About the Authors

R. Z. Sayyed

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

sayyedrz@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, PSGVP Mandal’s, Arts, Science, and Commerce College, SHAHADA, Maharashtra, India

S. J. Wani

Contributed equally to this work with: S. J. Wani, Hesham Ali El-Enshasy

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, PSGVP Mandal’s, Arts, Science, and Commerce College, SHAHADA, Maharashtra, India

Abdullah A. Alarfaj

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Asad Syed

Roles Formal analysis

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Hesham Ali El-Enshasy

Contributed equally to this work with: S. J. Wani, Hesham Ali El-Enshasy

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Bioproducts Development (IBD), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia, City of Scientific Research and Technology Applications, New Burg Al Arab, Alexandria, Egypt

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.