About the Authors

Amer M. Abdelaziz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

amermorsy@azhar.edu.eg (AMA); amr.hosny86@azhar.edu.eg (AHH)

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Botany and Microbiology Department, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Mostafa A. Abdel-Maksoud

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Sabiha Fatima

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Saeedah Almutairi

Roles Funding acquisition, Software, Writing – review & editing

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

Bushra Hafeez Kiani

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

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachuesetts, United States of America

Amr H. Hashem

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

amermorsy@azhar.edu.eg (AMA); amr.hosny86@azhar.edu.eg (AHH)

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Botany and Microbiology Department, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.