About the Authors

Gausiya Bashri

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

gausiya.bashri@gmail.com (GB); profsmprasad@gmail.com (SMP); mjavedansari@gmail.com (MJA)

Current address: Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

Affiliation Department of Botany, Ranjan Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India

Shikha Singh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Botany, Ranjan Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India

Sheo Mohan Prasad

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

gausiya.bashri@gmail.com (GB); profsmprasad@gmail.com (SMP); mjavedansari@gmail.com (MJA)

Affiliation Department of Botany, Ranjan Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India

Mohammad Javed Ansari

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

gausiya.bashri@gmail.com (GB); profsmprasad@gmail.com (SMP); mjavedansari@gmail.com (MJA)

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

Salma Usmani

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, D.K.M College for Women (Autonomous), Vellore, India

Saleh Alfarraj

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Sulaiman Ali Alharbi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany & Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Marian Brestic

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Physiology, Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovakia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.