About the Authors

Aniqua Tasnim Chowdhury

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

Affiliation Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Md. Nazmul Hasan

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

Affiliation Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Fahmid H. Bhuiyan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Plant Biotechnology Division, National Institute of Biotechnology, Ganakbari, Ashulia, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Qamrul Islam

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Md. Rakib Wazed Nayon

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Md. Mashiur Rahaman

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Hammadul Hoque

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Nurnabi Azad Jewel

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Md. Ashrafuzzaman

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Shamsul H. Prodhan

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

shamsulhp-btc@sust.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.