About the Authors

Muhammad Shahbaz

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

Affiliation Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Abida Akram

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Naveed Iqbal Raja

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Tariq Mukhtar

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

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Asma Mehak

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Noor Fatima

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan

Maryam Ajmal

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

kishwar.ali@udst.edu.qa (KA); maryamajmal92@yahoo.com (MA)

Affiliation Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Kishwar Ali

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

kishwar.ali@udst.edu.qa (KA); maryamajmal92@yahoo.com (MA)

Affiliation College of General Education, University of Doha for Science and Technology, Doha, Qatar

Nilofar Mustafa

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Fozia Abasi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.