About the Authors

Aafreen Sakina

Contributed equally to this work with: Aafreen Sakina, Asif B. Shikari

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Plant Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K, India

Saba Mir

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Plant Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K, India

Sofi Najeeb

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K, India

Sajad M. Zargar

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Division of Plant Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K, India

Firdous A. Nehvi

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Division of Plant Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K, India

Zahoor A. Rather

Roles Resources

Affiliation Division of Floriculture and Landscaping, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K, India

Romesh K. Salgotra

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, Srinagar, J&K, India

Asif B. Shikari

Contributed equally to this work with: Aafreen Sakina, Asif B. Shikari

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

asifshikari@skuastkashmir.ac.in

Affiliation Division of Plant Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.