About the Authors

Uzma Zulfiqar

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

uzma21awan@gmail.com (UZ); azrayasmin@fjwu.edu.pk (AY)

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Azra Yasmin

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

uzma21awan@gmail.com (UZ); azrayasmin@fjwu.edu.pk (AY)

Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Department of Biotechnology, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Anila Fariq

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist