About the Authors

Sangeeta Singh

Affiliations National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 110012, India, School of Life Sciences, Devi Ahilya University, Khandwa Road, Indore, 452017, India

Suresh Chand

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Devi Ahilya University, Khandwa Road, Indore, 452017, India

N. K. Singh

Affiliation National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 110012, India

Tilak Raj Sharma

trsharma@nrcpb.org

Affiliation National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, 110012, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TRS. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TRS SS SC NKS. Wrote the paper: TRS SS.