About the Authors

Muhammad Jawad Asghar

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Maria Ghaffar

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

kmona9850@gmail.com

‡ This author are equal contribution to the first author on this work.

Affiliation Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Shahid

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Khalid Pervaiz Akhtar

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Amjad Hameed

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Aqsa Tabasum

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Ghulam Rabbani

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Barani Agriculture Research Institute (BARI), Chakwal, Punjab, Pakistan

Uzma Javed

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Barani Agriculture Research Institute (BARI), Chakwal, Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Umar Shahbaz

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plant Pathology Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute (AARI), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Kamran

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Plant Pathology Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute (AARI), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan, Sugarcane Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute (AARI), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Ehtisham-ul-Haq

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plant Pathology Research Institute, Ayub Agricultural Research Institute (AARI), Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.