About the Authors

Karabi Datta

krbdatta@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Botany, Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Gayetri Sahoo

Affiliation Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, India

Sellappan Krishnan

Affiliation Department of Botany, Goa University, Goa, India

Moumita Ganguly

Affiliation Department of Botany, Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Swapan K. Datta

Affiliations Department of Botany, Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, Divisions of Crop Science, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKD KD. Performed the experiments: KD GS SK MG. Analyzed the data: KD SK MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KD SKD. Wrote the paper: KD SKD MG.