About the Authors

Amir Ali

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

amirkhan31530@gmail.com (AL); mashwani@uaar.edu.pk (ZRM)

Affiliations Department of Botany, PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Department of Cell Biology, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Ph.D. Program, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Hidalgo, Mexico

Zia-ur-Rehman Mashwani

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

amirkhan31530@gmail.com (AL); mashwani@uaar.edu.pk (ZRM)

Affiliation Department of Botany, PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Ashfaq Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Natural and Computational Sciences, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan

Juan Pedro Luna-Arias

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Ph.D. Program, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico

Gabriela Medina-Pérez

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Hidalgo, Mexico

Ajaz Ahmad

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.