About the Authors

Faheem Shehzad Baloch

Contributed equally to this work with: Faheem Shehzad Baloch, Ahmad Alsaleh

balochfaheem13@gmail.com (FSB); qasim@scau.edu.cn (MQS)

Affiliation Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Science, Abant İzzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey

Ahmad Alsaleh

Contributed equally to this work with: Faheem Shehzad Baloch, Ahmad Alsaleh

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Çukurova, Adana, Turkey

Muhammad Qasim Shahid

balochfaheem13@gmail.com (FSB); qasim@scau.edu.cn (MQS)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Vahdettin Çiftçi

Affiliation Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Science, Abant İzzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey

Luis E. Sáenz de Miera

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of León, León, Spain

Muhammad Aasim

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty Science, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey

Muhammad Azhar Nadeem

Affiliation Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Science, Abant İzzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey

Husnu Aktaş

Affiliation Artuklu University Vocational Higher School of Kızıltepe, Mardin, Turkey

Hakan Özkan

Affiliation Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Çukurova, Adana, Turkey

Rüştü Hatipoğlu

Affiliation Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Çukurova, Adana, Turkey

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FSB MQS. Performed the experiments: AA MAN MA HA. Analyzed the data: LESM FSB MQS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FSB AA MQS HA RH. Wrote the paper: FSB MQS LESM VÇ HÖ HA RH.