About the Authors

Lesley R. Varughese

Contributed equally to this work with: Lesley R. Varughese, Meenakshi Rajpoot

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Mullana, Ambala, India

Meenakshi Rajpoot

Contributed equally to this work with: Lesley R. Varughese, Meenakshi Rajpoot

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Mullana, Ambala, India

Soniya Goyal

Roles Methodology, Resources

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Mullana, Ambala, India

Ravinder Mehra

Roles Methodology, Resources

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Bio & Nano Technology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India

Vinod Chhokar

Roles Methodology, Resources

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Bio & Nano Technology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India

Vikas Beniwal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

beniwalvikash@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Mullana, Ambala, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.