About the Authors

Mussarat Shaheen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Cotton Research Institute, Khan pur, Punjab, Pakistan

Hafiz Abdul Rauf

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Cotton Research Institute, Khan pur, Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Ahmed Taj

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Rural Health center 222EB, Health department Govt. of Punjab, District Vehari, Pakistan

Muhammad Yousaf Ali

Roles Formal analysis

abashir@gudgkedu.pk

Affiliation Research & Education Development Department, Rural Education and Economic Development Society (REEDS) Pakistan, Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Amjad Bashir

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of plant protection faculty of agricultural sciences, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan

Sagheer Atta

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of plant protection faculty of agricultural sciences, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan

Hasnain Farooq

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, United States of America, Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

Reem A. Alajmi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

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

Mohamed Hashem

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations Department of Biology, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, Faculty of Science, Botany and Microbiology Department, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Saad Alamri

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Botany and Microbiology Department, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.