About the Authors

Ali Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Zubair Aslam

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Maliha Naz

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

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

Sadam Hussain

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

Talha Javed

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mtahaj@fafu.edu.cn (TJ); mhsiddiqui@ksu.edu.sa (MHS)

Affiliations Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan, College of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

Sadia Aslam

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Ali Raza

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Genetics, Breeding and Mutltiple Utilization of Crops, Oil Crops Research Institute, Center of Legume Crop Genetics and Systems Biology/College of Agriculture, Fujian, China, Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU), Fuzhou, China

Hayssam M. Ali

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Manzer H. Siddiqui

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

mtahaj@fafu.edu.cn (TJ); mhsiddiqui@ksu.edu.sa (MHS)

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

Mohamed Z. M. Salem

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Forestry and Wood Technology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, EL-Shatby, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Christophe Hano

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biologie des Ligneux et des Grandes Cultures (LBLGC), INRAE USC1328, Universitéd’Orléans, Chartres, France

Rubab Shabbir

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China, Seed Science and Technology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Sunny Ahmar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biological Sciences, Campus Talca, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile

Tasbiha Saeed

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Muhammad Asif Jamal

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.