About the Authors

Abhishek Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Abhishek Kumar, Anita Bhandari

abhishek.abhishekkumar@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padova, Italy, Abteilung für Botanische Genetik und Molekularbiologie, Botanisches Institut und Botanischer Garten, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Anita Bhandari

Contributed equally to this work with: Abhishek Kumar, Anita Bhandari

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Molekulare Phytopathologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Rahul Sinha

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Puspendu Sardar

Affiliation National Institute of Science Education and Research, Institute of Physics Campus, Sachivalaya Marg, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Miss. Sushma

Affiliation Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Pankaj Goyal

Affiliation Klinik und Poliklinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe, Universitätsklinikum, Der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Chandan Goswami

Affiliation National Institute of Science Education and Research, Institute of Physics Campus, Sachivalaya Marg, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Alessandro Grapputo

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK. Analyzed the data: AK AB MS RS PS PG CG AG. Wrote the paper: AK AB RS PG CG AG.