About the Authors

Seema Hassan Satti

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

Affiliation Department of Botany, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan

Naveed Iqbal Raja

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Botany, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan

Bilal Javed

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

javedbilal87@gmail.com, javedb@sas.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Botany, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan

Abida Akram

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliation Department of Botany, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan

Zia-ur-Rehman Mashwani

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Botany, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Sheeraz Ahmad

Roles Supervision

Affiliation University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Ikram

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Botany, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.