About the Authors

Munawwar Ali Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: Munawwar Ali Khan, Shams Tabrez Khan

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

Affiliation Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, College of Natural and Health Sciences, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Shams Tabrez Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: Munawwar Ali Khan, Shams Tabrez Khan

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

shamsalig75@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

Milred Cedric Sequeira

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Academic City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sultan Mohammad Faheem

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Academic City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Naushad Rais

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Academic City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.