About the Authors

Archit Garg

Contributed equally to this work with: Archit Garg, Darla Mark Manidhar

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Darla Mark Manidhar

Contributed equally to this work with: Archit Garg, Darla Mark Manidhar

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi, Andhrapradesh, India

Mahesh Gokara

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Chandramouli Malleda

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Cirandur Suresh Reddy

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi, Andhrapradesh, India

Rajagopal Subramanyam

srgsl@uohyd.ernet.in

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Competing Interests

Rajagopal Subramanyam is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CR RS. Performed the experiments: AG DM MG CM. Analyzed the data: AG MG RS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM CR RS. Wrote the paper: AG DM RS.