About the Authors

Fatima Noor

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

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

Muhammad Hamzah Saleem

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Muhammad Rizwan Javed

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

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

Jen-Tsung Chen

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Usman Ali Ashfaq

Roles Investigation

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

Mohammad K. Okla

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

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

Mostafa A. Abdel-Maksoud

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

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

Yasmeen A. Alwasel

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

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

Wahidah H. Al-Qahtani

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

Affiliation Department of food sciences & nutrition, College of food & Agriculture sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Huda Alshaya

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

Affiliation Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States of America

Ghulam Yasin

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

Affiliation Department of Botany, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Sidra Aslam

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

sidra.aslam29@yahoo.com

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.