About the Authors

Muhammad Arif

Roles Data curation

arifbiotech144@gmail.com (MA); sfiaz@uoh.edu.pk (SF)

Affiliations Faculty of crop production sciences, Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (IBGE), The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Department of Biotechnology, University of Mianwali, Mianwali, Punjab, Pakistan, Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Xiukang Wang

Roles Validation

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Yan’an University, Yan’an, Shaanxi, China

Mohammad Sayyar Khan Kazi

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Faculty of crop production sciences, Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (IBGE), The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Shahid Ullah Khan

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Women Medical and Dental College, Abbottabad, KPK, Pakistan

Sumbul Saeed

Roles Resources

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

Amir Muhammad Khan

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Mianwali, Mianwali, Pakistan

Rahmat Ali Khan

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology, Bannu, KP, Pakistan

Masood Afzal

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Mianwali, Mianwali, Punjab, Pakistan

Ayesha Fazal Nawaz

Roles Methodology

Affiliation National Institute for Genomics and Advanced Biotechnology (NIGAB), National Agriculture Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Amir Zia

Roles Methodology

Affiliation National Institute for Genomics and Advanced Biotechnology (NIGAB), National Agriculture Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan

Hosam O. Elansary

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Plant Production Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Shadi Shokralla

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

Abdullah Alhalabi

Roles Resources

Affiliation School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Alia Gul

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan

Sajid Fiaz

Roles Supervision

arifbiotech144@gmail.com (MA); sfiaz@uoh.edu.pk (SF)

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.