About the Authors

Hemant Kumar Verma

Current address: Lab.278 (Luis M. Rubio), Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (UPM-INIA), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Poonam Shukla

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Md. Alfatah

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Asheesh Kumar Khare

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Udita Upadhyay

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Kaliannan Ganesan

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Jagmohan Singh

jag@imtech.res.in

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HV JS. Performed the experiments: HV PS MA AKK UU JS. Analyzed the data: HV MA KG JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KG JS. Wrote the paper: HV JS.