Ibad Ullah,¹ Dost Muhammad,¹ Maria Mussarat,¹ Shadman Khan,¹ Muhammad Adnanhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9081-2229,^2,* Shah Fahadhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7525-0296,^3,4,* Muhammad Ismail,¹ Ishaq Ahmad Mianhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4702-3325,¹ Aizaz Ali,⁵ Muhammad Hamzah Saleemhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3658-770X,⁶ Muhammad Saeed,² Farhana Gul,² Muhammad Ibrahim,² Muhammad Aown Sammar Razahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4197-7665,⁷ Hafiz Mohkum Hammad,⁸ Wajid Nasim,⁷ Shah Saud,^9,10,* Jabar Zaman Khan Khattak,¹¹ Masood Ahmad,¹² Naushad Ali,¹³ Rasheed Akbar,¹⁴ Shah Masaud Khan,¹⁵ Jan Banout<sup>10

1</sup>Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
²Department of Agriculture, The University of Swabi, Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
³Hainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Bioresource, College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, Hainan, China.
⁴Department of Agronomy, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
⁵Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
⁶Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
⁷Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
⁸Department of Agronomy, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture, Multan 66000, Pakistan.
⁹College of Life Science, Linyi University, Linyi, China.
¹⁰Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia.
¹¹Department of Biological Sciences, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
¹²Department of Horticulture, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan.
¹³Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
¹⁴Department of Entomology, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
¹⁵Department of Horticulture, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

^*Correspondence to: Muhammad Adnan Department of Agriculture, The University of Swabi, Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Email: madnan@uoswabi.edu.pk and Shah Fahad Hainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Bioresource, College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, Hainan, China Email: shah_fahad80@yahoo.com and Shah Saud College of Life Science, Linyi University, Linyi, China Email: saudhort@gmail.com