Ali, Huma
Rafiq, Muhammad
Manzoor, Muhammad
Gillani, Syed Waseem
Degen, Allan
Iqbal, Awais
Wang, Wenyin
Rafiq, Muhammad Khalid
Shang, Zhanhuan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of China (31961143012)
Science-based Advisory Program of The Alliance of National and International Science Organizations for the Belt and Road Regions (ANSO-SBA-2023-02)
Article History
Received: 12 August 2025
Accepted: 19 December 2025
First Online: 6 January 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: 1 School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. 2 State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. 3 Department of Microbiology, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta, Pakistan. 4 Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan. 5 Desert Animal Adaptations and Husbandry, Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 8410500, Israel. 6 Rangeland Research Institute, National Agricultural Research Center, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.