About the Authors

Muhammad Umar Haider

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Software, Writing – original draft

muhaideruca@gmail.com (MUH); mubashiragr@gmail.com (MH)

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Mubshar Hussain

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

muhaideruca@gmail.com (MUH); mubashiragr@gmail.com (MH)

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Muhammad Farooq

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khoud, Oman, Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Sami Ul-Allah

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Agriculture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Layyah, Pakistan

Mohammad Javed Ansari

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Hindu College Moradabad, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, India

Mona S. Alwahibi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Shahid Farooq

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departmnet of Agronomy, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.