About the Authors

Muhammad Ishtiaq

Roles Writing – original draft

drishtiaq.bot@must.edu.pk, drishtiaqajk@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan

Mehwish Maqbool

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan

Muhammad Ajaib

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan

Maqsood Ahmed

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan

Iqbal Hussain

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Botany, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Humaira Khanam

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan

Waheeda Mushtaq

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan

Tanveer Hussain

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan

Shehzad Azam

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan

Khizar Hayat Bhatti

Roles Conceptualization, Software

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Gujrat, Ahmedabad, Pakistan

Abdul Ghani

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.