About the Authors

Amit Kumar Sinha

Contributed equally to this work with: Amit Kumar Sinha, Hamada AbdElgawad

sinha_cife@rediffmail.com

Affiliation Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Hamada AbdElgawad

Contributed equally to this work with: Amit Kumar Sinha, Hamada AbdElgawad

Affiliation Molecular Plant Physiology and Biotechnology group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Terri Giblen

Affiliation Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Gaurav Zinta

Affiliation Molecular Plant Physiology and Biotechnology group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Michelle De Rop

Affiliation Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Han Asard

Affiliation Molecular Plant Physiology and Biotechnology group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Ronny Blust

Affiliation Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Gudrun De Boeck

Affiliation Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKS GDB. Performed the experiments: AKS HAE TG GZ MDR. Analyzed the data: AKS HAE GZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB HA GDB. Wrote the paper: AKS GDB.