About the Authors

Santosh Kumar Upadhyay

santoshpandit16@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India, National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, (Department of Biotechnology, Government of India), C-127, Industrial Area, S.A.S. Nagar, Phase 8, Mohali, Punjab, 160071, India

Shailesh Sharma

Affiliation National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, (Department of Biotechnology, Government of India), C-127, Industrial Area, S.A.S. Nagar, Phase 8, Mohali, Punjab, 160071, India

Harpal Singh

Affiliation CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, 226001, India

Sameer Dixit

Affiliations CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, 226001, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Anusandhan Bhawan, 2-Rafi Marg, New Delhi, India

Jitesh Kumar

Affiliation National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, (Department of Biotechnology, Government of India), C-127, Industrial Area, S.A.S. Nagar, Phase 8, Mohali, Punjab, 160071, India

Praveen C Verma

Affiliations CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, 226001, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Anusandhan Bhawan, 2-Rafi Marg, New Delhi, India

K. Chandrashekar

Affiliations CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, 226001, India, Indian Agricultural Research Institute-Regional Station, Baner phata, ITI road, Aundh, Pune, 411007, Maharashtra, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKU. Performed the experiments: SKU SS SD HS KC. Analyzed the data: SKU SS SD HS KC PCV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SKU SS JK KC PCV. Wrote the paper: SKU HS SD PCV KC.