Acknowledgement
Authors very grateful and would like to thank School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Gansu Province, P.R. China for provided me an opportunity for conducting Post doctorate program. And also would like to thank Department of Biotechnology, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam for hosted me the employment opportunity and gave me background. The present work was supported by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, Funded Start-up Research Grant Program [grant No. 4821].
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