Acknowledgements
This study was supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, under grant number No.BT/PR29607/FCB/125/17/2018. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript. We would like to thank Bionivid technologies Pvt Ltd (Bangalore, India) for carrying out sequencing and Dr. Arshid Jehangir, Department of Environmental Science, University of Kashmir for providing the lab facilities to carry out soil physicochemical analysis. We are grateful to Head, Department of Botany, University Kashmir and Honorary Director, CBT for providing institutional facilities during the experimentation.