About the Authors

Hasnain Abbas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Ashfaq Wahid

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Abdul Sattar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

abdulsattar04@gmail.com (AS); liyunzhou2007@126.com (YL)

Affiliation College of Agriculture, Bahadur Sub-Campus, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Layyah, Pakistan

Shahbaz Atta Tung

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Farrukh Saleem

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Sohail Irshad

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, MNS University of Agriculture Multan, Multan, Pakistan

Jawaher Alkahtani

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Mohamed Soliman Elshikh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Mumtaz Cheema

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Science and the Environment, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada

Yunzhou Li

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

abdulsattar04@gmail.com (AS); liyunzhou2007@126.com (YL)

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.