About the Authors

Tawseef Ahmad

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

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjabi, India

Gaganjot Gupta

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjabi, India

Anshula Sharma

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjabi, India

Baljinder Kaur

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

baljinderkaur@pbi.ac.in (BK); mnyemeni@ksu.edu.sa (MNA)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjabi, India

Mohamed A. El-Sheikh

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

Mohammed Nasser Alyemeni

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

baljinderkaur@pbi.ac.in (BK); mnyemeni@ksu.edu.sa (MNA)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.