About the Authors

Maha Rehman

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan

Talha Shah

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan

Talha Shabir

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan

Iqra

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan

Taj Ud Din

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan

Mamata Chahar

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, NIMS Institute of Engineering and Technology, NIMS University Rajasthan, Jaipur, India

Rajni Verma

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Applied Sciences, Chandigarh Engineering College, Chandigarh Group of Colleges-Jhanjeri, Mohali, Punjab, India

Damanjeet Aulakh

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Centre for Research Impact & Outcome, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, India

Muhammad Daud

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan

Rehan Naeem

Roles Supervision

dr.rehan@kust.edu.pk, gulerehan@gmail.com (RN); befabdela@gmail.com (ABK)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan

Abdela Befa Kinki

Roles Data curation

dr.rehan@kust.edu.pk, gulerehan@gmail.com (RN); befabdela@gmail.com (ABK)

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors declare that there is no potential conflict of interest associated with this manuscript.