About the Authors

Mahdieh Fallah

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahdieh Fallah, Hashem Hadi, Reza Amirnia, Abdollah Hassanzadeh-Ghorttapeh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

Hashem Hadi

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahdieh Fallah, Hashem Hadi, Reza Amirnia, Abdollah Hassanzadeh-Ghorttapeh

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

Reza Amirnia

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahdieh Fallah, Hashem Hadi, Reza Amirnia, Abdollah Hassanzadeh-Ghorttapeh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

r.amirnia@urmia.ac.ir (RA); tkz@upm.edu.my (ATKZ)

Affiliation Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

Abdollah Hassanzadeh-Ghorttapeh

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahdieh Fallah, Hashem Hadi, Reza Amirnia, Abdollah Hassanzadeh-Ghorttapeh

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of West Azerbijan, Urmia, Iran

Ali Tan Kee Zuan

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

r.amirnia@urmia.ac.ir (RA); tkz@upm.edu.my (ATKZ)

‡ ATKZ and RZS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Land Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Malaysia

R. Z. Sayyed

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ ATKZ and RZS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, PSGVP Mandal’s Arts, Science, and Commerce College, Shahada, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.