About the Authors

Arun Bahadur Gurung

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

arunbgurung@gmail.com (ABG); joongku@cnu.ac.kr (JL)

Affiliation Department of Basic Sciences and Social Sciences, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India

Mohammad Ajmal Ali

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Joongku Lee

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

arunbgurung@gmail.com (ABG); joongku@cnu.ac.kr (JL)

Affiliation Department of Environment and Forest Resources, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Mohamed El-Zaidy

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

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

Reem M. Aljowaie

Roles Funding acquisition

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

Saeedah M. Almutairi

Roles Funding acquisition, Visualization

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.