About the Authors

Ammara Saleem

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Molecular Plant Physiology, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Asma Zulfiqar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

asma.botany@pu.edu.pk (AZ); tkz@upm.edu.my (ATKZ)

Affiliation Molecular Plant Physiology, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Zeeshan Arshed

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Plant Physiology, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Saber Hussain

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Plant Physiology, Institute of Botany, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Tajammal Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Division of Science and Technology, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan

Marek Zivcak

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovakia

Ali Tan Kee Zuan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

asma.botany@pu.edu.pk (AZ); tkz@upm.edu.my (ATKZ)

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

Shrouq M. Alshahrani

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

Khaloud Mohammed Alarjani

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.