@kisr.edu.kw (FAS); nhabibi@kisr.edu.kw (NH)

Affiliation Biotechnology Program, Environment and Life Sciences Research Centre, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

Nazima Habibi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

fslamian@kisr.edu.kw (FAS); nhabibi@kisr.edu.kw (NH)

Affiliation Biotechnology Program, Environment and Life Sciences Research Centre, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

Saif Uddin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environment and Climate Change Program, Environment and Life Sciences Research Centre, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

Khalil Al Mataqi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Biotechnology Program, Environment and Life Sciences Research Centre, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

Vinod Kumar

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biotechnology Program, Environment and Life Sciences Research Centre, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

Bashayer Al Doaij

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Biotechnology Program, Environment and Life Sciences Research Centre, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

Sami Al Amad

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Biotechnology Program, Environment and Life Sciences Research Centre, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

Ebtisam Al Ali

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Biotechnology Program, Environment and Life Sciences Research Centre, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

Faiz Shirshikhar

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Environment and Climate Change Program, Environment and Life Sciences Research Centre, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.