About the Authors

Nadia Bibi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Centre of Biotechnology and Microbiology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

Muhammad Hamayun

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan

Sumera Afzal Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ijlee@knu.ac.kr (IJL); shumakhan@gmail.com (SAK)

Affiliation Centre of Biotechnology and Microbiology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

Amjad Iqbal

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

Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan

Badshah Islam

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan

Farooq Shah

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan

Muhammad Aaqil Khan

Roles Investigation

Affiliation School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

In-Jung Lee

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

ijlee@knu.ac.kr (IJL); shumakhan@gmail.com (SAK)

Affiliation School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.