About the Authors

Lubna Rahman

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lubnabiotec@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Asma Mukhtar

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, SBA, School of Science and Engineering LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan

Sajjad Ahmad

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Health and Biological Sciences, Abasyn University, Peshawar, Pakistan

Lutfur Rahman

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Constituent College Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Ali

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Saeed

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, SBA, School of Science and Engineering LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan

Zabta Khan Shinwari

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.