About the Authors

Bharati Pandey

Contributed equally to this work with: Bharati Pandey, Chetna Tyagi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Software

Affiliation School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Chetna Tyagi

Contributed equally to this work with: Bharati Pandey, Chetna Tyagi

Roles Conceptualization, Software

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Gopal Kumar Prajapati

Roles Formal analysis

Current address: Promea Therapeutic Pvt. Limited, Patancheru, Hyderabad, India

Affiliation Department of Bio-Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

Awdhesh Kumar Mishra

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

awadhesh.biotech07@gmail.com (AKM); nostoc.tapan@gmail.com, tapan.mohanta@unizwa.edu.om (TKM)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea

Abeer Hashem

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Mycology and Plant Disease Survey Department, Plant Pathology Research Institute, ARC, Giza, Egypt

Abdulaziz A. Alqarawi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plant Production Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plant Production Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Tapan Kumar Mohanta

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

awadhesh.biotech07@gmail.com (AKM); nostoc.tapan@gmail.com, tapan.mohanta@unizwa.edu.om (TKM)

Affiliation Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, Nizwa, Oman

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.