About the Authors

Nandini Ghosh

Contributed equally to this work with: Nandini Ghosh, Gaurab Sircar

Affiliation Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Gaurab Sircar

Contributed equally to this work with: Nandini Ghosh, Gaurab Sircar

Affiliation Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Bodhisattwa Saha

Affiliation Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Naren Pandey

Affiliation Department of Allergy and Asthma, Belle Vue Clinic, Kolkata, India

Swati Gupta Bhattacharya

swati@jcbose.ac.in; swatigb2929@yahoo.co.in

Affiliation Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NG GS BS SGB. Performed the experiments: NG. Analyzed the data: NG GS BS SGB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NP SGB. Wrote the paper: NG GS SGB.