About the Authors

Marzieh Karimi

Contributed equally to this work with: Marzieh Karimi, Farahnaz Ghazanfari, Adeleh Fadaei, Laleh Ahmadi

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, P.O.Box 115, Iran

Farahnaz Ghazanfari

Contributed equally to this work with: Marzieh Karimi, Farahnaz Ghazanfari, Adeleh Fadaei, Laleh Ahmadi

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, P.O.Box 115, Iran

Adeleh Fadaei

Contributed equally to this work with: Marzieh Karimi, Farahnaz Ghazanfari, Adeleh Fadaei, Laleh Ahmadi

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, P.O.Box 115, Iran

Laleh Ahmadi

Contributed equally to this work with: Marzieh Karimi, Farahnaz Ghazanfari, Adeleh Fadaei, Laleh Ahmadi

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, P.O.Box 115, Iran

Behrouz Shiran

shiran@agr.sku.ac.ir (BS); h.fallahi@razi.ac.ir (HF)

Affiliations Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, P.O.Box 115, Iran, Institute of Biotechnology, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, P.O.Box 115, Iran

Mohammad Rabei

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, P.O.Box 115, Iran

Hossein Fallahi

shiran@agr.sku.ac.ir (BS); h.fallahi@razi.ac.ir (HF)

Affiliations Department of Biology, School of Sciences, Razi University, Bagh-e-Abrisham Kermanshah, Iran, Medical Biology Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS. Performed the experiments: MK FG AF LA. Analyzed the data: BS HF MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS HF MR. Wrote the paper: MK BS HF MR.