About the Authors

Muhammad Shehzad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P.R China

Zhongli Zhou

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P.R China

Allah Ditta

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P.R China, Plant Breeding, and Genetics Division, Cotton Group, Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Majid Khan

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

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P.R China

Xiaoyan Cai

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P.R China

Yanchao Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P.R China

Amir Maqbool

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Nigde Omer Halisdemir University, Nigde, Turkey

Ahlam Khalofah

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Biology Department, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Shaban

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agricultural Science & Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Muhammad Naeem

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Nigde Omer Halisdemir University, Nigde, Turkey

Mohammad Javed Ansari

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Botany, Hindu College Moradabad (Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University Bareilly), Bareilly, India

Kunbo Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wkbcri@163.com (KW); liufcri@163.com (FL)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P.R China

Fang Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wkbcri@163.com (KW); liufcri@163.com (FL)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P.R China, School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.