About the Authors

Khem Chand Saini

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Central University of Punjab, Ghudda, Bathinda, Punjab, India

Kriti Gupta

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, DAV College, Bathinda, Punjab, India

Sheetal Sharma

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Central University of Punjab, Ghudda, Bathinda, Punjab, India

Ajay K. Gautam

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Botany, Central University of Punjab, Ghudda, Bathinda, Punjab, India

Samrin Shamim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Botany, Central University of Punjab, Ghudda, Bathinda, Punjab, India

Divya Mittal

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Botany, Central University of Punjab, Ghudda, Bathinda, Punjab, India

Pushpendu Kundu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Botany, Central University of Punjab, Ghudda, Bathinda, Punjab, India

Felix Bast

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

felix.bast@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Botany, Central University of Punjab, Ghudda, Bathinda, Punjab, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.