About the Authors

Muhammad Usman Zahid

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

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Hifsa Zahid

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

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Usama Asghar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Waqas Khan Kayani

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

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Kotli, Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

Aamir Rasheed

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Kotli, Kotli, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

Faroha Liaqat

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Faraz Muneer

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

faraz.muneer@slu.se (FM), faiza@qau.edu.pk (FR)

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 190, Lomma, SE-234 22, Sweden

Faiza Rasheed

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

faraz.muneer@slu.se (FM), faiza@qau.edu.pk (FR)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.