About the Authors

Sreeramaiah N. Gangappa

Affiliation National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India

Jay P. Maurya

Affiliation National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India

Vandana Yadav

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India

Sudip Chattopadhyay

sudipchatto@gmail.com

Affiliations National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC SNG JPM VY. Performed the experiments: SNG JPM VY. Analyzed the data: SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC. Wrote the paper: SC SNG JPM.