About the Authors

Munifa Jabeen

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

Affiliation Department of Botany, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Nudrat Aisha Akram

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

nudrataauaf@yahoo.com (NAA); parvaizbot@yahoo.com (PA)

Affiliation Department of Botany, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Ashraf

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Anshika Tyagi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea

Mohamed A. El-Sheikh

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

Parvaiz Ahmad

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

nudrataauaf@yahoo.com (NAA); parvaizbot@yahoo.com (PA)

Affiliation Department of Botany, Govt. Degree College, Pulwama, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.