About the Authors

Indrani K. Baruah

Affiliation DBT-AAU Centre, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India

Debashis Panda

Affiliation Distributed Information Centre, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India

Jagadale M.V

Affiliation DBT-AAU Centre, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India

Deba Jit Das

Affiliation DBT-AAU Centre, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India

Sumita Acharjee

bidyutsarmah@aau.ac.in (BKS); sumita.aus@gmail.com (SA)

Affiliations DBT-AAU Centre, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India

Priyabrata Sen

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India

Bidyut Kumar Sarmah

bidyutsarmah@aau.ac.in (BKS); sumita.aus@gmail.com (SA)

Affiliation DBT-AAU Centre, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: IKB SA BKS. Data curation: IKB DP. Formal analysis: IKB DP JMV DJD. Funding acquisition: BKS. Investigation: IKB. Methodology: IKB SA. Project administration: SA BKS. Resources: IKB. Software: DP PS. Supervision: SA BKS. Validation: IKB SA. Visualization: IKB SA BKS. Writing – original draft: IKB SA. Writing – review & editing: SA BKS.