Rafi, Mohammed
ElSiddig, Mohamed
Nuaimi, Mariam Al
Aldarmaki, Maitha
George, Suja
Amiri, Khaled M. A.
Article History
Received: 22 January 2025
Accepted: 12 September 2025
First Online: 4 October 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
: This study did not involve human participants or animals, so ethics approval and consent to participate were not applicable.
: All authors consent to the publication of this manuscript in BMC Plant Biology.
: Author SG undertook the formal identification of the plant material used in the study. Arabidopsis Columbia-0 wild type used in this study is available at the ‘The European Arabidopsis Stock Centre’ (NASC) under the ID N1092. Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Petit Havana SR1 wild-type seeds are available at the USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) under the Plant Introduction (PI) number 552516. The transgenic plants developed in the study are not deposited in a publicly available herbarium. However, the material is available upon reasonable request from the corresponding author.