About the Authors

Md. Sohel Mia

Contributed equally to this work with: Md. Sohel Mia, Md Suzauddula, Tao Yang, Rui Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Jashore University of Science and Technology, Jashore, Bangladesh

Md Suzauddula

Contributed equally to this work with: Md. Sohel Mia, Md Suzauddula, Tao Yang, Rui Li

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Food, Nutrition, Dietetics and Health, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Tao Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Md. Sohel Mia, Md Suzauddula, Tao Yang, Rui Li

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming, China

Rui Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Md. Sohel Mia, Md Suzauddula, Tao Yang, Rui Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Qinghai University, Xining, China

Fang Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Jianbo Mi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Xichang Shijia State-Owned Forest, Liangshan, China

Chao Xia

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Tanveer A. Wani

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Seema Zargar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

M. Atikur Rahman

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

hasanm_agb@yahoo.com (MMH); mrahman@alasu.edu (MAR)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL 36104, USA

Md. Mahmudul Hasan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

hasanm_agb@yahoo.com (MMH); mrahman@alasu.edu (MAR)

Affiliations Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Jashore University of Science and Technology, Jashore, Bangladesh, Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming, China

Competing Interests

According to the authors, no known conflicting financial interests or personal ties may have impacted any of the work reported in this research.