About the Authors

Ayyappan Prathapan

Affiliation Agroprocessing and Natural Products Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Vadavanath Prabhakaran Vineetha

Affiliation Agroprocessing and Natural Products Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Kozhiparambil Gopalan Raghu

raghukgopal2009@gmail.com

Affiliation Agroprocessing and Natural Products Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP KGR. Performed the experiments: AP VPV. Analyzed the data: AP KGR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP VPV. Wrote the paper: AP KGR.