About the Authors

Hossain Ali Mondal

Affiliation Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Dipankar Chakraborti

Affiliations Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Post Graduate Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Pralay Majumder

Affiliation Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Pampa Roy

Affiliation Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Amit Roy

Affiliation Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Swati Gupta Bhattacharya

Affiliation Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Sampa Das

sampa@bic.boseinst.ernet.in

Affiliation Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC SD. Performed the experiments: HAM PM AR PR SGB. Analyzed the data: DC SGB SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SD. Wrote the paper: DC SD.