About the Authors

Muhammad Tariq

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Bilal Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Muhammad Adnan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

madnan@uoswabi.edu.pk (MA); saleemhamza312@webmail.hzau.edu.cn (MHS); shafaqataligill@yahoo.com (SA)

Affiliation Department of Agriculture, University of Swabi, Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Ishaq Ahmad Mian

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Shadman Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Shah Fahad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Muhammad Hamzah Saleem

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

madnan@uoswabi.edu.pk (MA); saleemhamza312@webmail.hzau.edu.cn (MHS); shafaqataligill@yahoo.com (SA)

Affiliation College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Mukhtiar Ali

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Soil Science, Nuclear Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Maria Mussarat

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Manzoor Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Muhammad Romman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Chitral, Chitral, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Muhammad Sohaib Chattha

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Mohamed A. El-Sheikh

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Shafaqat Ali

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

madnan@uoswabi.edu.pk (MA); saleemhamza312@webmail.hzau.edu.cn (MHS); shafaqataligill@yahoo.com (SA)

Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan, Department of Biological Sciences and Technology, China Medical University (CMU), Taichung City, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.