About the Authors

Daryush Talei

Contributed equally to this work with: Daryush Talei, Alireza Valdiani

d.talei@shahed.ac.ir (DT); maziahm@upm.edu.my (MM)

Affiliations Medicinal Plants Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor DE, Malaysia

Alireza Valdiani

Contributed equally to this work with: Daryush Talei, Alireza Valdiani

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor DE, Malaysia

Mohd Yusop Rafii

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor DE, Malaysia

Mahmood Maziah

d.talei@shahed.ac.ir (DT); maziahm@upm.edu.my (MM)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor DE, Malaysia, Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor DE, Malaysia, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Selangor DE, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DT. Performed the experiments: DT AV. Analyzed the data: DT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MYR. Wrote the paper: DT AV. Proofreading: AV MM.