About the Authors

Amna Saeed

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

emishahidhu@gmail.com

Affiliation Government Reclamation Research Station, Mian Channu, Pakistan

Ansar Hussain

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Ghazi University, D. G. Khan, Pakistan

Muhammad Ifnan Khan

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Ghazi University, D. G. Khan, Pakistan

Muhammad Arif

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

Affiliation Department of Plant Protection, Ghazi University, D. G. Khan, Pakistan

Muhammad Mudassar Maqbool

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Ghazi University, D. G. Khan, Pakistan

Hassan Mehmood

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

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

Muhammad Iqbal

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cotton Research Institute, Multan, Pakistan

Jawaher Alkahtani

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Mohamed Soliman Elshikh

Roles Conceptualization, 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.