About the Authors

Hafiz Ghulam Muhu-Din Ahmed

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

ghulam.muhudin@iub.edu.pk (HGMDA); zengyw1967@126.com (YZ)

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Yawen Zeng

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

ghulam.muhudin@iub.edu.pk (HGMDA); zengyw1967@126.com (YZ)

Affiliation Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming, China

Muhammad Iqbal

Roles Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Muhammad Abdul Rehman Rashid

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Humayun Raza

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Aziz Ullah

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

Muhammad Ali

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Muhammad Majid Yar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Adnan Noor Shah

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Engineering, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan

Competing Interests

No conflict of interest exits in the submission of this manuscript.