About the Authors

Abdul Sattar

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

abdulsattar04@gmail.com (AS); wangxiukang@yau.edu.cn (XW); aqayyum@uoh.edu.pk (AQ); tkz@upm.edu.my (ATKZ)

Affiliation College of Agriculture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Layyah, Pakistan

Xiukang Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

abdulsattar04@gmail.com (AS); wangxiukang@yau.edu.cn (XW); aqayyum@uoh.edu.pk (AQ); tkz@upm.edu.my (ATKZ)

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Yan’an University, Yan’an, Shaanxi, China

Tahira Abbas

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Agriculture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Layyah, Pakistan

Ahmad Sher

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Software

Affiliation College of Agriculture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Layyah, Pakistan

Muhammad Ijaz

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation College of Agriculture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Layyah, Pakistan

Sami Ul-Allah

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Agriculture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Layyah, Pakistan

Muhammad Irfan

Roles Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Multan, Pakistan

Madiha Butt

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation College of Agriculture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Layyah, Pakistan

Muhammad Ashfaq Wahid

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Mumtaz Cheema

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Science and the Environment, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL, Canada

Sajid Fiaz

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan

Abdul Qayyum

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

abdulsattar04@gmail.com (AS); wangxiukang@yau.edu.cn (XW); aqayyum@uoh.edu.pk (AQ); tkz@upm.edu.my (ATKZ)

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan

Mohammad Javed Ansari

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Sulaiman Ali Alharbi

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

Milton Wainwright

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Furqan Ahmad

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, MNS University of Agriculture Multan, Multan, Pakistan, Institute of Crop Science, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China

Kui Xie

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Yan’an University, Yan’an, Shaanxi, China

Ali Tan Kee Zuan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

abdulsattar04@gmail.com (AS); wangxiukang@yau.edu.cn (XW); aqayyum@uoh.edu.pk (AQ); tkz@upm.edu.my (ATKZ)

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Land Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.