Shumaila Ijaz a, Javed Iqbal b, ⁎, Banzeer Ahsan Abbasi c, Zakir Ullah a, Tabassum Yaseen b, Sobia Kanwal d, Tariq Mahmood a, Sandugash Sydykbayeva e, Alibek Ydyrys f, Zainab M. Almarhoon g, Javad Sharifi-Rad h, ⁎, Christophe Hano i, ⁎, Daniela Calina j, ⁎, William C. Cho k, ⁎
a Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan
b Department of Botany, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda 24420, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
c Department of Botany, Rawalpindi Women University, 6th Road, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi 46300, Pakistan
d Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan
e Higher School of Natural Sciences, Zhetysu University named after I.Zhansugurov, 040009 Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan
f Biomedical Research Centre, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Al-Farabi ave. 71, 050040, Kazakhstan
g Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
h Facultad de Medicina, Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador
i Laboratoire de Biologie Des Ligneux Et Des Grandes Cultures (LBLGC), INRA USC1328 Université ď Orléans, 45067 Orléans Cedex2, France
j Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, 200349 Craiova, Romania
k Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong