About the Authors

Easha Fatima

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Women University, Multan, Pakistan

Iqra Arooj

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

iqra.6051@wum.edu.pk

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Women University, Multan, Pakistan

Hamna Shahid

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Women University, Multan, Pakistan

Abida Aziz

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Women University, Multan, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.