College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P.R China 7100...

Nuclear Institute of Agriculture (NIA), Tandojam, Sindh, Pakistan...

1*Department of Botany, University of Balochistan Quetta, Pakistan...

Department of Agronomy, Specialty Corn Institute, Shenyang Agricultural University, 110866 Shenyang, Liaoning Province, P.R. China...

State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography,...

1Nuclear Institute of Agriculture (NIA) Tando Jam, Sindh, Pakistan...

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1Department of Botany, Islamia College, Peshawar, 25000, Pakistan...

1Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Post Box 7802, 5020 Bergen, Norway...

1College of Grassland Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730070, China...

1Department of Agriculture and Technology, Zunyi Normal College, Zunyi 563002, China...

Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

Department of Botany, University of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan...

1Department of Botany, University of Karachi, 75270, Pakistan...

1 Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuangzu Autonomous Region and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541...

1Laboratory of Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Houari Boumediene University of Sciences and Technology (U.S.T.H.B)El Alia, BP 32, Bab Ezzouar, 16111 Algiers, Algeria, 10, si Moussa Fateh, Zone 08, Mascar...

Medicinal Plants Research and Development (MPED) Research Centre,...

College of Forestry, Northwest A & F University, Yangling 712100, China...

1Department of Plant Science and Agricultural Resources, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, 40002, Thailand...

1Department of Agriculture, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan...

1Institute of Pure and Applied Biology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 60800, Pakistan...

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1State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, College of Agronomy & Yangling Branch of China Wheat Improvement Center, Northwest A & F University, Yangling Shaanxi ,712100, China...

1State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems , College of Pastoral Agriculture, Science and Technology, Lanzhou University , Lanzhou 730020 , China...

1College of Life Sciences, Northwest A & F University, Yangling 712100, P. R. China...

1Seed Science Center, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China...

1National Engineering Research Center of Oil-tea Camellia, Hunan Academy of Forestry, Changsha 410004, PR China...

1Department of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra KPK, Pakistan...

*Corresponding author’s e-mail: kadriyeyetisen@gmail.com...

1School of Life Science, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, P.R. China;...

Biological and Geological Sciences Department, Faculty of Education,...

1Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad-45320, Pakistan...

1Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Pakistan...

1Department of Chemistry, University of Malakand, Chakdara Dir (Lower) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan...

1Department of Biological and Geological Sciences, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, Egypt 2Faculty of Science for girls, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia 3Department of Botany, Faculty of Sci...

1Plant Genomics & Molecular Breeding (PGMB) Lab, National Institute for Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), PO Box 577, Jhang Road Faisalabad Pakistan...

Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh- 11451, Saudi Arabia...

1Plant Genetic Engineering Lab., Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh...

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1Department of Agricultural Biology, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756, Republic of Korea...

1Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, University of Craiova, no 19, Libertatii street, 200583, Dolj, Romania...

1Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan...

Department of Arid Land Agriculture, Faculty of Meteorology, Environment & Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80208, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia...

1Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan...

Department of Botany, University of Peshawar, Pakistan...

1Department of Life Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan....

1Agricultural Biotechnology and Phytopathology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan, 2Biotechnology and Drug Development Laboratory, Department of Biochemis...

1Qarshi University, Lahore, Pakistan,...

1Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box. 2460 Riyadh 11451, Saudi. Arabia...

1Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Jhang Road Faisalabad, Pakistan...

1Department of Botany, University of Science and Technology Bannu KP, Pakistan...

Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan...