About the Authors

Pankaj Kumar Arora

arora484@gmail.com

Current address: Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, P.O. Central University, Hyderabad, India

Affiliation Environmental Biotechnology, Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR), Chandigarh, India

Rakesh Kumar Jain

† Deceased.

Affiliation Environmental Biotechnology, Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR), Chandigarh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PKA RKJ. Performed the experiments: PKA. Analyzed the data: PKA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RKJ PKA. Wrote the paper: PKA.