About the Authors

B. Kalyana Babu

anilkumar.mbge@gmail.com (AK); kalyan_biotek@yahoo.co.in (BKB)

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India, Biotechnology laboratory, Vivekananda Parvateeya Krishi Anusanthan Sansthan (VPKAS), Almora, Uttarakhand, India

Pandey Dinesh

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India

Pawan K. Agrawal

Affiliation Biotechnology laboratory, Vivekananda Parvateeya Krishi Anusanthan Sansthan (VPKAS), Almora, Uttarakhand, India

S. Sood

Affiliation Biotechnology laboratory, Vivekananda Parvateeya Krishi Anusanthan Sansthan (VPKAS), Almora, Uttarakhand, India

C. Chandrashekara

Affiliation Biotechnology laboratory, Vivekananda Parvateeya Krishi Anusanthan Sansthan (VPKAS), Almora, Uttarakhand, India

Jagadish C. Bhatt

Affiliation Biotechnology laboratory, Vivekananda Parvateeya Krishi Anusanthan Sansthan (VPKAS), Almora, Uttarakhand, India

Anil Kumar

anilkumar.mbge@gmail.com (AK); kalyan_biotek@yahoo.co.in (BKB)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BKB AK. Performed the experiments: BKB AK PKA. Analyzed the data: BKB AK CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BKB SS PD PKA. Wrote the paper: BKB AK PKA JCB.